Large Cardano holders accumulated more than 210 million ADA over the last three weeks as the token traded near $0.36 after a 7% daily drop. Price ranged between $0.36 and $0.40 in 24 hours and $0.36 to $0.43 over seven days. Funding sits at -0.0037%, and ADA remains below the 9-week EMA at $0.41.

On January 19, 2026, Bermuda announced at the World Economic Forum in Davos a plan to build a fully on-chain national economy with Coinbase and Circle. The initiative will use USDC for fast, low-cost payments and includes government testing, bank and insurer tokenization pilots, and nationwide education and onboarding.

According to RWA.xyz, the value of tokenized real-world assets on Solana rose 17% over the past 30 days to surpass $1 billion, placing the network third by RWA size. Ethereum's total stands at $12.8 billion. In price action, SOL fell about 6% in the last 24 hours and is approaching $130 support.

On 19 January, the New York Stock Exchange outlined a tokenized securities platform enabling 24/7 trading of U.S.-listed equities and ETFs, pending regulatory approval. The design supports fractional shares, dollar-denominated orders, and stablecoin funding, with near-instant on-chain settlement across blockchains such as Ethereum and Solana.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has set three priorities for his participation in the 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos, focusing on economic freedom, cryptocurrency adoption and tokenization. He plans to meet world and bank leaders to discuss market structure legislation, fair treatment of stablecoins and broader access to capital markets for billions of unbrokered adults. Armstrong contrasts this agenda with his 2025 Davos experience, where debates around Trump's crypto policies and a proposed Strategic Bitcoin Reserve dominated discussions as Bitcoin hit record prices.

XRP was trading around $2 after briefly dipping to $1.84 on Monday, while market analyst Bird outlined a potential path toward $4.20 driven by a short squeeze. His liquidity heatmap highlights dense short positioning near $4.20 and recent liquidations of long positions, suggesting price could be attracted to that zone. Bird argues that this setup may keep the current XRP rally intact and could push the token beyond its prior all-time high of $3.90.

Bitcoin stayed above $92,000 after a 3.4% weekend pullback, while a failed $98,000 retest and $395 million in Friday ETF outflows weighed on sentiment. Derivatives showed a roughly 5% futures basis and an 8% put-call skew, and gold pushed past $4,650 as U.S. markets were shut Monday.

On January 19, 2026, analysis showed Europe holds about $12.6 trillion in US assets, exceeding the combined holdings of the rest of the world, yet most of this capital is in private hands and cannot be directly used as a policy weapon. EU policymakers are instead weighing options such as delaying a July trade deal and imposing around €93 billion in retaliatory tariffs, as strategists warn that any forced sell-off of US assets would damage Europe and face serious absorption limits in alternative markets.