Polymarket’s political betting business has positioned the platform as a material source of stablecoin demand, and its growth dynamics could help push stablecoin adoption higher through 2026. The outcome depends on two constraints: whether Polymarket can curb wash trading and how regulatory rulings shape its operating model.
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Liam Hunter focuses on the on-chain systems where liquidity, risk and protocol mechanics become visible. He writes about DeFi, DEXes, perpetuals, Smart Money flows, hacks and Ethereum-linked infrastructure, with an emphasis on what the data shows, what remains uncertain and where market interpretation can go too far.Market developments and regulatory context are part of his reporting when they intersect with Web3 or DeFi activity.
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Kinexys, the blockchain technology unit of JPMorgan Chase, announced this Tuesday the native integration of JPM Coin into Canton Network. This strategic collaboration with Digital Asset seeks to optimize the mobility of regulated digital cash for institutional clients during this year. According to Naveen Mallela, global co-head of Kinexys, this project has the potential to unlock liquidity and improve capital efficiency.
Marcos Viriato, co-founder and CEO of Parfin, argues that blockchain was born to decentralize power and operate under transparency. However, current digital financial infrastructure risks becoming a political instrument instead of a tool for autonomy. According to the expert, technology will only reach its full potential if it remains neutral, compliant, and globally interoperable at all times. In this way, the focus must return to solving real problems such as efficiency and access.
RAKBank has received in-principle approval from the Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates (CBUAE) to issue a new UAE dirham stablecoin. According to Raheel Ahmed, group CEO, this progress represents an important milestone in the digital assets journey of the institution. Thus, the bank is preparing to launch a payment token fully backed by the local currency very soon.
Analyst Steph is Crypto identified that the digital asset is replicating the historical behavior of the precious metal. This XRP breakout pattern could drive the price toward levels never seen during the course of this year 2026. The technical projection is based on a five-wave structure that already showed success in other financial markets.
Bitcoin began January with a 7.4% rebound that redirected attention to the Bitcoin liquidation map. According to analyst Crypto Dan, reclaiming the historical cost basis is fundamental for the bulls. This technical movement shows an asymmetry that could accelerate the price toward new historical highs soon.
ADEN launched a points program aimed at formalizing user incentives across its perpetual contract exchange. The move ties quantified user behaviour to future ecosystem rewards and is intended to shift incentives away from short-term speculative activity toward sustained participation.
JPMorgan reported that Bitcoin miners entered a pronounced profitability squeeze in late 2025, with revenue plunging even as network competition showed early signs of easing. The bank’s analysis links sharply lower hashprice, rising costs and stretched hardware payback periods to a strategic industry pivot toward AI and high‑performance computing (HPC).
Bitmine Immersion Technologies, chaired by Tom Lee, added 32.977 ETH during the final week of 2025, lifting its reported crypto and cash holdings to $14,2 billion.
PEPE surged 84% into a short-lived parabolic move, a spike that traders should view as a volatility event rather than a shift in fundamentals. The price advance landed the token in extreme technical territory and coincided with concentrated on-chain selling, creating conditions for a quick and deep retracement.
