On Tuesday, the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization released a Digital Asset Custody Framework that introduces a four-tier structure for crypto custodians. The rules cap internal custody at 20% of client crypto holdings and allow top-tier external custodians to hold up to 100% of client assets, aiming to address risks highlighted by past failures such as QuadrigaCX.

Tria’s native $TRIA token has officially launched across major centralized and decentralized exchanges, accompanied by a multi-season community airdrop. With 41.04% of the total supply dedicated to the community, learn how to verify your eligibility, navigate the XP-based reward system, and claim your TRIA tokens.

In an interview with Ecoinimist, Akash Network CEO Greg Osuri said decentralized AI's next step is widening access to compute rather than chasing new virtualization. He emphasized virtual machines to match how ML practitioners work and described blockchain as a coordination layer for identity, access, and payments. Akash has discussed retiring its Cosmos app chain and is evaluating Solana.

Coin Metrics reported that stablecoin dust activity on Ethereum rose 2–3x after the Fusaka upgrade in December, based on an analysis spanning November 2025 through January 2026. Across 227 million USDC and USDT balance updates, 43% were under $1 and 38% were under a penny, while dusting was estimated to be 11% of transactions and 26% of active addresses on an average day.

On Monday, Michael Burry published a Substack note warning that Bitcoin’s slide is spilling into gold and silver, estimating up to $1 billion in metals was sold at January’s end. He said there is "no organic use case reason" for a halt and cautioned a move toward $50,000. On Tuesday, BTC briefly traded below $73,000.

At the Ondo Summit in New York on Tuesday, WisdomTree CEO Jonathan Steinberg said the firm's crypto and tokenization initiatives have shifted from experimentation to a central business focus as the unit approaches profitability. He noted that tokenized assets under management have climbed from about $30 million to roughly $770 million over the past year, with expansion beyond Ethereum into networks such as Solana and wider distribution via the WisdomTree Connect platform.

On a Tuesday post on X, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said his earlier view of layer-2 networks as the main path for scaling “no longer makes sense,” citing their limited decentralization and growing base-layer capacity. He now favors expanding Ethereum’s mainnet through gas-limit increases and native rollups, while suggesting L2s focus on specialized use cases instead of serving as the core scaling engine. Developers are already discussing raising the gas limit from 60 million to 80 million, and researcher Justin Drake has outlined a roadmap targeting 10,000 transactions per second on Ethereum over the next decade.

Based on XRP USD hourly data from Kraken, the price slid below $1.5320 and $1.5250 before tagging $1.50, then attempted a rebound above $1.550. It now trades under $1.6220 and the 100-hour Simple Moving Average, with resistance at $1.6250 and $1.650 and supports at $1.550 and $1.5250.