January 2026

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. The abrupt U-turn in federal energy notwithstanding, the demand for more solar power in the US persists. After all, money talks. Solar is the fastest most…

US senators are preparing to vote on a long-awaited crypto market structure bill that would spell out who regulates what in crypto. After years of piecemeal enforcement actions and uncertainty, Congress is moving toward a unified federal…

President Donald Trump wants the Federal Reserve to slash rates, even to zero. That’s the president wish. Last year, he even made it clear that Jerome Powell was not his ideal chair. Trump wants someone to do as the executive wishes.…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. One of the big automotive stories out of CES 2026 from the last week was Ford making an announcement about eyes-free driving coming to its models — affordable…

Dubai just drew a hard line on crypto privacy. On January 12, the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) banned privacy tokens and rewrote its crypto approval process. Privacy-focused coins like Monero (XMR) .cwp-coin-chart svg path {…

On Pump.fun and similar platforms, meme coins are continuously churned as if someone is firing a machine gun. Even now, as you read this, there is a funny meme coin being deployed, not to solve a problem but for entertainment. For this…

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. One of the electric vehicle stories of the past couple of years has been the EV price war in China. Chinese EV makers kept lowering prices, lowering prices,…

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has warned that today’s decentralized stablecoins still fail in ways most users don’t expect and that there is an overreliance on USD-pegged digital assets. In an X reply to MetaLeX founder @lex_node…

South Korea has upended nearly a decade of crypto policy by allowing listed companies and professional investors to place part of their balance sheets into digital assets. The shift stands in contrast to tightening rules in Japan and Hong…

Monero surged to a fresh all-time high above the $590 mark just as Zcash’s momentum faded/ Monero (XMR) has ripped higher to a new record, trading above $567 on Sunday and pushing towards roughly $592.This is its highest level recorded. At…