{"id":127424,"date":"2026-01-15T14:57:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T14:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=127424"},"modified":"2026-01-15T14:57:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T14:57:51","slug":"crypto-news-of-the-week-07-14-january-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=127424","title":{"rendered":"Crypto News of the Week | 07\u201314 January 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u20bf <strong>Market mood:<\/strong> bitcoin climbed back towards <strong>$95k<\/strong> 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 \u201crates next?\u201d narrative.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfdb\ufe0f <strong>Politics + regulation (US):<\/strong> a long-awaited <strong>Senate draft bill<\/strong> was introduced to bring clearer rules to crypto markets, including <strong>spot-market oversight by the CFTC<\/strong> and new lines around stablecoin incentives (rewards vs interest). This is one of the most important \u201cpolicy catalysts\u201d traders have watched since the turn of the\u00a0year.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3 <strong>Compliance tightening (India):<\/strong> India rolled out <strong>stricter KYC\/AML onboarding<\/strong> for crypto users, including <strong>live selfie checks<\/strong> and <strong>geo-tagging<\/strong>, as authorities push exchanges to raise verification standards.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe6 <strong>Institutions are still buying:<\/strong> Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) reported buying <strong>13,627 BTC<\/strong> (about <strong>$1.25bn<\/strong>) during <strong>5\u201311 January<\/strong>, keeping the \u201ccorporate treasury\u201d trend in\u00a0focus.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcb3 <strong>Stablecoins go mainstream (business angle):<\/strong> Polygon announced acquisitions (Coinme and Sequence) valued at <strong>over $250m<\/strong>, signalling an aggressive push into <strong>regulated, stablecoin-based payments<\/strong> infrastructure in the\u00a0US.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude04 <strong>Fun fact of the week:<\/strong> stablecoins processed an estimated <strong>$33 trillion<\/strong> of transactions in <strong>2025<\/strong> (yes, trillion)\u200a\u2014\u200aa reminder that some of crypto\u2019s biggest growth is happening in the \u201cboring\u201d plumbing behind payments, not just in price\u00a0charts.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd14 That\u2019s the week. Stay sharp, manage risk, and watch regulation headlines as closely as the\u00a0candles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/coinmonks\/crypto-news-of-the-week-07-14-january-2026-222c89de27ee\">\ud83d\udcca Crypto News of the Week | 07\u201314 January 2026 \ud83d\ude80<\/a> was originally published in <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/coinmonks\">Coinmonks<\/a> on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u20bf 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 \u201crates next?\u201d narrative. \ud83c\udfdb\ufe0f Politics + regulation (US): a long-awaited Senate draft bill was introduced to bring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":127425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/127425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}