The Gates Foundation and OpenAI launched Horizon1000, a $50 million initiative to deploy AI across African health systems, starting in Rwanda. The program aims to support up to 1,000 primary clinics by 2028 and address severe staffing gaps, with an AI health hub already established in Kigali. Experts welcome potential benefits but flag risks around errors, privacy, bias, and language barriers.

ADA fell from an intraday high of $0.3617 to $0.3499 over the past 24 hours, extending its weekly slide to 15.36%. Cardano holds the No. 10 market-cap spot at $12.86 billion, narrowly ahead of Bitcoin Cash at $11.82 billion. A rebound toward $0.39–$0.42 is seen as key to stabilizing its top‑tier status.

On January 21, 2026, Galaxy Digital outlined a $100 million hedge fund targeting returns in both rising and falling markets. According to sources familiar with the plan, it aims to be operational in the first quarter and will allocate roughly 30% to crypto tokens and 70% to equities of financial services firms exposed to digital-asset trends.

Since Donald Trump's January 2025 return to the White House, the number of Bitcoin addresses holding at least $1 million has fallen from 157,563 to 132,383 by January 20, 2026. This decline of 25,180 millionaire addresses, or about 16%, occurred despite more crypto-supportive policies and followed a post-election Bitcoin rally that pushed prices above $100,000 before retracing to around $92,558 one year after his inauguration.

Late Monday, a leverage flush sent Bitcoin down 9% to $87,000 and erased $360 million in longs. On Tuesday, crypto market value fell by $150 billion as BTC slipped below $88,000, while gold reached a record $4,874.21, up 2.3%. CoinGlass flagged $998.33 million in long liquidations over 24 hours.

Crypto trader DonAlt, known for forecasting XRP's 700% surge in 2024, now argues that Bitcoin remains trapped in a "dead zone" between $85,000 and $92,000 that acts as both resistance and a liquidity trap. He suggests that failure to regain the upper band could send BTC toward $60,000 and a bear market, while a bullish scenario would require strength above current levels and could eventually target $104,000 and $150,000.

A new a16z crypto analysis argues that as generative AI concentrates power into closed chat interfaces and algorithmic feeds, blockchain networks may be the main tool for preserving an open, user-controlled internet. The report highlights 11 concrete intersections between crypto and AI, including persistent user-owned context, decentralized compute, proof-of-humanity, micropayments, IP registries, and user-controlled AI companions. It suggests the future web could either harden into paywalled platforms or evolve into an interoperable ecosystem built on decentralized infrastructure.

New BTC whales have become the dominant force in Bitcoin's current cycle as ownership metrics tilt toward recently active large wallets. With price slipping below $90,000 and touching $86,000 in the past day, wallets aged 6–12 months now hold over 17% of marginal supply, while newer buyers carry about $6B in unrealized losses. Older whales remain less price-sensitive around a realized price near $40,000.