Crypto News. January 12, 2025

Jan 12, 2026

Privacy coins surge after Powell reveals DOJ is threatening him with criminal charges for refusing Trump’s rate cut demands

Federal Reserve@federalreserve

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: federalreserve.gov/newsevents/spe…

12:32 AM · Jan 12, 2026 · 7.47M Views

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Nasdaq and CME partners to Relaunch Unified Crypto Index for Institutional Investors

CME Group@CMEGroup

New name, same commitment to transparency. The @Nasdaq Crypto Index is rebranding to the Nasdaq CME Crypto Index, a major step forward for regulated cryptocurrency indices. Read why this update is a critical building block for the market. ➡️ spr.ly/6010CUCjG

4:37 PM · Jan 8, 2026 · 6.57K Views

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Coinbase is reconsidering withdrawing its US crypto market support, if the genius act is implemented as the act prevents stable coin issuers from paying interest or yield to holders

The Block@TheBlock__

Coinbase may reconsider support for US market structure bill: Bloomberg

theblock.co

Coinbase may reconsider support for US market structure bill: Bloomberg

3:07 AM · Jan 12, 2026 · 7.1K Views

9 Replies · 6 Reposts · 25 Likes

US Supreme Court is set to rule on President Trump’s tariff case on Wednesday January 14th

Ash Crypto@AshCrypto

BREAKING: 🇺🇸 The Supreme Court will rule on President Trump’s tariffs next Wednesday on Jan 14th.

4:30 PM · Jan 9, 2026 · 83.5K Views

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MegaETH NFT announced that their NFT is now tradable on opensea

MegaETH@megaeth

MegaETH NFTs will be live on @opensea. Day 1.

2:18 PM · Jan 9, 2026 · 90.3K Views

274 Replies · 135 Reposts · 1.42K Likes

BNB Chain announced they’ve purchased several BNB memecoins through their $100 million incentive program

BNB Chain@BNBCHAIN

$100M Incentive Program: Purchase Announcement The BNB Chain Foundation wallet has made new asset purchases. Here are the details: ✅ $50,000 purchase of 哈基米 (1,304,496.27 tokens @ 0.03832897115 tokens per USDT) bscscan.com/tx/0x04eb5133e… ✅ $50,000 purchase of 老子

4:42 AM · Jan 11, 2026 · 204K Views

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Vitalik shared his opinion on stable coin decentralization

vitalik.eth@VitalikButerin

@lex_node We need better decentralized stablecoins. IMO three problems: 1. Ideally figure out an index to track that's better than USD price 2. Oracle design that's decentralized and is not capturable with a large pool of money 3. Solve the problem that staking yield is competition

7:33 AM · Jan 11, 2026 · 151K Views

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Uk committee chairs are adding pressure to Labour government to ban political donations in crypto currency.

The Block@TheBlock__

UK committee chairs push for crypto political donations ban, adding pressure to Labour government

theblock.co

UK committee chairs push for crypto political donations ban, adding pressure to Labour government

8:20 PM · Jan 11, 2026 · 4.69K Views

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White House confirms that plans are ongoing to remove taxes on small Bitcoin and crypto transactions in the United States

CryptoGoos@cryptogoos

HUGE: 🇺🇸 White House will remove tax on all small Bitcoin Payments. They know Bitcoin is the only real money.

5:22 PM · Jan 11, 2026 · 190K Views

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President Trump said that the United States will no longer sell its Bitcoin

Crypto Rover@cryptorover

RT @cryptorover: BULLISH: 🇺🇸 President Trump: “Unfortunately, in recent years the U.S. government sold tens of thousands of BTC that woul…

11:03 PM · Jan 11, 2026 · 2 Views

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On January 11th, Tether froze $182 million in USDT on TRON chain

Whale Alert@whale_alert

❄ ❄ An address with a balance of 44,990,109 #USDT (44,960,404 USD) has just been frozen! whale-alert.io/tx/tron/173f18…

10:55 PM · Jan 10, 2026 · 53.6K Views

33 Replies · 21 Reposts · 182 Likes

The Block@TheBlock__

Tether freezes $182 million in USDT tied to five Tron addresses

theblock.co

Tether freezes $182 million in USDT tied to five Tron addresses

8:06 AM · Jan 12, 2026 · 5.38K Views

19 Replies · 5 Reposts · 31 Likes

South Korea financial service commission are looking to permit professional investors and cooperate organizations to allocate up to 5% of their equity capital annually to top 20 crypto currencies.

The Block@TheBlock__

South Korean authorities seek 5% cap on corporate crypto investments: report

theblock.co

South Korean authorities seek 5% cap on corporate crypto investments: report

5:49 AM · Jan 12, 2026 · 4.2K Views

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Data shows that YouTube crypto viewership have declined over the last three months, reaching its all time low since January 2021.

Benjamin Cowen@intocryptoverse

Here is a 30 day moving average of views to a lot of different crypto youtube channels. So it's not just X and an algorithm change. Viewership to crypto has been dropping across platforms.

7:25 PM · Jan 11, 2026 · 118K Views

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In the last three days 3 kidnapping attempt on crypto currency asset holders have been recorded in France. This comes after a tax employee was arrested giving out information of crypt asset holders to an unknown individuals.

Cryptoast@CryptoastMedia

🔴 Sur les 3 derniers jours, la France a connu 3 tentatives de kidnapping liées aux cryptomonnaies. Dans le même temps on apprenait qu’une employée des impôts informait un mystérieux commanditaire sur le patrimoine crypto de certains contribuables.

8:58 AM · Jan 10, 2026 · 375K Views

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ETH Foundation co-executive director Hsiao-Wei Wang says Zero-Knowledge proofs are now central to Ethereum’s mid-term roadmap after major recent breakthroughs