PANews reported on January 12th that, according to SoSoValue data, some sectors in the crypto market saw gains. The AI sector rose 2.12% in the last 24 hours, with Bittensor (TAO) up 2.10%, Fetch.ai (FET) up 6.01%, and Venice Token (VVV) surging 21.89%. The DePIN sector rose 1.90%, and Render (RENDER) rose 13.65%. Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) maintained a sideways trend, hovering around $91,000 and $3,100 respectively. In other sectors, the DeFi sector rose 1.22% in the last 24 hours, with MYX Finance (MYX) up 10.63%; the Layer 1 sector rose 1.14%, with Canton Network (CC) up 14.50%; the PayFi sector rose 0.48%, with Monero (XMR) surging 24.07%; the CeFi sector fell 0.25%, with FTX (FTT) remaining relatively strong, rising 3.10%; the Meme sector fell 0.27%, with BUILDon (B) bucking the trend and rising 22.12%; and the Layer 2 sector fell 1.20%, with Zora (ZORA) rising 3.14% intraday.

PANews reported on January 12th that, according to Jinshi, Goldman Sachs economists believe the US economy will be driven by tax cuts, real wage growth, and rising wealth this year, while inflation will moderate. According to the bank's "2026 US Economic Outlook" report released on January 11th, the Federal Reserve is expected to cut interest rates by another 25 basis points in June and September, respectively, due to increased uncertainty in the labor market outlook. Furthermore, Goldman Sachs predicts that GDP growth in 2026 (based on Q4 year-on-year growth) will be 2.5%, or 2.8% for the full year; by December, core personal consumption expenditures (PCE) inflation will be 2.1% year-on-year, and the core consumer price index (CPI) will slow to 2%; the baseline unemployment rate is projected to remain stable at 4.5%, but there is a risk of a period of "jobless growth" as businesses seek to utilize artificial intelligence to reduce labor costs. Regarding trade, Goldman Sachs assumes the upcoming midterm elections will make the cost of living a major political issue, which will prompt the White House to avoid any further significant tariff increases.

PANews reported on January 12th that, in response to Elon Musk's statement that he will open-source a new X platform algorithm within seven days, a process repeated every four weeks , Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin commented: "If implemented properly, this is a good move. I hope this mechanism is verifiable and reproducible. While it won't solve all problems, it effectively addresses the long-standing demands for algorithmic transparency from myself and many members of the public. Furthermore, I actually think four weeks might be a bit too optimistic, as it means the algorithm needs frequent updates to prevent loopholes. The algorithm does need to be verifiable and reproducible so that users who feel they have been blocked, downgraded, etc., can view the algorithm's execution code and understand why their posts are not being viewed."

PANews reported on January 12 that, according to DefiLlama data, Gate.io saw a net inflow of over $33.05 million in the past 24 hours, ranking first globally.

PANews reported on January 12th that Pump.fun announced the launch of a creator fee-sharing feature on its X platform, allowing fees to be distributed across up to 10 wallets. Creators can now transfer token ownership and revoke update permissions. More updates are coming soon.

PANews reported on January 12th that, according to OKX market data, the top gainers of the day are: RENDER at $2.59, up 3.35%; FET at $0.297, up 2.84%; ZIL at $0.00537, up 2.28%; SOL at $141.02, up 1.86%; and GLM at $0.304, up 1.84%. In addition, the tokens with the largest intraday declines are: AEVO, currently at $0.0412, down 2.80%; SATS, currently at $0.0000000164, down 2.55%; LTC, currently at $78.67, down 2.36%; NEO, currently at $3.844, down 2.04%; and ILV, currently at $5.763, down 1.92%.

BlockBeats News, January 7th, according to Hyperinsight monitoring, the "Strong Short ZEC" whale, after liquidating the ZEC short position yesterday morning, re-entered the market this morning. Currently, the whale is shorting 3697.06 ZEC with 2x leverage (about $1.83 million), with an average entry price of $507.66 and an unrealized profit of $41,000.Prior to this, this address had shorted ZEC seven times without any long positions, accumulating a total loss of $508,000.

PANews reported on January 7th that, according to sources, Baidu's AI chip subsidiary, Kunlun Chip, plans to raise up to $2 billion in its Hong Kong IPO. Kunlun Chip, Baidu's AI chip division, is reportedly selecting underwriters for its Hong Kong IPO.

