The odds of another government shutdown spiked on Polymarket after recent unrest in Minnesota prompted Democrats to oppose a funding bill that would bundle DHS funding with the budgets of other federal agencies. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said he would vote no if the bill were presented in that manner.

Entropy founder Tux Pacific says the startup is winding up and will return capital to investors.

China has fixed the yuan at its strongest level since 2023, betting on continued U.S. policy that keeps the dollar weak. According to Xinhua, the currency has stayed below the 7 yuan‑per‑dollar mark, strengthening to 6.9843 yuan per dollar on Monday.

On Jan. 25, XRP plunged to $1.80, its lowest since mid-December, erasing early 2026 gains. The drop followed a broader crypto sell-off sparked by tariff tensions and macroeconomic uncertainty.

Bermuda is pursuing a bold plan to migrate its entire economy onchain, an initiative aimed at streamlining settlements and democratizing wealth creation through fractional ownership. While the country faces skepticism over technical readiness and social acceptance, advocates argue that onchain models allow individuals to become capital allocators rather than just earners.

Russia has designated Ukrainian crypto exchange WhiteBIT as an “undesirable organization,” banning its operations and criminalizing any association within the country.

Republican leaders tout sweeping economic, tax, and crypto policy gains under President Trump, framing rapid legislative action as the start of a new national direction aimed at growth, competitiveness, and regulatory clarity.

Tokenization and U.S. crypto rules moved to the center of global finance as Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said Davos talks showed regulators, banks, and corporations aligning around digital assets and the CLARITY Act.

A new deep-dive from A16z research partner and Georgetown computer science professor Justin Thaler pours cold water on breathless quantum panic, arguing that while quantum threats are real, the crypto industry is badly mismatching urgency to reality.

A proposed SEC-filed crypto ETF spotlights top cryptocurrencies bitcoin, ethereum, and XRP, showing how new U.S. products could deliver heavily concentrated exposure as regulators weigh index-based digital asset fund structures.

Prediction markets are coalescing around Blackrock executive Rick Rieder as the leading contender to succeed Fed Chair Jerome Powell, spotlighting a potential Federal Reserve shift shaped by pro- crypto, pro- bitcoin views and evolving monetary expectations.

On Sunday morning around 10 a.m., theminermag.com—a platform tracking bitcoin mining news, data, research, and analysis—reported that Foundry USA has seen roughly 60% of its hashrate vanish as miners dial back production, with an Arctic cold front expected to barrel into several states.

Bitcoin faces renewed technical pressure as a veteran trader flags a completed bear channel, warning that downside risk remains dominant unless a critical price level is decisively reclaimed.

While BTC plunged below $87,000 on Sunday, prediction markets are flashing mixed but revealing signals for bitcoin as late January betting frames a tug-of-war between short-term caution and longer-term optimism.

Earlier this week, blockchain investigator ZachXBT published an explosive thread on X alleging that a shadowy figure known online as “John” or “Lick” sat at the center of a web of cryptocurrency thefts that stretched from private wallets to U.S. government seizure addresses.