Bitcoin in a few weeks With prices largely capped between $85,000 and $95,000, the cryptocurrency market could see a reason to emerge from the downturn on Wednesday when the Federal Open Market Committee sets U.S. interest rates.
May, that is. Won’t. According to CME Group’s Fedwatch tool, more than 97% of people agree that the Fed will keep interest rates steady at 3.50%-3.75%. As always, what is said in the post-decision press conference may have more impact than the decision itself.
The U.S. earnings reporting season is picking up. While no major cryptocurrency companies are scheduled to release reports, investors may be paying attention to electric car maker Tesla (TSLA) and what it has to say about its Bitcoin reserves. According to BitcoinTreasuries.net, the company owns more than 11,500 Bitcoins, ranking it as the 13th largest corporate holder.
Bybit, rated the second largest cryptocurrency exchange by CoinGecko, may also be in the news. CEO Zhou Ben will unveil the company’s 2026 road map on Thursday. About a year ago, Bybit was targeted by North Korean hackers, who stole approximately $1.4 billion worth of ether and stake ether.
What to see
- cryptocurrency
- January 28, 1 pm: Hedera Network will undergo a mainnet upgrade, which is expected to take approximately 40 minutes to complete.
- January 29, 3 a.m.: Bybit CEO Ben Zhou announced the exchange’s 2026 roadmap in a keynote speech titled “Building a New Financial Era.”
- Macro
- January 26, 8:30 a.m.: U.S. durable goods orders in November (previous value -2.2%)
- January 26, 10:30 am: Dallas Fed Manufacturing Index for January (previous value -10.9)
- January 27: Weekly changes in U.S. ADP employment (previous value 8K)
- January 27: S&P/Case-Shiller house prices in the United States in November year-on-year (previous value 1.3%); month-on-month (previous value -0.3%)
- January 27, 6:50 pm: Minutes of the Bank of Japan’s monetary policy meeting
- January 27: Australia’s December inflation rate year-on-year (previous value 3.4%); month-on-month (previous value 0.0%)
- January 28, 9:45 am: Bank of Canada interest rate decision (previous value 2.25%)
- January 28, 2:00 pm: Federal Reserve interest rate decision is expected to be 3.75% (previous value 3.75%)
- January 28, 2:30 pm: Federal Reserve monetary policy press conference
- January 29, 12:00 am: Japan’s consumer confidence index in January (previous value 37.2)
- January 29, 8:30 a.m.: U.S. trade balance in November (previous value $331.4B) \
- January 29, 8:30 a.m.: U.S. initial jobless claims for the week ending January 24 (previous value: 200,000)
- January 29, 6:30 pm: Japan’s unemployment rate in December (previous value 2.6%)
- 5 a.m. on January 30: Express report on the European Economic Area’s fourth-quarter GDP growth year-on-year (previous value: 1.4%) and quarter-on-quarter report (previous value: 0.3%)
- January 30, 8:30 am: US December PPI increased year-on-year (previous value 3%), core PPI increased year-on-year (previous value 3%)
- income (Estimate based on FactSet data)
- January 28: Tesla (TSLA), post-market, $8.22
Token event
- Governance votes and calls
- January 28th: Gala DeFi will host the X Spaces “Gala Meme Hour” conference
- January 29: Helium hosts a Deployer Roundtable community call.
- January 29th: Alchemy Pay will host a community Ask Me Anything (AMA) session on Discord.
- January 30: Conflux Network will host its quarterly community call.
- Maple Finance is voting on expanding its 25% protocol revenue allocation to the Syrup Strategic Fund in the first half of 2026. Voting ends on January 26th.
- Lido is voting to implement a dynamic DVT incentive model that adjusts reward distribution based on operating costs, as well as reforming the reward sharing committee to support Lido V3 features such as stVaults. Voting ends on January 26th.
- Floki is voting on the final rankings of the FlokiUltras3 Guerrilla Marketing Competition, inviting the community to select the top 20 finalists based on creativity and impact. Voting ends on January 28th.
- CoW DAO is voting to renew team funding. This includes a base distribution of 5% over four years and performance incentives of up to 10% tied to revenue milestones. Voting ends on January 28th.
- The Beefy DAO is voting on whether to reallocate protocol revenue into a new “Protocol Coverage Fund” to fund Nexus Mutual coverage to benefit Beefy users. Voting ends on January 29th.
- Sushi is voting to migrate approximately $57 million in legacy liquidity to positions deployed on the V3 protocol. Voting ends on January 29th.
- The GMX DAO is voting on GMX Labs’ two-year funding framework, establishing an annual operating budget of $7 million to $9 million from V2 protocol fees. Voting ends on January 30th.
- Unlock
- January 26: Unlocking 10.5% of its circulating supply, worth $508.2 million.
- January 28: Unlocking 17.68% of its circulating supply, worth $11.85 million.
- January 28: Unlocks 1.7% of its circulating supply, worth $10.49 million.
- January 30: Unlocking 3.68% of its circulating supply, worth $11.22 million.
- Token issuance
- January 27: Theo Network is expected to make an announcement that may be related to the launch of thGOLD.
- January 28: SuperRare launches VORGIANS profile picture collection.