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🥂 Gate doing everything across staking, memes, and perps:
🔼ETH staking hits 166,120 - new ATH, 9.73% APR, yield hunters wide awake
🔼BountyDrop x X1 EcoChain - another airdrop side quest unlocked
🔼NIGHT3L / NIGHT3S live - leveraged ETF tokens + 30K USDT trading challenge
🔼“我踏马来了” airdrop - 12M tokens, culture officially tokenized
🔼VIP Airdrop Carnival + Super Friday - premium dopamine for upper tiers
🔼马勒戈币 +936% intraday - Gate Fun doing Gate Fun things
🔼Public Chain Trading Comp (Phase 1) - $50K airdrops, competition arc begins
🔼Perp DEX On-Chain Newcomer Challenge - 20K USDT to learn by pain
🔼Research take - wallets becoming the front door, CEXs leaking on-chain
🔼ZAMA perps pre-market - price discovery before agreement
🔼Gate Australia NextUp - emerging projects, but compliant
🔼Futures Points Airdrop - 6M XCN sprayed across the ecosystem
Gate ships everything everywhere. CT is being active on all 🎩
🗑 50,000 tokens launched per day on Solana
Permissionless innovation.Permissionless landfill 😎
😎 Privacy is the key edge in 2026
Andreessen Horowitz says privacy will be the main competitive advantage for blockchain networks next year. ZK tech and private-by-default apps move from “nice to have” to must-have
The race isn’t for speed anymore - it’s for privacy 🚽
🇻🇪 Venezuela Stock Market Jumps 75 Percent
The Venezuelan stock market is up 75 percent since Maduro was taken into custody by US authorities
Turns out markets really like regime change rumors 🍔
🌀 Willy Woo Says the 4 Year Cycle Isn’t Dead Yet
Willy Woo argues it’s too early to declare the end of Bitcoin’s four year cycles as capital inflows are slowing in a very familiar pattern
Turns out old cycles don’t disappear just because everyone is tired of them 👍
🐂 Bull Run Officially Over
Satoshi Nakamoto is apparently delivering McDonald’s now
Pack it up markets this is the real top 🍔
🔮 VanEck Sees Bitcoin at 2.9 Million by 2050
Analysts say BTC could become a global settlement currency used for trade and even added to central bank reserves
From internet money to central bank money was that really the craziest idea 🍷
☠️ Truebit reportedly hacked
~8,535 ETH stolen ($26.4M), according to CertiKAlert
Another protocol. Another lesson 🤓
😲 Gate pressing every button at once, again:
🔼DeepNode (DN) first listing - new ticker unlocked, charts warming up
🔼Convert Lucky Draw #1 - trade $1, get a 100% guaranteed prize
🔼New leveraged ETFs live - CC3L/S + XAUT3L/S, 30K USDT trading challenge attached
🔼Points Airdrop #140 - claim 0.49 / 0.97 / 1.94 GT, muscle memory intact
🔼Soft Staking >1M users - plus Smart Leverage for “safer” risk-taking
🔼我踏马来了 first launch - +423.91% intraday, CT moment secured
🔼GT Q4 burn completed - total burned value now >$1.9B, supply discipline flex
🔼Blue Chip Escort Week II - gas-free blue-chip trading, luxury mode on
🔼Futures Points Airdrop #59 - >$32 per user, faucet still very open
Gate ships products. CT ships activity around. Numbers go up 😎
🤖 Grok Picks Bitcoin Over a Salary
Grok says it would rather earn 1 BTC per year than take a 250K dollar salary because supply is capped and long term upside beats fixed pay
So what do you choose steady cash or digital scarcity 🤔
💥 Wallet Buys the Top Perfectly
A new wallet spent 250K USDT to buy 114514 at the peak and watched it dump to 34 380 USDT locking in an 86 percent loss. Earlier someone else pulled a legendary x6800 on the same token
Same coin very different life lessons 💥
📢 3 FRESH DROPS YOU SHOULDN’T MISS
🔥 Hotstuff
New testnet activities are live
Trade and complete tasks on the Hotstuff testnet
