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LayerZero has introduced the institutional-grade L1 platform “Zero,” quickly attracting backing from major Wall Street players including Citadel, DTCC, and ICE. This article examines the underlying logic of LayerZero’s pivot from cross-chain bridges to a “Wall Street public chain,” providing an in-depth analysis of Zero’s market positioning, shifts in ZRO valuation, and critical risk factors. We also assess whether this transformation marks genuine entry into the realm of financial infrastructure or if it remains an unproven pilot initiative.

USDC and moltbook are hosting the OpenClaw hackathon, exclusively for AI Agent participants for the first time. This article highlights the most prominent projects, focusing on Agent payment solutions, compute resource procurement, risk management, prediction markets, and privacy protocols. It explores how these projects are already exposing the practical needs of Agentic Commerce and shaping the competitive landscape for the next stage of infrastructure development.

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

MrBeast, a prominent YouTube creator, and his company Beast Industries have announced the acquisition of Step, a fintech app designed for teens and young adults. This marks a strategic shift from content creation to digital banking and wealth management services, with plans to integrate DeFi features. The article also examines MrBeast’s previous on-chain activities in the crypto sector, prompting debate around influencer-led financial initiatives and user trust.

Stable is a Layer 1 blockchain jointly launched by Bitfinex and Tether. It uses USDT as the native gas asset and supports free peer to peer USDT transfers.

This article examines past Bitcoin bear market declines and cycle patterns, analyzing market capitalization structure, institutional positions, halving effects, and macroeconomic factors to estimate the likely bottom range for the current bear market. It offers position and strategy references for various scenarios, equipping readers with a more rational approach to bottom-fishing amid extreme volatility.

This article examines two top traders on the decentralized prediction platform Polymarket. Utilizing a profound grasp of event probability and strategic deployment, they generated substantial returns in temperature forecast contracts. By presenting concrete examples and trading strategies, the article illustrates how prediction markets transform information advantages into financial gains. It further highlights critical mechanisms of strategy and risk management within these markets, offering a practical perspective on prediction markets as an emerging foundation for trading.

This article explores why most current cryptocurrency tokens fail to achieve compound growth, noting that their designs intentionally avoid securities-like attributes, resulting in a lack of reinvestment mechanisms. Therefore, their value growth heavily relies on external demand. In contrast, traditional stocks generate sustained growth engines through cash flow reinvestment. The author suggests focusing on enterprise assets that can leverage cryptographic technology to optimize operations, generate cash flow, and achieve compound growth, rather than solely on tokens. This analysis provides profound insights for redefining the investment logic in the cryptocurrency market.

A systematic overview of the new changes in mainstream blockchain ecosystems in 2026, covering core networks such as Ethereum, Solana, Base, and BNB Chain. From technical approaches and ecosystem goals to real-world use cases, this article helps you understand the structural shift in the multichain era.

Wintermute Ventures predicts that by 2026, cryptocurrency will transition from an independent market to the clearing and settlement layer for the internet economy. This article systematically outlines six key trends, including the tradability of everything, stablecoin interoperability, the return of token economics to cash flow, the fusion of DeFi and Fintech, and privacy becoming a driver for regulation. As cryptocurrency gradually recedes from the foreground, it is becoming the underlying infrastructure where value flows like information.

A dozen major banks, including SBI, Santander, PNC, Amex, Standard Chartered, and MUFG, are leveraging XRP infrastructure to address the pain points of SWIFT—transforming settlement from 2–5 days to seconds, eliminating the need for nostro account reserves, and reducing intermediary fees. As a bridging currency, XRP enables efficient cross-currency exchanges within 3–5 seconds.

This article offers an in-depth analysis of how Bitcoin mining operates in countries with heavily subsidized electricity and institutional breakdown, drawing on real-world cases from Iran and Libya. It demonstrates that when electricity becomes a hard currency capable of circumventing the financial system, mining transforms from a tech-driven industry into a structural depletion of public resources. By examining the intersection of distorted electricity pricing, sanctions, and power distribution, the article uncovers the potential social costs and political ramifications of crypto mining in environments marked by weak governance.

The article, written by Bankless co-founder David Hoffman, addresses the industry pain point that most tokens are worthless, offering a precise analysis of how team-driven spray-and-pray airdrops, mining, and funding in history have led to tokens not being regarded as equity-grade assets.

Predictions from six years ago are now unfolding one after another. Rereading "If Soros Wanted to Destroy Bitcoin"—covering mining leverage, derivatives structures, and the combined impact of regulation and public sentiment—offers fresh insight into Bitcoin’s systemic vulnerabilities and cyclical risks as a trillion-dollar asset.

The RIVER token saw gains of more than 2,700% in just a few weeks before rapidly crashing by almost 90%, raising widespread questions across the industry about possible price manipulation. This article leverages on-chain analysis and funding rate mechanisms to dissect how celebrity-driven hype, early token concentration, and derivatives market structures have jointly fueled these dramatic price swings. It also urges market participants to pay close attention to the systemic risks posed by tokens with low circulating supply.