On 22 January, LINK changed hands at $12.40, up 1.05% in 24 hours, with volume rising 26% to $522.29 million. Price is hovering above the $11.90 support that has held since November 2025, and a sustained hold could open a 15% push toward $14 despite trading below the 50-day EMA.

On January 23, 2026, President Donald Trump said he had completed interviews for the next Federal Reserve chair and already settled on a candidate. According to Scott Bessent, who is overseeing the selection, four names are on the shortlist and an announcement could come before month-end, while Jerome Powell’s term as chair concludes in May.

On 23 January 2026, Bitwise Asset Management introduced the Bitwise Proficio Currency Debasement ETF (BPRO) on the New York Stock Exchange, blending bitcoin with gold and other precious metals. The actively managed fund targets capital appreciation by holding assets that may benefit when fiat currencies lose purchasing power, with at least 25% of the portfolio required to be in gold.

BitGo Holdings went public on the New York Stock Exchange on January 22, 2026, pricing its IPO at $18 per share and raising about $212 million. The deal included 11,026,365 new shares and 795,200 from existing holders, with Goldman Sachs and Citigroup managing the offering. The stock traded as high as $24.50 before closing at $18.25.

The SEC initiated 13 crypto-related enforcement actions in 2025, a 60% decline from 33 in 2024. Five were opened before Gary Gensler's January 2025 departure and eight under Paul Atkins, who took office in April 2025 and centered new actions on alleged fraud. Total penalties reached $142M, with seven cases dismissed.

Bitcoin has traded below $91,000 since Tuesday while funding rates hover around 7%, implying traders are cautious about adding leveraged longs. Options flow around long straddles and iron condors and rising long-to-short ratios at Binance and OKX suggest whales expect an accumulation phase near $89,500. A sustained move toward $95,000 appears to hinge on institutional demand returning after $1.58 billion exited spot Bitcoin ETFs over the past two days.

Strategy (Nasdaq: MSTR), formerly MicroStrategy, has for the first time lifted its preferred stock balance of $8.36 billion above its total convertible debt of $8.21 billion, marking a key shift in its capital structure. Analysts say the move toward preferred equity, which has no fixed maturity, reduces bankruptcy-linked risk as the firm continues expanding its Bitcoin holdings and could support MSTR’s long-term stock performance.

Nasdaq-listed DeFi Development Corp., a Solana treasury-focused company, faces insider trading allegations after a single wallet bought roughly 29 billion DisclaimerCoin ($DONT) tokens for about $4,100 before the public launch and later exceeded $1.1 million in value. On-chain analysts linked the wallet’s funding paths and staking activity to infrastructure associated with the firm, while the company said it conducted an internal review, labeled the address an "early sniper," and burned over 17 billion $DONT tokens.