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Ethereum investors appear to be stepping back in as they double down on the leading altcoin despite its price struggling to produce another significant upward move. This renewed buying pressure from major investors is being demonstrated in the recent surge in the number of coins acquired by accumulation wallet addresses. 

Behind The Ethereum Slow Price Momentum

The price of Ethereum may be exhibiting sluggish performance on the surface, but beneath the market noise, there is a noticeable shift in investor sentiment. Currently, ETH investors are turning up at a fast rate in the volatile crypto environment.

CW, a crypto analyst and data analyst, has reported an uptick in buying activity as observed in the rise in the ETH Balance on Accumulation Addresses metric, which is historically linked to long-term holding behavior. Investors’ activity moving against price action is an indication of rising conviction among patient players. Furthermore, this divergence points to a maturing stage of strategic accumulation even as the broader sentiments signal persistent caution.

Since the altcoin’s price reached around the $2,800 price mark, CW highlights that the number of ETH held by accumulation addresses saw a sharp uptick, increasing by 5.2 million ETH. The chart shows that the cumulative coins held by the investors have increased to more than 27 million ETH.

Following the decline in the Ethereum price, buying activity from large investors or whale holders has accelerated, bringing their total holdings to 26.78 million ETH. Such a rise in whale accumulation suggests that the cohort is exhibiting renewed conviction in the altcoin’s long-term action.

CW stated that the buying activity is a positive signal for the Ethereum market. This action is currently observed across the broader crypto market as massive accumulation is taking place on other coins, such as Bitcoin. As a result, the expert is confident that the market is still in its bull phase.

Large Holders Doubling Down On ETH

Large holders are making an obvious move toward Ethereum, which is stacking up the leading altcoin, as reported by Milk Road, a market expert. Milk Road determined this action among the cohort by examining the ETH Balance by Holder Value.

Milk Road’s research is primarily centered among wallet addresses holding between 10,000 ETH and 100,000 ETH. Data from the metric shows that accumulation from the group has gone parabolic in the past few days. This change implies that strategic players might be positioning ahead of a larger market movement despite the suppressed short-term price movements.

After years of steady decline, the expert noted that these wallets are climbing fast again and are now back near all-time highs. In simple terms, the biggest Ethereum whales are returning to the market and are aggressively increasing their stash. Should this accumulation continue, it could mark the foundation for ETH’s next significant trend.

Сооснователь Эфириума Виталик Бутерин перечислил условия, которые должны соблюсти разработчики децентрализованных приложений, чтобы Эфириум мог достичь своей главной цели — стать «мировым компьютером».

Член Палаты представителей Конгресса США от штата Огайо Уоррен Дэвидсон (Warren Davidson) из Республиканской партии объяснил, почему крипторынок замедлил свой рост, и объяснил, от чего зависит дальнейшая судьба цифровых валют.

Резервный банк Индии (RBI) объявил стейблкоины высокорисковыми активами и призвал другие страны сосредоточиться не на создании условий для развития стейблкоинов, а на запуске цифровых валют центральных банков (CBDC).

Market expert Andy has drawn attention to a significant loss that Michael Saylor’s Strategy took in the last quarter of 2025, mainly due to its Bitcoin exposure. Meanwhile, renowned economist Peter Schiff also highlighted how the MSTR stock would have been one of the worst-performing stocks if the company were in the S&P 500. 

Michael Saylor’s Strategy Posts $17.5 Billion Loss Amid Bitcoin Decline

In an X post, Andy noted that Saylor’s Strategy will report GAAP earnings for a fourth-quarter loss of $17.5 billion in 2025, which ranks as the largest quarterly loss in history. This follows Bitcoin’s decline in the fourth quarter, with the leading crypto dropping below $100,000. This caused this loss for the company, given its BTC exposure. 

Strategy’s Bitcoin exposure also contributed to the MSTR stock’s massive decline last year as BTC fell. The stock recorded a 2025 loss of almost 50%, dropping to the low $150 from its high of around $450. In an X post, Schiff noted that the stock’s decline in 2025 would make it the 6th-worst-performing stock in the S&P 500 if Saylor’s company were in the index. The economist again criticized Saylor’s Bitcoin model, stating that buying BTC was basically all the company did, which he claimed has destroyed shareholder value. 

However, it is worth noting that Strategy’s Bitcoin exposure contributed to the company’s strong Q2 and Q3 earnings last year. In Q2, the company recorded $14 billion in GAAP operating income, while it recorded $3.9 billion in the third quarter. Furthermore, MSTR stock has remained one of the best-performing assets since Saylor and Strategy adopted BTC in 2020. The stock is up over 260% in the last five years. 

Meanwhile, Schiff stated that the MSTR stock will likely deliver even worse returns in 2026 than in 2025. He believes this would happen because of Bitcoin, which the economist expects to drop more this year than it did in 2025, putting stress on the MSTR shares in the process. 

