4082392
Your daily portion of popping crypto news! For partnerships and advertising inquiries, please fill out this form - https://forms.gle/Z68LPq8ge8UJgtvo6 📝
🔭 Gate pushing updates at max speed:
🔼Points Treasure Hunt #42 - limited-time GUA rewards for elite clickers
🔼GateAI goes live - intelligent market assistant enters the chat
🔼Crazy Wednesday #20 - sign up, get 100 USDT, guaranteed dopamine
🔼XPL3L / XPL3S live - leveraged ETF tokens + 30K USDT trading challenge
🔼Tokenized stocks volume >$14B - plus $500K+ USDT in active rewards
🔼Research take - low volatility persists, bull call spreads quietly stacking
🔼Futures Points Airdrop #58 - >$30 per user, faucet still on
🔼Zenchain (ZTC) first launch - fresh ticker, fresh overtrading
🔼Meme Go “X Monitor” - track KOL moves in real time, FOMO-as-a-service
🔼Gate US NextUp Chips - complete tasks, earn rewards, gamification undefeated
Gate adds AI, leverage, memes, and points - and you be active as always 🎧
🤓 Japan Plans to Plug Crypto Into the Stock Market
Japan’s finance minister says crypto should become part of stock and commodity exchange infrastructure with 2026 marked as the country’s digital finance year. Regulators are looking to reclassify major coins as financial products cut crypto tax to 20 percent and let banks trade and custody crypto like stocks
When crypto stops being the outsider and quietly enters through the main exchange door 🇯🇵
🤔 Arthur Hayes Sees Bitcoin Upside Again
In his new essay Suavemente Hayes argues politics follows gas prices not ideology and as long as fuel stays cheap the money printer keeps running. More liquidity less restraint and Bitcoin benefits even if energy headlines steal the spotlight
Gas first narratives later BTC eventually 🚀
🎰 $321 Into Millions… With a Catch
A trader turned $321 into $2.18M on a memecoin in 11 days. Now it’s worth ~$1.1M. Problem. Liquidity is only $854K
Paper millions. Real exit pain 💨
🍅 Bitcoin mining heats tomatoes
Canada pilot uses BTC mining heat to warm greenhouses. 3MW setup recycles ~90% energy as heat (water >75°C). Power cost down to ~$0.035/kWh. Less fossil fuel, year-round farming
Waste heat → food 🍔
🚀 New BTC ATH Could Come in January 2026
Tom Lee says Bitcoin hasn’t peaked yet. A new all-time high could hit by late January 2026. Early 2026 may be shaky. Second half sets the run
ETH still looks cheap 😊
💸 Strategy stays in the game
MSCI decided to keep Digital Asset Treasury Companies in its indices until the February 2026 review, despite Polymarket pricing a 75% chance of removal earlier
Strategy called it a win and thanked investors and the community for support
Index funds forced to sell can do more damage than bad fundamentals, this time Strategy dodged it ☺️
🥂 Gate opens 2026 by pressing every growth lever at once:
🔼Gate Dubai launched - VARA licensed, Middle East compliance arc officially unlocked
🔼Points Airdrop #139 - claim 0.45 / 0.95 / 1.9 GT, farmers still clocking in
🔼CandyDrop 9.0 - public airdrop, 600 SOL split for the masses
🔼gate_ventures/gate-ventures-weekly-crypto-recap-january-5-2026-4b3ce1a91a43">Gate Ventures take - ETF flows flip positive, market structure healing (slowly)
🔼Aggregated Trading Competition - swap + meme trades, share $50K in prizes
🔼Simple Earn USDT event - up to 100% APR, plus Moutai Feitian because luxury yield
🔼Perp DEX “Trading Journey” - 50K USDT for the always-online crowd
🔼Futures balance points boost - double rewards, faster airdrop unlocks
Gate goes global. CT keeps being active. Expansion complete ✏️
😫 Ledger Leaks Again
Another Ledger data leak, this time via Global-e. Names and contact info exposed. No seed phrases - but phishing risk explodes
If you ever bought a Ledger. Trust nothing in your inbox 😄
