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Welcome back to your weekly snapshot of crypto insights, where we cover major trends, market moves, policy shifts, and must-know developments from the crypto space.
The crypto market remained range-bound but stable over the week. Bitcoin faced resistance at $94K–$95K but held strong support near $90K, while Ethereum dipped from $3.3K before stabilizing and rebounding toward $3.15K. Altcoins outperformed, led by XMR’s 32.7% surge to a new all-time high, with POL and RENDER also posting strong gains.
On the industry side, partnerships like Delphi–Polymarket, JPM Coin on Canton, and the Nasdaq–CME crypto index highlighted growing institutional momentum in crypto. Here's your quick dive into the week that was and the future that's unfolding.
BTC spent last week consolidating after repeated rejections near the $94K–$95K zone amid profit-taking, ETF outflows, and fading Fed rate-cut expectations, while strong buying near $90K prevented deeper downside. In the near term, price action is likely to remain range-bound as markets focus on key macro triggers such as CPI and PPI for direction. Technically, $91K remains a critical support level, while resistance is placed at $92K.
On the other hand, ETH traded in the $3.28-3.30K range before facing a pullback that dragged prices down to around $3.07-3.10K. Following this pullback, ETH entered a period of consolidation, trading sideways in a tight range. In the most recent sessions, price has shown signs of recovery, breaking higher from the consolidation range and moving toward the $3.15K level. While momentum has improved, ETH remains below its recent highs, suggesting a stabilizing market with early signs of a rebound.
In other industry news, Delphi Digital and Polymarket have partnered to link crypto research with live prediction markets, launching 11 markets based on Delphi’s Year Ahead forecasts. The collaboration aims to make research more accountable by tying predictions to real-time market pricing, signaling a shift toward transparent and verifiable forecasting in crypto.
In Parallel, Digital Asset and Kinexys by J.P. Morgan plan to issue JPM Coin natively on the Canton Network, enabling regulated, USD-backed deposit tokens to move and settle directly on a public blockchain. Rolling out in phases through 2026, the initiative aims to synchronize cash, tokenized assets, and smart contracts for near–real-time settlement while meeting institutional privacy and compliance needs.
Also, Nasdaq and CME Group have unified their crypto benchmarks, rebranding the Nasdaq Crypto Index (NCI) as the Nasdaq-CME Crypto Index. The index tracks a diversified basket of major digital assets, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Solana, Chainlink, Cardano, and Avalanche. Nasdaq said the move reflects growing institutional demand for diversified, index-based crypto exposure beyond Bitcoin, aligning digital assets with how investors access broader markets across traditional asset classes.
In the altcoins sector, top performers of the week were XMR, POL, and RENDER, with XMR reaching an all-time high of $593.
Weekly price movement:
BTC $90,359 ⏬ 2.26% (1W)
ETH $3,102 ⏬ 1.88% (1W)
XMR $568 ⏫ 33.32% (1W)
POL $0.15 ⏫ 32.55% (1W)
RENDER $2.43 ⏫ 17.18% (1W)
(All data here as of 2:30 p.m., 12 January 2026)
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Before we conclude, here’s a quick look at some important news from around the crypto world.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said the network is approaching a turning point as two major upgrades, PeerDAS and zkEVMs, move from research to working code. In a post on X, Buterin argued that the combination could shift Ethereum into “a fundamentally new and more powerful kind of decentralized network,” because it targets the core trade-off that has historically limited blockchains: a system can be decentralized and achieve consensus, but bandwidth and throughput remain low, according to CoinDesk.
Ripple, a cross-border payments network that uses blockchain and cryptocurrencies, won regulatory approval in the UK, allowing it to conduct certain crypto-related activities in the country. The company’s UK subsidiary, Ripple Markets UK Ltd, secured registration with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) under the country’s money laundering regulations, according to an update to the regulator’s registry, according to CoinDesk.
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