1. Popular cryptocurrencies on CEXs
Top 10 CEX trading volumes and their 24-hour price changes:
- BTC: -0.14%
- ETH: -0.74%
- SOL: -0.16%
- XRP: +2.55%
- BNB: +1.71%
- DOGE: +1.95%
- SUI: -2.67%
- ADA: +2.41%
- TRX: -1.33%
- LTC: 2.50%
24-hour gainers list (data source: OKX):
- RESOLV: +52.18%
- BERA: +13.83%
- PHA: +12.82%
- NIGHT: +12.33%
- MANA: +11.87%
- DOOD: +11.58%
- RPL: +10.92%
- ZKJ: +10.57%
- RIO: +10.18%
- SSV: +9.35%
2. Popular on-chain memes (data source: GMGN ):
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- COM;
- GAS.
Headlines
Genius: Season 1 will end on April 12th, and airdrop quotas will increase by 50%.
Genius announced on the X platform that Season 1 will end on April 12th, and the GENIUS token will be created before April 12th, 2026. The Genius team has decided to increase the airdrop allocation by 50%, increasing the value of each point by 50%. Until April 12th, 10 million GP points will be distributed weekly, with GP points retroactively allocated based on spot trading volume. Furthermore, all referral-based GP points have been slashed and redeemed, and the referrer will receive 35% of the transaction fees paid by the referred user.
The ETHGas Foundation announced that the GWEI airdrop snapshot has been completed, with the snapshot time being 08:00 on January 19, 2026. The announcement indicates that GWEI airdrop eligibility will be available from 21:00 on January 20th, and the community airdrop will take place from 21:00 on January 21st. Airdrop eligibility will be determined based on a user's historical gas consumption on the Ethereum mainnet, as well as their social and community engagement records in the Gasless Future project.
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) plans to launch a tokenized securities trading and on-chain settlement platform, aiming to support 24/7 trading of US stocks and ETFs, fractional share trading, stablecoin-based fund settlement, and instant delivery, integrating with the NYSE's existing matching engine and blockchain settlement system. According to the plan, tokenized stocks will have the same dividends and governance rights as traditional securities. NYSE's parent company, ICE, is also collaborating with banks such as BNY Mellon and Citibank to explore tokenized deposit and clearing infrastructure to support cross-time zone, 24/7 fund and margin management.
Finnish President: I don't believe the United States will militarily control Greenland.
Finnish President Stubb: I don’t believe the United States will take military control of Greenland.
Industry News
According to a technical expert familiar with the digital yuan, both the account-based smart contracts and public blockchain smart contracts are essentially "conditionally triggered, automatically executed code." The difference lies in whether they possess full Turing completeness. The account-based smart contracts of the digital yuan are restricted Turing complete, with their programming strictly limited to template scripts permitted by the central bank. They only support preset, simple condition-triggered functions. This design is primarily for security and risk control considerations. The development of digital yuan smart contracts supports multiple programming languages, including fully Turing complete languages such as Ethereum's Solidity. The core challenge lies in designing a standard access and auditing mechanism acceptable to the financial system.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is pushing forward a plan to connect the central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) of BRICS countries, aiming to simplify cross-border trade and travel while reducing the dominance of the US dollar. The RBI has reportedly urged the inclusion of a proposal to establish a CBDC interconnection system on the agenda of the BRICS summit hosted by India in 2026. This would be the first formal attempt by BRICS members, including Brazil, Russia, India, South Africa, and newer members such as the UAE, Iran, and Indonesia, to establish a CBDC link.
The Korea Customs Service Seoul Headquarters recently announced that it has transferred a case involving large-scale illegal foreign exchange transactions using virtual assets to the prosecution. The investigation revealed that the group involved illegally exchanged approximately 148.9 billion won over the past four years using virtual asset accounts both domestically and internationally, and collected fees from these transactions, thus violating the Foreign Exchange Transactions Act.
Project News
PancakeSwap has proposed reducing the maximum CAKE supply to 400 million.
PancakeSwap announced on its X platform that the proposal to reduce the maximum supply of CAKE has been approved, and the maximum supply of CAKE has been adjusted to 400 million pieces.