PANews reported on January 7th that Tempo has launched a new token standard, TIP-20, specifically designed for stablecoins and payment applications. Extended from ERC-20, it is compatible with the existing EVM ecosystem. TIP-20 integrates features such as transfer memos, compliance policy registry, profit distribution mechanisms, and stablecoin payment gas, making it suitable for diverse scenarios including corporate finance, cross-border settlement, and interest-bearing stablecoins. TIP-20 has received support from infrastructure partners such as AllUnity, Bridge, and LayerZero, aiming to build a unified on-chain payment standard, improve the compliance, efficiency, and interoperability of stablecoins, and accelerate the on-chain process of real-world payment scenarios. Tempo will provide developers with SDK, testing funds, and documentation support to help TIP-20 be deployed and implemented quickly.

BlockBeats News, January 7th, the Tempo team released its native token standard TIP-20, targeting stablecoin and payment-type token applications. The official introduction states that TIP-20, in addition to being compatible with ERC-20, adds functions such as transfer memos, compliance controls, and reward distribution, aiming to meet real-world payment, settlement, and fund management needs.Tempo stated that TIP-20 allows the issuance of customized stablecoins for specific payment scenarios, supports high-throughput, predictable fee payment transactions, and enables stablecoin trading on the Tempo native decentralized exchange. This standard also introduces mechanisms such as role-based permission management and policy registries to support compliance and operational control.Official disclosure revealed that infrastructure providers such as AllUnity, Bridge, LayerZero have begun to support TIP-20. Tempo mentioned that this standard is suitable for both stablecoin issuers and can be extended to other homogeneous assets to reduce custom development costs and enhance cross-scenario usability.

BlockBeats News, January 7th, Funkari team member Neks posted that "NFT Paris announced the cancellation of the 2026 NFT Paris and RWA Paris event, which has been held since 2022. The reason is that funds have run out, organizational costs exceed sponsorship and ticket revenue. Ticket buyers are promised a refund within two weeks.Below the announcement, sponsor @serc1n shared an email received: "According to Article 12 of our agreement, non-refundable costs associated with the event have exceeded the total sponsorship amount received, so we are unable to provide a refund." Another sponsor, Okay Bears founder Kais, also confirmed receiving the same information.Sponsors paid to gain exposure opportunities at the event. The main goals were to achieve profitability, sell products, acquire users, or enhance brand visibility. Now that the event has been canceled, sponsorship fees are gone. NFT Paris listed 61 sponsors for 2026. It is estimated that sponsors collectively paid over 500,000 euros. One more detail: it is said that the core team operating NFT Paris for three years left shortly before this incident. If true, this is purely criminal behavior."

PANews reported on January 7th that GTreasury has acquired Solvexia, a no-code financial automation platform, aiming to fully integrate reconciliation and regulatory reporting into its treasury and compliance platform. This acquisition strengthens GTreasury's "frictionless, borderless" strategy. Combined with Solvexia's data processing and automated reporting capabilities, processes that previously took days can be reduced to minutes, and error rates can be reduced by 98%. The merged platform will support fully automated reconciliation, audit trails, and multi-jurisdictional compliance reporting for both fiat and digital asset transactions, helping companies reduce financial risks and improve transparency and governance efficiency. GTreasury has been continuously expanding its global financial infrastructure capabilities since its acquisition by Ripple in 2025 .

BlockBeats News, January 7th, according to GMGN monitoring, a trader bought the Solana-based Meme coin WhiteWhale 34 days ago through 49 transactions, spending a total of $5,836.13. The trader has currently sold and cashed out $16,000, still holding WhiteWhale worth $456,500, with a single coin's unrealized profit exceeding 77 times.

PANews reported on January 6 that, according to Onchain Lens, a 3x short ETH position opened at the address pension-usdt.eth has now incurred a floating loss of over $1.68 million due to the market rally.

PANews reported on January 6 that, according to Venice's announcement, starting February 10, the annual issuance of VVV tokens will be reduced from 8 million to 6 million, a decrease of 25%.

BlockBeats News, January 6th, the Solana ecosystem staking protocol Jito announced the launch of the IBRL Explorer block browser, providing visibility into the internal structure of Solana blocks, revealing common issues such as "packing delay" (concentrating transactions at the end of a slot) and "slot time gaming" (extending slot duration beyond the default value). The IBRL Explorer introduces an "IBRL Score" to measure validator performance based on slot time, vote packing, and non-vote packing metrics.

