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The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced it will release the Consumer Price Index (CPI) on Jan. 13, 2026.

According to CoinNess market monitoring, BTC has risen above $93,000. BTC is trading at $93,053.7 on the Binance USDT market.

Major exchanges have seen $130 million worth of futures liquidated in the past hour. In the past 24 hours, $265 million worth of futures have been liquidated.

The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has officially confirmed that banks are permitted to engage in cryptocurrency trading through risk-less principal transactions. This allows banks to act as intermediaries, matching orders and serving as brokers, rather than holding cryptocurrency with their own capital and assuming the associated risk.

According to CoinNess market monitoring, BTC has risen above $92,000. BTC is trading at $92,071.5 on the Binance USDT market.

Plume, a blockchain platform focused on regulatory-compliant real-world assets (RWA), has secured a commercial license from the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), CoinDesk reported. The license enables the company to expand its RWA issuance and distribution across the Middle East, Africa, and other emerging markets. Plume stated it plans to open an office in Abu Dhabi by the end of the year and will announce a broader business strategy in early 2026, which will include local hiring and partnerships with regional banks and fintech firms.

Kyrgyzstan has launched USDKG, a gold-backed stablecoin pegged 1:1 to the U.S. dollar, to modernize its cross-border payment systems, CryptoBriefing reported. The initial issuance is valued at $50 million. The stablecoin was first launched on the Tron network, with plans for a future issuance on Ethereum.

Canton Network, a blockchain designed for the tokenization of $6 trillion in real-world assets, will utilize RedStone Oracles to provide key data feeds for its RWA ecosystem, CoinDesk reported.

According to CoinNess market monitoring, BTC has risen above $91,000. BTC is trading at $91,147.77 on the Binance USDT market.

Tempo, a payments-focused blockchain backed by Stripe and Paradigm, has launched its public testnet, CoinDesk reported. Kalshi, UBS, Klarna, and Mastercard have joined as network partners, alongside existing partners such as Deutsche Bank, Visa, Shopify, OpenAI, and Nubank. The network charges a fee of around 0.1 cents per transaction, which is settled using a dollar stablecoin, eliminating the need for a separate gas token.

The Bitwise 10 Crypto Index Fund began trading today on the NYSE Arca, according to Eleanor Terrett. The fund offers exposure to BTC, ETH, XRP, SOL, ADA, LINK, LTC, SUI, AVA, and DOT.

Kevin Hassett, Director of the White House National Economic Council (NEC), said the Federal Reserve has plenty of room to cut interest rates.

Cryptocurrency wallet company Exodus plans to launch a self-custody app, Exodus Pay, in early 2026, CoinDesk reported. The app will allow users to send, spend, and hold stablecoins. It will also offer payments via card and Apple Pay, transfers using phone numbers, and rewards on account balances.

Major U.S. stock indices opened lower at the start of Tuesday's trading session. The S&P 500 fell 0.03%, the Nasdaq Composite dropped 0.24%, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 0.08%.

Blockchain startup Daylight has launched a new Ethereum-based decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol to convert electricity into a yield-generating crypto asset. According to CoinDesk, the DayFi protocol aims to channel capital into new solar power facilities by transforming their cash flows into crypto-based yield products. The system will use the GRID stablecoin and the sGRID yield token.

Tether and HoneyCoin have announced a partnership to expand stablecoin accessibility across Africa. As part of the collaboration, HoneyCoin plans to launch a cashless point-of-sale (POS) platform that accepts USD₮ payments, enabling merchants to receive stablecoins directly during transactions.

The Chamber of Digital Commerce, the largest cryptocurrency lobbying group in the U.S., has integrated CryptoUK as an affiliated organization, CoinDesk reported. The two organizations plan to align their goals and approaches to cryptocurrency policy in the United States and the United Kingdom.

Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood said in an interview with Fox Business that BTC may have bottomed out a few weeks ago.

Bitcoin may not experience the sharp declines seen in previous market cycles now that it has evolved from a niche to a mainstream asset, according to Binance co-CEO He Yi. In an interview with Wu Blockchain, she explained that while some countries plan to seize and sell Bitcoin, many other nations, pension funds, and institutional investors have started to invest. This trend, He Yi argued, suggests that Bitcoin's volatility and downside risk will be smaller than in the past. She added that traditional halving cycle theories will now operate differently, rendering old trading strategies less effective in a market with new participants. While not rejecting cycle theory outright, He Yi stressed that its period, rhythm, and scale are always changing, and she does not believe the price could fall to one-tenth of its current level.

USDC issuer Circle has partnered with zero-knowledge blockchain Aleo to launch two privacy-focused stablecoins, UDSC and UDSCX, Fortune Crypto reported. UDSC is designed to process transaction amounts and balances anonymously and is guaranteed to be redeemable on a one-to-one basis with the original USDC. The two stablecoins feature selective disclosure of transaction history, offering an anonymous transfer option for financial institutions and individuals who prefer not to publicize their transaction details.

BNB Chain-based decentralized exchange (DEX) PancakeSwap (CAKE) announced on its official blog that it will host a token sale for LV, the native token of LeverUp, on its CAKE.PAD launchpad platform. LeverUp is a decentralized perpetual futures exchange (PerpDEX) built on Monad (MON). The platform offers up to 1,001x leverage, applies zero fees to trades with leverage exceeding 500x, and returns all protocol fees to users who stake the token. To participate in the sale, users must use CAKE on the CAKE.PAD platform. The total supply of LV is one billion tokens, with 10 million LV (1% of the supply) allocated for this sale at a price of $0.01 each. The LV sale on CAKE.PAD is scheduled to run from 3:00 a.m. UTC on Dec. 17 to 3:00 a.m. UTC on Dec. 18.

Binance Alpha announced it will add CYS. The platform is an on-chain trading service within the Binance Wallet that focuses on listing early-stage coins.

Coinbase has announced a partnership with PNC Bank, the ninth-largest bank in the U.S. by assets. The collaboration will allow clients of PNC's private bank to trade spot BTC through the Coinbase Cryptocurrency as a Service (CaaS) platform.

Privacy-focused blockchain Horizen (ZEN) has launched a Layer 3 mainnet on Coinbase's Layer 2 network, Base, migrating from its proprietary Layer 1 chain, The Block reported. The move follows a DAO governance decision. Horizen also plans to launch a 100 million ZEN grant program for developers within the Base ecosystem.

U.K.-based Standard Chartered (SC) has significantly lowered its year-end Bitcoin price forecast to $100,000 from a previous target of $200,000, Decrypt reported. The bank also pushed back its timeline for BTC reaching its long-term target of $500,000 to 2030 from an earlier projection of 2028, stating that aggressive purchasing by corporations like Strategy has effectively concluded. In a report, SC analyst Geoffrey Kendrick explained that future BTC price appreciation will likely depend solely on inflows into spot ETFs. He noted that current inflows are at their lowest levels since the products launched, leaving the price to move sideways without any clear upward catalysts. Kendrick added that while the market expects the U.S. Federal Reserve to cut interest rates tomorrow, significant volatility could emerge depending on the economic outlook for next year.