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Jan 11, 2026

X plans to embed built in price tracking for crypto and stocks directly on the timeline

X is the best source for financial news -- and hundreds of billions of dollars are deployed based on things people read here. We are building Smart Cashtags that allow you to specify the exact asset (or smart contract) when posting a ticker. From Timeline, users will be able to

9:07 AM · Jan 11, 2026 · 1.9M 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 · 1.04M Views

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Vitalik Buterin says the ETH blockchain trilemma is solved with advent of zkEVMs and PeerDAS

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 · 1.22M Views

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RWA Perp DEX, Trove Markets will rollout mainnet on 10th Feb with mobile app coming soon, they’ve hit $7M on ongoing ICO

TROVE@TroveMarkets

https://t.co/qlo5HSUX0U

12:36 PM · Jan 11, 2026 · 85.6K Views

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Hyperlendx introduced HPL token utility, HPL offering rate discounts on loans

HyperLend@hyperlendx

https://t.co/qzw2T6Be2u

4:40 PM · Jan 5, 2026 · 77.1K Views

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SEC approved Bitwise spot LINK ETF on NYSE

Ash Crypto@AshCrypto

BREAKING: 🇺🇲 SEC has just approved Bitwise spot $LINK ETF ($CLNK) on NYSE. This is massive for Altcoins 🚀

2:33 PM · Jan 6, 2026 · 153K Views

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Trump crypto firm World Liberty Financial announced it has applied for a US banking license to issue and custody USD1

WLFI@worldlibertyfi

World Liberty Financial Announces that WLTC Holdings LLC has Submitted an Application for a National Trust Bank Charter to Issue and Custody USD1 Stablecoins 🦅☝️ businesswire.com/news/home/2026…

businesswire.com

World Liberty Financial Announces that WLTC Holdings LLC has Submitted an Application for a National Trust Bank Charter to Issue and Custody USD1 Stablecoins

9:59 PM · Jan 7, 2026 · 508K Views

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Babylon raised $15 million 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 · 94.5K Views

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MSCI kept crypto treasury firms in its indexes but dropped the passive buying that supported them, making new share issuance harder 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 · 155K Views

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Rumble and Tether launch crypto wallet integrated into Rumble streaming, 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 · 111K Views

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JPMorgan will launch JPM Coin on the 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 · 52.7K Views

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Morph Network announced a $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 · 270K Views

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ZCASH announced they’re launching a ZCASH wallet, this came shortly after recent ZEC dump following several core devs departure

Josh Swihart 🛡@jswihart

We are all in on Zcash. We need to scale Zcash to billions of users. Startups can scale, but nonprofits can't. That's why we created a new Zcash startup. cashz.org

5:55 PM · Jan 8, 2026 · 906K Views

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Fluent launched Prints, a reputation based social footprint

Fluent@fluentxyz

Introducing Prints Your unique social footprint formed by your identity and reputation across the internet Get yours now: connect.fluent.xyz

3:35 PM · Jan 8, 2026 · 181K Views

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Barclays invested in stablecoin infrastructure provider 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 · 8.18K Views

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Florida introduced a bill to create a strategic Bitcoin reserve, allowing up to 10% of public funds to be held in BTC and Bitcoin ETFs.

Bitcoin Magazine@BitcoinMagazine

JUST IN: Florida introduces a bill to create a Strategic #Bitcoin Reserve, allowing up to 10% of key public funds to hold BTC and ETFs.

9:59 AM · Jan 8, 2026 · 142K Views

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Polygon plans to launch Open Money Stack, an integrated stack of services and technologies to move money across business, consumers , AI agents onchain

Marc | Polygon Labs (💜,⚔️, ※)@0xMarcB

https://t.co/cua6psQTXY

4:05 PM · Jan 8, 2026 · 295K Views

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VC a16z crypto says 2026 will focus less on new blockchains and more on how crypto transforms markets, infrastructure, and media

a16z crypto@a16zcrypto

Full list: a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/…

a16z crypto @a16zcrypto

17 things we're excited about for crypto in 2026... 1. Better, more clever onramps/ offramps for stablecoins 2. Thinking about tokenization of real world assets, and stablecoins, in a more crypto-native way 3. Stablecoins unlock the bank ledger upgrade cycle — and new payment

11:38 PM · Jan 8, 2026 · 24.7K Views

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Ondo Finance expands Ethereum and BNB based Ondo Global Markets with 98 tokenized stocks and ETFs