Bitcoin dropped to $81,058 on Coinbase in early Friday trading, marking a nine‑month low. CoinGlass reported $1.68 billion in liquidations over 24 hours, with 93% affecting levered longs in BTC and ETH. The selloff aligned with Middle East tensions, Trump’s tariff order, and weak tech earnings.

Tokenization platform Securitize reported that its revenue for the nine months ended September 2025 climbed to $55.6 million, marking an 841% year-over-year increase as it proceeds with a SPAC merger backed by Cantor Fitzgerald. The firm, valued at $1.24 billion under the proposed deal, also projects 2026 revenue of $110 million amid a broader surge in on-chain tokenized real-world assets.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission issued guidance on Wednesday classifying tokenized securities into issuer-supported and third-party models. It clarified that federal securities laws apply regardless of onchain or offchain recordkeeping and noted that third-party structures can take custodial entitlement or synthetic exposure forms.

Deribit reports that heavy Bitcoin options activity and concentrated open interest around key strikes are helping to confine BTC's price near $90,000. The exchange notes that traders are favoring hedged and structured positions over outright leveraged futures as a major Jan. 30 options expiry approaches.

BitMEX founder Arthur Hayes argues that simultaneous yen weakness and rising Japanese government bond yields could push Japanese investors to offload US Treasuries. He suggests the Federal Reserve may eventually create dollar reserves to support the yen and JGB market, which would expand its balance sheet and, in his view, supply the liquidity needed for Bitcoin to break out of its current range.

Cybersecurity researchers have warned that a misconfiguration flaw in the Clawdbot AI assistant is exposing control servers, API keys and private chat logs. The open-source tool, created by Peter Steinberger and run locally on user devices, can be discovered via internet scans when its gateway sits behind an unconfigured reverse proxy. Investigators say the issue could allow unauthorized access to credentials, message histories and remote command execution across hundreds of installations.

Fundstrat managing partner Tom Lee told CNBC on Monday that Bitcoin and Ethereum could see a strong move higher once record-breaking rallies in gold and silver cool down. He argued that a weaker dollar and an easier Federal Reserve should already be supporting crypto, but recent deleveraging and fear-driven flows into precious metals are delaying the upside. On-chain and market analysts added that for Bitcoin to benefit from dollar weakness, it needs risk-on sentiment rather than panic-driven demand for traditional safe-haven assets.

Gold climbed above $5,080 after a 17% year-to-date jump, according to Gold Price, while Bitcoin retreated toward $86,000 at a five-week low. The performance gap widened amid trade tensions and government shutdown risks, with silver crossing $107 per ounce and Ether staying below $2,800.

In January, Ethereum’s mainnet recorded more daily active addresses than leading layer-2 networks, with activity peaking at around 1.3 million on Jan. 16 before easing to about 945,000. Security researchers said a notable share of this rise was linked to address poisoning campaigns enabled by lower gas fees, while Ethereum still hosts over $400 billion in on-chain assets and leads in stablecoins and tokenized real-world assets.