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BlockBeats news, January 14, the Solana ecosystem social token platform Believe App has released the v2 beta iOS version, introducing a 'human emotion market' trading mechanism: users can perpetually bet on the rise or fall of individual reputation using Believe and Doubt tokens. The first market corresponds to the founder Ben Pasternak, with the current 'belief score' at 62%. This market never settles and maintains the sum of Believe + Doubt constantly at $1.

The project team stated that initially, they will focus on 'manually deploying high-profile individuals,' with potential future expansion to any X account and the introduction of a revenue-sharing mechanism. Overall, this version aims to use 'real-time emotion tracking' as an entry point, simplifying the transition path from Meme tokens to prediction markets.

BlockBeats news, January 14, according to DefiLlama data, Aave's share in the DeFi lending market has surpassed 51.3%, marking the first time since 2020 that a single protocol has exceeded 50% usage. The top 10 lending protocols by TVL are as follows:

Aave's current DeFi lending TVL is approximately $3.583 billion, accounting for about 51.3% market share;

Morpho's current DeFi lending TVL is approximately $686.1 million, accounting for about 9.8% market share;

JustLend's current DeFi lending TVL is approximately $401.5 million, accounting for about 5.8% market share;

SparkLend's current DeFi lending TVL is approximately $381.1 million, accounting for about 5.5% market share;

BlockBeats news, January 14, according to GMGN monitoring, the market as a whole has rebounded today, but Chinese Meme coins on the BSC chain have shown significant divergence in performance. The BSC chain Meme coin "Binance Life" has seen a 45% increase over the past 24 hours, with a market cap currently at $260 million, and the current price is approximately $0.26. In contrast, due to shifting attention, several Chinese Meme coins that saw significant gains in recent days did not follow the overall market rise, but instead generally declined, with most dropping nearly 40% over the past 24 hours. Specific details are as follows:

"I'm damn here": 39% drop over 24 hours, market cap currently at $16.9 million, current price approximately $0.0169;

BlockBeats news, January 14, according to (Fox Business), Meta will conduct its latest round of layoffs in early 2026, primarily targeting its Reality Labs division (responsible for VR/AR hardware and metaverse projects), marking a significant strategic retreat from Zuckerberg's 'metaverse' vision that he has been vigorously promoting since 2014. Meta will cut 10% of the employees in the Reality Labs division, equivalent to over 1,000 positions, and affected employees have been notified starting from this Tuesday.

Meta is shifting from metaverse products to wearable devices, particularly AI-powered smart glasses. Its metaverse projects have suffered severe long-term losses; Reality Labs has accumulated operating losses exceeding $70 billion since 2021, with a loss of $4.4 billion in the third quarter of fiscal year 2025 alone.

BlockBeats news, January 14, according to Hyperinsight monitoring, the 'Aggressive Long Pioneer' trader (0x3bcae) liquidated 250 BTC long positions at 14:02, incurring a loss of $104,000, current position as follows:

10x leverage long 2,492,537,310 PUMP, entry price $0.0024, unrealized profit $790,000;

10x leverage long 15,285,248.7 FARTCOIN, entry price $0.3733, unrealized profit $665,000;

10x leverage long 100,000 LTC, entry price $76.83, unrealized profit $135,000.

This address started perpetual contract trading on January 11, focusing on high-frequency long leveraged trading strategy, total net profit over the entire period $1,640,000.

BlockBeats news, January 14, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, a major whale transferred out 12,000 ETH from Binance, worth $39.98 million.

Currently, this whale holds a total of 80,980 ETH, worth $269.46 million.

BlockBeats news, January 14, ANZ Bank senior commodities strategist Daniel Haines stated that after a strong performance in 2025, gold and silver remain optimistic for 2026. Renewed geopolitical tensions, concerns about the independence of the Federal Reserve, and the lack of U.S. fiscal discipline may continue to drive capital inflows into the gold market. Regarding silver, physical supply shortages are intensifying price volatility.

Haines believes that if U.S. import tariff exemptions are confirmed, supply pressures will ease, but market undersupply, strong industrial demand, and other factors will still provide solid support for prices. The bank expects gold trading prices to exceed $5,000 per ounce in the second half of the year. (Jin10)

BlockBeats news, January 14: Despite ETH price remaining in a sideways consolidation phase, new Ethereum wallet creation reached an all-time high last week, with strong network adoption rebounding. An average of 327,000 new Ethereum wallets were created daily over the past week, peaking at over 393,000 new wallets on Sunday—the highest single-day record in history. The total number of non-empty Ethereum wallets (addresses holding at least some ETH) reached a record high of 172.9 million.

The Fusaka upgrade, launched at the beginning of December 2025, optimized on-chain data processing, significantly reducing the cost of Layer 2 networks submitting data to the mainnet, making Ethereum cheaper and easier to use, especially when interacting with rollups and dApps. At the same time, stablecoin activity on Ethereum surged, with total stablecoin transactions in Q4 2025 reaching a record over $8 trillion, demonstrating Ethereum's growing use for payments and settlements rather than pure speculation. Santiment noted: "This genuine financial activity often attracts new participants to create wallets for sending, receiving, or holding stablecoins and other tokens."

BlockBeats news, January 14, multiple Bitcoin advocacy organizations including the Bitcoin Policy Institute recently jointly wrote to U.S. congressional tax leaders, urging to expand the minimum exemption scope to Bitcoin and major network tokens, not just stablecoins. The coalition proposes treating stablecoins meeting the GENIUS standard as cash-like, while setting a market capitalization threshold of $25 billion for qualifying network tokens to determine eligibility for exemption, and establishing a single transaction limit of $600 and an annual cap of $20,000.

