₿ Market mood: bitcoin climbed back towards $95k and briefly pushed higher, with short liquidations adding fuel to the move. Risk appetite improved across major coins, while traders kept one eye on US inflation data and the broader “rates next?” narrative.
🏛️ Politics + regulation (US): a long-awaited Senate draft bill was introduced to bring clearer rules to crypto markets, including spot-market oversight by the CFTC and new lines around stablecoin incentives (rewards vs interest). This is one of the most important “policy catalysts” traders have watched since the turn of the year.
🇮🇳 Compliance tightening (India): India rolled out stricter KYC/AML onboarding for crypto users, including live selfie checks and geo-tagging, as authorities push exchanges to raise verification standards.
🏦 Institutions are still buying: Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) reported buying 13,627 BTC (about $1.25bn) during 5–11 January, keeping the “corporate treasury” trend in focus.
💳 Stablecoins go mainstream (business angle): Polygon announced acquisitions (Coinme and Sequence) valued at over $250m, signalling an aggressive push into regulated, stablecoin-based payments infrastructure in the US.
😄 Fun fact of the week: stablecoins processed an estimated $33 trillion of transactions in 2025 (yes, trillion) — a reminder that some of crypto’s biggest growth is happening in the “boring” plumbing behind payments, not just in price charts.
🔔 That’s the week. Stay sharp, manage risk, and watch regulation headlines as closely as the candles.
📊 Crypto News of the Week | 07–14 January 2026 🚀 was originally published in Coinmonks on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.