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Wu said that Sandeep Nailwal, CEO of the Polygon Foundation, posted on Twitter that the transaction fees on the Polygon chain are entering an S-curve acceleration phase. Over the past 3–4 days, approximately 1 million POL tokens per day have been burned as base fees; if this trend continues throughout the year, about 3.5% of the total POL supply will be burned, resulting in significant deflation for POL. Currently, about 3.6 billion POL are staked, with stakers and validators earning an annualized reward of approximately 1.5%. Sandeep stated that 2026 will be the year of POL's revival.

According to Newsis, the Korea Financial Services Commission is studying the introduction of a "payment freeze" system in the virtual asset market to preemptively restrict the outflow of account funds suspected of market manipulation, preventing them from transferring or concealing unrealized gains. This measure is similar to the account freeze mechanism implemented for manipulative accounts in the stock market and is planned to be incorporated into the legislation as part of the second phase of virtual asset regulation. Regulators believe that since virtual assets can be easily concealed once

Wu said that according to Jito's announcement, they have launched the IBRL Explorer tool, which for the first time publicly and transparently displays the construction details within Solana blocks. The tool shows that behaviors such as "tail packing" and "Slot Timing Games" are common in the Solana network, which may affect the efficiency of state propagation, increase latency, and weaken network stability. The IBRL Explorer generates an IBRL score for each validator through three scoring mechanisms: Slot Time, Vote Packing, and Non-Vote Packing, aiming to improve block construction quality an

Wu said that, according to SoSoValue data, on January 5th Eastern Time, the total net inflow of Solana spot ETFs was $16.24 million. The Solana spot ETF with the highest single-day net inflow yesterday was the Bitwise SOL ETF BSOL, with a single-day net inflow of $12.47 million, and a total net inflow of $638 million. The second is Fidelity SOL ETF FSOL, with a single-day net inflow of $2.04 million.

Wu said that according to SoSoValue data, on January 5th, Eastern Time, the total net inflow of XRP spot ETFs was $46.1 million. The XRP spot ETF with the highest single-day net inflow was the Bitwise XRP ETF XRP, with a single-day net inflow of $16.61 million, bringing the total net inflow to $282 million. The second was Franklin XRP ETF XRPZ, with a single-day net inflow of $12.59 million.

Wu said that Uniswap founder Hayden Adams posted a rebuttal to the view that "AMM is unsustainable," stating that AMMs remain competitive under different market structures: in low-volatility trading pairs, AMMs can provide relatively stable returns for low-cost participants, enough to suppress the higher funding costs of professional market makers; in high-volatility long-tail assets, AMMs are still almost the only scalable liquidity provision solution. LPs often come from project teams or early supporters, with the goal of establishing liquidity rather than pursuing extreme Delta-neutral mark

Wu said that Bitcoin treasury listed company Strive disclosed that between November 10, 2025 and December 31, 2025, it increased its holdings by approximately 101.8 BTC, with an average purchase price of about $94,525. As of December 31, 2025, Strive held a total of approximately 7,626.8 BTC, with an overall average cost of about $113,153.

Wu said that the Bitcoin Core Project warns that Bitcoin Core 30.0 and 30.1 have a wallet migration vulnerability: in very rare cases, migrating an old (BDB) wallet may delete all wallet files on the same node. If not backed up, this could lead to loss of funds. The official statement says that the fix will be included in Bitcoin Core 30.2. Until then, do not use 30.0 or 30.1 for old wallet migration. Aside from the wallet migration process, other functions are unaffected, and nodes and existing wallets can operate normally.

Canadian rapper Drake has been sued in the Eastern District of Virginia federal court in the United States for promoting and using the crypto casino Stake. The complaint alleges that Drake, along with well-known streamer Adin Ross and others, used Stake's "tipping" feature to conceal the flow of funds, providing financial support for music botting activities, and is suspected of violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). The lawsuit was initiated by Stakeus users, accusing the platform of operating as a "social casino" to evade US gambling regulations, essentially

Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia's X account was hacked and used to promote cryptocurrency scams. The hacker impersonated him to post messages urging supporters to buy $LIBRE tokens. The related content accumulated approximately 190,000 views before being deleted. According to the opposition alliance Plataforma Unitaria Democrática, the token experienced a rug pull within hours of its launch on the Solana network, with the project team draining all liquidity and stealing about $34,300. (CriptoNoticias)

Wu said that, according to reports by Xinbao, licensed virtual asset trading platform EXIO announced that it has received official approval from the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) to provide over-the-counter (OTC) virtual asset trading services under the existing virtual asset trading platform license framework. The platform stated that it has launched the OTC channel and is open to qualified investors. In the future, it will combine its existing exchange business and listed products to improve the institutional-level compliant digital asset trading ecosystem.

Two cryptocurrency trading platforms have donated a total of over $21 million to the Super Political Action Committee MAGA Inc., which supports U.S. President Donald Trump. According to the latest disclosures from the Federal Election Commission (FEC), Gemini donated 1.5 million USDC after settlement, while Foris Dax, the parent company of Crypto.com, made two cash donations of $10 million each. The PAC currently has approximately $294 million in available funds. Although Trump is not running in the 2026 elections, the funds will be used for the midterm elections to influence control of Congre

Wu said that 1inch has released a 2025 data review: the total Swap transaction volume for the year reached $214 billion, a 39% year-over-year increase; completed 114 million transactions, more than doubling compared to last year. The transaction volume is mainly concentrated on Ethereum ($97.1 billion), BNB Chain ($82.1 billion, nearly 10 times growth), Arbitrum ($13.2 billion), and Base ($8.8 billion).

Wu said that according to the official announcement, Lighter has started using protocol-generated fees to repurchase LIT. The Lighter treasury account shows that approximately 180,526 LIT have been repurchased and are currently held, valued at about $540,000.

Wu says that according to @EmberCN monitoring, the Ethereum PoS staking exit queue has been cleared, and there are currently no staking redemption requests in line; influenced by Bitmine's large-scale deposit of approximately 768,000 ETH over the past 10 days, the size of the staking queue has exceeded 1,186,000 ETH.

According to The Block, TD Cowen stated that while there is room for progress this year in the legislative structure of the US crypto market, it is more likely to be passed by 2027, with the final rules possibly taking effect only by 2029. The research report indicates that the main resistance comes from disputes over conflict of interest clauses: Democrats may push to restrict senior officials (including President Trump) and their families from holding or operating crypto businesses; to facilitate passage, this clause might be delayed by about 3 years to avoid applying to the Trump administra