The meme coin market saw a sharp surge in trading activity this week, with 24-hour volume jumping over 30% to $3.47 billion despite a slight dip in total market capitalization. Traders rotated out of established leaders like DOGE and SHIB into high-risk newcomers, including PolitiFi tokens and Solana-based memes, with some Chinese-language meme coins posting gains above 48,000% in the past month.

Sentient Labs has opened SENT token airdrop claims starting January 22, 2026, rewarding early contributors to its open-source AGI coordination network. The SENT token powers governance, incentives, and collaboration across Sentient’s GRID intelligence network, with eligible users able to claim tokens via the official portal and trade SENT on BingX after claiming.

Fight.iD has opened the $FIGHT token airdrop claim portal as of January 22, 2026, allowing eligible users who earned Fighting Points (FP) before the January 19 snapshot to claim their Solana-based tokens. The airdrop rewards early participation in Fight.iD’s UFC-linked fan engagement campaigns, with claims available for 30 days and tokens usable for governance, staking, and ecosystem utilities after claiming.

BitGo said it has moved its headquarters from Palo Alto, California, to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, as it prepares for a potential IPO. The company aims to improve tax efficiency and operational predictability while keeping an international presence. Leadership plans to retain overseas offices to support institutional clients and ongoing growth.

On Jan. 22, 2026, former Ripple CTO David Schwartz rejected circulating claims from some Ethereum supporters that the XRP Ledger is centralized because it operates with 134 permissioned validators. He reiterated an earlier explanation from September 2023, stressing that XRPL nodes independently verify transactions and ledger rules, while validators only help resolve conflicting valid transactions rather than control the network or enforce upgrades.

Bitcoin is trading around $89,000 with a 7% weekly decline and $39 billion in volume, while a 2‑day death cross pattern flashes on the charts. Analysts highlight a bear flag inside a long‑term rising wedge and outline downside targets between $40,000 and $62,000, even as some traders still expect a move above $100,000 before June 2026.

As of January 2026, Railgun, an Ethereum-based mixer, is rolling out a confidential DeFi framework using 0zk private addresses and its Railgun_connect connector. It is currently testing this privacy system via Terminal Wallet and the CowSwap DEX aggregator, while its private pool holds about $100M in assets and the RAIL token trades at $2.30.

According to blockchain data from Solscan cited by Finbold, a cryptocurrency trader turned roughly $4,000 into more than $1 million in a span of about three hours on January 22, 2026, by trading DisclaimerCoin (DONT), a new token from DeFi Development Corp (NASDAQ: DFDV). The wallet bought over 29 billion DONT on Solana and began selling within an hour, with later transactions and the account’s prior inactivity raising questions about whether the windfall results from extraordinary luck or possible insider knowledge. The position appears to have been fully closed by early January 23, after which most activity shifted back to SOL and Wrapped Solana.