The recent crypto market sentiment collapse has triggered a drastic drop in the Fear and Greed Index to levels of 24 points this Wednesday. According to Kamina Bashir, this reversal toward extreme fear occurs after a loss of 120 billion dollars in total capitalization, driven by tariff uncertainty and growing global geopolitical tensions that are currently haunting international investors.
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Ethan focuses on altcoins and emerging blockchain ecosystems, covering new projects, sector expansion, and shifting narratives across the crypto landscape. His work looks at how ecosystems grow and interact, beyond short-term price movements.He regularly contributes context on Layer 1 developments and Web3 or DeFi trends connected to broader ecosystem growth.
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The recent Solana price drop below 130 dollars, recorded this Wednesday following a generalized market retreat, has generated a high-expectation scenario among investors. Despite the bearish pressure, on-chain data reveals that large holders are taking advantage of the discount to accumulate more tokens, showing solid confidence in the asset’s recovery potential for the coming weeks of this year.
An investment vehicle backed by Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the United Arab Emirates quietly acquired a 49% stake in World Liberty Financial (WLFI) — a cryptocurrency company associated with the Trump family — in a $500 million deal signed just before Donald Trump’s second presidential inauguration.
Publicly traded crypto treasury firm BitMine Immersion Technologies has seen its unrealized losses on Ethereum swell past $6 billion, as a sharp market downturn and forced liquidations pushed Ether prices significantly lower, underscoring the risks of concentrated digital-asset treasury strategies.
The recent Dogecoin price drop to 12 cents, reported this January 21, 2026, by Shaurya Malwa, has caused a significant shake-up in the sector. This retreat occurred after the loss of vital technical support, triggering a wave of forced liquidations that affected traders, leaving the asset vulnerable to new external selling pressures that persist throughout the market today.
The unexpected Bitcoin price drop to 88,000 dollars this Wednesday, reported by analyst Shalini Nagarajan, has generated extreme pressure on global financial markets. This event, driven by a massive deleveraging, occurs in an environment of strong risk aversion affecting simultaneously stocks, bonds, and international currencies with notable and visible intensity.
Chainlink launched 24/5 Data Streams for U.S. equities and ETFs on January 20, extending real-time market coverage to instruments such as SPY, QQQ, NVDA, AAPL and MSFT. The move aims to remove off-hours pricing blind spots and enable tokenized real‑world assets (RWAs) to track tradable stocks with institutional-grade data.
Bonkbot has reoriented its memecoin launch strategy toward traders by allocating a 200,000-token reward pool and cutting creator fees for its BONK Classic launches to 0%, moves designed to stimulate high-volume activity and lower barriers to token issuance.
Hong Kong’s proposed Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework (CARF), aligned with the Common Reporting Standard (CRS), is prompting sharp industry pushback because firms say its structure could deter business and fragment the market. Regulators target initial cross-border information exchanges by September 2028.
XRP slipped below the $2.00 mark on January 20, after a failed breakout around that level triggered a sharp reversal, driven primarily by a cascade of liquidations among leveraged long positions and aggressive selling pressure.
