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Crypto asset manager Grayscale has filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to convert its NEAR Protocol Trust to an exchange-traded fund.Grayscale filed a preliminary prospectus on Tuesday for the Grayscale NEAR Trust, a security that offers shares representing fractional ownership in NEAR Protocol tokens (NEAR). The company intends to convert the existing Trust into an ETF to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange Arca. The move follows Grayscale’s established pattern of launching products as private trusts, moving them to OTC markets, and eventually converting them to exchange-traded products.In 2025, Grayscale converted its crypto asset basket Digital Large Cap…

Noble, a stablecoin blockchain, has announced it is moving from the Cosmos ecosystem to Ethereum, citing the need to access a better tech stack and wider developer community.Noble announced on Tuesday that it will be migrating its Cosmos SDK-based blockchain to a standalone EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine) layer 1, planning to launch on March 18.Noble is a venture capital-backed blockchain originally designed as a neutral liquidity hub for stablecoin and tokenized real-world asset issuance. Due to its evolution into a network supporting real end-user stablecoin applications and DeFi, the team saw the need to transition from its original Cosmos roots to…

Over €4 million poured into presidential election markets right before results dropped, amid suspicions of insider trading from leaked exit polls, with total volume surpassing €110 million. This echoes France, Belgium, and Poland’s prior bans, as governments chase decentralized platforms hard to police.​ Betting Boom Sparks Crackdown Prediction markets like Polymarket let users trade shares on event outcomes, yes or no bets settled in USDC stablecoin, often pricing news faster than polls. SRIJ views the unlicensed platform as straight gambling, illegal under Portugal’s 2015 laws that bar political wagers and limit approved bets to sports or casino games. Hours before…

When news broke last week that California College of the Arts would close in 2027, the announcement came as a shock to students and the broader art world. It also appears to have caught one key figure off guard: Governor Gavin Newsom. The San Francisco Standard reported that text messages sent by Newsom after the announcement suggested he “had no clue” and received “no heads up” about CCA’s impending closure, now slated for the end of the 2026–27 academic year. CCA and its president, David Howse, disputed that account, however, telling the Standard that Newsom had been notified the Monday…

Roughly 250 of the US’s largest corporations will either hold crypto or use blockchain-powered financial instruments by the end of 2026, says Ripple president Monica Long. In a blog post on Monday, Long argued that the crypto and blockchain industry has fought over the past few years to lay the “technical and regulatory groundwork” to spur mass adoption and take the sector mainstream. As part of her predictions, which also covered topics such as stablecoins, crypto custody, and artificial intelligence, Long said that blockchain is becoming the “operating layer of modern finance” and that 2026 will see a huge uptick in institutional…

Crypto infrastructure company Chainlink is set to roll out support for 24/5 trading of US stocks and exchange-traded funds (ETFs), which it says could bring the $80 trillion US market on-chain.Chainlink said on Tuesday that its 24/5 US Equities Streams will be added to its existing market data services aimed at crypto platforms, which will bring “fast and secure market data across all major U.S. equities and ETFs — 24 hours per day, 5 days per week.”It added that the product allows traders to buy, sell, or lend blockchain-based stocks and ETFs through crypto exchanges beyond standard US trading hours…

Bitcoin dropped another 4% on Tuesday, with more than $1.8 billion liquidated over the past 48 hours amid tariff threats from US President Donald Trump and Japanese bond turmoil. Bitcoin (BTC) fell to $87,790 on Coinbase in late trading on Tuesday, its lowest level since Dec. 31. Over the past 48 hours, more than $1.8 billion has been liquidated, around 93% of them long positions, reported Coinglass. BTC slumps 10% in a week, wiping out all January gains. Source: TradingViewThe asset has now wiped out all gains made so far this year and is down 10% from its year-to-date high…

The crypto market is experiencing a new wave of strategic positioning with a number of popular digital assets moving into what analysts say is an accumulation zone. Phoenix Group released data on January 20, 2026, indicating a set of cryptocurrencies that is witnessing increased trading rates and pronounced corrections in their price. TOP ASSETS IN THE ACCUMULATION ZONE $RENDER $FIL $TRUMP $DASH $IP $BONK $STX $CRV $VIRTUAL $FLOKI pic.twitter.com/6yNuIKMXBM— PHOENIX – Crypto News & Analytics (@pnxgrp) January 20, 2026 Long-term crypto accumulation phases are common on the decline and price consolidation behavior indicating that long-term investors or large players are…

Italian officials unveiled the discovery of a 2,000-year-old basilica that archeologists have attributed to Vitruvius, the ancient Roman architect, at a press conference on Monday, according to a report in Reuters. The ancient basilica, which would have been used as a public building in ancient Rome, was built at Fanum Fortunae and completed in 19 BCE. It is the only known building by Vitruvius and is referenced in De architectura, the only treatise on architecture to survive from antiquity. Vitruvius would later be immortalized in Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man drawing, which mapped the architect’s ideals of portion onto the…

Crypto could be in “optimal conditions” for a breakout as Bitcoin whales and sharks accumulated 36,322 Bitcoin over the past nine days while retail dumped, according to analysts from Santiment. “Bitcoin’s whales & sharks continue to accumulate,” Santiment said in an X post on Tuesday, after Bitcoin (BTC) dropped 4.55% over 24 hours, trading at $89,110 at the time of publication.Between Jan. 10 and Jan. 19, Bitcoin wallets holding between 10 and 10,000 Bitcoin (also referred to as “smart money”) accumulated $3.21 billion in Bitcoin.Retail wallets, described as those holding less than 0.01 BTC, offloaded 132 BTC ($11.66 million) over the…