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Stellar (XLM) shows early signs of stabilization after several weeks of decline, with the trading price approaching $0.20 and a daily increase of 2.49%. The TD Sequential buy signal indicates that selling pressure may be easing, while momentum indicators such as the MACD histogram have turned positive, suggesting a potential short-term rebound. However, XLM still declined by 2.8% this week, and further confirmation is needed to determine if the trend has truly reversed.

Amid the broader upward trend of artificial intelligence-themed tokens such as VIRTUAL, RENDER, and TAO, PIPPIN surged over 25% in 24 hours, ranking second among cryptocurrencies in the top 100 by market capitalization. Technical indicators show bullish control, with a balanced trading volume of $42 billion and still rising, and an RSI of 72, although this suggests the possibility of a pullback. The memecoin follows an upward trendline since the end of November; if support holds, 61% of the movement could retest the December peak of $0.7592. However, the rally faces threats from increased leve

Younghoon Kim claims to have an IQ of 276. He predicts that XRP will outperform gold and silver in 2026, despite current data showing a stark contrast. Although XRP's trading price is around $1.87, silver has already increased by approximately 167.70% in 2025, briefly surpassing NVIDIA's market cap of about $4.40 trillion. Kim states that XRP may rebound by the end of 2025 and could reach a new all-time high in January 2026, even speculating that under certain economic conditions, XRP's price could reach $1,000 within ten years. However, market sentiment remains very negative, with Santiment d

Voice AI startup Subtle has launched wireless earbuds priced at $199, designed to provide clear audio in noisy environments and enable cross-application voice-to-text transcription. Voicebuds are set to debut in the US, including a one-year iOS/Mac app subscription for hands-free voice notes and AI chat. The company claims that the transcriptions produced by these earbuds are five times less error-prone than those of AirPods Pro 3 using OpenAI models, and they utilize a chip to wake and lock the iPhone. CEO Taylor Chen emphasized the goal of making voice a more private and natural interface, b

CoinWorld News reports that Wu said on Twitter: In 2025, the number of on-chain address freezes reached a new high. The multiple USDT addresses blacklisted by Tether in early 2026 are highly correlated with the seizure orders from Israeli counter-terrorism agencies, indicating that stablecoin issuers are deeply involved in global law enforcement cooperation. Terrorist funding often moves in small amounts through exchanges, cross-chain bridges, and other channels, posing compliance risks. As regional conflicts continue, sanctions are accelerating to be reflected on the blockchain. The industry

CoinWorld News reports that on-chain analyst Yu Yan tweeted: A certain whale exchanged all 22,344 ETH (approximately 70.06 million USD) for 774.1 WBTC, with an average cost of about 90,505 USD per WBTC.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin stated that the integration of Zero-Knowledge Virtual Machine (ZK-EVM) with PeerDAS data dissemination method fundamentally solves the blockchain scalability "trilemma," achieving high throughput, security, and decentralization. He described the upgraded network as a "consensus-based BitTorrent." However, Buterin warned that although ZK-EVM is at "production-quality performance," comprehensive security and security implementation is a multi-year process, and ZK-EVM will not become a primary block validation method until 2027 to 2030.

Crypto World News: On January 4th, according to Lookonchain monitoring, an Ethereum OG whale (0x4553) has exchanged 7,828 ETH for 269 WBTC again within the past 2 hours, approximately worth 24.6 million USD.

Ripple has completed the XRP custodial issuance for January. After the standard 1 billion XRP unlock, 700 million tokens were returned to custody, leaving approximately 34.185 billion XRP in a programmatic custody state. This process was briefly accompanied by a misleading on-chain memo that falsely claimed a massive sell-off, which was later identified as a troll exploiting the XRP Ledger text embedding feature.

Crypto World News reports that Whale Insider posted on the X platform stating that Venezuela currently holds 161 metric tons of gold reserves, making it the country with the largest gold holdings in Latin America.

As previously announced, Ripple's Chief Technology Officer David Schwartz updated his X profile to reflect his transition, which takes effect in early 2026. His final executive actions include accepting a seat on Ripple's board of directors and becoming an advisor to XRP financial firm Evernorth. Schwartz, co-creator of the XRP Ledger, emphasized that he continues to participate in the XRP community through his nodes and research. Additionally, he issued a warning about Instagram impersonators, stating that he rarely uses the platform and that accounts claiming to be him are likely scams.

Crypto界 News: According to a tweet from Coin Bureau, data shows that if SOL rises by 10%, $217 million in short positions could be liquidated; if it drops by 10%, $183 million in long positions are at risk. Currently, SOL is trading around $132, with both bulls and bears operating at high leverage.

Crypto界网 reports that Cointelegraph posted on the X platform that, according to CryptoQuant data, the rate at which new crypto whales are accumulating BTC is at a historic high. The accompanying image shows that over 100,000 new crypto whales have accumulated over 120 billion USD worth of BTC assets.

Crypto World News reports that Solana Daily posted on the X platform that the RWA on-chain platform BackedFi has tokenized stocks worth nearly $1 billion on the Solana network.

CFTC Acting Chair Caroline D. Pham shared a screenshot of her early Bitcoin trades, revealing that she bought BTC at a price of $7,395.81 in February 2018 and sold it at $11,193.72 in June 2019. Since Bitcoin's trading price was around $91,000 on its 17th birthday, she missed out on over 1,100% potential gains. The cryptocurrency community celebrated this milestone, marking nearly twenty years since the creation of the Genesis Block.

CoinWorld News reports that on January 4th, according to Yujin Monitoring, the well-known "Bankrupt Whale" James Wynn, who lost over $100 million on Hyperliquid six months ago, started going long on PEPE with a principal of $10,000 on December 27th. He has continuously increased his position through floating profits, currently with a floating profit of $480,000. After experiencing a significant floating profit in PEPE holdings, he opened a new 40x leveraged BTC long position two hours ago, with a position size of $5.06 million.