Reason To Still Be Bullish On Strategy and MSTR

Market expert Adam Livingston stated that he remains bullish on Michael Saylor’s Strategy and MSTR stock because the company is hedging against inflation with Bitcoin rather than holding cash. Livingston noted that the real risk isn’t the volatility with the MSTR stock or market movement, but inflation, which continues to erode. 

The expert further declared that Bitcoin changes the risk equation, thanks to its scarcity, which helps protect companies like Strategy and individuals against ‘money printing.’ Interestingly, Livingston suggested that Saylor’s company could become one of the most valuable in the world, thanks to its BTC exposure. He noted that long-term purchasing power is the objective, and this is where he expects the company to stand out.

Сумма потерь от взломов криптопроектов в декабре ушедшего 2025 года составила $76 млн против $194,2 млн в ноябре, то есть снизилась на 60%, сообщили представители работающей в области безопасности блокчейна компании PeckShield.

A coordinated effort to gather crypto tax records has begun in a group of jurisdictions preparing to take part in the Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework (CARF).

According to official monitoring from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), 48 jurisdictions committed to start collecting standardized crypto transaction and user data from January 1, 2026, with the first automatic cross-border exchanges expected to take place in 2027.

Countries Begin Collecting Data

Based on reports, service providers such as major exchanges, some broker platforms, crypto ATMs and certain custody services will be obliged to record account details, transaction histories and users’ tax residency information for reporting to domestic tax authorities.

That information will be formatted so it can be shared automatically with partner tax offices once the exchange phase starts. The OECD monitoring update lays out the kinds of fields that must be gathered and stored for future reporting.

What Exchanges Must Report

According to news outlets tracking the rollout, exchanges are already adjusting onboarding forms and internal compliance systems to verify customers’ tax residency and capture wallet-level activity.

Some jurisdictions, led by the United Kingdom, have moved faster to require platforms to keep detailed purchase and sale records for users in scope. Tax authorities will then receive yearly reports covering balances, transfers and gains for listed accounts.

Operational Strain And Privacy Questions

The new rules create practical burdens. Smaller platforms will need to upgrade systems or hire compliance staff to track the new data points.

Based on reports, privacy advocates and parts of the crypto industry are warning that the depth of data collection could raise concerns about how long sensitive transaction records are held and who can access them.

Some legal teams are already studying how domestic data-privacy laws interact with automatic information exchange.

Middle Nations Join The Second Wave

A further group of jurisdictions has said it will begin domestic collection later. Reports note that an additional 27 jurisdictions have timelines that target January 1, 2027 for starting to collect, with exchanges of information to follow in 2028 for that batch.

At least one analysis of national updates also indicates that a handful of countries are planning to stagger implementation because of local legislative calendars.

How This Will Play Out For Users

For ordinary crypto users, the immediate change will be more questions during account setup and clearer record-keeping demands from providers.

Based on official guidance, CARF itself does not create new taxes; rather, it gives tax offices the data they need to enforce existing rules. For some investors, that means past reporting gaps will be easier for authorities to spot.

Reports have disclosed that implementation will vary by country. Some tax administrations are ready to receive standardized files in 2027, while others are still finishing domestic law changes.

Observers say the rollout marks a major step toward treating crypto transactions like other financial accounts when it comes to cross-border tax transparency.

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Основатель компании MN Consultancy и аналитик Михаэль ван де Поппе (Michaël van de Poppe) заявил, что большинство альткоинов не смогут показать положительную динамику и исчезнут с рынка до конца года.

Вливание большого объема ликвидности на рынки станет главным фактором роста первой криптовалюты в течение всего 2026 года, заявил гендиректор криптобиржи Abra Билл Бархайдт (Bill Barhydt).

Tether, эмитент стейблкоина USDT, в канун Нового года приобрела еще 8 888 биткоинов. По словам генерального директора компании Паоло Ардоино (Paolo Ardoino), это позволило увеличить резерв до более чем 96 000 BTC.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin rang in 2026 by switching his X profile image back to a Milady-style avatar and pairing it with a manifesto-like post that re-centers Ethereum’s identity around a single, old-school ambition: becoming “the world computer” for an open internet.

“Welcome to 2026! Milady is back,” Buterin wrote, before ticking through what he framed as Ethereum’s 2025 progress: higher gas limits, a larger blob count, better node software quality, and zkEVMs hitting major performance milestones. He also argued that “with zkEVMs and PeerDAS ethereum made its largest step toward being a fundamentally new and more powerful kind of blockchain.”

Ethereum Must Deliver The World Computer

But the post’s center of gravity wasn’t a victory lap. It was a warning that the network is still falling short of its own stated goals and that chasing whatever narrative is currently printing attention is not the point.

