Review of the 2025 cryptocurrency market forecast: BTC underperformed as ETF inflows struggled to offset selling pressure, airdrops remain active but require careful selection, fee switching sets a price floor, stablecoins shift towards payments but trading is hard to profit from, and the centralization issues in DeFi are prominent. The year 2025 proves that everything is about trading; the HODL culture is dead.

In 2026, the cryptocurrency market rebounded, and Chinese Meme coins in the BSC ecosystem rose, including "I'm Here", AI metaphysics "Life K-Line", and Sichuan dialect "Old Man", with market values soaring but experiencing high volatility, relying on key figures from Binance to drive their growth.

Under long-term high-intensity sanctions, Iran has gradually incorporated cryptocurrency into its national financial system to evade sanctions, maintain its proxy networks, and build a parallel geopolitical financing path outside of traditional finance.

In the coming week from January 12, 2026, to January 18, 2026, there are also these blockchain news items worth your attention.

Ondo Finance project Twitter: https://x.com/OndoFinance Project official website: https://ondo.finance/ Number of tokens unlocked this time: 1.939 billion Amount unlocked this time: approximately $780 million Ondo Finance was established in 2021, initially focusing on the Laas (liquidity services) sector. However, as the market entered a bear phase, the DeFi market cap and on-chain liquidity shrank, leading to a bottleneck in the project's development, which subsequently occurred in January 2023...

Original | Odaily Planet Daily (@OdailyChina) Author | Wenser (@wenser 2010) The recovery of the cryptocurrency market in 2026 starts with Meme coins. Overnight, "the whole world is speaking Chinese." As the old Meme coins rise first, the BSC ecosystem quickly takes over—a batch of Chinese Meme coins emerge with simple yet powerful concepts like "I'm coming" and spread rapidly, igniting a wildfire within days. In the current environment of scarce liquidity, every rise is not a coincidence, but...

Next week's key announcements On January 13, the U.S. December CPI will be released at 21:30; On January 14, Aster will open the fourth phase of airdrop inquiries; On January 15, the U.S. Senate Banking Committee has scheduled the review date for the cryptocurrency market structure bill; BitMine plans to hold its annual shareholders' meeting on January 15, 2026, to elect 8 directors and amend the company's articles of association; Federal Reserve updates On January 13 (Tuesday) at 01:30, 2027 FOMC voting member and Atlanta Fed President Bostic will give a speech; January...

Written by: Zen, PANews Telegram has recently come back into the spotlight due to a financial report directed at investors: while the revenue curve is rising, net profit has taken a downturn. The key variable here is not the slowdown in user growth, but rather the decline in the price of TON, which has "penetrated" the fluctuations in assets into the profit statement. The sale of over $450 million worth of TON tokens has led the outside world to reassess its interests and boundaries with the TON ecosystem. Due to the sluggish price of TON, Telegram's revenue has surged.

Three Key Trends for 2026: Predictive Markets, Technological Expansion, and "Staking Media."

Author: Zen, PANews Telegram has recently come back into the spotlight due to a financial report directed at investors: the revenue curve is rising, but net profit has turned downward. The key variable here is not the slowdown in user growth, but rather the decline in the price of TON, which has "penetrated" the fluctuations in assets into the profit statement. The sale of over $450 million in TON tokens has led the outside world to reassess its interests and boundaries with the TON ecosystem. Due to the sluggish price of TON, Telegram's revenue has surged, yet it still reports a net loss, according to FT's report for the first half of 2025.

Telegram has sold over $450 million worth of TON tokens, prompting the outside world to reassess its interests and boundaries with the TON ecosystem.

Original | Odaily Planet Daily (@OdailyChina) Author | Wenser (@wenser 2010) 2026, survival of the fittest. In a previous article titled "2026, Survive: A Bear Market Survival and Counterattack Manual for Crypto Enthusiasts," we systematically presented this year's "survival strategy," emphasizing the asset allocation of precious metals like gold as a key focus. For those aspiring to combat inflation, mitigate the depreciation of fiat currencies, and address issues like the decline of the US dollar exchange rate through gold, how to allocate gold-related assets has become the next challenge.

Written by: Eric, Foresight News CanGu, an automotive fintech service platform established in August 2010, went public on the New York Stock Exchange in July 2018 after raising hundreds of millions in Series B financing led by Tencent and Taikang Life. Bitmain, a cryptocurrency mining chip and hardware design, manufacturing, and mining pool operator founded in 2013, completed a total of nearly $800 million in three rounds of financing from 2017 to 2018, with a valuation once reaching $15 billion.