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On January 23, 2026, Grayscale Investments filed a Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission seeking approval for the Grayscale BNB Trust, a spot ETF intended to track the price of BNB and list on Nasdaq after a 19b-4 approval. The firm also filed a separate Form S-1 earlier in the week to convert its existing Grayscale Near Trust, which trades on OTCQB under ticker GSNR, into a spot ETF managing about $900,000 in assets.

On 23 January 2026, Grayscale submitted an S-1 registration statement to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission seeking approval for a spot Binance Coin ETF that would trade on Nasdaq under the ticker GBNB. The proposed product plans to use Coinbase for brokerage and custody, may include in-kind creation and staking, and came after Grayscale registered a BNB trust in Delaware, while BNB’s price hovered around $898 with limited immediate market reaction.

Grayscale Investments has submitted a Form S-1 to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to register the Grayscale BNB ETF, an exchange-traded fund intended to mirror the price of BNB. The Delaware-incorporated trust would issue shares representing fractional interests in BNB and begin offering them only after the SEC declares the registration effective.

Binance has incorporated a wholly owned Greek unit named Binary Greece and is pursuing authorization under the Markets in Crypto-Assets regime before the July 1 deadline. Corporate filings state the entity is a single-shareholder public limited company with €25,000 in initial capital, set up as a holding company. According to Fortune, a Binance spokesperson said the exchange has formally applied in Athens and is in discussions with Greece's Hellenic Capital Market Commission.

On January 22, 2026, Chainlink announced it acquired FastLane's Atlas and folded its order-flow/OEV recapture stack into Security Verified Revenue. Atlas will now exclusively back SVR, with a migration path for RedStone users. The companies say SVR has processed more than $460 million in liquidations and recaptured over $10 million.

On January 22, Binance Wallet announced three AI-powered tools for its web-based wallet, according to a statement shared with Finbold. Social Hype, Topic Rush, and AI Assistant deliver real-time, structured insights across BNB Smart Chain, Solana, and Base to surface trends and analyze tokens. The features include a social leaderboard, narrative detection, and concise token dashboards, and are now available on Binance Wallet (Web).

The BNB price is trading around $913 as Binance prepares a live event on Elon Musk's X platform featuring several BNB Chain projects. While short-term indicators suggest BNB may have peaked recently, some analysts see potential for a longer-term move toward $1,100 and $1,500 later in 2026. Separately, AI-driven content platform SUBBD has attracted over $1.4 million in presale funding for its Ethereum-based token.

On January 19, 2026, ASTER hit a fresh all-time low around $0.62 and briefly dipped to $0.53, prompting the Aster DEX team to activate Strategic Buybacks, according to Cryptopolitan. The Stage 5 framework is currently channeling 20%–40% of daily platform fees into targeted repurchases, with provisions allowing up to 80% allocation. Aster said its treasury has begun swapping BNB for ASTER through a reserve wallet.

Blockchain security firm PeckShield reported that crypto hacks and scams collectively drained more than $4.04 billion in 2025, with $2.67 billion attributed to hacks and $1.37 billion to scams. Fraud-related losses increased about 64% year over year, driven by highly targeted phishing and impersonation campaigns aimed at high-value users, while major incidents such as Bybit's $1.51 billion breach underscored growing pressure on centralized platforms.

On Thursday, January 15, BNB Chain completed its 34th quarterly burn, permanently removing 1,371,803.77 BNB worth over $1.27 billion, according to an official post on X. The total BNB supply now stands at 136,361,374.34, while the token fell 0.6% to $939 over the last day, per CoinMarketCap, with CZ commenting on the burn's scale.