🧠 Intuition
Rewards claim for Epoch 3 is open
Rewards are distributed for TRUST staking
Check and claim on the Intuition portal
🧬 Brevis
Airdrop claim in BREV tokens is live
Claim your tokens on the Brevis claim page
Token already trading on Binance, OKX, Bybit, Bitget and more
⚠️ We’re just sharing alpha. Always DYOR 🧠
📉 Bitcoin Unlikely to Hit New ATH in 2026
Material Indicators expect BTC to revisit the 87.5K zone with big players positioning for a retest before any real rally
Death cross on the weekly and multiple sell signals suggest the bear trend isn’t done yet despite short term bounces
ATH delayed until at least 2027 unless Bitcoin decides to ignore the charts again😲
🥇 Top Crypto Gainers & Losers: Friday, January 9
📈 Top Gainers
Islamic Coin (ISLM) +464.5%
Palladium Network (PLLD) +120.4%
DeepNode (DN) +68.4%
📉 Top Losers
aelf (ELF) −16.4%
River (RIVER) −15.2%
Frax (FRAX) −15.1%
😶 Kalshi trader bets on $150K BTC this month
Bet: $1,928. Potential payout: $80,650
High risk, massive upside 😱
🍷 Ray Dalio Says the Dollar Is Weakening
Dalio says US stocks rose mostly because the dollar fell not because assets truly got more valuable. Gold was the real winner in 2025 while equities delivered negative returns in real terms
When numbers go up but purchasing power goes down 😱
😁 Venezuelan Exiles Troll Maduro From Afar
Venezuelans who fled to the US are sending letters to Maduro in prison filled with memes and jokes mocking their former dictator
Turns out exile comes with unlimited internet and zero mercy 📨
🇬🇱 Greenland as the Next Bitcoin Mine
Andrew Tate says Greenland is being eyed as a key BTC mining hub thanks to cheap energy and cold weather. The idea is simple mine Bitcoin below market cost and stack it as a strategic asset
From icebergs to hash rate geopolitics keeps getting colder 🧊
🕺 Cathie Wood Hints at US Bitcoin Reserve
Cathie Wood says the US government could soon start buying BTC for a national reserve
From banning Bitcoin to stockpiling it real quick isn’t it 👦
😱 Finland heats homes with AI data centers
Microsoft and Google use AI server heat to warm cities. Hot water from data centers goes straight into district heating. Google covers ~80% of Hamina. Microsoft heats ~40% of Espoo
AI goes brrr. Homes stay warm 💊
🚬 JPMorgan: Crypto sell-off is nearing the end
Analysts say BTC & ETH ETF outflows are stabilizing, and the main risk-off phase is likely over. The recent drop wasn’t a liquidity issue - just position rotation after a strong 2025 rally. Derivatives and CME futures are also showing bottoming signals
Markets may be entering a stabilization phase 🤪
🥇 Top Crypto Gainers & Losers: Wednesday, January 8
📈 Top Gainers
NUMINE Token (NUMI) +228.8%
Frax (FRAX) +46.5%
Wrapped FRAX (WFRAX) +39.0%
📉 Top Losers
BinanceLife (币安人生) −30.0%
TronBank (TBK) −25.9%
Brevis (BREV) −21.3%
💸 Bitcoin Whales Loaded Up in 2025
The biggest BTC holders accumulated $40B worth of Bitcoin this year
Smart money didn’t leave. It doubled down 🤑
🪙 Ethereum staking flips fully bullish
The validator exit queue just dropped to zero for the first time since July 2025 with unstaking taking only minutes. Meanwhile over 1.3M ETH is waiting to enter staking
Nobody wants out everyone wants in 👍
🇧🇷 Brazil presidential candidate calls for a national Bitcoin reserve
Renan Santos says Brazil should start building a strategic BTC reserve, similar to El Salvador. The proposal is part of his election program
Bitcoin as a tool to diversify national reserves 👍
👏 El Salvador Keeps Buying BTC
El Salvador has been stacking Bitcoin for reserves all year. No pauses. No hesitation
Country-level HODL 🍷