January 15th, MilkyWay Protocol announced that it is gradually winding down its operations and will be shut down permanently. MilkyWay stated that the demand for decentralized finance did not meet expectations, the WayCard was launched too late, and did not alleviate the funding pressure in time.MilkyWay's revenue mainly came from the liquidity staking fee, with the protocol holding a 10% share. As part of the shutdown process, USDC will be proportionally distributed to eligible snapshot holders to refund the earned protocol fees back to MILK token holders.

January 15th, according to official sources, the BNB Foundation has officially announced that BNB Chain has successfully completed the 34th quarterly BNB token burn. Here are the key details of this burn:Total Burned: 1,371,803.77 BNB;Approximate Value at Burn: 1.277 Billion U.S. Dollars;Total Remaining Supply: 136,361,374.34 BNB.

January 15th, according to the Huobi HTX announcement, Huobi HTX will open LIT's deposit service on January 15th at 19:30 (GMT+8). The LIT/USDT spot trading will open on January 15th at 22:30 (GMT+8). The withdrawal service for LIT will open on January 16th at 22:30 (GMT+8).It is reported that Lighter is a decentralized exchange built for superior security and scalability. It is the first exchange to offer "verifiable order matching and settlement" functionality while delivering top-tier performance comparable to traditional exchanges.

January 15th, "BTC OG Insider Whale" agent Garrett Jin posted, stating, "As we analyzed before: yesterday the Nasdaq index fell, while the Russell 2000 index outperformed."This is a typical "risk-on rotation," indicating that market risk appetite is increasing, with funds continuing to flow into high-beta crypto assets.Bitcoin and Ethereum are currently in a bullish continuation phase, with further upside potential to come."

January 15th, according to the Validator Queue tracking website validatorqueue data, the current queue waiting to join the Ethereum PoS network ETH amount continues to rise to 2,554,732, worth approximately $8.59 billion, with an estimated activation delay of about 44 days 8 hours. The main reason is that BitMine recently staked a large amount of ETH it holds.On the other hand, the amount of ETH exiting the Ethereum PoS network queue is only 64, worth approximately $215,000, with an exit waiting time of about 2 minutes.

January 15, WEEX announced that the platform has officially launched U-based perpetual contracts for Apple (AAPL), Coinbase (COIN), NVIDIA (NVDA), and MicroStrategy (MSTR) tokenized stocks today, supporting up to 20 times leverage and 24/7 continuous trading. Users can seize more investment opportunities through contract long and short trading as well as leverage trading, enhancing capital utilization efficiency.In addition, WEEX has newly listed 7 tokenized stocks and government bonds today, including CEGON, SGOVON, USFRON, ATTON, CON, CVNAON, JNJON, and more. So far, WEEX has cumulatively listed 32 tokenized securities projects, committed to creating a one-stop trading platform covering RWA assets such as cryptocurrency, tokenized stocks, bonds, and precious metals.

January 15, According to The Block, London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) announced today the launch of the London Stock Exchange Group Digital Settlement House (LSEG DiSH), a platform designed to leverage blockchain technology for 24/7 real-time commercial bank tokenized deposits settlement. LSEG DiSH supports multi-currency and cross-network settlement, provides dynamic intraday liquidity management, synchronized settlement (PvP/DvP), and risk reduction capabilities, and is operated by the LSEG Post Trade Solutions division.The platform can settle not only on its own ledger but also serve as a notary to support settlement on connected networks. Currently, LSEG has completed a proof of concept (PoC) on the Canton Network with software company Digital Asset and a consortium of financial institutions, successfully achieving same-day cross-currency and asset type repo transactions. Additionally, LSEG previously launched a blockchain platform for private funds in September 2025.

January 15th, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, Whale '0xBd8' has closed a 5x HYPE long position, losing approximately $7.18 million.Overall, the whale lost $8.09 million and withdrew the remaining funds from HyperLiquid.

