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U.S. could gain massive bitcoin stash if Venezuela's $60 billion reserve rumors are true
Your day-ahead look for Jan. 5, 2026
By Omkar Godbole|Edited by Sheldon Reback
Updated Jan 5, 2026, 8:25 p.m. Published Jan 5, 2026, 12:17 p.m.
Nicolas Maduro's capture fueled speculation of a hidden Venezuelan bitcoin reserve. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images modified by CoinDesk)
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By Omkar Godbole (All times ET unless indicated otherwise)
Happy New Year, readers! Crypto's kicking off 2026 with good vibes: Bitcoin BTC$92,457.12 is buoyant near $92,700, up 1.3% in 24 hours and 5% in the first five days of the year.
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Major altcoins like XRP, SOL, BNB, and ETH have risen 1%-3% over the past 24 hours, with XRP up 2.49%, SOL up 1.27%, BNB up 0.54%, and ETH up 0.99%. The CoinDesk 20 Index (CD20) rose 1.25%, reflecting strength in the biggest, most active assets, while the CoinDesk 80 Index (CD80) shed early gains, signaling relative weakness in the broader altcoin market.
Analysts cited safe-haven demand following the U.S. action in Venezuela and exhaustion in tax-related selling as key catalysts for bitcoin's price rise.
Data from Deribit shows renewed trader demand for bullish option bets, predominantly the $100,000 strike call.
"We noticed ETF inflows on January 2nd after consecutive outflows during December and 3000x lots of Jan-end BTC calls going through on the last day of December," Laser Digital told CoinDesk in an email.
Over the weekend, the U.S. attacked Venezuela and captured President Nicolás Maduro. Since then, crypto social media has lit up with speculation that Venezuela may be controlling more than $60 billion shadow BTC reserve, possibly as large as that of bitcoin treasury company Strategy (MSTR), which holds BTC worth over $62 billion. These claims remain unverified.
If true, however, the U.S. might seize those coins and add them to its strategic BTC reserve.
"The prospect of the U.S. adding any seized BTC to its own strategic reserve reduces the likelihood of forced selling and underscores BTC's rising strategic importance as nations compete to accumulate," QCP Capital said in a market note Monday.
The other trending narrative is that President Donald Trump could soon tap into Venezuela's 300 billion barrels of oil reserves, boosting supply. This, in turn, could crash oil prices, allowing the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates more rapidly.
However, having reserves and producing them in the first place are two different things. Several analysts said Venezuelan crude from the Orinoco Belt is heavy, impure sour crude, making it difficult and expensive to extract and refine, which requires huge investments.
This means the reserves may not start flowing in the near future, limiting their impact on oil prices. In other words, the disinflationary impulse anticipated by BTC bulls may not materialize anytime soon.
In other key news, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said the network has effectively solved the blockchain scalability trilemma, balancing decentralization, security and high transaction speed, with the help of key upgrades like zkEVMs and PeerDAS.
In traditional markets, the dollar index rose for the fourth straight trading day, rising above 98.50. Futures tied to the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 traded higher. In the macroeconomy, we have a flurry of key U.S. data releases this week, starting with the ISM Manufacturing PMI later today, followed by the non-manufacturing PMI, the ADP Employment report, and nonfarm payrolls data in the days ahead. Stay alert!
Read more: For analysis of today's activity in altcoins and derivatives, see Crypto Markets Today
What to Watch
- Crypto
- Nothing scheduled.
- Macro
- Jan. 5, 10 a.m.: U.S. Dec. ISM Manufacturing PMI Est. 48.3.
- Earnings (Estimates based on FactSet data)
- Nothing scheduled.
Token Events
- Governance votes & calls
- BIM Protocol is voting on integrating a bridge to Bitcoin and Monero via Quickex to expand cross-chain interoperability. Voting ends Jan. 5.
- Unlocks
- Jan. 5: HYPE$27.17 to unlock 3.61% of its circulating supply worth $329.6 million.
- Token Launches
- Jan. 5: Lighter (LIT) to be listed on BTSE.
- Jan. 5: Renzo to conduct its third monthly REZ token burn of tokens acquired using protocol revenue.
Conferences
- Nothing scheduled.
