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A list of amendments — some of them far afield — is circulating for the planned markup hearing of the crypto market structure bill.

Be’er Sheva, Israel, January 13th, 2026, Chainwire 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 rapidly in recent years. However, market data, liquidity, and pricing remain fragmented across isolated platforms, making it difficult for participants to compare outcomes and identify inefficiencies efficiently. Fors addresses this challenge by aggregating multiple prediction venues into a single, unified interface. The platform normalizes probabilities, pricing, and liquidity, allowing users…

Chairman Tom Lee urges stockholders to vote YES to proposal #2 to support Bitmine’s goal of growing ETH per share Stockholders can find the latest information around voting YES and the Chairman’s message on the Bitmine website Bitmine staked ETH stands at 1,256,083 and MAVAN staking solution on track to launch Q1 2026 Bitmine remains the largest ‘fresh money’ buyer of ETH in the world Bitmine now owns 3.45% of the ETH token supply, nearly 70% of the way to the ‘Alchemy of 5%’ in just 6 months Bitmine Crypto + Total Cash Holdings + “Moonshots” total $14.0 billion, including 4.168…

Berkeley, California, USA, January 12th, 2026, Chainwire Helio Corporation (OTCID: HLEO) (“Helio” or the “Company”), a space-based renewable energy company, announced today that its Board of Directors has executed an agreement with a leading, highly experienced crypto marketing firm to support a planned $20 million Initial Coin Offering (ICO) for its proprietary utility token, Mission Helio.  The Mission Helio utility token is designed solely for functional use within Helio’s ecosystem, including tiered participation, usage-based benefits, and support for infrastructure development and ecosystem expansion. The token does not represent equity, ownership, profit-sharing rights, or any claim on Helio’s assets or earnings. The offering represents a strategic, non-dilutive financing initiative designed to fund the development and…

Chainalysis recorded $154 billion in illicit inflows, driven largely by sanctioned entities. Russia’s ruble-backed A7A5 token processed over $93.3 billion in transactions within a year. Illicit transactions remain under 1% of total on-chain activity despite rapid growth. Illicit cryptocurrency activity expanded rapidly in 2025, not because of a sudden spike in everyday crypto crime, but due to a structural shift in how sanctioned states and entities are moving money. As global financial restrictions widened, blockchain networks increasingly became an alternative channel for cross-border transfers that are harder to block or monitor through traditional systems. A new report from Chainalysis shows…

The number of Bitcoin addresses (bitcoin whales) holding at least 100 BTC has climbed to a new all-time high, according to on-chain data from Bitcoin Magazine Pro, pointing to continued accumulation among large holders despite some recent bitcoin price dips and broader crypto market volatility. The metric tracks the total number of unique Bitcoin addresses with balances of 100 BTC or more — a cohort commonly associated with so-called “bitcoin whales,” including high-net-worth individuals, funds, corporations, and long-term strategic holders.  The latest data shows the count has surpassed all previous peaks, extending a multi-year uptrend that has persisted across several…

Lawmakers will (finally) vote on a market structure bill next week.

XRP is now back to trading just above the $2 level after an early January rally briefly carried its price action into the $2.40 range. The pullback has so far been controlled, with price holding above former resistance that has now turned into short-term support. A technical analysis shared on X by crypto analyst Bird proposed that conditions are now right for a familiar macro setup that has preceded XRP’s largest historical rallies. The focus of this outlook is on XRP’s reaction with the US dollar index and what its next move could mean for the cryptocurrency. Related Reading How…

CoinDesk sat down with Robinhood’s head of crypto, Johann Kerbrat, to get an update on its upcoming layer-2 network, its tokenized stocks program, and its staking offerings.

The Bitcoin (BTC) network mining difficulty, the relative computing challenge of adding a new block to the decentralized blockchain ledger, fell slightly to 146.4 trillion on Thursday, in the first difficulty adjustment of 2026. “The next Bitcoin difficulty adjustment is estimated to take place on Jan 22, 2026, 04:08:12 AM UTC, increasing the Bitcoin mining difficulty from 146.47 T to 148.20 T,” according to CoinWarz. Average block times are 9.88 minutes at the time of this writing, slightly below the 10-minute target, which means the next difficulty adjustment will increase slightly to align better with the target block time. The Bitcoin network…