Jeremy Barnum, Chief Financial Officer of JPMorgan Chase, warned this Tuesday about the risks of stablecoins que generan rendimientos outside the regulated system. The executive pointed out that these structures replicate banking functions without having the necessary prudential safeguards to protect users. During the fourth-quarter 2025 earnings call, Barnum emphasized that the emergence of financial systems without supervision represents a threat to global economic stability.
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Bitcoin climbed about 2% to roughly $93.500 after U.S. December Consumer Price Index data signaled cooling inflation, strengthening expectations for future Federal Reserve rate cuts.
Onyxcoin (XCN) showed a sharp shift in market structure during analyses conducted, driven by a collapse in exchange inflows and renewed whale accumulation. The change removed a large portion of visible sell-side supply and set a clear technical path toward a measured upside if key resistances break.
Shiba Inu saw its profitable supply collapse by 62% over the past week, leaving roughly 57 trillion SHIB in the money, as a sharp price correction erased recent gains and flipped market sentiment toward distribution.
Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, stated that the network needs to reach a state of total technical independence soon. This Vitalik Buterin’s long-term vision for Ethereum seeks to ensure the protocol remains valuable even without active development. The news was released following a post by the programmer on the X platform this Monday.
Bitmine Immersion Technologies increased its reserves to 4.17 million ETH recently. Tom Lee, the firm’s chairman, confirmed the intention to reach five percent of the circulating supply. This ambitious Bitmine treasury strategy in Ether consolidates its current institutional leadership.
World Liberty Financial, a crypto project linked to the Trump family, has launched World Liberty Markets, a decentralized lending platform built around its dollar-pegged stablecoin USD1, marking a renewed push into on-chain credit markets as demand for crypto borrowing and lending rebounds.
XRP was consolidating above $2.10 after Ripple secured UK regulatory registration on January 9, a development that reduced a major source of legal uncertainty and underpins renewed institutional interest. Traders are watching a bullish flag and a breakout from a descending channel that together set a clear path toward a $2.40 test if momentum holds.
The digital asset market begins the week showing indecision, with Bitcoin stalled near 92k at Monday’s opening. This sideways behavior occurs under the shadow of new political tensions in the United States, where Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell recently revealed legal subpoenas linked to his management, adding pressure to the financial landscape.
Tether announced that it injected between $40 million and $50 million into Ledn, valuing the bitcoin-backed lender at about $500 million. The deal ties the world’s largest stablecoin issuer to a leading consumer Bitcoin-backed lending platform and signals a strategic move to expand stablecoin usage in collateralized credit markets.