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XRP gained nearly 3% after Ripple reached a fresh regulatory breakthrough in Europe. The company confirmed that it has secured full approval of its Electronic Money Institution (EMI) license in Luxembourg.The milestone represents a key step in Ripple’s broader strategy to scale its digital assets solutions across European markets.Sponsored SponsoredRipple’s European Expansion Accelerates With EMI License ApprovalThe Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF), Luxembourg’s financial supervisor, granted Ripple its full EMI license after the company met all regulatory conditions set out by the CSSF. The decision follows preliminary authorization given in January.For context, an EMI license permits companies to…

Bitcoin and major cryptocurrencies bounced in the past 24 hours after a brutal weekend sell-off that pushed prices to multi-month lows and triggered billions of dollars in liquidations across derivatives markets.Bitcoin was trading just under $79,000 during Asian morning hours, recovering from weekend lows near $74,000. Ether climbed above $2,340, while Solana, BNB, XRP and Cardano posted gains of between 3% and 6% over the past 24 hours, according to market data. Despite the rebound, most large-cap tokens remain down sharply on a seven-day basis with losses upto 20%.The move follows a broad capitulation that swept through crypto markets over…

BitMEX, one of the safest crypto exchanges, announced today the launch of the Grand Ascent campaign, allowing traders to win their share of a 100,000 USDT prize pool by completing a series of trading missions.  The campaign will run from 26 January 2026 at 12:00 PM (UTC) to 17 February 2026 at 11:59 AM (UTC). Users can participate at any time during the campaign period. Rewards will be distributed across 3 categories: For New Users: Users who complete their KYC verification during the campaign can win up to $5,050 in new trader quest rewards.  For Existing Users: Users that reach…

Solana-based decentralized excange Jupiter said it will bring Polymarket to the network for the first time, rolling out an integration that it pitched as a push to make Jupiter a fuller on-chain predictions hub.“For the first time, Polymarket is coming to Solana. On Jupiter,” the exchange posted on X, adding users will be able to trade prediction markets “on one onchain platform.” Jupiter called Polymarket “the biggest predictions market in crypto” and said the deal is “primed for making Jupiter the most innovative predictions platform on Solana.”The announcement came alongside a separate funding update: Jupiter said it has secured a…

Dogecoin started a recovery wave above the $0.10 zone against the US Dollar. DOGE is now facing hurdles near $0.1065 and might struggle to continue higher. DOGE price started a recovery wave from $0.095 and climbed above $0.10. The price is trading below the $0.110 level and the 100-hourly simple moving average. There was a break above a bearish trend line with resistance at $0.1060 on the hourly chart of the DOGE/USD pair (data source from Kraken). The price could continue to move up if it stays above $0.10. Dogecoin Price Runs Into Resistance Dogecoin price started a recovery wave…

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has proposed a new creator token model that combines decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) with prediction market mechanics to incentivize higher-quality content creation.Creator tokens, or content coins, are blockchain-based assets that can grant fans a slice of ownership, access rights, or even royalties for the content creator’s work, which could be in the form of posts, photos, music, or videos. However, in a post on X on Sunday, Buterin said existing creator token platforms notably prioritize mass content creation over quality, and that this is now being exacerbated by AI-generated content.To combat this, Buterin said one idea would…

Bitcoin’s BTC$75,370.02 price action looked strangely lethargic early last month even as traditional assets such as precious metals and equities pushed to fresh highs.The world’s largest cryptocurrency repeatedly failed to clear the $90,000 level — a stall that, in hindsight, foreshadowed the recent sharp sell-off to $75,000. At the time, traders blamed everything from a flight to safer assets and fading crypto demand to churns in spot ETF flows and month-end positioning. But some analysts say the real story was visible well before prices broke down — sitting in plain sight in exchange order books.According to Keith Alan, co-founder of…

This is the lowest levels in well over a month for the index. It’s almost difficult to imagine that just a couple of weeks ago, bitcoin was riding high above $95,000, and the community was speculating about a potential run toward a six-digit price territory for the first time in 2026. Not only did that rally fail to materialize, but the bears woke up in the middle of winter and initiated several consecutive leg-downs that ultimately crashed BTC to a multi-month low. With that, the overall sentiment plummeted as well. Fear and Greed Goes South The popular Bitcoin Fear and…

The Zamoskvoretsky Court in Moscow has reportedly ordered that BitRiver CEO Igor Runets be held in house arrest amid tax evasion charges.  The founder and CEO of Russian Bitcoin mining firm BitRiver, Igor Runets, has reportedly been detained and charged with multiple counts of tax evasion. According to reports from local media outlets such as RBK and Kommersant on Sunday, Runets was detained on Friday and is facing three charges for allegedly concealing assets to evade taxes.The outlets cite court documents from the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow indicating that Runets was charged on Saturday and ordered to be placed under house arrest…

Standard Chartered warns stablecoins could pull up to $500B from bank deposits in developed markets by 2028. U.S. banks are increasingly at risk of losing deposits to the digital assets space as stablecoins continue to gain traction. The concern comes amid growing stablecoin adoption, with the total supply in circulation having risen by roughly 40% over the past year to just over $300 billion. Long-term Funding Concerns A Bloomberg report citing analysis from Geoff Kendrick, global head of crypto research at Standard Chartered, estimates that stablecoins could cause the exit of as much as $500 billion in deposits from lenders…