Famous investor Tim Draper predicts a bonanza year, expecting bitcoin to finally reach $250,000 as it goes mainstream, alongside a trillion-dollar IPO, passenger moon flights, biotech longevity gains, and autonomous transport advances.

XRP is consolidating near a critical support zone as tightening intraday trading, easing whale sell pressure, and steady retail activity point to a potential re-accumulation phase after its sharp pullback.

Bitcoin’s long-term trajectory is drawing renewed focus as macro signals, institutional adoption, and policy tailwinds challenge traditional market cycles, with Fundstrat’s Tom Lee standing by a $250,000 price target into 2026.

Binance is rolling out regulated, stablecoin-settled perpetual contracts tied to traditional assets, starting with gold and silver, giving crypto traders continuous exposure to commodities while formally linking traditional finance markets with digital asset infrastructure.

On Jan. 8, the Truebit protocol’s native token (TRU) plummeted 99.95% to near-zero after a $26 million exploit. Security firm Cyvers Alerts detected the anomaly when a single address siphoned approximately 8,535 ether.

Crypto ETFs faced broad pressure midweek as bitcoin and ether both moved sharply lower. XRP recorded its first-ever day of net outflows, while solana stood alone in positive territory.

XRP’s early‑2026 rally stalled on Jan. 8 as the token fell below $2.10, coinciding with its first‑ever ETF outflows of about $41 million since launch.

Bitcoin dipped to an intraday low of $89,343 on Thursday, Jan. 8, before stabilizing just above $90,000 by 11:25 a.m. EST, as prediction markets collectively pared back expectations for a six-figure January move.

The new proposal could put Florida in rare company with three other states that have successfully passed crypto reserve legislation.

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All members of the Electric Coin Company team behind Zcash resigned on Jan. 7 following a governance dispute with the Bootstrap board, a development that coincided with a sharp sell-off in ZEC as markets reacted to uncertainty around the project’s future.

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Bitcoin’s price sits at $89,764 on Thursday morning with a market cap of $1.79 trillion and a 24-hour trading volume that just grazed $47.55 billion. The coin strutted through a price corridor of $89,774 to $92,125 in the last day, testing traders’ patience and perhaps their caffeine tolerance.

Babylon raises $15 million from A16z Crypto to develop trustless bitcoin lending protocols.

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