🏎 #HBAR The Hedera project has become an official partner of the McLaren racing team. McLaren Racing plans to use Hedera to develop WEB3 initiatives, including launching digital collectibles, hosting fan interactions, and offering free NFTs during Formula 1 race weekends and IndyCar seasons.
🤔 #RIVER Justin Sun invested $8 million in River Protocol, a day before the #RIVER token surged 24% to reach ~$48. The investment announcement came amid a warning from CoinGlass that #RIVER futures trading volume was 80 times higher than spot volume, which the firm's analysts called an "artificially generated" price move. theblock
Arthur Hayes is also short #RIVER (1, 2) and expects a price of $100.
Notably, #RIVER has risen ~330% since Bitget mentioned the token activity on January 9th.
Since Saturday, #RIVER has remained the top-selling futures market on all CEX platforms, holding the top spot since 8:55 PM Moscow time. Since then, it has risen >200%.
In its 2026 thematic forecast, BlackRock notes that tokenization could bring significant benefits to Ethereum, as the lion's share (65%) of all tokenization occurs on the ETH blockchain.
BlackRock's CEO previously stated that tokenization is a trillion-dollar business, and the trend is only in its infancy.
🔮📈 Cryptorank: Last week, the total transaction volume of prediction markets reached 25 million. Weekly volumes are also at the ATH level of $5.7 billion, and the top three have almost identical volumes: - Kalshi $2 billion; - Opinion $1.9 billion; - Polymarket $1.8 billion
NEW: 🔥 OndoFinance launches over 200 tokenized US stocks and ETFs on Solana, expanding Ondo Global Markets beyond Ethereum and BNB Chain as demand for real-world assets on the blockchain grows.
📌 Ripple President: 2026 will change the crypto industry
• Stablecoins will become the basic infrastructure for global settlements (B2B payments have already reached $76 billion annually)
• By the end of the year, companies will have over $1 trillion in digital assets on their balance sheets, and approximately 50% of the Fortune 500 will have developed crypto strategies.
• More than half of the world's top 50 banks will form new partnerships for digital asset custody in 2026.
• Blockchain and AI will begin to massively automate financial transactions (liquidity management, real-time asset rebalancing).
In 2026, 5-10% of capital market settlements will migrate to blockchain. These are no longer experiments, but full-fledged implementations.
🇺🇸 NEW: Chainlink has launched 24/7 US securities data feeds, providing continuous on-chain access to US stocks and ETFs linked to the $80 trillion US securities market.
🎰 In just two days, beachboy4, who had a profit of +$395,000, lost another $4.24 million. Yesterday, he bet $7.56 million on Paris Saint-Germain and Villarreal to win—but both bets lost, and the entire $7.56 million was lost. Earlier, he managed to turn a $6.8 million loss into a $395,000 profit. #FOOTBALLUSDT
1. Trend Research borrowed 70 million #USDT from Aave and bought 24,555 #ETH ($75.5 million), currently holding 651,310 #ETH ($1.92 billion); 2. An OTC whale bought 20,000 #ETH ($58.8 million) through FalconX and Wintermute.
Japan: Bond market panic hits crypto (briefly) 30-year JGB yield → ~3.8–3.9% (highest in ~27 years).
Reason: carry trade is collapsing – cheap yen is no longer cheap, investors are repatriating capital → global liquidity is falling.
Saxo Bank: one of the key sources of global liquidity is disappearing.
Market reaction: risky assets down (BTC and stocks are falling), defensive assets up (gold/silver on highs).
BTC has already fallen below $90,000 due to this and Trump's tariff threats. Next trigger: Friday, January 23 – Bank of England rate decision (expected 0.75% pause, but everyone is watching the bond rhetoric and future steps).
Bottom line: rising yields in Japan → liquidity outflow → pressure on crypto and risk markets.
👨💻CryptoQuant: Bitcoin investors recorded 30 days of realized losses for the first time since 2023
👨💼Bloomberg: The Trump family's net worth has reached $6.8 billion, with crypto assets accounting for approximately a fifth of that wealth.
👨💻Strategy continues to buy BTC, defying market skepticism. On January 20, the company reported the acquisition of 22,305 BTC, spending approximately $2.13 billion.
🐳Selling pressure from BTC whales has sharply eased in recent weeks.
🇵🇹Portuguese authorities ordered the blocking of Polymarket after suspicious activity.
🤔Opinion: Trade war and union collapse make Bitcoin a safe-haven asset.
👥CryptoQuant CEO reports high institutional demand for Bitcoin.
💻MEXC and Ondo Finance are expanding their range of zero-fee tokenized stocks.
📈Analyst: On-chain data shows that daily ETH transactions have risen to a new ATH.