On-chain data shows about $716 million worth of Shiba Inu currently held on centralized exchanges, raising concerns about potential sell pressure and limited bullish drivers. However, actual tradable liquidity is estimated to be closer to $100–200 million before slippage and disorderly price moves increase sharply. SHIB is attempting a modest recovery from recent lows but continues to face strong resistance near key moving averages as exchange reserves keep trending higher.

On 11 January 2026, BitMine Immersion Technologies staked an additional 86,400 ETH in a single transaction, bringing its total staked balance to just over 1.08 million ETH. The company now holds about 2.74 million ETH overall, signaling a long-term, yield-focused approach that leans on its own validator infrastructure instead of short-term trading.

Grayscale transferred 8,242.844 ETH and 1,188 SOL, valued around $25 million, to a Coinbase Prime address. The activity was observed in recent days and reflects its use of institutional services. Grayscale and Coinbase have not issued public statements on the specific transfers.

On January 11, 2026, Tom Lee’s BitMine staked an additional 86,400 ETH worth $266.3 million, lifting its staked total to 1,080,512 ETH, about $3.33 billion. According to Arkham, the firm made multiple small deposits to Ethereum’s BatchDeposit contract on Sunday, and on-chain data indicate that at the current price of $ 3,091.40 ETH, BitMine holds approximately 2.738 million ETH worth approximately $8.46 billion.

In 2025, Russia's Social Fund handled about 37 million inquiries, with many asking about pension payments in crypto and whether mining income affects benefits. Officials said all state payments are in rubles and crypto taxation is under the Federal Tax Service. Senior official Maxim Oreshkin urged treating mining as export activity, while exchanges prepared for rules taking effect by July 1, 2026.

Canadian billionaire and mining executive Frank Giustra has renewed his criticism of Bitcoin, arguing it has not justified being described as "digital gold" and remains a speculative asset driven by dogma. He contends Bitcoin has gone through multiple failed narratives, accuses high-profile Bitcoin maximalists such as Michael Saylor of promoting risky advice to unsophisticated investors, and contrasts this with central banks and major powers accumulating physical gold as part of a broader financial reset. Giustra concludes that real power still lies with those who hold gold, while Bitcoin functions mainly as a distraction.

LG AI Research's K-Exaone foundational model has secured seventh place on the Intelligence Index compiled by Artificial Analysis, making it the only Korean entry in a top 10 otherwise dominated by US and Chinese systems. The model, built on a 236 billion-parameter MoE architecture and optimized for A100-class GPUs, topped 10 of 13 benchmark tests in a government-led competition and is available as an open-weight model on Hugging Face with free API access through January 28.

On Saturday, January 10, 2026, Elon Musk said X will roll out an update in seven days that exposes the code deciding which posts and ads appear in users' feeds. The platform plans to rely more heavily on its Grok AI chatbot to evaluate posts daily, even as regulators in multiple countries criticize Grok over sexually explicit image generation and consider or impose access restrictions.