According to reporter Shalini Nagarajan, the Bitcoin price in the Asian market held steady at $88,000 this Tuesday, as investors digested Donald Trump’s latest tariff threats against South Korea. Despite the prevailing trade uncertainty, the primary cryptocurrency showed resilience in an environment characterized by caution and a noticeable rotation toward safe-haven assets.
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Olivia reports on regulation, compliance, and policy developments shaping the crypto industry. Her coverage examines how legal and regulatory decisions influence market structure, project development, and industry behavior.She also follows Web3 initiatives and altcoin markets when regulatory changes are a key factor.
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French prosecutors and the national cyber unit opened a preliminary investigation after Waltio, a crypto tax reporting platform, disclosed a data breach that occurred on january 21. The incident exposed personal tax data for roughly 50.000 users, most of them in France.
The CLARITY Act, passed by the House in 2025, aimed to replace the U.S. approach of ad‑hoc enforcement with a statute that spells out who regulates which crypto activities and when. It proposed a lifecycle model for token classification and a formal “maturity” test for blockchains.
Strive Asset Management proposed a perpetual preferred-equity structure that would convert time-bound convertible notes into a permanent equity instrument. The move targets an estimated $8.3 billion convertible-debt overhang at Strategy and seeks to replace episodic refinancing risk with a predictable dividend obligation.
BitMine Immersion Technologies completed its biggest Ether acquisition of 2026, adding 40.302 ETH to its corporate treasury in a transaction valued at about $117.1 million. The purchase followed a shareholder-approved expansion of the firm’s authorized share count, a move that gave BitMine fresh capital flexibility for treasury accumulation.
Japanese firm Metaplanet has revised upward its revenue and operating profit forecasts for the end of 2025, projecting exponential growth toward 2026. According to an official notice issued this Monday, the company expects its Bitcoin treasury strategy to generate sales near 103 million dollars next year, effectively doubling its current figures.
The co-founder of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, officially reversed his stance on chain self-validation, calling zero-knowledge proof technology an essential solution for the network’s future. According to recent statements on social media platform X this January 26, Buterin abandoned his 2017 skepticism to prioritize the technical sovereignty of all participants.
Due to the devastating impact of winter storm Fern in the United States, the Bitcoin processing power supplied by the Foundry USA pool suffered a 60% drop since last Friday. According to technical reports from TheMinerMag, this massive disconnection has caused block production to slow down significantly, reaching intervals of up to twelve minutes.
Ondo Finance launched more than 200 tokenized U.S. equities and ETFs a move its issuer framed as a major expansion of real‑world assets (RWAs) on chain. The development strengthens Solana’s case as a settlement and tokenization rail and has prompted fresh price forecasts for SOL.
BitGo Holdings priced its initial public offering at $18 per share and began trading on the New York Stock Exchange, securing market value north of $2 billion. The listing combined a traditional IPO with an on-chain distribution, a move that highlighted investor appetite for crypto infrastructure and introduced a new route for global access to shares.
