Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is calling for a new generation of decentralized autonomous organizations ( DAOs) that move beyond token-holder voting, arguing that today’s dominant DAO model is inefficient, fragile, and prone to political capture.

Venture capitalist Tim Draper is back with another bold bitcoin call, declaring in an X post after his interview with the Divot podcast and host Derek Andersen that the leading digital asset will hit “$250,000 in six months.” The billionaire doubled down, arguing bitcoin versus the greenback is a “really good bet” and saying it’s only a matter of time before it topples the U.S. dollar.

According to the latest data, total value locked in the real-world asset ( RWA) sector added more than a billion dollars in the opening weeks of January 2026, pushing the tally past the $21 billion threshold.

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The top crypto asset opened the week on the back foot, sliding 2.5% against the greenback since Sunday evening, yet it’s still nursing a roughly 1.5% gain over the past seven days. Meanwhile, traders and onlookers alike are holding their breath as U.S. President Donald Trump dusts off tariff threats aimed at several European countries.

OpenAI has confirmed plans to debut its first consumer hardware device in the second half of 2026, marking the company’s expansion beyond software products such as ChatGPT into physical AI technology.

On Monday, the U.S. dollar is sliding, with the Dollar Index (DXY)—which pits the greenback against a mix of heavyweights like the euro, yen, onshore yuan, and pound—tilting lower. Market watchers chalk it up to the “Sell America” trade, a strategy getting extra fuel from U.S. President Donald Trump’s run-ins with the Federal Reserve and his latest tariff warnings aimed at several European countries.

Across Myriad, Kalshi, and Polymarket, prediction traders are converging on a familiar conclusion: bitcoin looks far more likely to flirt with six figures than collapse into deep drawdown territory anytime soon.

The New York Stock Exchange is taking a deliberate step into tokenization, outlining plans for a new platform that would enable trading and onchain settlement of tokenized securities—pending regulatory approval—while keeping its feet firmly planted in traditional market structure.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s surprise 10% tariffs on eight European nations opposing his Greenland takeover threat jolted global markets on Jan. 19.

Bitcoin is currently priced at $92,970, with a formidable market cap of $1.85 trillion. Over the past 24 hours, it has moved within an intraday range of $91,917 to $95,467 on a trading volume of $41.72 billion. If bitcoin were a poker player, it just might be bluffing—trading sideways after an intense hand, daring the market to call.

Crypto ETFs delivered a broadly constructive week as strong mid-week inflows ou

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Jordi Visser, head of AI Macro Nexus Research for asset management firm 22V, says that bitcoin will be the top-performing investment in 2026.

Daniel Oliver, Managing Member of Myrmikan Capital, exposed the weakness of the U.S. stock market through gold. Using gold as a reference instead of dollars, the SPX has receded 33% since October 2023, and the dollar has lost 59% of its value in gold terms in the same period.