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Warsh was trading at 31% to be the next Fed chair nominee before spiking Thursday evening. What would his confirmation mean for monetary policy and interest rates?President Donald Trump announced Friday morning that he’s nominating Kevin Warsh to succeed Jerome Powell as Federal Reserve chair. Prediction markets signaled the pick well before the official announcement, with Warsh’s odds on Kalshi surging from 31% to 81% on the evening of January 29 after reports emerged of his White House meeting with Trump. By Friday morning, his probability had climbed above 95% across platforms, with Polymarket showing 99.3% and Kalshi at 98.5%.…

DUBAI, UAE, Jan. 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Bybit, the world’s second-largest crypto exchange by trading volume, today announced its 2026 transformation into “The New Financial Platform,” a global financial ecosystem designed to expand access to modern banking, investment, and payments infrastructure for the world’s underserved populations. The vision, unveiled by co-founder and CEO Ben Zhou during the biannual keynote session, positions the company beyond its origins as a cryptocurrency exchange and into a unified financial platform connecting crypto, traditional markets, and real-world financial services. At the center of the strategy is a long-term mission: empowering the 1.4 billion underbanked people…

Ethereum trades near $2,950 as charts mirror 2024 patterns, with analysts watching a possible move to $4K and a longer-term $10K target. Ethereum (ETH) is trading around $2,850 after a failed attempt to reclaim the $3,000 level. The asset is down almost 5% over the past 24 hours and nearly 4% over the last week. ETH Mirrors 2024 Structure, $4K in Sight? Analyst Heisenberg shared a chart that compares the current ETH move to a similar setup seen in 2024. Back then, it fell 47%, moved sideways for about 92 days, and then rallied 47%—topping near $4,000. The current chart…

Alvin Lang Jan 30, 2026 04:21 Chainlink (LINK) emerges as the dominant on-chain finance infrastructure in 2025, with UBS, J.P. Morgan, and U.S. Commerce Department now using its oracle network. Chainlink (LINK) has quietly become the plumbing for institutional crypto. The oracle network now secures over $95 billion in total value across 452 protocols, according to recent data, as major banks and even the U.S. government have started routing critical financial data through its infrastructure.LINK trades at $13.38 with a $9.33 billion market cap as of March 2025, down 3% in the past 24 hours despite the network’s expanding institutional…

“In a WW3 scenario, BTC may initially crash sharply from risk-off panic selling, but later rise like a phoenix from the ashes,” Perplexity predicted. The USA launched a military operation in Venezuela, following which the leader of the South American country, Nicolas Maduro, and his wife were captured and taken to the States. The POTUS keeps insisting on the annexation of Greenland, which caused huge controversy between America and other NATO members. The USA warned Iran of possible military action over its nuclear program, while the Asian nation said it’s ready to retaliate and refuses talks under pressure. And it’s…

Aayush Jindal, a luminary in the world of financial markets, whose expertise spans over 15 illustrious years in the realms of Forex and cryptocurrency trading. Renowned for his unparalleled proficiency in providing technical analysis, Aayush is a trusted advisor and senior market expert to investors worldwide, guiding them through the intricate landscapes of modern finance with his keen insights and astute chart analysis. From a young age, Aayush exhibited a natural aptitude for deciphering complex systems and unraveling patterns. Fueled by an insatiable curiosity for understanding market dynamics, he embarked on a journey that would lead him to become one…

Lawrence Jengar Jan 30, 2026 04:30 HKMA and SFC unveil three-year strategy to cement Hong Kong as Asia’s sustainable finance hub, expanding taxonomy to 25 economic activities across six sectors. Hong Kong’s top financial regulators have mapped out an ambitious three-year plan to capture Asia’s growing sustainable finance market, with cross-border carbon trading and mandatory climate disclosures at its core.The Green and Sustainable Finance Cross-Agency Steering Group, co-chaired by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and Securities and Futures Commission, released its 2026-2028 strategic priorities on January 29 following its 12th meeting since formation in 2020.Two Pillars Define the StrategyThe roadmap…

The new standard enables AI systems to use creative work legally and to automatically pay rights holders.Story Protocol, an onchain platform focused on intellectual property (IP), and OpenLedger on Thursday, Jan. 29, announced a new standard meant to let artificial intelligence (AI) systems use creative work legally and pay the people who own it.Under the partnership, IP registered on Story Protocol can be licensed for AI training and AI-generated outputs. Meanwhile, OpenLedger – an AI-native blockchain – will enforce those licenses inside AI systems and send payments to rights holders.The companies are also building a shared onchain standard that records…

Zug, Switzerland, January 29th, 2026, Chainwire Status, one of Ethereum’s longest-running open-source projects, has re-entered the spotlight with USS Status, a satirical sci-fi cartoon that turns crypto’s chaotic past into comedy, along with the launch of a unified privacy super-app and gasless L2 network. An Old Giant Awakens Status, the open-source privacy super-app, has launched an overhauled unified app, a gasless L2 network, and a new identity personified in an irreverent and satirical web cartoon. One of the oldest established projects in the Ethereum ecosystem, Status has weathered the industry’s volatility while continuing to quietly build an open-source platform that…

The Trump-led Greenland incident reflects not only political drama, but also the fragility of the traditional pricing power system. The same applies to the financial sector. As BTC’s “underlying value” is repeatedly validated amidst global uncertainty, and XRP continues to enter cross-border clearing networks, a clear trend is emerging: hashrate is moving from behind the scenes to the forefront of asset transactions. Against this backdrop, Moon Hash is seen as a more relevant answer—it doesn’t create sentiment, but rather adapts to structural changes. Moon Hash uses Proof-of-Work (PoW) hashrate at its core, transforming the mining system, previously only accessible to…