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With a flourish of rhetoric, this crypto commentator dares to challenge the naysayers who declare XRP and Hedera relics of a bygone age. “Foundational blockchain infrastructure,” they intone, as if these words alone could resurrect the fallen. And yet, there is a kernel of truth here, buried beneath layers of hyperbole. Recent developments have indeed seen the XRP Ledger and Hedera thrust into the limelight, their names whispered in the halls of crypto enterprise. But let us not forget: in this realm, today’s heroes are tomorrow’s cautionary tales.

Bitmine Immersion Technologies Inc. (NYSE: BMNR), a firm that has elevated the art of Ethereum hoarding to a science, announced with great fanfare on Monday that it has amassed 4.243 million Ethereum tokens. This accumulation grants Bitmine dominion over 3.52% of Ethereum’s circulating supply, a mere 120.7 million tokens. A trifle, one might say, yet enough to stir the envy of lesser mortals.

His latest confession, laid out in a prolix social media missive on January 26, 2026, is a child of progress: sharper cryptography, a stubborn devotion to user sovereignty, and the stubborn belief that reality can be dressed more elegantly than a burnt Paris gown.

Apparently, prison gave him a new perspective-like, “I’d rather not.” And who can blame him? After forking over $4.3 billion in penalties (which is roughly the GDP of a small island nation), a guy’s gotta take a breather. Plus, he’s been busy spilling the tea on Davos stages about how prison was “difficult and personal,” which is just a fancy way of saying, “I ate a lot of instant ramen and questioned my life choices.”

On January 23, the leviathan of asset management filed an S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission to unleash the iShares Bitcoin Premium Income ETF (BITP) on Nasdaq. A creature designed to hand shareholders a regular monthly income by covering calls on Bitcoin, as if the market needed another orchestrated lullaby.

The awards cut into the air like cold iron, and the crowd spoke in voices from distant halls: Best Exchange for Futures Trading 2025 by crypto.ru, Best Emerging Exchange 2025 by FinanceFeeds, Breakthrough Platform of the Year at Cripto Latin Fest, and Best Growing Exchange by Cexfinder. Not trifles to rest on a shelf, but marks pressed into Bitunix’s skin by Europe, Latin America, and a chorus of global crypto media-a chorus that sometimes sounds skeptical, yet could not ignore the stubborn glow of progress.

Also, some indicators suggest the downturn could deepen before anyone remembers to eat lunch.

BeInCrypto (yes, we’re still here, thanks for asking) has rounded up three altcoins that might just make your last week of January less boring than a Bridget Jones diary entry. Spoiler: one involves oil, because why not add more drama to the mix?

Crypto.Casino, a new website offering unbiased reviews, has launched to help people confidently choose and use crypto casinos. The platform aims to bring more openness and reliability to the online crypto gambling world.

A freshly circulated research X article from Justin Thaler, who moonlights as both an A16z research partner and a Georgetown professor (because one prestigious title simply wouldn’t suffice), tackles crypto’s favorite doomsday scenario: quantum computing. Because, naturally, the blockchain world needed another reason to panic prematurely.