January 15th, White House Cryptocurrency and AI Czar David Sacks wrote that the "likelihood of market structure legislation passing is now closer than ever before. The cryptocurrency industry should take advantage of the current lull to resolve all remaining differences. Now is the best time to establish industry rules and safeguard the industry's future development."The White House remains committed to working with Senate Banking Committee Chairman Scott, committee members, and industry stakeholders to expeditiously advance bipartisan-supported cryptocurrency market structure legislation.Previously reported, key supporters such as Coinbase opposed the current version of the "CLARITY Act," and the Senate Banking Committee has postponed the "CLARITY Act" markup hearing. It is currently unclear when the hearing will take place. The bill aims to clarify regulatory jurisdiction between the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission, define when digital assets should be classified as securities or commodities, and establish new disclosure requirements.

January 15, Base Chain-based sports prediction app Football.Fun announced the airdrop details: The airdrop will start shortly after the TGE ends and will be fully distributed within one hour.This airdrop did not conduct a traditional snapshot, and eligibility will be based on users' comprehensive in-game activity. If qualified, FUN will be sent directly to the in-game wallet and displayed on the FUN rewards page. The first season will start after the airdrop is completed for all eligible users. An additional 20 million FUN will also be airdropped in four seasons within the first month after TGE, with each season lasting one week.

January 15th, ZK Smart Verifiable Computing Platform Brevis announced further collaboration with BNB Chain, jointly building the "Intelligent Privacy Pool" with 0xbow. The product is expected to be officially launched on BNB Chain in the first quarter of 2026.Technical Implementation Pathway: This privacy pool is built on 0xbow's core functionality and introduces a ZK-driven eligibility verification mechanism. By integrating the Brevis ZK Data Coprocessor, users can zero-knowledge proof the source of on-chain data; at the same time, combined with zkTLS technology, users can bind off-chain KYC information. This allows users to complete on-chain compliance proof without revealing sensitive data.As the first landing application of the "Three-Dimensional Privacy Framework" jointly promoted by three parties, the project systematically defines the privacy infrastructure from three dimensions: defining the specific content of privacy protection; specifying the compliance disclosure path in necessary scenarios; setting the ownership and management of access rights and other core elements.

January 15th, according to Cointelegraph, Ethereum network's daily transaction count reached 2.6 million on January 14th, hitting a new all-time high.

January 15th. According to CCTV News, recently, the leader of a major cross-border gambling and fraud crime group, Chen Zhi, was lawfully extradited back to China from Cambodia. Chen Zhi's criminal group is suspected of fraud, running casinos, illegal operations, and concealing and disguising proceeds of crime, among other crimes. The case is currently under investigation. In order to implement a criminal policy of combining severity with mercy, punish gambling and fraud crimes according to the law, and at the same time provide an opportunity for crime suspects on the run to reform and seek leniency, in accordance with relevant legal provisions, the following special notice is hereby given: From the date of this notice to February 15, 2026, crime suspects are encouraged to voluntarily surrender to the public security organs, confess their crimes truthfully, and may receive lenient treatment or mitigated punishment according to the law. Those who threaten, retaliate, or obstruct self-surrendering suspects will be criminally prosecuted according to the law.The public security organs urge relevant crime suspects to understand the situation, cherish the opportunity, surrender to the public security organs in their place of household registration as soon as possible, and seek leniency. Those who refuse to surrender voluntarily will be publicly wanted by the public security organs, pursued to the fullest extent, and punished according to the law.

January 15th, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, trader '0x006' has made a profit of $1.34 million on Polymarket in the past 24 hours.Overall, the whale has made a profit of over $3.8 million.

January 15, according to the official announcement, OKX will list LIT (Lighter) spot trading, and the specific schedule is as follows:LIT Deposit Open: January 15, 2026, 19:00 (UTC+8)LIT Early Trading: January 15, 2026, 22:30 to 23:30 (UTC+8)LIT/USDT Spot Trading Opens: January 15, 2026, 23:30 (UTC+8)LIT Withdrawal Open: January 16, 2026, 01:30 (UTC+8)