On January 12, 2026, SlowMist released an audit report on the Truebit Protocol exploit that drained about $26 million in ETH. The report attributes the incident to an unchecked addition operation in the Purchase contract's price calculation, compiled with Solidity 0.6.10 without SafeMath overflow protection. The attack briefly pushed Uniswap's daily trading fee capture revenue above $1.4 million, largely driven by TRU-related trading.

According to the company's Monday announcement, Bitmine Immersion Technologies bought 24,266 ETH over the past week, raising its treasury to about 4.17 million ETH, or roughly 3.4% of circulating supply. Chair Tom Lee is urging shareholder approval to increase authorized shares ahead of Thursday's annual meeting in Las Vegas to support a 5% supply target.

On January 12, 2026, automated trading bot platform Trojan introduced a Solana-based trading terminal that integrates MetaMask as its native wallet. The new terminal, branded as the Trojan on Solana Bot, targets millions of existing users with features like lightning-fast execution, custom routing, copy trading, and auto-selling. With support for Ethereum, Solana, and Bitcoin via MetaMask, the platform aims to enhance the trading experience and draw in users from multiple blockchains.

On January 12, 2026, World Liberty Financial launched World Liberty Markets, a digital asset lending platform on Ethereum linked to the Trump family. The service supports stablecoins, ETH, USD1 and WLFI to expand utility and liquidity, with plans for mobile apps and tokenized assets to broaden access.

ETH’s estimated leverage ratio eased from 0.79 on Jan. 2 to 0.67 by Jan. 11 while open interest climbed, and spot-led buying strengthened. Aggregated futures OI has rebounded toward pre-Q4 2025 drawdown levels, yet ETH trades about 27% below its Oct. 10, 2025 opening price. Staking inflows and macro signals add potential tailwinds for a push toward $4,000.

On Monday, Jan. 12, XRP slipped despite bullish on-chain signals. Exchange reserves fell about 0.44% in the prior 24 hours, and roughly 2,692,600,000 XRP sat on Binance as millions moved off the platform. Trading volume surged 205.8%, while price was down 1.63%, pointing to resilient buying interest.

On 12 January 2026 at 22:25, BitMine Immersion reported holding more than 4.16 million ETH, a stake valued at roughly $13 billion. The company also disclosed over 1.25 million ETH staked, with total crypto and cash nearing $14 billion. According to its latest update, steady weekly purchases have expanded its presence across Ethereum's validator ecosystem.

Dogecoin has risen about 17% from its December 31 low, with analyst Cantonese Cat highlighting a clear shift in how the coin trades around its daily Bollinger Bands. Price has moved from persistent pressure near the lower band to the upper half of the range, with DOGE recently closing around $0.1405 above a 20‑day basis near $0.1348. On higher timeframes, the analyst frames the structure as a Wave 2 correction between Fibonacci levels at roughly $0.1177 and $0.1542, with multiple upside extensions mapped out. The key near term focus is whether DOGE can hold above the daily basis line and eventually clear the upper band region near $0.1564 while trading around $0.13674 at press time.