Bybit has secured an active licence from Dubai’s VARA to offer spot trading to institutional, qualified and retail investors after years of non-operational approvals. The exchange plans to seek further approval for derivatives trading and has also applied for a crypto licence in Brazil.

Italian police have dismantled an alleged mafia-linked money laundering network accused of moving €68 million out of the country through a Milan-based car rental business, with cryptocurrency exchanges and shell companies reportedly helping conceal the funds’ origins.

Malaysia and Thailand are joining Singapore’s efforts to streamline cross-border payments through stablecoins and tokenized bank deposits, expanding regional cooperation on blockchain-based financial infrastructure.

1Password launched a platform that lets users approve AI agents from OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta to log into their accounts without exposing their passwords. The launch comes as US banks detect AI-driven activity in customer accounts and struggle to determine whether users authorised it.

HSBC has launched its Hong Kong dollar-backed stablecoin, RedCoin, for more than 3.3 million PayMe users, supporting transfers between individuals and payments at over 100,000 merchants. The bank plans to add RedCoin to its mobile banking app by the end of 2026 and allow customers to invest in tokenised money-market funds, as Hong Kong expands its regulated stablecoin market.

Major US banks, including Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, Bank of America and Citi, are tightening restrictions on third-party AI agents that access customer accounts using their login credentials, amid concerns that some agents may act beyond users’ instructions.

Andreessen Horowitz renamed its crypto fund a16z Crypto to a16z Frontier, expanding its focus to AI, robotics and other emerging technologies while continuing to invest in crypto. The fund has raised nearly $10 billion across five funds, including $2.2 billion in its latest fund announced in May 2026.

More than 100,000 investors affected by Zhimin Qian's multibillion-dollar investment fraud are still waiting for clarity over whether they can recover their losses, as a legal dispute in the UK complicates the fate of 61,896 Bitcoin worth approximately $5.1 billion.

A Circle shareholder has sued Donald Trump, his family's crypto firm and Steve Witkoff over alleged constitutional violations involving more than $2 billion in UAE-linked deals. Trump’s team and World Liberty Financial have rejected the allegations.

바이낸스가 공식 홈페이지를 통해 1월 26일 12시(한국시간) COMBO/BNB, CRV/ETH, IOST/ETH, NEO/ETH, QKC/ETH, QUICK/TUSD, RUN/UR, WOO/BNB 등 8개 현물 거래 페어를 상장폐지한다고 공지했다.

According to the official announcement, Binance will remove the following spot trading pairs and cease trading: January 26, 11:00 (East Eight District time): COMBO/BNB, CRV/ETH, IOST/ETH, NEO/ETH, QKC/ETH, QUICK/TUSD, RUNE/EUR, WOO/BNB.

According to Foresight News, Web3 gaming layer 2 network and full-stack solution COMBO has launched its mainnet. COMBO opened its testnet in April this year and later announced an $80 million ecological fund in June.

According to official news, Web3 game Layer2 COMBO announced the official launch of the mainnet to meet the needs of high-performance, low-cost game development and build a convenient Web3 game development, deployment and operation ecosystem for developers. Currently, 12 infrastructure projects have landed on the COMBO main network, including NodeReal, MetaMask, Polyhedra Network, Particle Network, QuestN, Math Wallet, Coin98 Super Wallet, Footprint, Biconomy, HavenMarket, HunterDex, and Script Network. At the same time, 12 game projects - Tap Fantasy, SecondLive, Zypher Games, Arena of Faith, Legend Games, Dark Forest, MetaLine, DystoWorld, Climbers, Apes Planet, Forge Heroes, SailWars - have also started mainnet deployment, and the COMBO ecosystem will start from technology Provide full-stack solutions in terms of funding, community, marketing, liquidity, expert consultants, etc. According to previous news, during the COMBO test network, the number of independent on-chain users exceeded 1.81 million, the daily active users of independent wallets (UAW) exceeded 80,000, the TPS reached 5,000, and the gas fee was 0.001 Gwei. In terms of funding, developers can obtain support in a variety of ways, including an $80 million ecological fund, $1 million in deployment support, IDO, and transaction income returns.