January 29, 2026
Crypto

Will XRP price rebound after Ripple’s partnership with NYSE-listed DXC?

XRP price jumped by over 4.6% at last check on January 21 as investors bought the recent dip after Ripple Labs scored a major partnership with DXC, an NYSE-listed company valued at over $2.6 billion. Summary XRP price rose slightly as investors bought the dip as the crypto market rebounded. Ripple Labs announced a major

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Ethereum

An Analysis of the First 100000 Blocks

After a successful launch, Frontier passed it’s 100000th block earlier this week. Here are some interesting stats from these first blocks. The first 50 block times (in seconds): Right after genesis, it took 29 seconds for the second block to appear, then 31 and 29 seconds for the next couple of blocks. Not too surprising

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Altcoins

$665,000,000 in Bitcoin and Crypto Liquidated As BTC Gives Leveraged Traders Whiplash

Crypto traders using leverage to bet on Bitcoin’s price trajectory are getting whiplash. In the last 24 hours, $655 million in leveraged crypto bets have been liquidated, according to the market data tracker CoinGlass. The liquidations coincided with rapid updates on President Trump’s push to acquire Greenland and impose new tariffs on EU countries that

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Bitcoin

What Will it Take for Web3 to Go Mainstream?

26 Sep What Will it Take for Web3 to Go Mainstream? Posted at 15:15h in Education by ricardom Web3 has advanced significantly in recent years, with improvements in usability, scalability, and cross-chain interoperability driving adoption across DeFi, DAOs, DEXs, and multichain applications. Users can now bridge assets cheaply and quickly, interact with decentralised platforms more

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Crypto

Crypto bill jilted as US Senate turns to housing: report

It’s safe to say that housing — most Americans’ biggest monthly expense — is now crowding crypto off the legislative calendar. Summary Lawmakers push digital-asset legislation to late February/March to focus on housing costs tied to Trump’s affordability agenda. Executive order targets large institutional investors buying single-family homes, though they own Cardano’s Hoskinson warns against

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Ethereum

Security alert [consensus issue] | Ethereum Foundation Blog

This alert is related to a consensus issue that occurred on the Frontier network at block 116,522, mined on 2015-08-20 at 14:59:16+02:00 – Issue has been fixed, see “Fix” below. Impact: High Issue description: State database consensus issue in geth with deletion of account data, which could happen during SUICIDE instructions. Affected implementations: All geth implementations

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Bitcoin

Pump Fun Launches Pump Ventures Fund with $3M Hackathon: Solana Season Coming Back?

Pump.fun, the go-to Solana launchpad for memecoins, just dropped Pump Ventures Fund, its first proper investment arm, together with a $3 million hackathon. Unveiled in mid-January 2026, the program is built to back early-stage teams that can actually create interesting projects. The 30-day “Build in Public” hackathon will pick 12 winners, each getting $250,000 at

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Crypto

Wall Street tests tokenization with a T-Bill ETF

One of Wall Street’s safest and most tightly regulated assets is inching onto the blockchain, as an ETF issuer seeks approval to tokenize part of the U.S. Treasury market without changing how investors trade or hold the fund. Summary This is not just a one-off experiment with TBIL. The push to bring traditional financial assets

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Ethereum

Olympic Rewards Announced | Ethereum Foundation Blog

ETH DEV would like to thank everyone for their participation in the Olympic test network, which helped us greatly in stress testing, optimization, and finding bugs in the Ethereum clients, as well as determining what the limits of the current Ethereum system are. To that end, we are pleased to announce the Olympic reward recipients.

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Bitcoin

Shark Tank's Kevin O’Leary betting big data centers and why most crypto tokens will never come back

The Shark Tank investor is preparing shovel-ready sites for bitcoin miners and data centers, betting that infrastructure — not tokens — will drive the next wave of value. Source link

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