Author: Kryptonews

US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds have started the year at an explosive pace that could, if maintained, see it blow out total inflows from 2025. “The spot Bitcoin ETFs are coming into 2026 like a lion,” said Bloomberg’s senior ETF analyst Eric Balchunas on Tuesday.He pointed out that there have been more than $1.2 billion in inflows in the first two trading days of the year, “with everyone eating,” meaning nearly all funds have seen inflows. The WisdomTree Bitcoin Fund (BTCW) was the exception. Balchunas observed that if this pace is maintained, it would mean $150 billion in annual inflows, which is…

Binance Futures, the derivatives arm of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, will launch silver perpetual contracts on Wednesday, enabling crypto traders to place leveraged bets on 2025’s standout precious metal.Perpetual futures contracts, or “perps,” are derivative instruments that let traders bet on an asset’s price without owning it and without expiration dates, using funding rates, typically every few hours, to keep prices aligned with spot markets. Their endless duration, high leverage options, and 24/7 access have made them wildly popular in crypto, generating billions in daily trading volume across exchanges. The contract, launching at 10:00 UTC, offers…

Gold and silver briefly reclaimed their spot as the two biggest assets by market capitalization as the new year rolled in with uncertainty. According to data from analytics platform CompaniesMarketCap, gold currently has a market cap of $31.1 trillion, sitting at the top spot. Silver, which has been trading places with Nvidia for second place since December, flipped Nvidia briefly, only to be overtaken again at the time of publication. Silver and Nvidia are almost neck and neck. Source: CompaniesMarketCapNvidia is seeing a gold rush of its own amid strong demand for computing resources to support artificial intelligence. There has been a flight…

In 2026, the biggest challenge for everyday investors is no longer whether crypto mining is profitable, but how to participate efficiently without high hardware costs, technical headaches, or regulatory issues.Mining at home has become increasingly impractical. Electricity prices are higher, mining machines are expensive, and regulations in many regions make personal mining difficult. This reality has pushed investors toward cloud mining platforms that offer real infrastructure, transparency, and short-term flexibility.Among these platforms, TokensCloud has emerged as a leading choice for users seeking reliable, AI-powered cloud mining backed by global data centers and real operational scale.Rather than marketing mining as a…

Crypto mass adoption could just be a matter of time, as older, crypto-averse generations eventually pass their wealth to their descendants, according to an industry executive. During an episode of the Milk Road show on Tuesday, Zac Prince, the head of Galaxy Digital’s banking venture, Galaxy One, predicted that as older people pass away and younger generations inherit assets, some of it could make its way into crypto.“I see a lot of stuff about how like younger people are getting screwed because older people are holding all the money,” he said, adding that a wealth transfer will eventually start, and when…

Key NotesXCN has gained 119% during the first week of January 2026, peaking at $0.012848 before settling around $0.0095.The token’s December listing on Robinhood preceded the current price explosion after extended 2023-2024 stagnation.Maintaining support above $0.0087 will determine whether this breakout sustains beyond typical first-quarter momentum. Onyxcoin XCN $0.00967 24h volatility: 6.8% Market cap: $356.41 M Vol. 24h: $210.60 M has broken free to start 2026 as one of the most explosive cryptocurrency tokens on the market after achieving a near 200% price leap over the first week of trading in January. As of Jan. 6 and the time of…

US President Donald Trump told Republicans on Tuesday he could be impeached if the party loses the US midterm elections this year.”You got to win the midterms, because if we don’t win the midterms, it’s just going to be — I mean — they’ll find a reason to impeach me,” Trump said in a speech to House Republicans on Tuesday. “I’ll get impeached.”Trump’s approval rating has slid to 42% as voters feel the president isn’t doing enough to alleviate the rising cost of living, and the GOP’s base has been divided over his handling of the Epstein files. Polls put the…

Ripple’s payment token, XRP, has just been labelled by CNBC as the “new cryptocurrency darling” after gaining 25% in the first week of the new year. “The hottest crypto trade of the year is not Bitcoin, it is not Ether, it is XRP,” said CNBC;s Power Lunch host Brian Sullivan on Tuesday.XRP price surges after the new yearXRP (XRP) has gained 25% since Jan. 1, outperforming Bitcoin (BTC), which is up 6%, and Ether (ETH), which has risen 10% since New Year’s Day.But there could be many more tailwinds driving the token’s price. Exchange-traded fund momentum, social sentiment, on-chain fundamentals,…

A particularly bizarre strain of conspiracy theory holds that prominent female celebrities, including musicians, athletes, and political figures, are secretly transgender. In a Paris court on Monday, a French art dealer was among 10 people found guilty of online harassment for falsely claiming that France’s First Lady Brigitte Macron was born as a boy named Jean-Michel Trogneux, which is the name of her older brother.  The upset caused by public assertions about her gender led to a “deterioration of her health” and a “deterioration in her quality of life,” her daughter Tiphaine Auzière, a lawyer, told the court, according to…

Ethereum scalability was boosted on Wednesday with the second Blob Parameter-Only hard fork, raising the blob limit from 15 to 21, the first of many improvements aimed at scaling the Ethereum ecosystem in 2026.The second BPO hard fork, which took effect on Wednesday at 1:01:11 UTC, further increases Ethereum’s data throughput by allowing more transactions to be batched via rollups.The BPO hard fork also raised the blob target from 10 to 14, which is widely seen as the more important metric to watch, as consistently approaching the 21-blob limit could overload node bandwidth and storage.One blob unit fits 128 kilobytes of…