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Stay in the loop with all the key market moves, emerging trends, and exciting developments 📈 in the crypto space from the past week.

Cryptocurrency markets continued their quiet consolidation during the second trading week of 2026, nudging a near 3% increase in the absence of significant macroeconomic developments and economic releases.

Still, investors welcomed multiple bullish signs of corporate cryptocurrency adoption, including the new $40,000 Ether price target for 2030 set by multinational investment bank Standard Chartered.

Meanwhile, public companies are betting big on Ether staking 🔐, including the largest corporate ETH holder, BitMine Immersion Technologies, which surpassed $4.17 billion in staked Ether during the past week.

Lastly, Michael Saylor’s strategy made its biggest investment since July 2025, buying over $1.25 billion worth of Bitcoin around the $90,000 psychological mark, inspiring hopes for an incoming price recovery to above $100,000.

In this week’s CoinStats Scoop, you’ll find:

📊 Crypto Market Analysis And The Most Important News In Web3

💰 Standard Chartered Sets $40,000 ETH Price Target For 2030

🏦 Strategy Buys $1.25 Billion Bitcoin In Biggest Investment In 6 Months

🔐 BitMine Surpasses $4.17 Billion In Staked Ether, As Corporations Follow Suit

⚖️ Clarity Act Unlikely To Pass In Early 2026: Cardano Founder

🔮 Analysis And Key Events That Will Shape The Crypto Market Next Week

Standard Chartered Sets $40,000 ETH Price Target For 2030 💰

Multinational investment bank Standard Chartered has set a bullish Ether price target 🚀 for the next 4 years, while predicting some short-term lack of demand for the leading digital assets.

Standard Chartered predicted that Ether will break $40,000 before the end of 2030 and increased its 2029 price target to $30,000, in a research note from Jan. 12.

However, the bank has lowered its 2026 and 2028 price forecasts to $7,500 📉 and $22,000, respectively.

While long-term still bullish, the downgrade was attributed to Bitcoin’s recent price weakness, wrote Standard Chartered’s global head of crypto research, Geoffrey Kendrick, in the research note:

“While we lower our ETH-USD forecasts for 2026-28, we raise our 2029 forecast to USD 30,000 and introduce a new USD 40,000 forecast for end-2030.”

Strategy Buys $1.25 Billion Bitcoin In Biggest Investment In 6 Months 🏦

Strategy, the world’s largest corporate Bitcoin holder 🐋, made its largest Bitcoin purchase in over 6 months, signaling a potential recovery from the $90,000 psychological line.

Strategy bought $1.25 billion worth of Bitcoin at an average price of $91,519 per BTC, marking the largest purchase from the treasury firm since July 2025.

This brings Strategy’s total holdings to 687,410 Bitcoin 📊 acquired for $51.8 billion at an aggregate average purchasing price of $75,353, Michael Saylor’s company announced on Jan. 12.

For Bitcoin, the $1.25 billion acquisition signals long-term confidence and continued institutional demand despite temporary price declines.

The growing corporate holdings from Strategy and other treasury firms are reducing the risk of a deeper bear market retracement 🔄, as most treasury companies have long-term outlooks, as opposed to panic selling on market downturns.

BitMine Surpasses $4.17 Billion In Staked Ether, As Corporations Follow Suit 🔐

BitMine Immersion Technologies continues staking its Ether holdings, inspiring other public companies to seek yield-generation opportunities from staking digital assets.

BitMine, the world’s largest corporate Ether holder, surpassed $4.17 billion in staked Ether after staking another $478 million worth of ETH on Jan. 13, according to blockchain data platform Lookonchain.

In parallel, BitMine continued buying Ether, surpassing 4.16 million Ether tokens worth over $13 billion, acquired at an aggregate average cost of $3,119 per ETH, the company announced on Jan. 12.

The continued accumulation is a strong bullish signal 📈 for Ether’s price action for the rest of 2026, considering that BitMine holds another $1 billion in cash for future ETH investments.

Other crypto treasury firms are running even more aggressive staking strategies 🔥, including the second-largest Ether holding company, SharpLink Gaming.

