🧠 Jan 2026 in Crypto:
$BTC Flows, Expanding Rails, and Nonstop Shipping
January closed with mixed signals across crypto markets - soft sentiment and ETF outflows on one side, but accelerating institutional access and product innovation on the other. Here’s what stood out 👇
📉 Market sentiment
The Fear & Greed Index finished January at 26 (Fear) after peaking at 54 earlier in the month. ETF flows reflected that shift:
Spot Bitcoin ETFs: -$1.605B net outflow
Spot Ethereum ETFs: -$343M net outflow
Strong inflows early in the month flipped into heavy late-month selling pressure - especially on Jan. 29–30.
🏛 Institutional momentum. Despite softer flows, structural adoption kept building:
NYSE advancing 24/7 trading & tokenized securities plans
Nasdaq & CME expanding crypto index products
South Korea reopening corporate crypto access
UK retail investors gaining access to yield-bearing BTC &
$ETH ETPs
💵 Stablecoins strengthened their role as on-chain financial infrastructure:
State-backed issuance rollout
24/7 USDC brokerage funding
Payment integrations via major partnerships
T-bill-backed and gold-linked stablecoin launches
Stablecoins are increasingly becoming the connective tissue between TradFi and DeFi.
February now becomes the test: will flows return to match the expanding fundamentals?
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