XRP's chart printed a death cross as the token fell below $2, with the spot price near $1.97 after a daily range of $1.91–$2.06. Trading volume jumped 167.34% to $3.68 billion, while selling pressure increased despite the earlier 2026 golden cross. The move aligned with intraday declines of 3.85%–3.95%.

On January 19, 2026, Ethereum cofounder Vitalik Buterin argued that the network still requires decentralized autonomous organizations but with significantly improved designs. He warned that many current DAOs are captured by large token holders, which weakens governance, and highlighted four key roles for DAOs, including oracles, dispute resolution, shared lists and institutional memory, while proposing ZK proofs and AI tools to enhance privacy and decision-making.

Bloomberg Intelligence senior commodity strategist Mike McGlone has argued that Bitcoin may have topped out in 2025 as gold surged and oil slumped, signaling what he describes as a historic gold-oil disparity. Bitcoin, which reached a peak of $126,198.07 in October 2025 and has since dropped as low as $84,000, was trading around $95,076.40 with daily volume sliding and price still capped below the $100,000 mark.

XRP traded between $2.06 and $2.13 over the last 24 hours while slipping more than 2%, but it continues to hold above the key $2 support level. Bollinger Bands on the XRP chart are tightening near $2.05–$2.08, hinting at a possible breakout if price can close above $2.09 and trading volume recovers from its current decline.

Cardano open interest fell 7.26% in the last 24 hours to two billion ADA valued at $780.30 million, while price slipped below $0.40 to $0.3911 after an intraday high of $0.4093. Trading volume declined 20.56% to $588.63 million. Gate, Binance and Bybit accounted for 27.03%, 16.685 and 13.02% of total open interest over the same period.

Ripple developer Panos Mekras has urged the XRP community to shift its focus from XRP price speculation to strengthening the XRP Ledger network by 2026. He argues that XRPL currently trails other blockchains in user activity, DEX volume and liquidity, and calls for infrastructure upgrades, better bridges and a new success framework based on users, volume and real-world usage.

XRP dropped 1.05% over the last 24 hours from $2.15, and trades near $2.11 with Bollinger Bands showing upper resistance at $2.33 and lower bounds between $1.75 and $2.04. Volume fell 20.57% to $3.73 billion and RSI is 57.59. Institutional inflows surged 428%, adding $45.8 million during the week.

Shibarium, the layer-2 network for Shiba Inu, has seen its Total Value Locked plunge 36% in the last 24 hours even as SHIB's market price rebounded. During this period, TVL fell to $477,849 while SHIB traded around $0.000008719 with higher volume, and the Shibarium team is advancing a security upgrade and privacy roadmap aimed at future confidential smart contracts.

Solana is trading around $144.52 after climbing from $141.30 to an intraday high of $147.31, while historical data show the token has averaged 52.3% growth in January. If this pattern repeats and SOL reaches that average gain from its current level, its price could approach $219, with recent $8 billion growth in open interest and institutional ETF demand adding to the bullish outlook.