SharpLink pledged to stake 100% of its ETH holdings and has surpassed 868,840 in total Ether staked, or a total of $2.7 billion.

SharpLink already generated over $33 million in shareholder value from its staking activities, sending a strong signal to institutions seeking passive yield through ETH.

Clarity Act Unlikely To Pass In Early 2026: Cardano Founder ⚖️

Cryptocurrency investors are waiting with bated breath ⏳ for the passage of the US Digital Market Clarity (CLARITY) Act, but one of the leading blockchain founders is warning of regulatory delays impacting its timeline.

The CLARITY Act seeks to clarify the jurisdiction of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in relation to crypto regulations, as one of the most important digital assets bills introduced under the Trump administration.

However, Hoskinson warned that the key bill is unlikely to get signed into law during the first quarter of 2026.

🗣️ “I don’t think the CLARITY Act is going to pass this quarter,” said Hoskinson during an interview on Jan. 11.

“If it doesn’t pass this quarter, I think Sacks should resign ❌,” said Hoskinson, pointing to Trump’s appointed crypto czar for “failing” to introduce meaningful crypto legislation since accepting the role in the White House.

Meanwhile, the Senate Agriculture and Banking Committees are expected to vote on the CLARITY Act later this week, on Jan. 15.

While the timeline for passing the CLARITY Act is still unclear, some of the leading analysts have been calling it a potential crypto market catalyst, as it would fundamentally prevent the SEC from its previous enforcement-heavy operations seen under the Biden administration.

Market Overview: Bitcoin Long-Term Holders Slow Profit-Taking, Privacy Coins Outperform Market As Monero Hits $716 📊

The top cryptocurrencies saw another week of sideways action, amid a lack of significant economic releases or macroeconomic developments.

Bitcoin’s price rose by 3.6%, while the total crypto market capitalization surged by 3.4%, according to CoinStats data ⚡.

In an early sign of a wider market recovery, Bitcoin remained above the key $90,000 psychological threshold for most of the week, topping $95,000 on Jan. 14.

Privacy tokens outperformed the cryptocurrency market this week, as the Monero token surged to a new all-time high of $716 on Jan. 14, after an 56% weekly rally.

Looking at the bigger picture, the profit-taking from Bitcoin long-term hodlers saw a significant cooling to “shallow bear phases,” wrote analytics platform Glassnode:

🗣️ “Such conditions are often associated with heightened uncertainty and tend to emerge during mid-bull market pauses or the early stages of deeper bear markets.”

Some of the leading Bitcoin analysts have blamed profit-taking from the long-term holder cohort 📉 as the reason for Bitcoin’s recent correction, particularly its reversal from the $125,000 all-time high.

Meanwhile, on-chain indicators are suggesting that investors are holding onto their Bitcoin, awaiting progress related to the US CLARITY Act and other regulatory developments, wrote analytics platform CryptoQuant:

🗣️ “Together, these indicators point to a market that is not defensive, but patient. Rather than rotating positions, investors appear to be holding Bitcoin while waiting for regulatory clarity.”

In the week’s biggest fundamental development, prosecutors opened a criminal investigation into Powell over his testimony related to the FED building’s $2.5 billion renovation.

The political uncertainty arising from the investigation may inspire more distrust in the dollar 💵, leading investors to seek out the only non-sovereign safe-haven asset for the incoming turmoil, Bitcoin.

Tweets & Memes

Morgan Stanley’s last 3 crypto ETF filings show “remarkable” institutional adoption levels 📈, says Matt Hougan.

The tokenization market saw a 10x rise 🚀, and Chainlink is powering most of the infrastructure.

Metamask, Filecoin, and Starknet emerged as the leading coins by developer activity 👨‍💻.

Inverse Cramer portfolio notches another win 🏆 while Nancy Pelosi’s portfolio slips behind…

The Top G is back to shilling cryptocurrency projects … Bottom or top indicator ❓

Are we at the cusp of a brand-new market environment 🌐 for safe-haven assets?

Retail needs more predictive products 📊, not real homes …

Crypto legislation has come a long way 📜 during the past decade, according to Coinbase’s chief legal officer.

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