Former Zcash developers announced the cashZ wallet on January 8, 2026, a day after the entire Electric Coin Company team resigned. Built on the Zashi codebase, the wallet is slated to launch in a few weeks with easy migration for Zashi users. The group said it remains focused on Zcash development and is not introducing a new coin.

On January 8, 2026, Changpeng Zhao stated that his upcoming memoir's Chinese edition may be titled "币安人生" but stressed it has no link to the Binance Life meme coin. He added that he does not hold the Binance Life token and has no plans to buy it, and that the English version will use a different title. The Binance Life token, launched in October 2025 on BNB Smart Chain, briefly reached a market cap above $500 million before crashing after clarifications that his posts were not endorsements.

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.

In 2025, blockchain investigator ZachXBT identified a Canadian actor known as Haby/Havard who allegedly impersonated Coinbase support and siphoned more than $2 million in crypto via social‑engineering phone calls. He tied on‑chain activity to social media posts, including a Dec. 30, 2024 XRP theft and a Feb. 2025 Bitcoin wallet screenshot showing $237,000, linking multiple victim cases.

More than $585 million in token releases are slated for December 29–January 5, led by cliff unlocks from Hyperliquid ($251.19 million) and SUI ($67.29 million), and linear vesting from RAIN ($76.56 million) and Solana ($61.62 million). Additional schedules include EIGEN, KMNO, OP, Ethena, Zora, TRUMP, WLD, DOGE, and AVAX.

Indian cryptocurrency investors now hold 4–6 tokens on average, up from 2–3 in 2022, according to CoinDCX's 2025 annual report. India's crypto market recorded $618.5 million in total spot trading volume for 2025, with monthly volume averaging $51.6 million. Bitcoin remains the most held asset, while Ethereum leads in trading activity.

Digital asset investment products recorded $1.07 billion in net inflows for the week, ending a four-week outflow streak that totaled $5.7 billion, according to CoinShares data. Bitcoin products attracted $464 million while XRP set a weekly record with $289 million. Ethereum contributed $309.1 million to the recovery. The United States accounted for 93% of global inflows at $994 million.

South Korea's ruling and opposition parties have agreed on a stablecoin regulatory framework, with lawmakers targeting passage of the Digital Asset Basic Act by January 2026. The legislation establishes a consortium model requiring banks to hold at least 51% equity, while technology firms may participate as minority stakeholders. A December 10 deadline has been set for government proposal submission.

Token unlocks worth over $297 million are scheduled between November 17 and November 24 across multiple projects. LayerZero will release 25.71 million ZRO tokens valued at $37.28 million, representing the largest single cliff unlock. SOON follows with 15.21 million tokens worth $25.86 million, according to Tokenomist data.