Buterin drew a bright line between Ethereum’s long-term mission and trend-driven incentives that often dominate crypto cycles. “Ethereum needs to do more to meet its own stated goals,” he wrote. “Not the quest of ‘winning the next meta’ regardless of whether it’s tokenized dollars or political memecoins, not arbitrarily convincing people to help us fill up blockspace to make ETH ultrasound again, but the mission: To build the world computer that serves as a central infrastructure piece of a more free and open internet.”

From there, he offered a description of what “world computer” should mean in practice: decentralized applications that can’t be quietly altered or shut off, and that remain usable even when the companies and infrastructure most users take for granted fail.

“We’re building decentralized applications. Applications that run without fraud, censorship or third-party interference,” he wrote. “Applications that pass the walkaway test: they keep running even if the original developers disappear. Applications where if you’re a user, you don’t even notice if Cloudflare goes down — or even if all of Cloudflare gets hacked by North Korea.”

Buterin extended that same set of expectations beyond finance, explicitly name-checking identity, governance, and “whatever other civilizational infrastructure people want to build,” and he emphasized privacy as a core property rather than a nice-to-have.

A notable thread in the post is that Buterin refuses to treat usability-at-scale and decentralization as a trade-off Ethereum can punt on. “To achieve this, it needs to be (i) usable, and usable at scale, and (ii) actually decentralized,” he wrote, arguing those requirements apply both to the base layer—“including the software we use to run and talk to the blockchain” and to the application layer.

That framing implicitly puts pressure on multiple constituencies at once: core protocol work, client diversity and quality, infrastructure that doesn’t centralize around a few providers, and dapp architectures that can survive developer abandonment while still meeting user expectations.

Buterin closed on a note of resolve rather than specifics, saying Ethereum has “powerful tools” but needs to apply them more aggressively. “All of these pieces must be improved — they are already being improved, but they must be improved more,” he wrote. “Fortunately, we have powerful tools on our side — but we need to apply them, and we will.”

At press time, ETH traded at $3,030.

Экспортный центр Минобороны Ирана, Mindex, предложил перевести некоторые военные контракты на оплату цифровыми валютами. На этих условиях Тегеран готов поставлять беспилотники Shahed, ракеты Emad, корабли класса Shahid Soleimani, системы ПВО и другие виды вооружения.

Связанная с семьей президента США компания Trump Media намерена выпустить новый криптоактив. Токен будет создан в партнерстве с биржей Crypto.com и запущен на блокчейне Cronos.

Roundhill Investments has filed an amended registration statement for its XRP ETF, which it could launch as soon as January 29. Notably, the XRP fund differs from the spot XRP funds and will only seek to provide investors with income from the altcoin rather than provide spot exposure. 

Roundhill Files Form N-1A For XRP ETF

Roundhill filed a post-effective amendment for its XRP Covered Call Strategy ETF, noting that the filing was intended to delay the fund’s effectiveness until January 29. In line with this, the fund could launch this month, unless another amendment delays its effectiveness. The potential launch of Roundhill’s XRP ETF could provide a major boost for the altcoin, as the fund offers another avenue for institutional investors to gain exposure to the token.  

Roundhill’s XRP fund differs from the spot XRP ETFs, as it doesn’t provide spot exposure to the altcoin. Instead, it seeks to provide current income and exposure to the price return of one or more ETFs that provide exposure to XRP and whose shares trade on a U.S.-regulated exchange. Basically, the fund tracks the performance of other XRP ETFs that provide direct exposure to the altcoin and doesn’t invest directly in the altcoin. 

Roundhill’s XRP ETF prospectus also revealed that the Fund seeks to achieve its investment objectives through the use of a synthetic covered call strategy that provides current income. In tracking the price return of other XRP ETFs, the Fund isn’t just limited to spot XRP funds. It can also track the price return of ETFs that derive exposure to XRP through investments in exchange-traded futures contracts that utilize XRP as the reference asset. 

What The Filing Confirms For The Altcoin

In an X post, crypto pundit Richard stated that Roundhill’s XRP ETF filing confirms that XRP is an approved underlying asset for regulated derivatives. He further remarked that this means that XRP-linked options are permissible inside an ETF wrapper and that risk committees, counterparties, and clearing structures are already signed off on. 

Richard also noted that covered-call ETFs don’t appear first and only come into play after an asset is legally and structurally accepted. Meanwhile, the pundit alluded to the fact that the sole purpose of the latest filing was to delay the effectiveness. He explained that this means that the product structure is complete, that approval is not the issue, and that timing is the variable. 

The pundit further stated that Roundhill isn’t trying to capture upside but is simply monetizing XRP’s volatility. As such, they have a different objective from the spot XRP ETFs, although the same asset and pipeline are involved for this Fund. Richard added that this is derivatives validation, not price discovery, a development he claimed occurs only when an asset is institutionally cleared.

At the time of writing, the XRP price is trading at around $1.84, down almost 2% in the last 24 hours, according to data from CoinMarketCap.