Galaxy Digital led an investment round in Tenbin Labs to build better and faster FX and tokenized gold markets. The investment aims to improve its infrastructure, which will aid price formation and institutional access.
Author: Olivia Brooks
Olivia Brooks
Olivia Brooks reports on the policy, macro and institutional forces shaping digital assets. Her work at BlockchainJournal connects regulation, geopolitics, RWA markets, centralized exchanges and stablecoin infrastructure without overstating what a filing, license, partnership or market signal actually proves.She also follows Web3 initiatives and altcoin markets when regulatory changes are a key factor.
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River announced its partnership with the Sui Foundation to bring its satUSD stablecoin into the Sui ecosystem. The two companies will work together to build an environment where capital can be easily moved and used.
The Bitcoin hashrate recorded a 40% drop this weekend, reaching levels not seen since mid-2025, following a massive winter storm in the United States. The weather event, reported by AccuWeather on Monday, January 26, 2026, forced miners to curtail operations to stabilize the national energy grid while energy demand surged across three dozen states.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has listed deficiencies in crypto asset regulation in Australia as a critical risk for the current year. According to the report of the agency’s Chair, Joe Longo, the rapid growth of platforms operating at the edge of the law is exposing citizens to unlicensed financial advice and misleading conduct within the markets.
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.
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.
