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Castries, Saint Lucia, January 14th, 2026, Chainwire PrimeXBT, a leading global crypto and CFD broker, has listed 40 new crypto futures trading pairs, significantly expanding its asset coverage across high-demand segments including AI, Layer-1 and Layer-2 networks, DeFi, Infrastructure, Meme tokens, NFT, Metaverse, and Payments. The expansion is part of the company’s ongoing commitment to provide traders with deeper market access, better liquidity, and cost-efficient trading conditions. The newly added markets include a curated selection of highly traded coins and tokens such as CELO, DASH, DYDX, EIGEN, SNX, ZK, ZRO, and emerging community and meme-driven assets. This batch also introduces…

The latest version of a Senate market structure bill bans passive yield on stablecoin holdings.But it protects certain software developers from prosecution under money transmission laws.A version under negotiation in the Senate’s Agriculture Committee will be filed before the end of the month.Stablecoin issuers will be forbidden from paying passive yield under the latest version of a landmark crypto bill filed by US Senators on Monday night, marking a major victory for banks that had warned the tokens could undermine their ability to lend to businesses and homebuyers.But it includes significant protections for software developers such as Tornado Cash co-founder…

Bitcoin climbed above $96,000 for the first time since November, triggering over $500 million in liquidations as altcoins outperformed and traders rushed to cover bearish bets.

A list of amendments — some of them far afield — is circulating for the planned markup hearing of the crypto market structure bill.

Recent US regulatory action seeking to restrict prediction markets hasn’t slowed activity in the first weeks of 2026, with trading volumes hitting a record $701.7 million on Monday.Prediction market Kalshi accounted for two-thirds of total trading volume at $465.9 million, while competitors Polymarket and Opinion tallied $100 million worth of trades, Dune Analytics data from Gate Research shows.The $701.7 million tally beat the previous record of $666.6 million set the day before, with Kalshi leading trading volumes by a similar margin. Daily trading volume on prediction markets since September 2024. Source: Dune AnalyticsPrediction markets have become one of crypto’s hottest use…

Aptos price rose to $1.99 on Tuesday, gaining by 8% as bulls looked to strengthen. Grayscale has announced Aptos as one of the assets under consideration. Potential ETF demand could help APT’s price. Aptos (APT) price is up more than 8% in the past 24 hours as the broader cryptocurrency market catches a bid, with Bitcoin rising to near $93,500. The Aptos token, native to the blockchain platform powered by the move programming language, is experiencing renewed interest as most other altcoins record a slight rebound. Many of these tokens, including BNB, TRON, Ethena and Hyperliquid, are part of the…

Binance continued to dominate in 2025, as it captured over 40% of spot and Bitcoin perpetual volumes across major global exchanges. Crypto exchange activity diverged sharply in 2025, as spot market growth slowed down while derivatives trading continued to expand at a strong pace. Total spot trading volume reached $18.6 trillion. This represented a 9% year-on-year increase, but it is a significant deceleration from the 154% growth recorded in 2024. Crypto Exchange Activity According to CryptoQuant, perpetual futures activity, in contrast, rose 29% year-on-year to $61.7 trillion, after adding $13.8 trillion in volume compared with the previous year. Spot trading…

In brief Galaxy Research says the Senate Banking draft embeds sweeping new illicit finance powers for the Treasury. The proposal includes transaction holds without court orders and expanded “special measure” authority. Industry voices warn unresolved gaps around privacy and risk still constrain adoption. Galaxy Research warned that a draft crypto market-structure bill circulating in the Senate Banking Committee would significantly expand U.S. financial surveillance powers, arguing in a note that new Treasury authorities targeting decentralized finance frontends and transaction freezes could represent the largest such expansion since 2001.The analysis focuses on certain provisions from the draft that would grant the…

Be’er Sheva, Israel, January 13th, 2026, Chainwire Fors, a prediction market aggregation platform built on Solana, today announced the release of its beta version, designed to address fragmentation and inefficiencies across modern prediction markets. Prediction markets covering multiple categories, including politics, sports, macroeconomic events, cryptocurrencies, and global developments, have expanded rapidly in recent years. However, market data, liquidity, and pricing remain fragmented across isolated platforms, making it difficult for participants to compare outcomes and identify inefficiencies efficiently. Fors addresses this challenge by aggregating multiple prediction venues into a single, unified interface. The platform normalizes probabilities, pricing, and liquidity, allowing users…

The debut of Polymarket probabilities on Sunday’s Golden Globes broadcast put the brand in front of millions of viewers As usual, Sunday’s Golden Globes inspired a lot of reactions on social media, as many posters offered their takes on award winners and various happenings during the ceremony. But a new feature of this year’s broadcast of the awards show on CBS and Paramount+ was the focus of many comments. Polymarket announced on Friday that it had struck a deal with the Golden Globes to become the awards show’s exclusive prediction market partner. While the news release announcing the agreement suggested that odds…