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Two independent miners each mined a complete Bitcoin block this week, each receiving a reward of approximately $300,000. One of them received 3,157 bitcoins on Thursday.

On January 16, the Solana spot ETF saw a net outflow of $2.22 million, while the Grayscale and 21shares ETFs also experienced outflows. The total net asset value was $1.21 billion, with a cumulative net inflow of $864 million.

A series of unusual on-chain fund movements were exposed, quickly turning Adams' first campaign rally after leaving government service into a farce riddled with doubts.

The South Korean cryptocurrency market may be entering a new phase, with a shift from a landscape dominated by retail investors to one where institutional investors are largely absent.

South Korea's Financial Services Commission (FSC) has officially approved that listed companies and professional investors may allocate up to 5% of their equity capital annually to the top 20 crypto assets by market capitalization.

The US's lightning-fast takeover of Venezuela has sparked heated debate, with Palantir being accused of being the AI-powered intelligence mastermind behind it. This company is known for its data integration and decision-making systems, serving governments, the military, and the crypto industry, but maintains its role as a tools provider.

Musk predicts AGI will be achieved in 2026; ARK, Fidelity and other institutions release investment outlooks for 2026; privacy coin XMR hits a new high; and RWA and other crypto market developments are frequently emerging.

This week, the market saw a rotation of memes, first in English, then Japanese, and finally Chinese. Bitcoin also rose and then fell. At CES 2026, several tech giants, including Nvidia, released new updates. Fidelity, a16z, Trend Research, and Waterdrop Capital, among other institutions, released their 2026 outlooks.

Birb is a crypto-native IP that combines meme tokens with physical collectibles, aiming to generate $1 billion in revenue through character-driven and global distribution, converting marginal users into crypto participants and building a sustainable business model.

Technology is merely a lever; it can amplify both benefits and destruction.

This article offers seven psychological insights to help you achieve lasting transformation and turn life into a focused game through self-reflection, setting a vision, and daily actions.

The article explores the advantages of having a wide range of interests in contemporary society, points out that generalist thinking is key to personal success, and provides practical pathways to turning multiple interests into profitable careers, emphasizing the importance of self-education, brand building, and content creation.

Ben Horowitz shared his insights on AI investment: the AI boom is not a bubble, but rather a genuine and unprecedented demand. He emphasized that management geniuses need new thinking, application-level innovation is more important than basic models, AI will create more winners, and the M&A market will be active.

The boundaries of survival for Web3 practitioners are being redefined.

Don't let a "smooth" payment turn into a protracted criminal battle.

In the coming years, Bitcoin is expected to become an important diversification tool for asset allocators to improve "return per unit of risk".

Fidelity Digital Assets' "Outlook 2026" report reveals that the digital asset market is accelerating its institutionalization, Bitcoin is deepening its integration with the capital market, token holder rights are becoming a core trend, AI competition may affect the mining landscape, and Bitcoin is showing resilience amid macroeconomic uncertainties.

Sign Protocol is a full-chain authentication protocol that is committed to allowing users to freely verify and authenticate any information on the chain. In this era of information explosion and scarce trust, Sign Protocol provides a set of tools, infrastructure, and standards that allow us to no longer just "trust" but "verify" all claims and statements.

Project Origin and Market Performance Mubarak (MUBARAK) was issued on the BSC chain on March 16. Its name means "blessing" or "blessed" in Arabic, which has a beautiful meaning. After its launch, MUBARAK quickly attracted market attention and its price soared in a short period of time. As of now, the price of MUBARAK is $0.04068783, with the highest price of the day being $0.04204616 and the lowest price being $0.03736798, up $0.00171 from the previous trading day, an increase of 4.391%.

In 2025, the number of crypto VC deals plummeted by 60%, with investments concentrated in mid-to-late stages. Institutional funds accounted for 75% of the total, primarily flowing into blue-chip assets such as BTC and ETH. VCs are gradually abandoning "broad-based" investments and focusing more on projects that can prove their self-sustaining capabilities at the seed stage, requiring high user retention rates, capital efficiency, and AI integration capabilities.

The easing of geopolitical risks and the rising expectations of interest rate cuts have boosted market sentiment, and funds have flowed back into the crypto market. The inflow of ETFs and stablecoins has increased significantly, the prices of mainstream coins have stabilized and rebounded, Bitcoin has fluctuated strongly at a high level, and Ethereum has followed the rise but with slightly weaker momentum. The altcoins have stopped falling and fluctuated, and the market has entered the end of consolidation. In the short term, we will pay attention to the breakthrough of funds and the signal of structural strengthening. The overall market is ready to welcome the start of a new round of market.

The President of Belarus signed a decree allowing the establishment of cryptocurrency banks; the CME Group will launch ADA, LINK and XLM futures on February 9; and KBC, Belgium's second-largest bank, became the country's first bank to offer cryptocurrency trading services to retail investors.

Binance's spot cryptocurrency trading market share fell to 25%, the lowest level since the beginning of 2021; the People's Bank of China lowered the interest rates of various structural monetary policy tools by 0.25 percentage points, and Vice Governor Zou Lan said there is still some room for reserve requirement ratio and interest rate cuts this year.