Pump.fun introduced Pump Ventures Fund alongside a $3 million, 30‑day "Build in Public" hackathon in mid‑January 2026. According to Pump.fun, 12 winners will each receive $250,000 at a $10 million valuation, with applications opening January 19, 2026. Community debate continues around the long‑teased PUMP airdrop, while PUMP ranged between $0.00247 and $0.0027 on January 21, 2026.

XRP payments reached 1.346 million over the past 24 hours, with total transactions climbing to 2.57 million, signaling a notable rise in network usage. While price action remains near key support and looks heavy, on-chain activity has been making higher highs and diverging positively from the chart. This pattern has often appeared during continuation phases, suggesting the ongoing XRP rally may still have room to extend.

On January 20, Grayscale submitted a Form S-1 to the SEC to convert its NEAR Trust into a spot ETF, with plans to list on NYSE Arca under ticker GSNR. The fund may allow staking, will use Coinbase for brokerage and custody, and track CoinDesk's NEAR CCIXber Reference Rate. According to CoinGlass, NEAR rallied over 3% intraday from $1.44 to just above $1.80 before easing to around $1.52.

Shiba Inu is registering its first three-hour death cross of 2026 on the SHIB/USD chart after an early January rally to $0.00001017. The last comparable three-hour signal emerged in mid-December 2025, followed by a drop to $0.00000681. SHIB trades around $0.00000782 with a recent Dragonfly Doji on the daily chart, leaving open scenarios of a further rebound toward the daily MA 50 at $0.000008 or renewed downside toward support near $0.00000688.

Tezos (XTZ) briefly climbed above $0.63 before sliding back under $0.59, even as TenX disclosed a $3.25 million purchase of 5.54 million tokens between January 2 and January 19, 2026. The price now hovers near key support levels, with traders watching $0.50 as a crucial threshold that could open the way to around $0.42 if broken.

US Oil (USOR), a new token on Solana, jumped more than 150% in 24 hours and briefly exceeded a $40 million market cap as traders latched onto a Venezuelan oil narrative. Despite claims of being an oil-backed on-chain reserve index tied to US interests, the project offers no verifiable proof of reserves or official links, and trades mainly on Solana DEXes. On-chain observers highlight concentrated holdings in a small cluster of wallets and suspicious trading patterns, warning that the structure could enable a potential rug pull.

BitMine Immersion Technologies disclosed on January 20, 2026 that its Ethereum holdings have climbed to 4,203,036 ETH, worth about $13.5 billion after recent dip buying of roughly $110 million. The position now represents around 3.48% of Ethereum's estimated 120.7 million circulating supply, keeping the company on its path toward a self-imposed 5% ownership target.

Crypto analyst Dom has highlighted a triple tap pattern around the $1.80 area on the XRP chart, describing it as the final stage of a potential bottom formation and warning that further downside could lead to a breakdown. Another analyst, Egrag Crypto, sees XRP still trading within a broader range between roughly $1.85–$1.95 support and $3.40–$3.60 resistance, while also flagging the 21 EMA as downward-sloping resistance. XRP is currently trading near $1.90 and has given back most of its yearly gains following a wider market downturn and a drop below the key $2 psychological level.