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Senate Bill Exempts 6 Altcoins From SEC Regulation

Senate bill exempts ETF-listed altcoins from security status, treating XRP, SOL, LTC, HBAR, DOGE, LINK like Bitcoin and Ethereum commodities.Tim Scott’s bipartisan legislation targets January 2026 markup, potentially unlocking institutional flows and DeFi innovation.Stablecoin/DeFi compromises balan...

Top 100 Cryptocurrency Tokens Gainers and Losers: Dash Surges 58.71%, IP Rises 32.56%

According to Coinmarketcap data, today's top 100 cryptocurrency tokens by market capitalization performed as follows: Top 5 Gainers: - Dash (DASH) rose 58.71%, currently priced at $60.69; - Story (IP) rose 32.56%, currently priced at $3.76; - Monero (XMR) rose 19.93%, currently priced at $687.46; -...

Upexi Secures $36M Solana-Backed Convertible Debt Deal with Hivemind

On January 13, PANews reported that according to GlobeNewswire, Upexi has announced signing a securities purchase agreement with Hivemind Capital Partners, securing approximately $36 million in convertible debentures in exchange for Solana (SOL). The debentures are collateralized by the provided SOL...

CFTC Launches Innovation Advisory Committee to Guide Blockchain and AI Regulation

Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Michael Selig launched the Innovation Advisory Committee to provide expertise on emerging technologies reshaping financial markets, marking his first major policy initiative since taking control of the derivatives regulator last month.The newly renamed p...

Upexi to Raise $36M via SOL-Backed Notes, Becomes Second-Largest Corporate SOL Holder

Odaily Planet News: Upexi, a Solana treasury company listed on NASDAQ, has announced a securities purchase agreement with Hivemind Capital Partners to raise $36 million. The note issuance is expected to be completed around January 14, 2026, subject to customary closing conditions. The notes will be ...

Upexi and Hivemind Capital Sign $36M Deal to Boost SOL Holdings

According to a report by Cryptobriefing, the SOL treasury company Upexi has signed a securities purchase agreement with Hivemind Capital Partners, issuing $36 million in convertible notes backed by locked SOL tokens. This transaction is expected to increase Upexi's SOL holdings by 12%, bringing it...

JustLend DAO's Total Value Locked (TVL) Exceeds $6.92 Billion

According to ChainCatcher, official updates from the top decentralized lending protocol on the Tron blockchain, JustLend DAO, show that the total value locked (TVL) on the platform has exceeded $6.92 billion, with deposits reaching $4.15 billion and total loans amounting to $215 million. As a core D...

Bitcoin Rises 1.5% Amid Optimism on US Inflation Data

Bitcoin Approaches $93,000 Amid Optimism Spurred by US Inflation DataBitcoin has rallied close to the $93,000 mark, buoyed by recent US inflation data that suggests a cooler-than-expected rise in consumer prices. Markets responded positively to the release, with stock indices climbing and traders re...

Global Crypto Liquidations Reach $169M in 24 Hours

According to Coinglass data, the total amount of liquidations in the cryptocurrency market over the past 24 hours reached $169 million, with long positions being liquidated for $71.6771 million and short positions for $96.8823 million. Liquidations for BTC amounted to $48.2157 million, and for ETH,...

Ondo Finance Allocates 77% of TVL on Ethereum, Representing 11.6% of RWA TVL

According to ChainCatcher, Ethereum officially cited data from @RWA_xyz, stating that Ondo Finance, which issues on-chain real-world assets (RWA) such as stocks, ETFs, and government bonds, currently deploys approximately 77% of its total value locked (TVL) on Ethereum. This accounts for about 11.6%...

Whale Buys 9,157 AAVE at $171.4, Total Floating Loss of $3.33M

BlockBeats News: On January 13, according to OnchainLens monitoring, a whale address spent 501 ETH (approximately $1.57 million) to purchase 9,157 AAVE tokens at a price of $171.4 per token.Previously, this whale had accumulated and staked 78,074 AAVE tokens (approximately $16.75 million) at a price...

Over 600,000 New Cryptocurrencies Created in 2026, Mostly for Testing or Short-Term Attention

According to ChainCatcher, a report by Finbold states that, based on CoinMarketCap data, as of January 12, 2026, the total number of tracked cryptocurrencies reached 29.91 million, an increase of approximately 620,000 assets compared to 29.29 million on January 1. Over the past 30 days, more than 1....

Truebit Protocol Hacked for $26.44M Due to Integer Overflow Vulnerability

On January 8, 2026, the Truebit Protocol was hacked, resulting in a loss of 8,535.36 ETH (approximately $26.44 million). The Truebit Protocol team officially confirmed the incident in a post the following morning. The ExVul security team conducted a detailed vulnerability analysis of this attack, an...

Chainlink Launches Confidential Compute for Onchain Privacy

Chainlink founder Sergey Nazarov said privacy gaps limit institutional blockchain use, driving the need for confidential compute.Chainlink’s system runs private contract logic off-chain while settling verified results on-chain with cryptographic proofs.Zero-knowledge proofs anchor the design, with f...

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