On January 13, Polygon Labs said it signed an agreement to acquire Coinme and Sequence for over $250 million. The deal targets stablecoin payments and cross-border settlement, leveraging Coinme's 48-state licenses and 50,000 fiat-to-crypto locations plus Sequence's enterprise wallets and cross-chain tech. Meanwhile, POL fell from $0.18 to $0.15 before rebounding to $0.16.

A new draft of the U.S. Digital Asset Market Clarity Act could classify XRP, along with tokens like LTC, HBAR, DOGE, SOL, and LINK, as "non-ancillary" assets from January 1, putting them on similar regulatory footing to Bitcoin and Ethereum as ETF primary assets. While this change does not immediately move XRP's price, it adds institutional clarity as XRP trades around resistance at its 200-day EMA, with bulls eyeing a potential move toward $3.20 and bears watching support near $1.95.

Pi Network's PI token has hovered just above the $0.20 demand zone and has not revisited $1 since May 14, 2025. Despite softer CPI data boosting major caps and Pi-related initiatives like a hackathon and upcoming DEX launch, daily trading volumes remain low and continuous token unlocks plus a lack of top-tier listings are pressuring price performance.

OP led Layer 2 tokens with a gain of more than 13% as trading volume jumped over 140% to above $200 million. It ranked fifth among the top 100 coins by performance, while Optimism's network activity strengthened since 2025, with daily transactions surpassing 2.5 million and the cumulative count at 921.9 million.

An analysis by Steph is Crypto on X this Tuesday says the long-term XRP/gold ratio has returned to a support area near $0.0004. Past touches on this zone preceded rallies of more than 800% in 2020, over 120% in 2022, and about 530% in 2024. He also notes RSI around 33.38, and projects a move above $0.0018 if patterns recur.

On August 31, 2023, the SEC subpoenaed the Zcash Foundation; on January 14, 2026, the foundation said the review had concluded with no enforcement intended. The group also rolled out five new DNS seeders across the U.S. and Europe, while ZEC rose 12% to $437 over 24 hours and nearly doubled in three months.

On Wednesday, the Zcash Foundation announced that the US Securities and Exchange Commission had ended its multi-year investigation without recommending any enforcement action. The probe, launched in August 2023 and internally labeled SF-04569, focused on certain crypto asset offerings and concluded as ZEC traded around $439, up about 13% with 24-hour volume near $881 million. The decision comes amid internal governance tensions in the Zcash ecosystem and a broader recalibration of US crypto enforcement since 2025.

Ripple secured an Electronic Money Institution license from Luxembourg's CSSF, enabling real-time cross-border payments across Europe. On January 14, 2026, Stuart Alderoty said preliminary approval had been granted. XRP trades around $2.10–$2.15, holding above $2.00 support, as market watchers focus on the $3.05 resistance.