PANews reported on January 6th that Virtuals Protocol announced three new launch mechanisms to address the different launch needs of AI agent projects at various stages: Pegasus, emphasizing rapid experimentation and fair distribution, is suitable for early-stage projects ( Pegasus does not reserve team shares or conduct fundraising; almost all supply goes into the liquidity pool and automatically migrates to Uniswap after reaching a threshold); Unicorn focuses on linking capital formation with performance, strengthening transparency and incentive mechanisms ( Pegasus does not reserve team shares or conduct fundraising; almost all supply goes into the liquidity pool and automatically migrates to Uniswap after reaching a threshold); Titan is for mature teams with scale, reputation, and capital, providing a structured market access path ( requiring a minimum valuation of $50 million USD, pairing ≥500,000 USDC equivalent in $VIRTUAL , and a fixed 1% transaction tax ). These three mechanisms together construct a unified framework adapted to the evolution of the agent economy.

BlockBeats News, January 6th, Ethereum founder Vitalik published a post reiterating Ethereum's purpose, "The creation of Ethereum was not meant to make finance more efficient or applications more convenient, but to give people freedom." This is an important and controversial statement from the "Trust Minimized Manifesto," which deserves a reexamination for a better understanding of its meaning. Words like "efficient" and "convenient" imply improving the average case scenario in a situation that is already quite good. Efficiency refers to having the world's best engineers put their souls into reducing latency from 473 milliseconds to 368 milliseconds or increasing the yield from 4.5% APY to 5.3% APY. Convenience means enabling people to click once instead of three times, reducing registration time from 1 minute to 20 seconds. These things may be done well. But we must understand that we can never outplay Silicon Valley's corporate players in this game.Therefore, the primary underlying game that Ethereum plays must be a different game. This game is about resilience. Resilience is not about comparing 4.5% APY to 5.3% APY, but about minimizing the risk of you facing -100% APY. Resilience is if you become politically unpopular and get deplatformed, or your app developer goes bankrupt or disappears, or Cloudflare goes down, or there is an internet-scale war, your 2000-millisecond latency still stays at 2000 milliseconds. Resilience is a world where anyone, anywhere can access the network and be a first-class participant.Resilience is sovereignty, it is sovereignty in the sense of "digital sovereignty" or "food sovereignty"—actively reducing vulnerability to external dependencies that can be arbitrarily stripped away at any time, which is the game Ethereum is suited to win. Ethereum must first and foremost be decentralized, permissionless, and resilient in the block space—and then make it rich.

BlockBeats News, January 6th, according to GMGN market data, the Solana-based Meme coin "114514" reached a market value of 20 million U.S. dollars this morning, currently at 16.86 million U.S. dollars, hitting a record high with a 24-hour increase of 597%.In Japanese, the number 1-1-4-5-1-4 can be read as "いいよ、こいよ (Ii yo, koi yo)" through number wordplay, meaning an expression that is both welcoming and slightly chaotic: "Good, come on!" This phrase originated from a legendary internet persona—Aniki, and later evolved into the "ultimate response" to any situation.BlockBeats reminds users that Meme coins often lack practical use cases, have significant price fluctuations, and investment should be approached with caution.

PANews reported on January 5th that, according to GoPlus, user @ShittymikeSoll, posing as a PNUT Dev, gained attention by falsely claiming he earned $18 million from $1,000 in a month. He then publicly revealed a large wallet address, boasting that he would turn $860,000 into $100 million during a live stream, successfully hyping up the market. However, he secretly issued a large number of RUG disks, raking in millions of dollars in illicit funds. On December 29, 2025, ShittymikeSol posted a message claiming "first real Alpha trading after a year's break," stating that he invested $500 in HNUT, which appreciated to $200,000 within a day, and was closed at the peak the next day for a profit of $700,000. The tweet also encouraged users to copy the trade and join his Telegram community. However, the community quickly reported that the price of HNUT plummeted by 99.99%, suggesting the project team had absconded with the funds. Analysis revealed that while no significant profits were found at the PNUT developer's address, tracing early large transactions and suspected "insider trading" addresses ultimately led to a wallet (9B1fR…WZb4) publicly disclosed by ShittymikeSol in August. Further investigation revealed that this network had consolidated funds to a unified address (2hnAT…GUjf) over the past eight days, totaling $3.7 million. Notably, even the remaining funds from the HNUT project team's address flowed to this consolidation address. Furthermore, the aforementioned linked addresses used the same methods to create and manipulate dozens of MEME coins, including SHEKER, Gonk, MADURO, FAFO, Trump, DIM, TRUMP2, BANGER, Lily, ROY, horge, WhiteShark, TRUMP, bork, bonkdog, and BITPEPE. These coins all experienced precipitous drops or "Super Mario-style plunges" (a 99% drop in a short period), with all remaining funds from the project teams and suspected insider trading profits ultimately flowing to the same aggregation address (2hnAT…GUjf).