🚀 Blockchain Forum 2026
📅 April 14–15
A major gathering for the crypto and Web3 industry, bringing together founders, C-level executives, investors, and builders from across the global market
3 stages, large expo zone, side activities, and for the first time - AI Future, a dedicated track at the intersection of AI and blockchain
See you at the Forum
🎟 Tickets and details:
Promo code: POPCORN 🍷
📢 Fake USDT Scam
A man paid with fake USDT to buy electronics. Wallet showed a balance. Tokens were worth zero
Blockchain tech. Human problems 🥴
🤡 Drake sued over crypto casino promotion
A class action lawsuit in the US accuses Drake of promoting Stake.us and allegedly using it to mask money transfers as tips and pay for bots and engagement farms
Plaintiffs also claim the platform artificially boosted streams and operated as an illegal gambling service under the social casino label 👦
🔫 US Considers Seizing Venezuela’s Bitcoin Reserves
The US is reportedly exploring options to confiscate Bitcoin and crypto reserves linked to Venezuela
Sanctions are going on chain now 🪓
🥇 Top Crypto Gainers & Losers: Wednesday, January 7
📈 Top Gainers
Chintai (CHEX) +38.4%
Destra Network (DSYNC) +35.5%
zkPass (ZKP) +30.4%
📉 Top Losers
Wojak (WOJAK) −22.9%
USCR (USCR) −20.2%
dogwifhat (WIF) −17.5%
💳 Crypto Card Spending on Visa Explodes
In 2025 spending via Visa crypto cards jumped 525 percent reaching 91.3M dollars with EtherFi based cards driving most of the growth throughout the year
Looks like crypto payments quietly stopped being a niche 🪨
🪙 Ethereum Stablecoin Transfers Hit a New Record
In Q4 2025 stablecoin transfers on Ethereum surpassed 8T dollars setting a new all time high
The rails are already busy even if the price isn’t 🫡
Moonie Tower – Climb High, Win Bigger
Minibet Games
Jump higher, boost multipliers, cash out in time. One miss = zero!
Ad. 18+
📊 Prediction markets set a new record
Total volume hit $19.1B in December, a new all time high and ~35% above the previous peak. Kalshi led with $7B, followed by Opinion at $6.7B and Polymarket at $5.3B
Turns out markets really like betting on reality 📊
👒 Binance Boss: 2026 Goes Institutional
Governments and big companies step in. Not only BTC and ETH. Select alts too
Rules will decide the winners 🏆
🪓 Circle Prints Another $1B USDC
Printer stays busy 📞
🤖 Grok goes full bull on ZEC
Asked to predict Zcash by the end of 2026, Grok came back with $5,000 per coin. That’s a clean 10x from here
AI clearly didn’t check ZEC’s chart history before answering 🤖
🥇 Top Crypto Gainers & Losers: Tuesday, January 6
📈 Top Gainers
Onyxcoin (XCN) +77.4%
GeorgePlaysClash Royale (CLASH) +63.0%
CZ’s Dog (BROCCOLI) +50.5%
📉 Top Losers
Brevis (BREV) −38.1%
Audiera (BEAT) −19.5%
TronBank (TBK) −18.6%
🖥 Bitfinex Hacker Walks Free Early
The Bitfinex hacker Ilya Lichtenstein was released early. Convicted for laundering 120,000 BTC from the 2016 hack. Thanks to rehab programs and the First Step Act
Crime paid. Time served. Crypto never forgets 👀
🤡 Strategy Feels the BTC Pain
Strategy posted $17.44B unrealized losses in Q4. BTC dropped. Stock followed - down nearly 70% from 2024 peak
Maxi conviction. Heavy drawdown 🍑
😳 Circle Prints $1.25B USDC in January
The printer stays warm ⚡️
❌ Hackers Use Venezuelan Opposition Account to Shill Scam Token
Hackers took over a Venezuelan opposition leader’s Twitter account and promoted the LIBRE token on Solana using freedom slogans to lure buyers. Two hours later the project rug pulled and disappeared
Political narratives remain one of the oldest exit liquidity tricks 🍔
💰 OpenAI Pays $1.5M Bonuses in Stock
OpenAI gave employees ~$1.5M each in stock bonuses. That’s 34x the industry average. Even beats Google by 7x
AI talent war is insane 😨