Scott Bessent: Administration's Policy Is to Add Seized Bitcoin to Our Digital Asset ReserveOn January 20, 2026, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent addressed inquiries during a press briefing in Davos. Bessent highlighted the passage of the "Genius Act" for stablecoins, aiming to establish a regulatory regime that brings digital asset innovation back to the U.S. Regarding seized assets, he stated that the administration's policy is to incorporate seized Bitcoin into the digital asset reserve after damage ...

Ethereum Name Service announced that ENSv2 will be deployed exclusively on Ethereum L1 and that development of its in-house L2, Namechain, has been discontinued. The halt of Namechain does not affect ENSv2’s feature roadmap, with related contracts as well as the ENS App and ENS Explorer now in public alpha. https://t.co/LQDNE24Wfp ...

Vitalik Buterin has donated to Shielded Labs to support development of Crosslink, a proposed consensus upgrade for Zcash. Crosslink adds a parallel finality layer on top of Zcash’s existing PoW consensus, aiming to reduce reorg and rollback risks while providing stronger settlement guarantees for confirmed transactions—lowering double-spend risk, shortening confirmation times for exchanges and cross-chain use cases, and improving support for applications that depend on deterministic finality. https://t.co/n ...

The platform said an input error during reward distribution to 695 users at 19:00 on February 6, 2026 led to an accidental Bitcoin overpayment, with all affected accounts fully restricted by 19:40. A total of 620,000 BTC was mistakenly issued, of which 618,212 BTC (about 99.7%) has been recovered, while the remainder is still being pursued. Of the 1,788 BTC equivalent already sold (including fiat and crypto), roughly 93% has been retrieved. No external Bitcoin transfers occurred. https://t.co/wjEe5pESCC ...

Coinbase announced that Superform (UP) has been added to its asset listing roadmap. Trading for the asset remains contingent on market-making support and sufficient technical infrastructure, with the exchange saying it will announce the trading launch separately once these conditions are met. https://t.co/M6rBVuTVqU ...

Coinbase’s crypto-backed lending product saw its largest liquidation wave since launch amid this week’s sharp declines in Bitcoin and Ethereum. According to Dune data, total liquidations reached approximately $170 million over the past seven days. The loans are executed via the DeFi protocol Morpho and are over-collateralized by default. If collateral values were to fall another 50%, potential liquidations could reach around $600 million. https://t.co/cqmnOQl9a9 ...

Bithumb, South Korea’s second-largest crypto exchange, said an internal error during an event payout led to some users receiving an abnormal amount of Bitcoin, triggering brief price volatility after partial selling. Bithumb quickly restricted affected accounts, restored prices within five minutes, and confirmed no hacking or security breach, with trading and withdrawals operating normally. https://t.co/wjEe5pEkN4 ...

Russia's largest lender Sberbank is preparing to roll out crypto-backed loans for corporate clients after a successful pilot in late 2025, citing strong demand, and said it is ready to work with the central bank as Russia finalizes crypto regulations by July 2026. https://t.co/D4Y3GolyJy ...

Tether announced a strategic investment in t-0 network, a USD₮-powered settlement network for licensed financial institutions, aiming to enable near-instant, low-cost cross-border payments by using stablecoins as the core settlement layer, reducing FX exposure and improving efficiency through a API-connected global ledger. https://t.co/CYt9F916iW ...

China’s central bank and regulators reiterated a blanket ban on crypto activities, including trading, issuance, mining, and unapproved RMB-linked stablecoins, and said RWA tokenization is generally prohibited unless explicitly approved under designated financial infrastructure, with enforcement intensified against related financial crimes and offshore operations. https://t.co/oib0470WBw ...