Florida Representative John Snyder sponsored HB 1039, and Senator Joe Gruters filed SB 1040 and SB 1038 to set up a state-run strategic cryptocurrency reserve that requires an average market capitalization of $500 billion for eligible assets. The legislation includes a conditional effective date of July 1, 2026, and, for now, only Bitcoin meets the criteria, with Ethereum around $380 billion.

Babylon, a protocol for native Bitcoin staking and lending, received $15 million via a BABY token sale to fund its trustless collateral infrastructure on Wednesday. The team is building vaults that let BTC serve as onchain collateral without wrappers or custodians, with Aave V4 testing planned for Q1 2026 and a joint launch targeted for April 2026.

In the first days of January 2026, Bitcoin accumulator addresses absorbed roughly 60,000 BTC while miners transferred about 33,000 BTC to Binance. This tug-of-war between renewed accumulation and rising miner outflows is unfolding as BTC trades back toward the low-$90,000 range, with on-chain flows and sentiment data pointing to a cautious but stabilizing market.

Updated January 7, 2026, DriveElectric projected UK electric car registrations to reach 580,000 in 2026, equal to 29% of new sales. The firm cited a baseline of 473,348 registrations and a 23.4% share in 2025, with December 2025 at 32.2%, and expects electric van registrations to grow 50% to around 45,000.

In his 2025 year-end review, Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio said the US dollar is entering a phase of structural weakness, citing a 39% slide against gold and double‑digit losses versus the euro and Swiss franc alongside nearly $10 trillion in debt that must be rolled over. As the US yield curve steepens and capital shifts toward precious metals, crypto analysts expect Bitcoin could climb to about $130,000 and Ethereum to $4,500 in early 2026 once gold and silver’s strong rally begins to cool.

Bitcoin finished 2025 slightly negative at −6.36%, and prior cycles show years following drawdowns delivered gains of 35%, 95%, and 156%, averaging near 95%. Jesse Myers and Sminston With flag models that outline a $200,000–$300,000 base-case for 2026. Meanwhile, CryptoQuant metrics point to subdued momentum, with a 30-day average return of 0.0016 and a Sharpe-like ratio around 0.09.

On January 7, 2026, the Wyoming Stable Token Commission opened trading for the Frontier Stable Token (FRNT) on Solana through Kraken Pro. FRNT is a state-launched, USD-backed stablecoin whose reserve interest supports Wyoming’s school program, and the token can also be accessed via other platforms and bridged to multiple chains.

On January 7, 2026, Tether and Rumble (NASDAQ: RUM) announced the launch of Rumble Wallet, a self-custodial crypto wallet integrated directly into the Rumble video platform. The wallet initially supports Tether USD (USDT), Tether Gold (XAUT) and Bitcoin, enabling tipping, peer-to-peer payments and instant creator payouts without traditional intermediaries.