Magic Eden announced on the X platform that starting February 1st, 15% of its total revenue will flow directly into the ME token ecosystem. This revenue will be distributed equally, with 50% used for ME token buybacks and the other 50% distributed to ME token stakers in USDC based on their staking weight.
STBL: The community rewards program run through Kaito has been cancelled.
Stablecoin protocol STBL announced on the X platform that its ongoing community rewards program (running through Kaito), which had been suspended, has now been cancelled due to recent changes affecting rewarded community activities. Discussions are currently underway with the Kaito team, and updates will be shared as soon as they become clearer.
Investment and Financing
AKEDO raises $5 million in seed funding, led by Karatage.
AKEDO announced the completion of a $5 million seed funding round to accelerate the development of its AI-native content creation engine and Launchpad. The round was led by Karatage, with participation from Sfermion, Collab+Currency, MARBLEX, Seed Club, The Open Platform, TON Ventures, Gagra Ventures, Kenetic Capital, and Metalabs Ventures, among others.
Characters * Voices
Wintermute stated in an article on the X platform that the traditional four-year Bitcoin cycle is becoming obsolete. Market performance is no longer determined by a self-fulfilling time narrative, but rather by the flow of liquidity and the concentration of investor attention.
Wintermute's over-the-counter (OTC) flow data shows that the transmission of crypto-native wealth weakened in 2025. ETFs and DATs have evolved into "walled gardens," providing sustained demand for large-cap assets, but capital did not naturally rotate into the broader market. 2025 became an extremely concentrated year as retail investor interest shifted towards equities, with Altcoin rallies averaging 20 days, down from 60 days in 2024.
In a recent interview, Immunefi CEO Mitchell Amador stated that while cryptocurrency losses continue to rise, on-chain security is improving. 2025 was the worst year for hacking on record, but the biggest security failures did not stem from on-chain code, but rather from operational errors in Web2, such as passwords, private keys, infected devices, and human error. As code becomes increasingly difficult to exploit, the primary attack surface for crypto security in 2026 will be humans, making the human factor a critical vulnerability that Web3 participants must prioritize.
Glassnode: $98,000 is a key threshold that BTC has recently broken through during its rebound.
Glassnode published an article on its X platform stating that the STH-NUPL metric (a measure of the ratio of unrealized profits/losses of new investors to the market capitalization of short-term holders) shows that new investors have been consistently in a net unrealized loss state since November 2025. The analysis indicates that for this group to return to a net profitable state, the price of Bitcoin needs to rise to above approximately $98,000.
CryptoQuant analyst Axel posted on social media that between January 13th and 15th, the "Bitcoin: Advanced Sentiment Index" rose to approximately 80%, an extremely bullish level, coinciding with the price approaching a local high of $97,000. Today, however, the index has plummeted to 44.9%, breaking below the 50% neutral threshold. During the early hours of today's decline, over $205 million was liquidated in a single hour. The spot oscillator surged to +97.96%, indicating that liquidations were almost entirely driven by long positions. The scale of these liquidations suggests forced liquidations rather than proactive selling, a typical "leverage-clearing" pattern in an overheated market. If the volume of liquidations continues to decline in the coming hours, it will indicate that the deleveraging process is nearing completion.
CZ responded to Binance's high fiat withdrawal fees in a post on the X platform, stating, "It's a new product; the more people use it, the lower the liquidity becomes. Although I understand that the fee is from the bank, the more people use the product, the lower the fee will be." According to feedback from some community users, their chosen fixed fee of $25 with a one-day arrival time is suitable for large withdrawals; the larger the withdrawal amount, the lower the relative fee loss. Later, some users also reported that the fee appeared to have decreased.
Vitalik Buterin: Shifting towards support for native Rollups; ZK timeline maturing.
Vitalik Buterin stated that he is "significantly more inclined to support native rollups" compared to the past. Vitalik recalled that a key reason for his previous opposition to native rollups was that their pre-compiled solutions had to choose between ZK mode or Optimistic mode. At that time, ZK-EVM was not yet mature, and L2 servers often chose the latter between "fast withdrawals but bearing the proof risk" and "relying on Ethereum's security but having to wait 2-7 days for withdrawals," thereby weakening Ethereum's composability and promoting the adoption of solutions such as multisignature bridges.
