As of January 7, 2026, Solana has become the largest blockchain by market capitalization for tokenized stocks, with tokenized equity volume on the network reaching $874.19 million. Across all chains, tokenized equity products now total $1.2 billion in market value, while Solana's broader RWA ecosystem includes $874.2 million in tokenized RWAs excluding stablecoins and a stablecoin market cap of $14.77 billion. Six SOL ETFs approved in October last year have attracted $801.3 million so far, and SOL was trading at $137.24 with a $77.4 billion market cap at the time of publication.

Shiba Inu is approaching a potential golden cross on the daily chart, with the 23-day SMA rising toward the 50-day and price back above both. The next hurdle is the 200-day EMA near $0.0000106; a sustained break above it could weaken resistance toward the five-zero area. This setup follows a late-December low near $0.000007, where sellers failed to push lower.

During Wednesday's Asia session, Shiba Inu's 24-hour trading volume fell 53.33% to $194.67 million as the token dipped 4.96% to $0.00000896, while remaining 26.69% higher week over week. SHIB had surged for four days into a Jan. 5 peak at $0.00001017 before cooling. Glassnode notes spot volumes across Bitcoin and altcoins are at their lowest since November 2023.

On 7 January 2026 at 16:55, a crypto trader was spotlighted for repeatedly converting exchange listing announcements into quick gains, with on-chain analytics indicating realized profits above $1.4 million. Recent records show a Binance spot listing of 币安人生 yielded roughly $46,000 in under ten minutes. Portfolio data covers 29 tokens, a median hold of two minutes, and a win rate near 80%.

DeFi Development Corp, a Nasdaq-listed firm, is reallocating part of its Solana treasury into on-chain yield strategies through a partnership with Hylo to generate recurring returns and support operations. At the same time, Solana trades around $137.95 with a market cap near $78 billion, while technical analysts point to a bull flag pattern that could imply a potential move toward $1,500 if price breaks above the $200–$220 zone.

Ripple’s ecosystem has drawn renewed attention in early January as XRP’s price rose 20% in a week to $2.25. The company expanded in Asia through partnerships with major Japanese banks, secured a $500 million funding round at a $40 billion valuation, and saw strong demand for spot XRP ETFs that accumulated about $1.25 billion in net inflows. Despite speculation, Ripple’s leadership maintains it plans to stay private for now.

PEPENODE's presale is scheduled to conclude on Thursday, January 8, 2026, at a final token price of $0.0012161 after raising $2.6 million with 24 hours remaining. The project touts staking at 522% APY and plans exchange listings alongside a virtual mining launch, as the market shows Bitcoin near $92,000 and Ethereum around $3,200.

On January 6, 2026, Flow released a post‑incident report explaining how a $3.9 million exploit was carried out through a type confusion vulnerability in the Cadence runtime that enabled counterfeit FLOW token creation. The attacker began executing about 40 malicious contracts on December 26, 2025, and network validators halted the chain less than six hours after the initial malicious transaction. Flow stated that existing user balances were not accessed, while exchanges received 1.094 billion fake FLOW and later returned 484,434,923 tokens for destruction, with most of the remaining supply isolated onchain.