Looking to the future, regardless of the final outcome of the Wash nomination, the crypto market has already entered an irreversible new phase.

Artificial intelligence has significantly reduced the cost of large-scale operations, but it has made trust difficult to establish, while blockchain technology can reshape the trust system.

Author: YQ, Crypto KOL Translation: @Golden Finance xz Since 2015, I have been deeply engaged in research in the field of scalability. From sharding technology, Plasma, application chains to Rollups, I have experienced the iteration of all technical routes. In 2021, I founded AltLayer, focusing on app Rollups and Rollup-as-a-Service solutions, maintaining deep cooperation with all mainstream Rollup technology stacks and teams in the ecosystem. Therefore, when Vitalik proposed a fundamental reconstruction of our understanding of L2, I naturally paid close attention. He most

The end of consensus is often not correctness.

Farewell to the "Mars Casino": Fixed interest rates are the key for DeFi to attract institutions and achieve a massive explosion in the credit market.

Author: Lawyer Liu Zhengyao Introduction On February 4, 2026, coinciding with the beginning of spring, a notice titled "Notice on Prohibiting Virtual Currency 'Mining' Activities" (hereinafter referred to as the "Notice") was issued by Butuo County, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province. This caused a slight ripple in the domestic crypto community. Although not many people are paying attention to this matter, as a Web3 lawyer, Lawyer Liu believes that the significance of this event is quite rich. For the general public, virtual currency may have become a distant "old story," but for regulators and the secretive practitioners of virtual currency mining in the country, this notice...

The report shows that the platform continues to advance in core areas such as multi-asset trading, on-chain derivatives, and asset management, with the trading structure and user usage scenarios continuously expanding. While maintaining the stable operation of its core business in cryptocurrency assets, Gate is accelerating its evolution into a comprehensive digital asset platform that covers traditional financial assets, on-chain trading, and yield management.

Kyle's departure is essentially a "value choice."

In the world of cryptocurrency, what can happen in 15 minutes? For most people, it's just the formation of a candlestick; but for participants in the Bitcoin short-term prediction market, it often means "a game that determines life or death."

Original | Odaily Planet Daily (@OdailyChina) Author | Wenser (@wenser 2010) BTC price continues to weaken, and the crypto market once again reaches a critical point of confidence and liquidity. Meanwhile, a public opinion storm, almost carrying a sense of "liquidation," is rapidly spreading within the industry, with its focus directed squarely at Binance. From "the market can only improve if Binance falls" to "the massive crash on October 11 is essentially Binance's problem," it seems that as long as Binance is identified as the 'culprit,' all the industry's dilemmas will have an answer...

If the core reason for the failure of binary options in 2008 was that "retail investors were not present," then today's market is exactly the opposite, with distribution channels and product strategies having matured. Cboe realizes that it is time to restart binary options contracts.

Written by: Zhang Feng On January 26, 2026, the European Commission officially announced the launch of a new formal investigation into X platform (formerly Twitter), owned by Musk, under the Digital Services Act (DSA). The core focus of this investigation is the recommendation algorithm driven by the built-in artificial intelligence model Grok on the X platform, with a particular emphasis on assessing whether this algorithm poses a risk of disseminating illegal content, including counterfeit explicit pornographic images, child sexual abuse materials, and other violations. The European Commission clearly stated that it will follow up with

Author: 0xWeilan With the mainstreaming of consensus and the influx of Wall Street funds, BTC has gradually become "a leading indicator of global liquidity and changes in risk appetite." This means that its price trends and even cycle patterns will further be constrained by the attitudes and actions of global risk capital, represented by the United States. The impact of the internal movements of the BTC market formed around the four-year halving cycle still exists, shaping the market trends and cycle patterns of this emerging asset together with new risk capital. Regarding the continuous decline of BTC since November, in December 2025