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ME News report: On January 16 (UTC+8), according to SoSoValue data, the total net inflow of Ethereum spot ETFs yesterday (Eastern Time, January 15) was $164 million.

The Ethereum spot ETF with the highest daily net inflow yesterday was BlackRock's ETF ETHA, with a daily net inflow of $149 million, and the total historical net inflow for ETHA has now reached $12.923 billion.

Second is Grayscale's Ethereum Mini Trust ETF ETH, with a daily net inflow of $15.212 million, bringing the total historical net inflow for ETH to $1.625 billion.

As of the latest report, the total net asset value of Ethereum spot ETFs reached $20.457 billion, with the ETF net asset ratio (market value as a percentage of Ethereum's total market capitalization) at 5.15%, and the cumulative net inflow has reached $12.908 billion. (Source: ME)

ME News report, January 16 (UTC+8), according to SoSoValue data, the total daily net inflow of Bitcoin spot ETFs yesterday (Eastern Time, January 15) was $100 million.

The Bitcoin spot ETF with the highest daily net inflow yesterday was BlackRock's ETF IBIT, with a daily net inflow of $316 million, bringing the total historical net inflow of IBIT to $63.426 billion.

Next is the Grayscale (Grayscale) Bitcoin Mini Trust ETF BTC, with a daily net inflow of $6.7399 million, bringing the total historical net inflow of BTC to $1.951 billion.

The Bitcoin spot ETF with the highest daily net outflow yesterday was Fidelity's ETF FBTC, with a daily net outflow of $189 million, bringing the total historical net inflow of FBTC to $12.122 billion.

ME News, January 16 (UTC+8): The U.S. Senate Banking Committee has recently decided to delay the review of the (Digital Asset Market Clarity Act). The bill was originally intended to establish a clearer regulatory framework for the crypto market, including clearly defining the criteria for distinguishing between 'securities' and 'commodities' for digital assets, as well as clarifying the regulatory authority distribution.

The slowdown in the process is primarily due to industry disagreements. The current draft imposes potential restrictions on tokenized stocks, DeFi, and stablecoin incentive mechanisms, which could negatively impact industry innovation and market structure. In this context, the Senate has chosen to pause the advancement and continue revising and discussing relevant provisions. The market reacted swiftly. Coinbase's stock price declined noticeably after the statement, becoming one of the weaker performers in the S&P 500 index that day.

ME News, January 16 (UTC+8): According to TRONSCAN on-chain data, JST has been transferred to the black hole address T9yD14Nj9j7xAB4dbGeiX9h8unkKHxuWwb for permanent destruction. As of now, the total amount destroyed at this address has reached 1,084,891,079 JST tokens, with a corresponding destruction value of approximately 44.83 million USD, accounting for 10.96% of the total JST supply. This large-scale destruction not only demonstrates the project team's commitment to advancing the deflationary mechanism but also strengthens the scarcity foundation for JST's value, marking that the JST ecosystem has entered a new phase of value growth driven by deflation. (Note: A black hole address refers to a special on-chain address used to permanently lock tokens and achieve destruction.) (Source: ME)

ME News 消息，1 月 16 日（UTC+8），美国银行（Bank of America）首席执行官Brian Moynihan在财报电话会议中警告称，若允许发行方支付利息，计息稳定币可能从美国银行系统吸走高达6万亿美元存款。 Moynihan援引美国财政部引用的研究指出，大量银行存款可能因此类产品而转向稳定币。他表示，这类产品运作模式将更接近货币市场共同基金，资金将存放于现金、央行准备金或短期国债中，而非用于放贷。他认为，这种存款迁移将使银行存款规模收缩，从而削弱信贷供给能力，尤其会严重影响更依赖银行贷款而非资本市场的中小型企业，并可能推高整体借贷成本。（来源：ME）

Analyzing a16z's six key focus areas to identify intersection opportunities with cryptocurrency.

Article author: Azuma (@azuma_eth)

Source article: Odaily Planet Daily (@OdailyChina)

January 9, in the highly active cryptocurrency market, the prominent venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) announced the completion of a new $15 billion fundraising, the largest in the firm's history, accounting for over 18% of the total U.S. venture capital volume in 2025.

In the relatively brief official announcement, a16z mentioned cryptocurrency twice, with the most critical statement being: 'Our mission is to ensure the U.S. wins the technological competition of the next 100 years, starting with mastering the key architectures of the future—artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency technology,' signaling that with ample resources, a16z will continue to actively expand its presence in the cryptocurrency market.

The misalignment of expectations stems from the dishonesty of the narrative itself.

Article author: Thejaswini M A

Article compiled and sourced from BitpushNews

Whenever market predictions become controversial, we always seem to circle around the same question, but never truly confront it:

Does predicting the market really concern the truth?

It's not about accuracy, practicality, or whether they outperform polls, journalistic reports, or social media trends. It's about the truth itself.

Prediction markets price events that haven't happened yet. They don't report facts; they assign probabilities to an open, uncertain, and unknowable future. At some point, we began treating these probabilities as some form of truth.

The greatest capital is not past glory, but the right to 'start over'.

Article by: Seed.eth

Source: Beepro

200 million dollars, the figure just announced today.

BitMine Immersion Technologies (BMNR), chaired by renowned Wall Street analyst Tom Lee, announced it will invest in Beast Industries, the holding company behind global superstar MrBeast (Beast Boy). Meanwhile, Beast Industries mentioned in its official statement that the company will explore how to 'integrate DeFi into its upcoming financial services platform'.

