XRP recorded a single-session Spot ETF inflow of $10.63 million, lifting ETF-held assets to $1.56 billion while the token's price stayed constrained inside a descending channel. Key support sits near $2.05–$2.10 with resistance between $2.35 and $2.65, as ETF accumulation, exchange outflows, higher NVT and cooling funding rates collectively point to consolidation rather than a confirmed breakout. Market structure and technical signals still need to shift before sustained upside can develop despite evident institutional demand.

Ethereum advanced after clearing $3,350 and is consolidating above $3,280 and the 100-hour Simple Moving Average. Key resistance sits at $3,320–$3,385, with a break above $3,450 pointing toward $3,500–$3,550; failure near $3,320 leaves $3,280, $3,260 and $3,220 as supports.

Dragonfly Capital withdrew 25,989.71 HYPE worth about $648.6K from Bybit, but prices continued to soften. CoinGlass shows spot flows flipping from $1.62M net outflows to a +$538.75K net inflow, and HYPE's failure at $28 with fragile $25 support underscores seller control. Derivatives signals add caution: Open Interest fell 7.91% to $1.31 billion, while liquidations skew long-side with minimal short stress.

On January 16, 2026, Atomic Wallet reported online that it could not verify a user’s allegation of losing 633 Monero (around $479,000) through its platform. The company said no support ticket had been filed, screenshots were insufficient proof given Monero’s privacy, and noted unusual activity on the complainant’s X account. The user, posting as Nicolas van Saberhagen, blamed reliance on closed-source wallet software after claiming his XMR balance dropped to zero as the Monero network processed valid transactions.

MOVE climbed over 15% after Hyperliquid added the token to its spot market, enabling collateral use for perpetual trading and coinciding with a 515% jump in daily volume. Long liquidations neared $4 million versus $2.67 million in shorts with leverage up to 50x. Weekly transactions totaled 4.2 million even as monthly active addresses fell 31% to 14.8K.

According to the analysis, Ethereum staking reached an all-time high near 36 million ETH (about 30% of supply), alongside a 2.4 million ETH validator queue, while roughly 140k ETH left exchanges, reducing reserves to 16.44 million ETH. Despite a 7% price gain, ETH dominance has stayed between 12%–13% for over eight weeks as Solana’s tokenized RWA topped $1 billion and Monero hit $800 with a 28% weekly surge.

On January 16, 2026, Bitmine Immersion Technologies announced a $200 million equity investment in Beast Industries, the company founded by YouTube creator Jimmy "MrBeast" Donaldson. According to Bitmine, the partnership will explore DeFi integrations and Web3 product collaboration. A January 15 post by Watcher.Guru also highlighted the deal.

According to the Sui Foundation, on 14 January a rare consensus edge case triggered a safety halt on Sui's mainnet, pausing transactions for about six hours. Validators detected divergent checkpoint digests and stopped progress to avoid inconsistent finalization. The post-mortem outlines faster inconsistency detection, automated cleanup tooling, and expanded testing.