Compilation: Ken, Chaincatcher predicts that the prediction market has jumped from a niche area to a track with a scale exceeding 600 million dollars. What are the development trends for the next stage? Giants are gradually entering the market: the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group plans to launch sports markets, Coinbase is launching prediction markets, and Robinhood has acquired MIAXdx to provide an internal market, thereby reducing reliance on Kalshi. Meanwhile, Polymarket and Kalshi are competing for market share through aggressive expansion.

On January 19, 2026, the PancakeSwap governance proposal was passed and immediately executed, reducing the **maximum supply of CAKE from 450 million to 400 million**. This adjustment quickly became the focus of market attention. After the official confirmation that "the maximum supply of CAKE tokens has now been adjusted to 400 million," the new supply pattern has basically taken shape: currently, about **350 million are in circulation**, leaving only **about 50 million as buffer space** between the current amount and the new cap, corresponding to approximately **12.5% of incremental room**.

On the evening of January 19, 2026, in the UTC+8 time zone, Paradex experienced a serious incident during a database maintenance and migration process. The system encountered interruptions during maintenance, and the on-chain status was rolled back to the critical block height of **1604710**, corresponding to a UTC time of approximately 04:27. During this abnormal window, the BTC price on the platform momentarily dropped to zero, directly triggering a large number of forced liquidations of high-leverage positions. The system only returned to normal between **20:13-20:15**.

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On January 19, 2026, the entrepreneurial laboratory **YZi Labs** announced the launch of **EASY Residency Season 3**. This time, instead of recruiting in batches quarterly or semi-annually, it has directly upgraded to a **year-round rolling application mechanism**, sending a signal of "year-round availability" to the public. Official information shows that selected teams can receive up to **$500,000 in investment**, consisting of **$150,000 SAFE** and a maximum of **$350,000 unlimited SAFE**.

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This week, in the Eastern Eight Time Zone, as the BTC price on OKX fell to about $92,999.70, with a daily decline of **2.22%** and an overall weakening of risk appetite, the on-chain whale address **0x81D** chose to leverage against the trend: by borrowing **$155 million worth of USDT**, it significantly purchased about **65,700 stETH**, further amplifying its Ethereum-related long position to a total exposure of **142,777 ETH**. According to the estimates provided in the briefing, this

On January 19, 2026, Eastern Standard Time, multiple cryptocurrency and financial media outlets cited sources stating that **the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is developing a tokenized securities platform and plans to launch a 24/7 trading system covering U.S. listed stocks and ETFs**, attempting to transition U.S. stocks from "six and a half hours a day" to "year-round trading." Currently, this plan has not been officially confirmed by the NYSE, and related reports mainly come from PANews, Jinse Finance, and Odai.

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The old wealth comfort zone is collapsing...

The threat of tariffs from Trump and the uncertainty surrounding the selection of the Federal Reserve Chairman are the triggers, but from both a technical perspective and in terms of leverage and cost structure, the market needs a deep correction to clear out positions.

In mid-January, Eastern Standard Time, CoinShares' latest weekly report showed that **for the week ending January 12, 2026, the net inflow into global digital asset investment products reached a staggering $2.17 billion**, attracting significant attention in the crypto investment circle. This scale not only set a new record for recent months but was also directly defined in the report as **the largest single-week capital inflow since the market crash in late October 2025**, instantly shifting the funding sentiment from "cautious observation" to a state of "high-intensity repricing."

On January 19, 2026, at 8:00 AM UTC+8, an Ethereum address monitored by multiple institutions took a key step on-chain: after approximately two years of staking, it transferred **7,798 ETH** to **Binance**, equivalent to about **$25 million** at the time. This action was quickly captured by on-chain analysis accounts such as **Lookonchain** and was cited by several Chinese media outlets, uniformly referring to it as a “**wallet suspected to be associated with Fenbushi Capital**.”