BlockBeats news, January 14, according to HyperInsight monitoring, in the past hour, the 'on-chain part-time investor' whale reduced its 20x leveraged short positions in ETH, BTC, and SOL, with the total position size decreasing by approximately $3.5 million. The liquidation continues as of the time of this report. Compared to last week, the total position size has dropped from $45.6 million to $14.5 million, and the BTC short position has been fully liquidated.

Meanwhile, the address is still continuously increasing its 5x leveraged short positions in on-chain gold (PAXG) and XRP, and currently holds the largest short position in PAXG assets. The current main holdings are:

BlockBeats news, January 14, according to Forbes, cryptocurrency fraud has become a massive criminal industry with an annual scale of at least $14 billion in 2025, largely driven by the widespread adoption of AI tools that enable fraudsters to create fake identities and deepfakes more efficiently, producing more convincing scam content and significantly increasing average scam profits. Statistics show that gangs using AI tools average $3.2 million per successful scam, while those not using AI average $719,000 per scam, meaning the former causes losses 4.5 times greater than the latter.

BlockBeats news, January 14, according to Hyperinsight monitoring, a whale has turned bearish on the market, shorting 54.77 BTC (approximately $5.2 million) at 10x leverage at 13:24, with an entry average price of $94,986, currently showing a slight unrealized profit.

BlockBeats news: On January 14, according to Hyperinsight monitoring, after liquidating $413 million long positions and making a profit of $14.5 million, the 'Strategy counterpart' has turned back to shorting. Currently, it is shorting 315.89 BTC (approximately $30 million) with 20x leverage, 901.85 ETH (approximately $3 million), and 13,800 SOL (approximately $2 million), with the account currently in a slight floating loss.

This address established short positions in BTC, ETH, and other major cryptocurrencies during the Strategy's continuous accumulation of BTC, at one point holding a position worth $120 million and becoming the largest BTC short on Hyperliquid.

BlockBeats news, January 14, cryptomarket market maker Wintermute analyzed in its digital asset over-the-counter market review: The traditional four-year cycle of Bitcoin in 2025 showed weak performance, and the altcoin cycle has nearly disappeared—this is not a temporary adjustment but a structural shift. Therefore, for the crypto market to see a genuine strong rebound in 2026, it heavily depends on the occurrence of at least one of the following three key outcomes:

ETFs and crypto treasury (DAT) companies will expand their investment scope beyond Bitcoin and Ethereum. Currently, U.S. spot BTC/ETH ETFs concentrate liquidity heavily on a few major-cap tokens, narrowing market breadth and causing severe performance divergence. Only when more tokens are included by institutions via ETFs or corporate treasuries can broader market participation and liquidity be restored.

BlockBeats news, January 14, according to HTX market data, Bitcoin has fallen below $95,000, with its 24-hour gain narrowing to 3.2%.

BlockBeats news, January 14, the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to issue a ruling on the Trump tariff case on Wednesday, January 14. Previous analysis indicated that a 'tariff illegal ruling' could trigger massive tariff refunds, which typically require years of case-by-case litigation, resulting in an immediate cash flow impact. White House economic advisor Hasset stated that if they do not win the tariff lawsuit at the Supreme Court, 'we still have other ways to achieve the same goal.'

Tonight at 21:30 (UTC+8), the U.S. will release the November retail sales month-on-month rate, previous value 0.00%, expected 0.4%; release the November PPI year-on-year rate, expected 2.7%; release the November PPI month-on-month rate, expected 0.2%.

BlockBeats news, January 14, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, an address starting with 0x10D9 withdrew 139,950 LINK from Binance, worth approximately $1.96 million. The address currently holds 342,557 LINK, worth about $4.81 million, all withdrawn from exchanges within the past two days.

BlockBeats news, January 14, Korea's largest financial group KB Financial Group's subsidiary 'KB National Card' has applied for a patent on innovative payment technology, enabling users to make payments using stablecoins through their existing credit cards. The hybrid payment system links users' blockchain wallets with their credit cards, prioritizing the use of stablecoins from the wallet, with any shortfall automatically covered by the credit card.

KB Financial Group stated that this technology preserves the existing card payment infrastructure and user experience while lowering the barrier to digital asset payments, promoting the mainstream adoption of stablecoins.

BlockBeats news, January 14, according to Hyperinsight monitoring, the trader with the largest short position on gold tokens is currently shorting 2,846.19 gold tokens PAX Gold (PAXG) with 5x leverage, with an entry average price of $4,525.95, resulting in a floating loss of $320,000.

This address went long on 7.71 BTC today with 20x leverage at an average price of $94,489.2, currently showing a small floating profit.

Original Title: The final spot on the list of potential Federal Reserve Chair candidates, Rick Rieder's stance on crypto?

Original Author: CryptoLeo, Odaily Star Times

The complete list of potential Federal Reserve Chair candidates was finalized yesterday. Yesterday, Trump stated he would interview BlackRock's Global Fixed Income Chief Investment Officer Rick Rieder on Thursday to assess his potential as the next Federal Reserve Chair, marking the fourth and final interview for a successor to Federal Reserve Chair Powell. Besides Rieder, the final shortlist also includes former Federal Reserve Governor Kevin Warsh, National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett, and Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller. Trump said he will make his final decision in January.