Federal Reserve Governor Bowman suggests preparing for interest rate cuts; Hong Kong promotes the development of stablecoins and expands gold reserves; Bitcoin volatility drops to a four-month low, with ETF inflows of $1.81 billion; Belarus allows banks to handle Bitcoin transactions.

XRP steadied after defending key support, signaling easing selling pressure as the token consolidates from recent highs, with technical momentum stabilizing and Ripple ecosystem developments offering a supportive backdrop.

Data released by the U.S. Treasury confirms that China’s holdings of U.S. debt fell by $6.1 billion, reaching its lowest exposure levels since 2008. While China remains one of the largest international holders of U.S. debt, it h...

In this week's round of severe fluctuations in the East Eight Time Zone, the cryptocurrency contract market triggered approximately **$1.861 billion** in liquidations across the network within 24 hours, with leverage risk being concentrated and cleared in a very short time. More notably, about **$1.752 billion was from long positions**, while **short positions accounted for only about $110 million**, indicating a level of imbalance between longs and shorts that far exceeds the usual fluctuation range, described by multiple data providers and traders as the "**most severe single-day leverage wash since 2026**."

Chain-abstraction stablecoin system River (RIVER) has quietly done more than a 10x since Christmas Day, outperforming the digital asset markets.

On January 15, 2026, Eastern Standard Time, **BitMine Immersion Technologies (NYSE: BMNR)** announced a **$200 million strategic investment** in **Beast Industries**, owned by **MrBeast**, led personally by Chairman **Tom Lee**. This news immediately attracted significant attention in the cryptocurrency and technology circles. Prior to this, BitMine was regarded as a "single-line bet" due to its long-term accumulation in Ethereum-related assets and infrastructure.

Original author: Sandy Carter, Forbes Original translation: Saoirse, Foresight News Scene of Donald Trump speaking at the 2020 Davos World Economic Forum. Photo: Fabrice Coffrini / AFP Donald Trump will head to Davos next week. As the World Economic Forum convenes, technology, policy, national competitiveness, and financial infrastructure are at a critical intersection. This appearance will mark Trump's first visit to Davos in six years...

Original author: KarenZ, Foresight News The act of "撸毛" has evolved into a refined investment. However, in the star-studded prediction market arena, not all projects are worth investing time and money in. Especially in prediction markets, unlike zero-cost testnet tasks, they usually require "real money" to place bets. Although the amount per bet can be controlled, this layer of "payment" threshold directly filters out a large number of purely opportunistic script users, and also brings the risk of capital erosion to real users. If you are still struggling with which project to place your chips on in 2026, this article will discuss the reasons for attention, ...

1. On-chain funds: Today, $25M flowed into Base; $46.2M flowed out of Ethereum. 2. Maximum price fluctuations: $GAS, $PROM 3. Top news: The meme coin "Snowball" on the BSC chain reached a market cap high of $89M, continuing to set new highs, with a 24-hour increase of 270%.

On January 16, 2026, at 8:00 AM Beijing time, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko signed Decree No. 19, which for the first time explicitly grants "crypto banks" legal status at the level of sovereign states, bringing this business model, which originally operated on the fringes of regulation, into the view of the national financial system. The decree requires that entities wishing to become crypto banks must obtain the status of resident enterprises in the Belarus High-Tech Park and must also be registered in the crypto bank registry of the National Bank of Belarus, forming an industry affiliation.

Airdrop farming (grabbing airdrops) refers to obtaining tokens distributed for free by participating in various activities of blockchain projects (such as interacting with testnets, staking, trading, gaming, etc.). This is a low-cost (sometimes zero-cost) way to help projects attract users and bootstrap ecosystems while rewarding early participants.

The escalation of tensions between the U.S. and Iran has driven traditional safe-haven assets to historic highs and pushed Bitcoin close to $97,000, highlighting that geopolitical risks are being systematically factored into the pricing of various macro assets.

This week, Huobi HTX officially launched the "Spot Trading Kickoff Plan," offering a sincere reward of 2,000 cash slots daily for new users.