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Polygon Labs says it has signed definitive agreements to acquire a pair of US-regulated crypto payments firms. Polygon says it’s buying the digital asset payments platform Coinme and wallet infrastructure provider Sequence for more than $250 million. The deal aims to build the Polygon Open Money Stack to enable compliant stablecoin payments at global scale. Coinme, founded in 2014, operates fiat...
Crypto trader and analyst Michaël van de Poppe says Bitcoin is about to hit $100,000. In a series of market updates, Poppe says the original and largest crypto asset will reach the psychological milestone in a matter of days. “There we go. Bitcoin breaks upwards. Holds the 21-Day MA. Multiple tests of that moving average held as support. Makes constant higher lows higher highs. It’s quite clear...
January 14, 2026 – Castries, Saint Lucia PrimeXBT, a leading global crypto and CFD broker, has listed 40 new crypto futures trading pairs, significantly expanding its asset coverage across high-demand segments including AI, layer-one and layer-two networks, DeFi, infrastructure, meme tokens, NFT, metaverse and payments. The expansion is part of the company’s ongoing commitment to provide...
Tom Lee’s crypto treasury company Bitmine Immersion Technologies, has quietly built one of the biggest positions in the digital-asset world. Bitmine has now amassed a $14.0 billion total Ethereum asset base amid a rapid accumulation of ETH tokens. As of January 11th, Bitmine’s portfolio comprised about 4.168 million ETH, roughly 3.45% of the entire ETH supply, alongside a modest Bitcoin position...
January 13, 2026 – Be’er Sheva, Israel Fors, a prediction market aggregation platform built on Solana, today announced the release of its beta version, designed to address fragmentation and inefficiencies across modern prediction markets. Prediction markets covering multiple categories, including politics, sports, macroeconomic events, cryptocurrencies and global developments, have expanded...
Crypto custody firm BitGo has initiated plans for an initial public offering (IPO) that could value the company at as much as $1.96 billion, according to an SEC filing. The Palo Alto-based firm and some existing shareholders are looking to raise roughly $201 million by offering 11.8 million shares priced between $15 and $17 each, with a planned listing on the New York Stock Exchange under the...
More than $182 million worth of USDT stablecoins have been frozen on the Tron blockchain amid suspected scam activity. In a series of alerts fshared on X by Whale Alert, blockchain trackers reported that multiple Tron-based addresses holding large USDT balances were frozen, totaling roughly $182 million. The largest single address held more than 50 million USDT, valued at about $49.9 million at...
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says a nascent crypto sector could mirror the explosive growth of stablecoins, calling the opportunity “huge” as blockchain technology continues to reduce friction in global markets. In a new discussion hosted by Goldman Sachs, Armstrong points to the rise of stablecoins as a case study. He notes that while early critics questioned the need for a digital dollar,...
US bank stocks are sliding after President Trump proposed a cap on credit card interest rates. Shares of major banks including Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and Bank of America fell between 1% and 3%. Card-focused companies such as Visa, Mastercard and American Express also declined, while Capital One dropped nearly 7%. Trump said late Friday that credit card interest rates would be...
Strategy (MSTR) just announced a new, massive Bitcoin purchase. The preeminent BTC treasury company says it has purchased 13,627 Bitcoin for approximately $1.25 billion. That’s the firm’s largest weekly purchase since last summer. The acquisition was made at an average price of about $91,519 per Bitcoin, pushing the company’s total holdings to 687,410 BTC. The company has now invested roughly $...