Anchorage Digital has introduced a structure with Kamino and Solana Company that lets institutions borrow onchain against natively staked SOL while the tokens stay in regulated custody and continue earning rewards. The initiative extends Anchorage’s Atlas collateral platform and arrives as U.S. lawmakers debate the CLARITY Act and broader rules for DeFi and digital assets.

BlackRock will list its USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL), a $2.1 billion tokenized U.S. Treasury product, on the Uniswap DEX to enable institutional trading. The move, facilitated by Securitize, includes an undisclosed UNI purchase and will begin with a limited group of eligible institutions and market makers before wider availability.

Strategists at State Street warn the US dollar could slide up to 10% this year if the Federal Reserve eases more than markets assume, with two cuts seen as a base case and risk skewed to three. A softer greenback could push flows toward Bitcoin and other risk assets, while futures pricing points to a first cut in June.

Jump Trading, the Chicago-based quantitative trading firm, is reportedly negotiating to take minority equity positions in prediction platforms Polymarket and Kalshi in return for supplying liquidity. The move comes as trading volumes, valuations and institutional interest in prediction markets increase, even as the sector continues to face regulatory scrutiny in the United States.

In January, a severe winter storm across the United States led many Bitcoin mining firms to scale back power consumption, sharply reducing output. CryptoQuant data indicates that publicly traded miners' daily production, usually around 70–90 BTC before the storm, fell to roughly 30–40 BTC at the height of the disruption. As conditions improved, production partially recovered, suggesting the curtailments were temporary and largely voluntary.

According to Bob Elliott of Unlimited Funds, the average dollar invested in BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust turned negative following Friday's close, as Bitcoin fell into the mid-$70,000 range. CoinShares data for the week to Jan. 25 show nearly $1.1 billion in Bitcoin fund outflows and $1.73 billion across crypto funds, the largest weekly withdrawal since mid-November.

As of Sunday, Truflation reported cooling price pressures, with its US CPI at 0.86% year over year and core PCE at 1.38%. Those readings contrast with government figures of 2.7% CPI in December and 2.8% core PCE in November, a backdrop that could affect expectations for Federal Reserve policy and risk assets, including cryptocurrencies.

BitMine Immersion Technologies, a publicly listed crypto treasury linked to Tom Lee, faces over $6 billion in unrealized losses on its Ether holdings. According to Dropstab, after adding 40,302 ETH last week to push its total above 4.24 million, the stash is worth roughly $9.6 billion, down from about $13.9 billion in October.

The US Federal Reserve kept the federal funds rate unchanged in a 3.5% to 3.75% range, with two officials dissenting in favor of an additional 25-basis-point cut. At the same time, the US dollar has fallen to a four-year low, prompting analysts to argue that currency weakness could act as de facto easing and influence Bitcoin and broader crypto markets.