South Korea’s financial regulators have launched a deep review of the long-standing practice that ties each cryptocurrency exchange to a single banking partner. This measure, unofficially known as the one-bank rule, is being analyzed by the Financial Services Commission (FSC) to determine its impact on free market competition.
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Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Layer 1 infrastructure are at the center of Chloe’s coverage. She follows protocol upgrades, network changes, and technical decisions that affect how major blockchains evolve over time, with particular attention to long-term reliability and adoption. When relevant, she also tracks regulatory developments and market reactions tied to core blockchain systems.
The social media platform X has officially published the source code of its recommendation system for the “For You” feed. The X engineering team confirmed that the Grok-based X algorithm uses an advanced transformer architecture. Elon Musk leads this transparency initiative to allow developers to better understand the internal workings of the social network.
The TRUMP meme token, launched in 2025 jan, produced a dramatic market cycle that exposed regulatory gaps and political conflicts. Within hours of launch it surged to a $10 billion market capitalization, then fell more than 93% to trade below $5 by its first anniversary, leaving institutional confidence shaken and lawmakers divided.
Tokenized stocks, funds and gold are moving from pilots to production as 2026 unfolds, driven by growing institutional deployments, measurable market projections and clearer regulatory guardrails. Key players and advisers argue this convergence could lift the tokenized-asset market into the hundreds of billions of dollars by year‑end, reshaping settlement, liquidity and access.
Ethereum co‑founder Vitalik Buterin urged a fundamental redesign of decentralized autonomous organizations, arguing that many DAOs have devolved into mere “token‑vote‑controlled treasuries.”
ASTER plunged roughly 75% to fresh lows, and the token fell more than 12% to $0.61, while Hyperliquid widened its lead in the perpetual decentralized exchange market. The divergence underscores a shift from incentive-driven growth to a competition defined by verifiable liquidity, technology and data credibility.
The New York Stock Exchange, part of Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), announced the development of a platform to trade and settle tokenized securities on‑chain. The initiative, launched as a regulated venue concept, aims to combine blockchain efficiency with existing exchange protections and will require regulatory approvals.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin warned this Sunday that the network risks becoming an “unwieldy mess” due to its growing internal complexity. Through a post on X, Buterin demanded an urgent Ethereum protocol simplification to preserve its fundamental values of decentralization and self-sovereignty against code “bloat”.
Institutional financial products focused on cryptocurrencies experienced their best week in terms of capital flow since October 2025. According to the latest CoinShares data reported by Tanzeel Akhtar, investment in digital assets recorded total net inflows of 2.17 billion dollars globally. This impressive positive flow occurred despite a significant deterioration in market sentiment towards the end of the weekly period.
The second half of January 2026 maintains intense volatility in the general crypto market. According to analysis by Aaryamann Shrivastava, three altcoins to watch this week depend on critical external developments to reverse their current bearish trends in the coming days.