At the start of 2026, Galaxy Head of Research Alex Thorn highlighted a death cross on the ETH/BTC daily chart as the 50-day moving average fell below the 200-day moving average. While the signal went largely unnoticed amid early-year optimism, Ethereum has since dropped harder than Bitcoin, with sharper price declines and larger 24-hour liquidations as the market sell-off accelerates.

On January 20, 2026, Solana’s staking ratio reached 70%, an all-time high, with about $60 billion of SOL now locked to secure the network. Digital asset funds saw $2.17 billion in net inflows last week, including $45.5 million into Solana products. At press time, SOL traded near $129, down 3.45% daily and 10% weekly.

Monero has fallen 26% from its recent all-time high of $798 reached on Jan. 14, following a multi-month rally that started in September and a five-day winning streak from Jan. 10 to Jan. 14. Despite a subsequent pullback to $590, with XMR still up 19% weekly, the price remains above the daily 50- and 200-day moving averages, and technical indicators imply that the broader uptrend could still be intact.

A total of 803.78 million XRP is locked across ETFs from major issuers, alongside a +22.63M XRP net inflow this week. Price action marked a Jan. 12 low at $2.03, followed by a test of the $2 support and resistance seen near $2.56 amid an hourly death cross.

Cardano has recorded a 10,654.62% spike in futures trading volume on BitMEX to $40.04 million, while its open interest hovers around $792.57 million. CME Group plans to launch ADA and Micro ADA futures contracts on Feb. 9, pending regulatory review. ADA is trading near $0.395, with key resistance seen at $0.4378 and $0.50, and support levels around $0.38, $0.33 and $0.27.

Dogecoin's hourly chart has printed a death cross as the 50-period moving average fell below the 200-period one, while higher time frames still show a bullish inverse head-and-shoulders pattern. DOGE trades around $0.1377 after a sharp move at $0.151 on Jan. 13, struggling to hold gains from an early 2025 surge amid cooling risk appetite and a possible range-bound phase.

Shiba Inu completed another hourly death cross in 2026 as the 50-hour MA slipped under the 200-hour MA. The token climbed to $0.00001017 in the first days of 2026, then fell six of seven days from Jan. 6–12, touched $0.00000815, and was last up 0.82% at $0.00000853.

On January 17, 2026, former Ripple CTO David Schwartz cautioned that copy trading can mislead followers by elevating luck as skill. He warned that choosing leaders based on past wins makes it hard to avoid luck-driven records and urged caution when assessing track records.

The XRP Ledger Permissioned Domains amendment has reportedly gained 79.41% validator backing and is just 0.59% below the 80% threshold needed to start its activation timer. Once it holds above 80% support for two weeks, the feature could enable a permissioned DEX and institutional payment flows, with community events such as XRP Community Day set for February 11 and 12.