Market Movements
- BTC is up 3.26% from 4 p.m. ET Friday at $92,963.75 (24hrs: +1.87%)
- ETH is up 1.28% at $3,168.94 (24hrs: +0.99%)
- CoinDesk 20 is up 3.67% at 2,947.34 (24hrs: +1.27%)
- Ether CESR Composite Staking Rate is down 2 bps at 3.05%
- BTC funding rate is at 0.0041% (4.4435% annualized) on Binance
- DXY is up 0.18% at 98.61
- Gold futures are up 3.06% at $4,446.50/oz
- Silver futures are up 7.53% at $75.87/oz
- Nikkei 225 closed +2.97% at 51,832.80
- Hang Seng closed unchanged at 26,347.24
- FTSE is up 0.32% at 9,983.44
- Euro Stoxx 50 is up 1.79% at 5,900.01
- DJIA closed on Friday +0.66% at 48,382.39
- S&P 500 closed up 0.19% at 6,858.47
- Nasdaq Composite closed unchanged at 23,235.63
- S&P/TSX Composite Index closed -0.37% at 31,883.40
- S&P 40 Latin America closed +0.76% at 3,157.25
- U.S. 10-year Treasury rate is down 2 bps at 4.17%
- E-mini S&P 500 futures are up 0.21% at 6,914.75
- E-mini Nasdaq-100 futures are up 0.49% at 25,510.50
- E-mini Dow Jones Industrial Average Index futures are unchanged at 48,643.00
Bitcoin Stats
- BTC Dominance: 59.37% (+0.35%)
- Ether-bitcoin ratio: 0.03418 (-0.52%)
- Hashrate (seven-day moving average): 1,053 EH/s
- Hashprice (spot): $39.46
- Total fees: 2.4 BTC / $218,657
- CME Futures Open Interest: 104,905 BTC
- BTC priced in gold: 20.8 oz.
- BTC vs gold market cap: 6.21%
Technical Analysis
BTC ended 2025 with a red candle. (TradingView)
- The chart shows BTC's yearly price swings in candlestick format.
- Ether closed 2025 lower, forming a candle with a long upper wick signaling bulls' failure to hold gains above $100K, mirroring 2024's pattern.
- These back-to-back bull failures reveal weakening demand, with sellers regaining control to drive a deeper price drop.
Crypto Equities
- Coinbase Global (COIN): closed on Friday at $236.53 (+4.59%), +4.15% at $246.35 in pre-market
- Circle (CRCL): closed at $83.47 (+5.26%), +2.46% at $85.52
- Galaxy Digital (GLXY): closed at $24.75 (+10.69%), +2.71% at $25.42
- Bullish (BLSH): closed at $39.26 (+3.67%), +1.88% at $40
- MARA Holdings (MARA): closed at $9.91 (+10.36%), +3.43%at $10.25
- Riot Platforms (RIOT): closed at $14.16 (+11.76%), +2.82% at $14.56
- Core Scientific (CORZ): closed at $15.99 (+9.82%), +1.13% at $16.17
- CleanSpark (CLSK): closed at $11.55 (+14.13%), +3.9% at $12
- CoinShares Valkyrie Bitcoin Miners ETF (WGMI): closed at $42.05 (+9.88%), +2.93% at $43.28
- Exodus Movement (EXOD): closed at $15.20 (+2.77%), unchanged in pre-market
Crypto Treasury Companies
- Strategy (MSTR): closed at $157.16 (+3.43%), +3.94% at $163.35
- Semler Scientific (SMLR): closed at $17.78 (+16.29%), +4.89% at $18.65
- SharpLink Gaming (SBET): closed at $9.69 (+8.39%), +2.68% at $9.95
- Upexi (UPXI): closed at $1.91 (+13.69%), +5.24% at $2.01
- Lite Strategy (LITS): closed at $1.54 (+16.67%), +6.49% at $1.64
ETF Flows
Spot BTC ETFs
- Daily net flows: $471.3 million
- Cumulative net flows: $57.07 billion
- Total BTC holdings ~1.3 million
Spot ETH ETFs
- Daily net flows: $174.5 million
- Cumulative net flows: $12.52 billion
- Total ETH holdings ~6.07 million
Source: Farside Investors
While You Were Sleeping
- Trump suggests U.S. could take action against more countries (The New York Times): The president singled out Colombia over drug trafficking, warned Mexico and Iran over security and unrest and again voiced his desire for the U.S. to take over Greenland.
- Bitcoin traders kick off 2026 with bets on price rally above $100,000 (CoinDesk): Demand for January $100,000 call options spiked after December contracts expired, with open interest rising sharply over 24 hours as traders rebuilt upside exposure early in 2026.
- Bitcoin eyes longest daily winning streak in 3 months (CoinDesk): Improving sentiment after year-end tax selling, alongside fresh ETF inflows and signs of defensive positioning, has led analysts to turn more constructive on the near-term outlook.
- PwC 'leans in' to crypto as Trump and lawmakers embrace sector (Financial Times): Regulatory clarity on stablecoins and a friendlier stance from U.S. agencies have pushed the accounting giant to expand auditing, consulting and tax services tied to digital assets.
- Oil prices fall as U.S. capture of Venezuela’s Maduro raises questions over supply (The Wall Street Journal): Prices slipped as traders assessed whether U.S. control could eventually lift Venezuelan output and exports, even as the embargo and degraded infrastructure keep the near-term outlook uncertain.
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