Crypto News. January 15, 2025

Jan 15, 2026

Research from CoinGecko shows 11.6 million cryptocurrencies failed in 2025, highlighting extreme market consolidation and attrition

CoinGecko@coingecko

Number of Failed Cryptocurrencies by Year 2021: 2,584 tokens 2022: 213,075 tokens 2023: 245,049 tokens 2024: 1,382,010 tokens 2025: 11,564,909 tokens What's one project that you think will succeed?

5:24 AM · Jan 14, 2026 · 463K Views

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Wintermute annual report says 2025 crypto inflows stayed locked in ETFs and large caps like BTC and ETH, with no real altcoin season. Altcoin rallies also got much shorter, averaging about 20 days, down from 60 days in 2024 as narratives now fade faster.

Wintermute@wintermute_t

Liquidity came into crypto in 2025, but where did it go? Using Wintermute’s proprietary OTC flow, our Digital asset OTC markets 2025 report shows where capital actually went and why market structure fundamentally changed Read on for our key findings ↓

2:37 PM · Jan 13, 2026 · 38.6K Views

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Sui Network confirmed that its network has been restored and is fully operational, after the network stalled for about 3hours. The team said it will publish a full incident review in the coming days.

Sui@SuiNetwork

The Sui network is now back and fully operational. Transactions are flowing normally. If you are still seeing issues, please refresh your app or browser window. Thanks for your patience. We will share a full incident review in the coming days. Please check

9:24 PM · Jan 14, 2026 · 96.9K Views

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Visa partnered with BVNK to integrate stablecoin payouts.

BVNK@BVNKFinance

Exciting news: we're powering stablecoin payments for @Visa Direct Starting this year with pilot programs, BVNK will provide stablecoin infrastructure for @VisaDIRECT's $1.7 trillion real-time payments network, enabling faster, more flexible global money movement.

8:16 AM · Jan 14, 2026 · 4.14K Views

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DZ Bank has received regulatory approval from Germany’s financial regulator BaFin to launch its in-house crypto platform, meinKrypto.

Cointelegraph@Cointelegraph

🇩🇪 ADOPTION: Germany's second-largest bank DZ Bank receives MiCAR approval to operate crypto platform "meinKrypto,” offering BTC, ETH, LTC, and ADA initially.

2:00 AM · Jan 14, 2026 · 148K Views

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The Zcash Foundation confirmed the SEC has closed its investigation with no enforcement action

Zcash Foundation 🛡️@ZcashFoundation

We are pleased to announce that the SEC has concluded its review and informed us that it does not intend to recommend any enforcement action or other changes against Zcash Foundation regarding this matter. zfnd.org/notice-conclud…

5:18 PM · Jan 14, 2026 · 60.2K Views

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Alpaca raised $150M in Series D and secured a $40M credit line, valuing the firm at $1.15B.

Yoshi Alpaca@iyoshyoshi

I'm deeply grateful 🙏 to share that @AlpacaHQ has raised a $150 million Series D, valuing the company at $1.15 billion 🦙 🚀 This fundraise was especially humbling because of the level of interest. The round was very oversubscribed, with strong enthusiasm from a wide range of

12:15 PM · Jan 14, 2026 · 9.43K Views

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Ledger is launching a Bitcoin yield feature in Ledger wallet, letting users earn yield on BTC via integrations with Lombard Bard and Figment.

Ledger@Ledger

Your $BTC shouldn't just sit idle. Unlock rewards through the Ledger Wallet app with @Lombard_Finance via @Figment_io. Through the Figment dApp in Ledger Wallet, BTC holders can access Lombard’s fully backed LBTC and earn rewards while staying fully in control of their assets.

2:01 PM · Jan 14, 2026 · 14.1K Views

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Project Eleven raised $20M to develop post quantum security tools for blockchain. The round was led by Castle Island Ventures

Project Eleven@qdayclock

Project Eleven Raises $20M to Prepare Digital Asset Infrastructure for the Quantum Era Project Eleven, the leader in post-quantum security and migration for digital assets, today announced a $20 million Series A funding round led by Castle Island Ventures with participation from

4:00 PM · Jan 14, 2026 · 50.3K Views

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Oobit, a Tether-backed mobile wallet, now natively supports Phantom

Oobit@oobit

Wherever Visa works, @phantom wallet now works too. +15M Phantom users 👻 Plug Phantom into Oobit and pay straight from your wallet. Now live across +80 countries including the US, Brazil, Philippines, Korea & many more 🌎 🔗 newsroom.oobit.com/oobit-enables-…

3:29 PM · Jan 14, 2026 · 20.9K Views

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Morpho leaves discord amid scammer risks, moves to Intercom

Merlin Egalite 🦋@MerlinEgalite

Moving from Discord was not an easy choice BUT: - Discord is actually full of scammers. people would get phished while actually searching for answers despite heavy monitoring, safeguards, etc. - We've been testing intercom so far and it has made support 100x easier: instant

Anton Cheng @antonttc

Morpho's shutting down its public Discord. Didn't see that coming. This could be a trend for other protocols too—scams, bot scraping, or just too much noise might be at play. But maybe its also signals that big DeFi teams are focusing more on institutions and less on

8:14 PM · Jan 14, 2026 · 38.2K Views

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The senate banking committee has postponed its markup hearing on crypto legislation following Coinbase CEO withdrawal of support.

Brian Armstrong@brian_armstrong

After reviewing the Senate Banking draft text over the last 48hrs, Coinbase unfortunately can’t support the bill as written. There are too many issues, including: - A defacto ban on tokenized equities - DeFi prohibitions, giving the government unlimited access to your financial

9:05 PM · Jan 14, 2026 · 1.59M Views

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Lighter has launched staking feature for its native token LIT

Lighter@Lighter_xyz

We are rolling out staking of LIT on Lighter! Here we will describe the initial utility from staking and how it will affect the Lighter ecosystem.

11:25 PM · Jan 14, 2026 · 157K Views

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Bitwise’s spot Chainlink ETF (CLNK) is live trading on the NYSE Arca Exchange

Bitwise@BitwiseInvest

Today, we launched the Bitwise Chainlink ETF $CLNK, furthering the connection between Wall Street and crypto. To the #LinkMarines who have been here since the beginning: This is the moment "The Great Rewrite" meets Wall Street. Join @RasterlyRock and @ChainLinkGod at 12:30 pm

2:39 PM · Jan 14, 2026 · 37.5K Views

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Celestia introduced Fibre blockspace, a Data Availability protocol capable of handling 1 Tb/s of blockspace across 500 nodes, 880x faster than current DA layers.