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Author: Fu Shaoqing, SatoshiLab, Everything Island BTC Studio This article has a total of 12,306 words, estimated reading time: 45 minutes. Table of Contents 1. The eagerly anticipated 2025 feels so desolate 1.1. Everyone is filled with expectations for the "four-year cycle" 1.2. The heavy blow of October 11 2. As the prosperity fades, the main characters emerge, the surging undercurrents of BTC 2.1. Key players in the BTC ecosystem 2.1.1. Mighty

Article by: Curry, Deep Tide TechFlow In 1980, an unemployed used car salesman from California, Dennis Hope, walked into a government office in San Francisco, claiming he wanted to "claim" ownership of the entire moon. The staff thought he was crazy. However, after searching through legal texts, they found that the 1967 Outer Space Treaty only prohibits nations from claiming ownership of the moon, but it didn't say anything about individuals. Hope exploited this loophole and wrote a letter to the United Nations stating that the moon was his, but the UN did not respond. So, Hope registered a...

The emergence of Smart-Cashtags means that X is no longer content to just be a "shopping guide" for traffic; it wants to personally step in and act as the "cash register."

Original Title: "5 Highlights from the U.S. Senate's Much-Hyped Crypto Market Structure Draft Bill" Written by: Jack Inabinet Translated and Compiled by: BitpushNews The crypto market may finally be on the verge of getting what it has longed for—a written market structure law. This is thanks to the release last night of the "Digital Asset Market Transparency"

Rieder is the head of fixed income at BlackRock and has a clear positive outlook on Bitcoin. If he takes charge of the Federal Reserve, it could accelerate the entry of crypto assets into mainstream investment portfolios.

On January 7, 2026, World Liberty Financial, owned by the Trump family, submitted an application to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to establish the first national trust bank directly associated with the presidential family. This is not a commercial expansion of a stablecoin project, but rather an experiment in the infiltration of power into financial infrastructure. It aims to transform political power into financial access privileges and to establish a permanent channel for the monetization of power through a banking license.

Original author: Sanqing, Foresight News On January 13, Polygon Labs announced the completion of its acquisition of cryptocurrency payment infrastructure Coinme and blockchain development platform Sequence, with a total acquisition amount exceeding $250 million. However, Polygon Labs did not disclose the specific acquisition prices for each company, nor did it specify whether the transactions were conducted in cash, equity, or a combination of both. Polygon Labs CEO Marc Boiron...

The most radical innovations do not necessarily come from the destruction of the old world, but from the self-awareness of the old world.

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Original Title: How a Harvard grad helped make Hyperliquid the biggest new player in crypto—with just 11 people and no venture funding Original Authors: Ben Weiss & Leo Schwartz, Fortune Original Translation: SpecialistXBT, BlockBeats

Original | Odaily Planet Daily (@OdailyChina) Author | Golem (@web 3_golem) On January 8, the Bitcoin Core team promoted developer TheCharlatan (X: @sedited) to core maintainer, making him the sixth member to hold Trusted Keys. The other five core maintainers with Trusted Keys include: Marco Falke (promoted in 2016), Gloria Zh...

One of the representatives in the privacy track, XMR (Monero), reached an all-time high on January 13, with the spot price exceeding $690, once again sparking discussions in the market about privacy coins.