In the East 8 Time Zone this week, Liquid Capital (formerly LD Capital) founder **Yi Lihua** responded to his ETH long and leverage strategy in several media outlets, bringing the doubts that had been circulating in the over-the-counter market to the forefront. On one side, **Bitcoin has reached a new historical high**, and ETF funds continue to flow in; on the other side, mainstream altcoins and ETH are showing sluggish trends and low trading volumes, presenting a typical "index bull, feeling bear" dislocation in the crypto market. As the

In January 2026, **Liquid Capital (formerly LD Capital)** founder Yi Lihua rarely concentrated on responding to the market's doubts about his high-leverage **ETH long positions**, laying out his personal positions along with his judgment on the next major cycle in the sunlight. On one hand, he insists that the macro turning point from interest rate hikes to cuts in the U.S. is imminent, and the crypto market is at the end of the "most difficult phase in the past four years"; on the other hand, he questions whether the four-year halving cycle has become ineffective and whether ETH is high.

This week in East 8 Time, the on-chain address **0x0a5e** made a large purchase of **843 XAUT (Tether Gold)** through Bybit, with an estimated transaction size of **approximately 4.17 million USD**, which was captured in real-time on-chain and quickly sparked discussions. Prior to this, international gold prices had surged by approximately **64%** in 2025, briefly breaking through **5000 USD/ounce**, in an environment where global risk appetite has cooled and macro uncertainties have risen, "gold has become...

On January 24, 2026, OKX officially launched the public beta of the Planet Community. Under the macro headwind of a cumulative net outflow of **$1.3241 billion** from Bitcoin ETFs this week and Coinbase's Bitcoin premium index being negative for **9 consecutive days**, the introduction of a new product that "integrates information, trading, and creator ecology" stands out as particularly counter-trend. Currently, leading exchanges are almost all focusing on community and content, with product forms being highly homogeneous, while OKX chooses to deeply bind the trading closed loop with the future.

On January 24, 2026, Eastern Standard Time, **OKX Planet Community** officially launched its public beta, introducing a comprehensive platform that integrates information, trading, creator content, and community, extending the exchange from a single matching scenario into a content and relationship network. Around this product, OKX attempts to rearrange the paths for users to obtain information, express opinions, and complete transactions through a dual-spiral narrative of "creator economy + trading behavior." Meanwhile, the U.S. **Bitcoin ETF** this week

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On January 24, 2026, the **OKX Planet Community** officially launched its public beta, targeting cryptocurrency trading users as its core audience. It is positioned as a comprehensive community product that integrates information acquisition, trading opportunity sharing, creator incentives, and deep community interaction. Unlike traditional trading interfaces that only provide market data and order entry, OKX aims to encompass the entire process from information gathering, signal filtering, to forming opinions within the same space. This week, there has been a net outflow of funds from the Bitcoin ETF in the U.S., U

This week in East Eight Zone time, after the offline gold price broke through a key level, a large transaction quickly appeared on-chain, exchanging approximately **7 million USDT for 843 XAUT**, corresponding to a value of about **4.17 million dollars** migrating towards gold-linked assets. Meanwhile, the US spot Bitcoin ETF recorded a **$1.3241 billion** scale of net outflow over the past week, with Circle's issued USDC also experiencing a net circulation volume in the same period.

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On January 24, 2026, OKX unveiled its key layout for the coming years at a strategic press conference: led by founder and CEO **Star** and the core team, it announced that the public chain **X Layer** has entered the third phase of construction, focusing on strengthening DeFi and payment capabilities, and launched the **OKX Planet Community Beta Test**, which integrates information, trading, and social capabilities. All of this is happening in a very unfriendly funding environment—this week, the U.S. Bitcoin ETF recorded approximately

On January 24, 2026, the **OKX Planet Community** launched its public beta. This product is positioned as an entry point into the crypto community that integrates news, trading, creators, and social interaction, making its first attempt to package market tools, content distribution, and interactive networks into a single product form. With the launch of the Planet Community, OKX is also actively shifting from a single functional positioning of "matching and matching again" to attempting to build a complete ecological closed loop centered around content and social interaction: information is produced and解

On January 24th, Eastern Standard Time, **a16z Crypto General Partner Arianna Simpson announced her departure and the preparation of a new fund**, a move that quickly attracted attention in the primary market and among entrepreneurs. Over the past few years, the a16z crypto team has expanded from an initial **7 people** to a large research and investment machine of over **80 people**, symbolizing a highlight moment of Wall Street and Silicon Valley capital intensively flowing into the on-chain world. Now, a mid-level partner in this company has chosen to leave as the large team matures.

On February 2, 2026, at 8:00 AM UTC+8, the Rainbow wallet will launch a public auction for the RNBW token on Uniswap through the Competitive Continuous Auction (CCA) mechanism, followed by the official issuance and trading opening on February 5. This issuance has two key highlights: first, it uses "Competitive Continuous Auction" (CCA) for price discovery, with the issuance price determined by market bidding; second, it promises that **100% of the auction proceeds will be automatically injected into the on-chain Uniswap liquidity pool**, rather than entering the project treasury.