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According to BlockBeats, on January 11, Vitalik Buterin expressed the need for improved decentralized stablecoins in the current crypto industry, identifying three main issues that require resolution. Firstly, Buterin suggests finding a more suitable index to track than the U.S. dollar price. One of the visions for national-level resistance should be to reduce reliance on the dollar. Secondly, he emphasizes the importance of designing decentralized oracles that cannot be controlled by large sums of money. If oracles can be bought by significant financial resources, protocols would need to extract high value to make attack costs exceed the protocol's market value as a defense mechanism. Lastly, Buterin points out the challenge of competitive staking yields. If stablecoins cannot offer competitive returns, often lagging behind staking yields by several percentage points, they may struggle to attract funds in the long term.

According to PANews, crypto analyst Willy Woo has expressed optimism about Bitcoin's performance from late January to February, while maintaining a bearish outlook for 2026.Woo stated that an internal investor capital flow model predicts Bitcoin hit its bottom on December 24 and has been steadily strengthening since. Typically, it takes 2-3 weeks for such trends to reflect in prices, which appears to be happening now, albeit restrained by short-term technical indicators showing overbought conditions. Another positive factor is the recovery of fiat liquidity in the futures market after months of stagnation, similar to mid-2021, which led to the second peak of the previous cycle. Therefore, the resistance level of $98,000 to $100,000 needs to hold. If this resistance is breached, attention should turn to the resistance at the all-time high (ATH).However, Woo remains bearish for 2026, citing a broader perspective where liquidity relative to price momentum has been weakening since January 2025. Currently, the market is in a hotspot phase lacking sufficient liquidity support for momentum. Woo's outlook would change only if substantial spot (long-term) liquidity enters the market in the coming months, breaking the downward trend. It is noteworthy that a bear market has not yet been confirmed, which would be indicated by sustained outflows of Bitcoin funds, a lagging indicator of a cycle peak.

According to PANews, Andrei Grachev, co-founder of DWF Labs, announced on the X platform that the firm has already completed its first $1 million seed round investment in a DeFi project this year. Further details and transaction information will be disclosed later.

According to BlockBeats, data from DefiLlama indicates that the total market capitalization of stablecoins saw a minor increase of 0.13% this week, reaching $308.11 billion, maintaining its historical high. Among these, USDT holds a market share of 60.64%.

On Jan 11, 2026, 05:45 AM(UTC). According to Binance Market Data, Ethereum has crossed the 3,100 USDT benchmark and is now trading at 3,100.540039 USDT, with a narrowed 0.43% increase in 24 hours.

According to PANews, Santiment analyst Brian Quinlivan noted in a YouTube video that Ethereum's current low social media sentiment resembles the levels seen before its price surge in 2025. This previous increase eventually propelled Ethereum back to its all-time high in 2021.

According to ChainCatcher, crypto analyst defioasis.eth shared on the X platform that the nominal trading volume of BSC prediction markets has surpassed $400 million in a single day for the third time, with Opinion accounting for 86.7% of the share. Predict Fun reached a record nominal trading volume of $37 million, with daily fee revenue hitting $136,000, setting a new historical record.The holdings of the three major BSC prediction markets continue to reach new highs, with a total scale of $150 million, which is approximately double the size of Polymarket and Kalshi. Following the conclusion of the holiday events, Opinion's trading users and transaction numbers experienced a decline but have since rebounded from their lows.

According to BlockBeats, as of January 11, the Buffett Indicator, which measures the ratio of the total U.S. stock market valuation to GDP, is approximately 223%–224%, with some sources indicating it is nearing 230%. This marks the highest level in history, surpassing the peak of the internet bubble in 2000, which was around 150%, and the post-pandemic high in 2021. Historically, the long-term average of this indicator has been approximately 80%–100% since 1970, with a range of 100%–120% considered a 'reasonable valuation' zone. The Buffett Indicator is one of the key market valuation metrics favored by Warren Buffett, who has described it as "the best single measure of where valuations stand at any given moment."

According to PANews, Anoma co-founder Christopher Goes has stated that the Cosmos ecosystem is nearing collapse. He noted that several projects have already shut down, such as Penumbra, while others like Osmosis have shifted to maintenance mode and redirected their resources elsewhere. Additionally, some projects, including Noble, are departing from the Cosmos network.

According to Foresight News, monitoring by @ai_9684xtpa reveals that a Vitalik-associated address transferred 330 ETH to Paxos 11 hours ago. This address previously received 50.1 ETH from Vitalik's public address, vitalik.eth, two years ago. This marks the second token deposit to Paxos since January 2025.

On Jan 11, 2026, 02:47 AM(UTC). According to Binance Market Data, BNB has crossed the 910 USDT benchmark and is now trading at 910 USDT, with a narrowed 1.16% increase in 24 hours.

According to Odaily, Nikita Bier, the product lead for X and advisor to Solana, recently commented on the X platform about a prevalent belief in the crypto tweet (CT) community. Since October last year, it has been suggested that users need to engage in numerous daily replies to grow their accounts. Bier argued that frequent posting depletes daily influence, as the average user only views about 20–30 posts per day. The platform cannot fully deliver all content from a single user to their followers, leading some crypto users to waste influence on low-value interactions like 'gm,' limiting reach when announcing substantial project updates. Bier believes the decline in crypto tweet influence is primarily due to community behavior rather than platform algorithm issues, describing the situation as 'CT is dying from suicide.' His remarks sparked controversy within the crypto community. KALEO, a crypto analyst and co-founder of LedgArt, criticized Bier for not considering user growth and long-term active users, suggesting that his approach might weaken the crypto community ecosystem on the X platform. KALEO publicly called for Bier's resignation. Bier has since deleted the related tweets.