ME News report, January 16 (UTC+8), SuperEx has officially launched perpetual contract trading. This product launch provides more trading options for small-cap cryptocurrencies in users' accounts, helping users utilize their existing assets more flexibly and enhancing trading experience and capital efficiency.

Perpetual contract trading supports users using non-mainstream, low-market-cap cryptocurrencies as collateral and profit/loss settlement assets, enabling participation in index price trading of major cryptocurrencies like BTC/USDT and ETH/USDT without currency conversion. This ensures price fairness while offering users more flexible and diversified contract trading options, truly achieving "small coins driving major market trends"!

ME News, January 16 (UTC+8), AlloyX Group (Nasdaq: AXG, herein referred to as "AlloyX Group" or "AXG") successfully co-hosted the 21st Hong Kong salon with Animoca Brands, a global leading Web3 and digital asset innovation group. The session, themed "From Project to Platform: The Next Phase of Institutional-Grade Digital Asset Infrastructure," focused on the construction of digital asset platforms and institutional payment and settlement architecture, with in-depth discussions held on these topics.

Brian Chan, Deputy Chief Operating Officer of Animoca Brands and Head of RWA Platform NUVA, delivered a keynote speech titled (Building and Evolving Digital Asset Platforms: Institutional Pathways for Real-World Asset Digitization). He shared Animoca's latest practices in asset tokenization, ecosystem development, and platform-based operations, and elaborated on how real-world assets can achieve large-scale on-chain deployment and sustained operations within a compliant framework, starting from composable asset modules and open protocols.

The dilemma of regulation lies in its attempt to set boundaries for insatiable desires.

Author:动察 Beating

Source:律动

January 14, a bill aimed at regulating the U.S. crypto market—the (CLARITY Act)—is set to face a crucial vote in the Senate Banking Committee. On the eve of this industry breakthrough, Coinbase's founder and CEO Brian Armstrong announced the company would fully withdraw its support for the bill, citing that 'a bad bill is worse than no bill at all.'

The announcement immediately triggered a stir across the industry. What was truly surprising, however, was that nearly every other major player in the sector stood in opposition to Coinbase.

ME News, January 16 (UTC+8): Security firm Group-IB researchers have discovered that a ransomware called DeadLock is using Polygon smart contracts to hide itself and rotate proxy addresses. The ransomware was first detected in July last year and updates the command-and-control infrastructure addresses used to communicate with victims by calling specific smart contracts. Once infected and data encrypted, DeadLock sends a ransom note threatening to sell stolen data if demands are not met. Researchers note that storing proxy addresses on-chain makes the infrastructure extremely difficult to disrupt, as there is no central server to shut down, and blockchain data is permanently stored across global nodes. This abuse of smart contracts to deliver proxy addresses exhibits high variability. (Source: ME)

ME News, January 16 (UTC+8): The U.S. Department of Justice announced that a man from Utah has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for involvement in a cryptocurrency-related fraud. Brian Garry Sewell, 54, from Washington County, Utah, was sentenced to 36 months in prison after pleading guilty to unlawfully operating a cash-to-cryptocurrency exchange business and defrauding investors of approximately $2.9 million. He will also serve three years of supervised release following his prison term. The court ordered him to pay over $3.8 million in restitution to compensate the victims and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Prosecutors revealed that Sewell deceived at least 17 investors between December 2017 and April 2024 by fabricating his experience, educational background, and high-return investment capabilities. The Salt Lake City field office of the FBI stated that Sewell profited through false promises, causing significant financial losses to multiple individuals and families. The investigation began in 2020 and took nearly five years to conclude. Prosecutors noted that Sewell's illegal cash-to-crypto operations funneled over $5.4 million through Rockwell Capital Management, a company he controlled, which became a key foundation for the subsequent criminal charges. (Source: ME)

Chinese internet cultural memes such as "I'm f***ing here" and "Binance Life" have been transformed into Meme coins, achieving short-term massive market value fluctuations without any intrinsic value, driven by consensus, emotion, and attention—reflecting contemporary investors' longing for wealth transformation and shifts in social mentality, forming a financial phenomenon based on zero-sum gaming.

Article author: 0xGrandpa

Article source: Mars Finance

I. What are we witnessing?

The crypto market at the beginning of 2026 is undergoing an unprecedented cultural resurgence:

Western traders are searching on the X platform for the precise meaning of "I'm f***ing here," trying to understand why these five Chinese characters can support a token with a market cap in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Slogans like "I'm f***ing here" and "Binance Life," originally internet memes from the Chinese web, have now become everyday topics in the global crypto community.

ME News, January 16 (UTC+8): Crypto lending firm Nexo Capital will pay a $500,000 fine to the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation. Regulators accused the company of issuing thousands of loans to California residents without holding a valid license and failing to properly assess borrowers' repayment capacity. According to regulators, between July 2018 and November 2022, Nexo issued at least 5,456 consumer and commercial loans to California residents without a valid lending license, and typically did not evaluate borrowers' repayment ability, existing debts, or credit history before lending. Nexo must transfer all California clients' funds to its U.S. affiliate, Nexo Financial LLC, which holds a California lending license, within 150 days. (Source: ME)

VanEck Asset Management released its Q1 2026 global market outlook, stating that the current market environment has become 'clearer' due to more explicit fiscal and monetary policy signals, supporting a more aggressive risk appetite strategy.

Article author: VanEck

Article compilation and source: Felix, PANews

Entering 2026, clearer fiscal and monetary signals are supporting a more aggressive risk appetite, with AI, private credit, gold, India, and cryptocurrencies all presenting more attractive investment opportunities.

Key points:

· AI-related stocks experienced a significant correction by the end of 2025, resetting valuations and making investment opportunities in AI and related themes more attractive.