Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said on X that White House negotiations over a U.S. crypto market structure bill remain "super constructive" and that officials asked the exchange to explore a deal with banks. Earlier this week, journalist Eleanor Terrett reported the administration could pull support after Coinbase paused talks, a claim Armstrong disputed while emphasizing work on ideas for community banks.

According to Immunefi CEO Mitchell Amador, nearly 80% of crypto projects that suffer a major hack never fully recover, largely due to operational paralysis and lost trust during incident response. Chainalysis data shows 2025 crypto hack losses hit $3.4 billion, with the $1.4 billion Bybit breach helping drive 69% of losses by early December.

GSPlatformCo Inc., a digital payments operator, says attackers accessed a customer-data system in April of last year. The company discovered the intrusion in November and filed notices with regulators, including Maine's Attorney General, in January. Breach disclosures state 537,877 U.S. individuals were affected, with exposure limited to basic personal details and account/transaction metadata.

On 18 January 2026, Moldova's finance leadership said the country is preparing its first nationwide crypto framework, targeting completion by the end of 2026. The draft will be modeled on the EU's MiCA, aiming to clarify rules for issuance, trading, and service providers while enhancing investor protection and market oversight.

On January 17, 2026, an analysis explained why public blockchains like Bitcoin and Ethereum deliver much lower throughput in practice than their theoretical benchmarks suggest. Because networks must balance security, decentralization, and scalability, real-world performance is constrained by consensus design, propagation delays, mempool congestion, and conservative block size choices, though users can partially mitigate these limits with Layer-2 solutions and fee strategies.

On 17 January 2026, the White House began weighing whether to continue supporting the Digital Asset Market Structure Framework after relations with Coinbase deteriorated. The reassessment follows Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong rejecting the draft and a mid-January Senate Banking Committee markup being paused, leaving the bill’s trajectory and broader US crypto regulatory plans uncertain.

DTCC’s Global Head Nadine Chakar said at a Thursday virtual forum the firm will prioritize interoperability across blockchains over closed ecosystems for tokenized securities. The company is working with Canton Network and plans support for an Ethereum-compatible “AppChain.” Separately, on January 7, 2026, the SEC approved DTCC’s expanded ACS Triparty Service under FICC following a September 2025 filing.

On January 17, 2026, Democratic members of the Financial Services Committee sent a letter to SEC Chair Paul Atkins questioning the agency’s retreat from crypto enforcement. The letter cites dropped actions involving Ripple, Binance, Coinbase and Kraken, notes favorable 2024 court rulings, and flags the May 2025 dismissal of the Binance case.