Crypto News. January 7, 2025

Babylon raised $15M from a16z to build native BTC collateralized vaults

Babylon@babylonlabs_io

Today we’re sharing a major milestone for Babylon. @a16zcrypto is backing the Babylon Project with $15M to support the development and scaling of Babylon's new protocol Trustless Bitcoin Vaults. The BTCVaults are designed to provide new, functional utility for the BABY token

1:12 PM · Jan 7, 2026 · 13.7K Views

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Rumble and Tether launch crypto wallet integrated into Rumble streaming platform, allowing audience to tip creators in BTC and USDT

Rumble 🏴‍☠️@rumblevideo

BREAKING: Rumble and Tether Launch Crypto Wallet for Creator Economy "Rumble Inc. (NASDAQ:RUM), the Freedom-First technology platform, and Tether, the largest company in the digital assets industry, today launched the Rumble Wallet, a non-custodial crypto wallet integrated

12:05 PM · Jan 7, 2026 · 64K Views

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Blackrock acquired $231.9M in BTC and $197.7M in ETH

Ash Crypto@AshCrypto

BREAKING: 🇺🇸 BlackRock has bought $231.9 million worth of Bitcoin and $197.7 million worth of Ethereum.

6:41 AM · Jan 7, 2026 · 60.5K Views

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MSCI kept crypto treasury companies in its indexes but quietly removed the passive buying that supported them, making future share issuance far more painful and weakening their BTC accumulation strategy

Crypto Rover@cryptorover

MSCI JUST FOOLED EVERYONE WITH THEIR ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 Today, MSCI announced that it'll not remove Bitcoin and crypto treasury companies from its indexes. This is big news, as it was creating a lot of uncertainty. But MSCI changed one rule, which will impact the treasury

10:08 AM · Jan 7, 2026 · 94K Views

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Binance listed zkp

Binance@binance

Binance will list 币安人生 (币安人生) and @zkPass (ZKP) with the Seed Tag applied. More information 👉 binance.com/en/support/ann…

11:15 AM · Jan 7, 2026 · 176K Views

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Coinbase added MegaETH to their roadmap as tge looms

Coinbase Markets 🛡️@CoinbaseMarkets

Assets added to the roadmap today: MegaETH (MEGA)

coinbase.com

Increasing transparency for new asset listings on Coinbase

8:20 PM · Jan 6, 2026 · 150K Views

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Morgan Stanley filed for ETH ETF that includes staking after filing for BTC/SOL ETF with the SEC yesterday

Watcher.Guru@WatcherGuru

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 $1.8 trillion Morgan Stanley files for spot Ethereum ETF.

11:06 AM · Jan 7, 2026 · 222K Views

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JPMorgan to launch JPM coin on Canton Network, making it the second network after Base

Coin Bureau@coinbureau

🚨JPM COIN EXPANDS TO CANTON NETWORK J.P. Morgan is deploying JPM Coin on the Canton Network, its second permissionless blockchain after Base. Canton is backed by Goldman Sachs, BNP Paribas, Deutsche Börse, and BNY Mellon, offering configurable privacy for institutions.

1:12 PM · Jan 7, 2026 · 11.6K Views

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Eth L2 Morph Network announced $150M Morph Payment Accelerator to support onchain payment platforms in collaboration with Bitget

Morph@MorphNetwork

⚡️ We’re Supercharging Payments. Introducing the Morph Payment Accelerator. A $150 million commitment to support businesses building real payment flows onchain at global scale. Built to power real-world payments. Explore the Payment Accelerator ↓

12:59 PM · Jan 7, 2026 · 51.6K Views

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Barclays invested in stablecoin Infrastructure, UBYX

Ubyx@ubyx_

🏦 @Barclays has made a strategic investment in Ubyx. Our mission is to deliver the ubiquitous acceptance of digital money. Ubyx solves the many-to-many problem faced by issuers, enabling a pluralistic market structure while preserving the singleness of money. Press release👇

10:20 AM · Jan 7, 2026 · 3.61K Views

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