According to Foresight News, Flow announced that its community governance committee has successfully recovered counterfeit FLOW tokens from centralized exchanges. These tokens are now isolated on the blockchain with restricted storage, awaiting destruction. The permanent destruction of the counterfeit tokens is scheduled for January 30, 2026. Additionally, the foundation has arranged to revoke the extra access permissions granted to the community governance committee for recovery operations today. Previously, Foresight News reported that Flow released a review of the attack incident, revealing that attackers exploited a vulnerability in the Flow network to forge tokens, resulting in the theft of approximately $3.9 million through cross-chain transactions. The attack did not access or compromise any existing user balances. While the attack replicated assets, it did not affect legitimately held assets, and the majority of counterfeit assets were stored on-chain or frozen by exchange partners before liquidation.

According to PANews, crypto journalist Eleanor Terrett reports that the U.S. Senate Banking Committee is set to submit its latest bipartisan market structure bill by midnight local time. The committee has been engaged in intense debates over stablecoin yields, which have emerged as a particularly challenging issue as Thursday approaches.

According to SoSoValue data, XRP spot ETFs saw a total net inflow of $15.04 million yesterday (January 12th, Eastern Time). The XRP spot ETF with the largest net inflow yesterday (January 12th, Eastern Time) was the Bitwise XRP ETF (XRP), with a single-day net inflow of $7.63 million and a historical total net inflow of $300 million. This was followed by the Franklin XRP ETF (XRPZ), with a single-day net inflow of $4.49 million and a historical total net inflow of $281 million. As of press time, the total net asset value of XRP spot ETFs was $1.48 billion, with an XRP net asset ratio of 1.18%, and a historical cumulative net inflow of $1.23 billion.

According to The Data Nerd, a few hours ago, a whale (0x94d3...3814) established three large short positions, totaling approximately $140 million. Specifically, this included: a $69.93 million short position in BTC with 20x leverage, a $50.3 million short position in SOL with 20x leverage, and a $20 million short position in ETH with 20x leverage.

According to Whale Alert, Tether froze 182 million USDT across five separate addresses on the Tron network on January 11. The affected addresses held between 12 million and 50 million USDT. This action complies with Tether's wallet suspension protocol launched in December 2023, aimed at complying with sanctions requirements from the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). By mid-2025, Tether has cumulatively frozen over $3 billion in USDT and is cooperating with more than 310 law enforcement agencies in 62 countries. AMLBot data shows that since 2023, Tether's total frozen amount is approximately 30 times that of Circle. Currently, the circulating supply of USDT exceeds $187 billion, representing approximately 64% of the market share.

According to Foresight News, OpenAI has acquired the healthcare startup Torch. Torch focuses on integrating laboratory results, medication information, and medical records. This acquisition aims to combine these capabilities with ChatGPT Health, potentially opening new avenues for health cognition and management.

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According to PANews, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Paul Atkins stated on the X platform that this week is significant for cryptocurrency as Congress is poised to advance 21st-century financial markets. Atkins expressed full support for Congress to clearly define the jurisdictional boundaries between the SEC and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). He emphasized that the most crucial action for investors is to bring the crypto asset market out of regulatory ambiguity. Bipartisan market structure legislation is expected to help guard against poor regulators and ensure the realization of U.S. President Donald Trump's goal of making the United States the global cryptocurrency capital. Atkins looks forward to President Trump signing the bipartisan market structure legislation into law in the coming months. He believes that clear and principled rules based on bipartisan statutory text will foster market innovation while continuing to protect investors.

Leading cryptocurrencies meandered, while stocks rallied to new highs on Monday amid key political and geopolitical developments. source: https://www.benzinga.com/crypto/cryptocurrency/26/01/49864472/bitcoin-ethereum-xrp-hold-steady-while-dogecoin-dips-analyst-sees-btc-reclaiming-100000-this-month-if-this-happens?utm_source=cryptopanic.com&utm_campaign=partner_feed&utm_medium=referral

According to BlockBeats, on January 13, a report from Glassnode highlighted that Bitcoin's implied volatility has decreased to a low expected range. This indicates that the market anticipates mild fluctuations in the upcoming quarter, suggesting a return to a low volatility state. This scenario reflects limited short-term hedging demand and typically signals that once market volatility re-emerges, prices may adjust more swiftly as positions are recalibrated based on new information. Additionally, the profit-taking volume among long-term Bitcoin holders has cooled to levels usually observed during shallow bear phases. This situation is often associated with high uncertainty and tends to occur during mid-cycle stagnation in bull markets or early stages of deeper bear markets.

Scroll's SCR token launch, like the recent Hamster Kombat airdrop, has left some recipients dissatisfied, with criticism over fairness and transparency in the allocation. SCR's price has since dropped over 20%.