President Trump announced that interim Venezuelan authorities will turn over 30-50 million barrels of oil to the U.S. to be sold at market price with proceeds controlled by Trump, prompting U.S. crude futures to fall 1.3% to $56.39 per barrel, while Trump plans to meet with Chevron, ConocoPhillips, and Exxon Mobil on Friday to discuss billion-dollar investments in Venezuela's oil sector.
Chevron Corp and private equity group Quantum Energy Partners will join forces to buy the international assets of sanctioned Russian oil company Lukoil PJSC, according to the Financial Times.
China imposed controls on exports to Japan with any military use, intensifying a dispute between Asia's top economies over remarks Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi made last year on Taiwan.
U.S. stocks closed at new records on January 6, with the S&P 500 finishing up 0.6% to a closing high, as well as the Nasdaq 100 (+0.9%) and Russell 2000 (+1.4%), driven by investor optimism over AI and expectations of easier monetary policy from the Federal Reserve.
US Spot ETF Flows
Asset
Daily Inflow
Daily Change
Weekly Inflow
Total Assets
Daily Volume
BTC ETFs
$-243.2M
-134.9%
$454.0M
$120.9B
$4.3B
ETH ETFs
$114.7M
-31.8%
$282.9M
$20.1B
$1.7B
SOL ETFs
$9.2M
-43.2%
$25.5M
$1.1B
$57.2M
US BTC Spot ETF Flows
US ETH Spot ETF Flows
US SOL Spot ETF Flows
Prediction Markets
Open Interest
Spot Volume
Crypto Liquidations Summary
Liquidation Type
Value
% of Total
24h Change
Total Liquidations
$418.29M
-
$+30.81M (+7.95%)
Shorts
$142.89M
34.2%
$-177.68M (-55.43%)
Longs
$275.39M
65.8%
$+208.50M (+311.67%)
BTC
$144.20M
34.5%
$-37.13M (-20.47%)
ETH
$97.79M
23.4%
$+24.81M (+34.00%)
In the first week of 2026, bitcoin institutions bought more bitcoin than miners added according to data from quantitative Bitcoin and digital asset fund Capriole Investments, with institutional buys beating mined supply by almost 76%.
BitMEX rolls out 24/7 equity perpetual contracts using crypto as collateral for US stocks and indexes exposure.
Morgan Stanley filed with the SEC to launch two cryptocurrency ETFs—one tracking Bitcoin and one tracking Solana—as passive investment vehicles, marking Wall Street's continued expansion into regulated digital-asset products.
Ethereum developers raised the blob limit for a second time in recent weeks to increase rollup transaction batching, making them cheaper.
