On January 30, 2026, Binance CEO Richard Teng endorsed the company's open letter addressing market volatility and service standards. The letter outlined plans to convert the $1 billion SAFU, currently in stablecoins, into Bitcoin over the next thirty days and to top the fund back up if its value falls to $800 million.

Samson Mow, CEO of JAN3 and long‑time Bitcoin advocate, has aligned himself with an X user's forecast of an "Omega candle" that could raise BTC by $100,000. He maintains a longer‑term view that Bitcoin can reach $1,000,000, while author Robert Kiyosaki recently said selling part of his Bitcoin and gold holdings to buy a house was a big mistake and continues using real estate income to accumulate crypto.

On January 22, 2026 at WEF Davos, former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao outlined three priorities for crypto: state-level asset tokenization, crypto as an invisible payments rail, and AI agents transacting natively with digital assets. He also said exchanges and stablecoins have proven at scale and forecast declining reliance on physical banks over the next decade.

Dogecoin co-creator Billy Markus has reacted on X to a sharp crypto market downturn that erased about $150,000,000,000 in value as Bitcoin dropped under $90,000 and gold set a fresh record above $4,800 per ounce. Markus, known online as "Shibetoshi Nakamoto," replied with a brief "oh" to a post highlighting the scale of liquidations, while separately the firm Strategy disclosed a purchase of 22,305 BTC for roughly $2.13 billion at a price of about $95,284 per coin.

On Jan 19, 2026, CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ju said institutional demand for Bitcoin remains strong, citing about 577,000 BTC (roughly $53 billion) added to US custody wallets over the past year, with ETF holdings included. Meanwhile, Peter Brandt forecast a decline toward $60,000, potentially $50,000, from around $91,000.

According to on-chain data shared by Lookonchain on January 19, 2026, a wallet potentially associated with Fenbushi Capital moved 7,798 ETH, valued at $25 million, from a two-year staking position to Binance, likely to sell. The transfer coincided with Ethereum sliding 4.5% from $3,360 to about $3,220, while CoinShares reported $1.55 billion of weekly inflows into Bitcoin products and hundreds of millions into Ethereum and Solana. Over the same period, Bitcoin fell on new U.S. trade tariffs against Europe before rebounding from $92,490 to $93,180, with an analyst attributing the move to renewed spot demand.

On Jan. 18, 2026, SHIB marketing lead Lucie told holders there is "no panic" and that SHIB and SOU are "moving up together" as SOU NFTs track obligations tied to the late‑2025 Shibarium exploit. The daily burn rate jumped 3,904.47%, with 29,998,516 SHIB sent to dead wallets via two transfers of 28,000,000 and 1,576,200.

On Jan. 15, 2026, Shiba Inu marketing lead Lucie outlined how the "SHIB Owes You" (SOU) recovery plan will function following the Shibarium bridge exploit. According to Shibburn, the SHIB burn rate climbed 910.98% in the last day, with 4,369,584 SHIB destroyed across four transactions, including burns of 2,717,708 and 1,000,000 SHIB.

On January 14, 2026, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse highlighted CPI data showing a 3.5% decline in US consumer financial services fees, which he suggested could be partly driven by pro-crypto policies. He also welcomed Senator Tim Scott's crypto market structure bill as a major, long-awaited step toward clearer regulation while noting Ripple's own legal experience and recent preliminary EMI license approval in Luxembourg.