SEC Chair Paul Atkins and CFTC Chair Mike Selig signaled a collaborative approach in a CNBC appearance focused on the crypto market structure bill and an upcoming White House meeting. The Senate Agriculture Committee voted 12–11 to advance the legislation. Debate over how to treat stablecoin yield remains a sticking point, with Coinbase withdrawing support over related provisions.

Ripple introduced a corporate treasury platform that unifies cash management with blockchain settlement and stablecoin rails for payments and liquidity. The system aims to shorten settlement cycles, improve cross‑border operations, and activate idle cash outside banking hours while preserving existing controls and workflows across enterprise finance teams.

Publicly listed firms disclosed fresh Bitcoin allocations in January 2026 while spot prices traded around $88,000. American Bitcoin Corporation reported holdings of 5,843 BTC, and Strategy detailed multiple January purchases that brought its stack to 712,647 BTC. Hyperscale Data and SRx Health Solutions also added or revealed crypto positions.

Onchain derivatives platform Paradex refunded about $650,000 to roughly 200 users after a maintenance-related software issue led to unintended liquidations across several markets. The platform said the event occurred during a planned 30-minute database upgrade on Monday and prompted a chain rollback, order cancellations and new safeguards to prevent similar failures.

During a CNBC Squawk Box interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, White House crypto czar David Sacks said banks and crypto firms will eventually operate as a single digital asset industry once Congress approves the CLARITY Act. He argued that disputes over whether stablecoin issuers can offer yield are the main obstacle in the US Senate and urged both banks and crypto companies to compromise to secure a broader market structure framework. Sacks cited the GENIUS Act as a precedent and stressed that yield is already embedded in existing legislation, even as Coinbase and major banks clash over the bill's current form.

Delaware Life Insurance Company will offer a BlackRock-built index across three fixed indexed annuities, blending U.S. equities with a risk-managed Bitcoin allocation sourced via the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF, so investors do not own BTC directly. The approach targets roughly 12% volatility while preserving principal under annuity terms, and the company reported topping $40 billion in cumulative annuity sales as of November 2025.

At a closed-door World Economic Forum workshop in Davos, Hong Kong Finance Secretary Paul Chan reaffirmed the city's "same activity, same risk, same regulation" framework for digital assets and called for guardrails to match financial innovation. He highlighted Hong Kong's licensing regime for virtual asset trading platforms, upcoming stablecoin licenses in the first quarter and the issuance of $2.1 billion in tokenized green bonds since 2023.

Injective's community approved governance proposal IIP-617 with 99.89% support, reducing INJ issuance while preserving the network's buyback-and-burn mechanism. The changes are live and aim to accelerate supply removal; roughly 6.85 million INJ have already been burned. INJ fell about 8% that day, with its price down nearly 80% year-on-year and TVL at $18.67 million.

Revolut has applied for a full banking license in Peru as part of its Latin American expansion, aiming to target remittances and cross-border payments. The neobank plans to compete with established lenders in markets including Peru, Mexico, Colombia and Brazil, while building on strong growth in its crypto and stablecoin offerings. Its strategy comes as regional fintechs such as Mercado Libre, Nubank and Lemon ramp up dollar-pegged stablecoin products across Latin America.