Crypto News. January 5, 2025
Sec commissioner Caroline Crenshaw is set to exit this week.
Eleanor Terrett@EleanorTerrett
🚨NEW: Democrat @SECGov Commissioner Caroline Crenshaw departs the agency today, leaving an all-GOP lineup as 2026 begins.
9:02 PM · Jan 2, 2026 · 186K Views
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Strategy acquired 1,287 BTC. It now holds 673,783 BTC
Michael Saylor@saylor
Strategy has acquired 1,287 BTC to increase its BTC Reserve to â‚¿673,783 and has increased its USD Reserve by $62 million to $2.25 billion. $MSTR
strategy.com
Strategy Increases its BTC Reserve to â‚¿673,783 and USD Reserve to $2.25 billion
1:03 PM · Jan 5, 2026 · 586K Views
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Ledger announced another data breach.
ZachXBT@zachxbt
Community alert: Ledger had another data breach via payment processor Global-e leaking the personal data of customers (name & other contact information).
Earlier today customers received the email below.
11:30 AM · Jan 5, 2026 · 528K Views
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Phantom officially announced in-wallet prediction market powered by Kalshi
Phantom@phantom
https://t.co/9ayXLEn6sS
8:18 PM · Jan 3, 2026 · 49.5K Views
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Starknet is back online and fully operational after almost 4 hours Downtime.
Starknet (BTCFi arc) 🥷@Starknet
Starknet is back online and fully operational. Transactions submitted between 9:24 am and 9:42 am UTC may not have been processed properly. A retrospective, including full timeline, root causes, and long-term prevention measures will follow.
3:35 PM · Jan 5, 2026 · 13.3K Views
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Voting is currently ongoing on WOOFi to burn 300million locked WOO
WOOFi@_WOOFi
A proposal to permanently burn the 300M $WOO locked tranche (~15% of supply) is now moving to a vote
This would bring the circulating supply to 100% of FDV with no future dilution
12:32 PM · Jan 5, 2026 · 6.81K Views
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Vitalik Buterin says the blockchain trilemma is solved, with zkEVMs and PeerDAS enabling decentralization, consensus, and high bandwidth at once.
vitalik.eth@VitalikButerin
Now that ZKEVMs are at alpha stage (production-quality performance, remaining work is safety) and PeerDAS is live on mainnet, it's time to talk more about what this combination means for Ethereum.
These are not minor improvements; they are shifting Ethereum into being a
9:07 PM · Jan 3, 2026 · 913K Views
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OKX shared their 2026 preview .
OKX@okx
2026 isn't about moonshots. It's about a new era of stability and utility. Here is what our CMO & Managing Partner, @Haider, is watching in the year ahead.
2:23 AM · Jan 3, 2026 · 28.1K Views
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