According to PANews, Elon Musk has announced on the X platform that the algorithm used to recommend natural search content and advertisements to users will be open-sourced within seven days. This process will be repeated every four weeks and will include detailed developer instructions. Previously, CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ju noted on the X platform that bots posted 7,754,367 crypto-related messages yesterday, marking a 1,224% increase. This surge led to the X platform algorithm blocking cryptocurrency-related posts.

According to BlockBeats, on January 11, Onchain Lens reported that Bitmine has staked an additional 86,400 ETH, valued at $266.3 million. This brings their total staked Ethereum to 1,052,192 ETH, worth $3.25 billion.

According to BlockBeats, a data breach on Instagram has exposed sensitive information of approximately 17.5 million users, including usernames, email addresses, phone numbers, and physical addresses. The compromised data has reportedly been sold on the dark web and may be used for phishing attacks and account takeovers. Malwarebytes, a security company, suggests the incident might be linked to an API exposure issue from Instagram in 2024. Affected users have been receiving frequent password reset emails. As of now, Meta has not issued an official response. Security experts recommend users enable two-factor authentication (2FA) and change their passwords to enhance account security.

According to BlockBeats On-chain Detection, on January 11, crypto analyst Cryptosolv reported a 40% decrease in the total value locked (TVL) of the '100 ETH' pool on Tornado Cash over the past week, with 120,600 ETH being transferred. Onchain Lens indicated that the addresses involved belong to crypto developer Richard Heart, suggesting that the wallet may be connected to his new project, ProveX. Over the last four months, Heart has transferred 162,937 ETH through Tornado Cash. Public information reveals that ProveX aims to facilitate completely trustless, peer-to-peer (P2P) cryptocurrency transactions and settlements using Zero-Knowledge Proofs technology.

According to PANews, Tether, the issuer of the USDT stablecoin, has successfully registered the trademark for its asset tokenization platform, Hadron, in Russia. The application was submitted in October 2025, and the Russian Federal Intellectual Property Office (Rospatent) approved the registration in January 2026. Tether now holds exclusive rights to the trademark, which will remain valid until October 3, 2035. The trademark covers blockchain financial services, cryptocurrency trading and exchange, crypto payment processing, and related consulting services.

According to BlockBeats, Ethereum Layer 2 network Starknet has released an analysis report regarding the brief mainnet outage that occurred on January 11. The report identifies the cause of the incident as a state inconsistency between the execution layer (blockifier) and the proof layer. This inconsistency arose from a specific combination of cross-function calls and rollbacks, leading the execution layer to incorrectly record a rolled-back state, resulting in transaction execution errors. The affected transactions did not receive L1 finality confirmation. The incident triggered a block reorganization, causing approximately 18 minutes of on-chain activity to be rolled back. This marks the second major disruption since 2025, with a previous outage in September caused by a sequencer vulnerability that led to over five hours of downtime and a rollback of about one hour of on-chain activity.

According to ChainCatcher, data from Coinglass indicates that if Ethereum surpasses $3,227, the cumulative liquidation intensity of short positions on major centralized exchanges will reach $487 million. Conversely, if Ethereum falls below $2,952, the cumulative liquidation intensity of long positions on these exchanges will also reach $487 million.

According to Cointelegraph, the Bitcoin (BTC) network mining difficulty, which measures the computational challenge of adding a new block to the blockchain, slightly decreased to 146.4 trillion on Thursday. This marks the first difficulty adjustment of 2026. The next adjustment is anticipated to occur on January 22, 2026, at 04:08:12 AM UTC, with an expected increase in difficulty from 146.47 trillion to 148.20 trillion, as reported by CoinWarz. Currently, average block times are at 9.88 minutes, slightly below the 10-minute target, indicating a forthcoming increase in difficulty to better align with the target block time.In 2025, Bitcoin mining difficulty reached new all-time highs, with the final adjustment of the year slightly increasing the difficulty level. Despite this increase, the difficulty remained below the record high of 155.9 trillion observed in November. The rising difficulty signifies heightened competition for mining blocks, posing additional challenges to the mining industry, which faced macroeconomic, regulatory, and financial obstacles throughout 2025. The year was marked by a challenging margin environment for Bitcoin miners, exacerbated by the April 2024 halving that reduced the block subsidy by 50% and various macroeconomic factors.The downturn in the crypto market, which began in November, further pressured miners and mining companies. Miner hash price, a crucial metric for profitability that tracks expected revenue per unit of computing power, fell below breakeven levels in November 2025. This metric dropped to a multi-year low of below $35 per petahash-second per day, forcing miners to reconsider whether to continue operations. Additionally, tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump added strain to Bitcoin miners, raising concerns about supply chain shortages.A sharp decline in the crypto market, triggered by a flash crash in October, led to a 30% drop in BTC prices in November, with Bitcoin reaching a low just above $80,000. Although Bitcoin prices have since rebounded, they remain significantly below the all-time high of over $125,000 achieved in October.