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Memecoins appear to be pausing their rally that began earlier this year.  For example, Useless Coin [USELESS] has dropped more than 12% in the past 24 hours, with its price still trending downward at the time of writing. USELESS Coin breaks trendline support The price action charts showed that USELESS broke an ascending trendline support that had been in place since the start of this month. The first week of January 2026 saw the memecoin reach $0.12, but bulls were unable to break past this level. The MACD was bearish over the past two days, though its momentum was weak.…

Quick take: The Open Maoney Stack allows users to “instantly and reliably move money anywhere, and put it to work.” The system enables merchants to send and receive money in their preferred currency, with instant conversion taking place in the background. The Stack is designed to work with different blockchains and can be customized for various applications.  Polygon Labs has unveiled the Open Money Stack, an integrated modular framework for stablecoin payments and global money transfers. The Stack is expected to launch later this year, according to an announcement on Thursday.  Polygon, which started out as a scalable layer-2 blockchain…

2026 kicked off with investors clearly chasing high risk. Nothing illustrates this better than the memecoin market, which has seen a 20%+ rally so far, adding $10 billion in under two weeks. By comparison, the TOTAL3 index (market cap excluding BTC and ETH) jumped 6%. This paints a clear picture of investor sentiment. The crypto index, which has hit a “neutral” zone, is aligning more with capital chasing meme assets rather than altcoins, reflecting strong speculative appetite among traders. Source: TradingView (MEME.C) As a result, this shift in sentiment is showing up directly in price action.  According to CoinMarketCap data,…

Price pushed higher, breaking out of its recent range before slowing down near the $0.15 zone. The rally was backed by a spike in trading volume, so this wasn’t just air. Source: TradingView RSI indicated bullish interest with minimal immediate exhaustion. The MACD flipped positive, so the change in short-term trend after weeks of hesitation is confirmed. That said, Dogecoin [DOGE] remained below its longer-term MAs, so the market is still deciding whether this move will hold. Whales and sellers are all quiet Dogecoin’s rally didn’t fight heavy resistance from large holders. Wallets holding between 100 million and 1 billion…

Quick take: Popular exchange platforms like Coinbase and stablecoin issuers like Tether allow users to swap their Bitcoin for collateral, which means holders lose control of the Bitcoin. Co-founded by Stanford professor David Tse and Fisher Yu, Babylon is introducing an alternative collateralization system to popular systems, like using wrapped BTC. Babylon’s protocol enables collateralization without the user relinquishing control of the Bitcoin. Babylon, a BTC yield-generation protocol, has announced a $15 million funding round from Andreessen Horowitz crypto venture arm A16z Crypto, according to a report by Fortune. The company is looking to disrupt the BTC collateralization industry that…

The PUMP token has recorded an all-time high in decentralised exchange (DEX) trading volume, surging to $2.036bn. This comes as risk appetite returned to the memecoin sector at the start of the year. DefiLlama data shows that the spike in trading activity was token-specific, rather than a reflection of a broader resurgence in pump.fun platform usage.  While overall memecoin sentiment improved in early January, the scale of the move in PUMP stands out relative to recent activity across the ecosystem. PUMP token volume breaks prior records DefiLlama chart data tracking DEX activity tied directly to the PUMP token shows a…

Quick take: The wallet launched with initial support for Tether (USDT), Tether Gold (XAUt), and Bitcoin (BTC), enabling audiences to tip creators natively in crypto. By embedding crypto payments into the video-sharing platform, Rumble eliminates the need to use ad networks, banks, or payment processors. Rumble Wallet is built on the Tether Wallet Development Kit (WDK), making it the first real-world deployment of the toolkit. Rumble Inc. (NASDAQ: RUM) has teamed up with Tether, the issuer of the world’s biggest stablecoin by market capitalization, to launch Rumble Wallet. The non-custodial crypto wallet allows Rumble content creators to keep custody of…

Investors are clearly showing strong risk appetite across the board. To start, memecoins are driving much of this momentum. Top-cap memecoins are posting double-digit weekly gains. At first glance, this raises an obvious question: Are investors simply chasing speculation? However, when we shift focus to Ethereum [ETH], that narrative begins to weaken. On-chain metrics instead point to a supply shock forming, highlighted by BitMine’s staking of 771k ETH over the past two weeks. Source: CoinGlass In short, capital is rotating into conviction-driven assets rather than pure “hype” trades. Notably, this rotation is starting to show up in price. Because ETH…

Disclosure: The views and opinions expressed here belong solely to the author and do not represent the views and opinions of crypto.news’ editorial. During the dot-com boom in the late 1990s, the stock market resembled a free-for-all where investors — both retail and institutional — were scrambling to buy up shares of just about any internet startup they could get their hands on. The general consensus was that the internet was “the future” and these new online startups were just months away from trampling over traditional industries and putting them all out of business.  Summary The dot-com bubble mirrors today’s…

Quick take: TRES Finance helps crypto companies track their digital asset holdings and asset inflows and outflows from their portfolio. Its acquisition augments Fireblock’s crypto infrastructure business, which lacks a product to help crypto companies monitor and analyze their crypto holdings in detail. Fireblocks CEO Michael Shaulov invested in TRES Finance’s $7.6 million funding round in 2022. Fireblocks, the crypto infrastructure company helping traditional finance and fintech companies integrate crypto payment rails, has struck a deal to acquire crypto accounting platform TRES Finance. The $130 million deal is structured as cash and equity, according to anonymous sources who spoke to…