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Greetings to all Gate community members! As the Bingwu Year of the Horse approaches, Gate Research extends our sincere wishes to all users: may your steps remain steady, your judgment sharp, and your returns promising in the year ahead.

Gate DEX is launching the "Chinese New Year Continuous Trading Challenge", inviting global users to deeply experience one-stop on-chain trading on the Gate DEX Web and App.

In January 2026, the public chain landscape showed structural reallocation rather than an overall cooldown, with on-chain activity concentrating in high-frequency and high-efficiency networks. Solana maintained strong activity levels, Ethereum reinforced its role as a settlement layer, and Base expanded on the back of narrative-driven momentum, while some traditional L2s and sidechains weakened. Market capital allocation logic is increasingly shifting toward real usage efficiency. On Bitcoin, price action continues to oscillate around the short-term holder cost basis, with profit-taking cooling and selling pressure easing. Stress remains concentrated among short-term holders, while long-term holder structure stays intact, suggesting a mid-cycle consolidation rather than a trend reversal. At the project level, the rebound in Solana meme activity has reignited launchpad ecosystems. Pump.fun remains dominant, while Bags App has scaled rapidly through its novel “donation-driven” mechanism, leaving the sector in a