The token issuance projects of 2025 reflect the market's growing understanding of successful token issuances, as evidenced by specific use cases, genuine user engagement after the hype dies down, and a well-thought-out fit between token design and product execution.

According to an official announcement, BitMart will list Owlto Finance (OWL) on January 15th at 20:00 (UTC+8), with the OWL/USDT trading pair available. Owlto Finance (OWL) is an AI-based interoperability protocol designed to enable fast, low-cost, and secure cross-chain transfers and execution, thereby improving the liquidity and adoption of native tokens, stablecoins, and RWA across different ecosystems. Its on-chain users cover more than 3 million users in over 200 countries and regions, with a transaction volume exceeding 13 million. OWL has received support from well-known investment institutions such as Matrixport, Bixin Ventures, CEIC, Presto Labs, Skyland, Blocore, and SNZ.

Gate's December Transparency Report shows that several key metrics continued to rise at the end of the year. Gate's global spot market share growth remained among the top three, and its derivatives market share was approximately 11%, leading the industry in annual growth. Gate Launchpool, HODLer Airdrop, CandyDrop, and Launchpad saw nearly 30 projects launched in a single month, with a cumulative prize pool exceeding $3.5 million. In the same month, the number of addresses on the Gate Layer chain surpassed 100 million. These figures collectively illustrate Gate's steadily increasing ecosystem activity. Meanwhile, Gate continues to deepen its global compliance strategy and brand influence. Gate Technology FZE, a subsidiary of Gate Group, has officially launched. As an official sponsor of the Red Bull Racing Formula 1 team, Gate hosted a VIP viewing event during the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, witnessing the team's victory. These achievements have earned Gate several international awards. The platform was recognized as a “Crypto Industry Benchmark of Excellence” at the 2025 Entrepreneur Middle East Leadership Awards, topped the BeInCrypto 2025 Best Spot Exchange list, was named “Best High-Liquidity Spot Exchange,” and won “Best Centralized Exchange” and “Brand of the Year” at the inaugural BeInCrypto 100 Awards. Gate is consolidating its core competitiveness in the global crypto asset trading market through a multi-dimensional approach encompassing product, compliance, and brand development.

According to Odaily, the yield on South Korea's three-year government bonds has increased by 10.7 basis points, reaching 3.108%. This marks the highest level since August 2024.

CZ announced that the $30,000 in donations received during yesterday's live stream will be donated to Giggle Academy to support free education.

Toyota shares jumped 4% on Thursday to hit a new all-time high right after the company raised its buyout offer for Toyota Industries to over $35 billion, a major increase from last year’s bid. Shares of Toyota Industries itself rallied by nearly 6% to 19,080 yen, going even higher than the new offer price of […] source: https://www.cryptopolitan.com/toyota-stock-surges-4-to-new-record/

The yield on South Korean 3-year government bonds rose 10.7 basis points to 3.108%, a new high since August 2024. (Jinshi)

CryptoQuant, a cryptocurrency data platform, stated that open interest in Bitcoin derivatives has been declining over the past three months, indicating a gradual decrease in market leverage, which creates conditions for a bullish shift in the overall market structure. Since October of last year, Bitcoin derivatives open interest (OI) has fallen by 31%, a "deleveraging signal" that helps eliminate excessive leverage accumulated in the market. The platform cited crypto analyst "Darkfost" as saying, "Historical data shows that such deleveraging phases often mark the formation of important bottoms, effectively resetting the market structure and building a more solid foundation for a potential bull market recovery." The analyst believes this pattern may be repeating itself, but added that if Bitcoin continues to fall and fully enters a bear market, "open interest may shrink further, meaning a deeper deleveraging adjustment and continuation of the corrective trend."

The Senate Banking Committee delayed its crypto market structure markup after Coinbase withdrew support, prolonging talks over how digital assets should be regulated. source: https://cryptonews.com/news/senate-banking-committee-delays-crypto-bill-markup-coinbase-pushback/

According to PANews, the Bank of England's Deputy Governor, Dave Ramsden, has indicated that the UK may need to provide a protection mechanism for stablecoin deposits similar to that of bank deposits. Ramsden highlighted the central bank's consideration of maintaining public trust in currency in the event of a collapse of a systemically important stablecoin. He suggested that long-term trust in stablecoins might require a plan akin to bank deposit insurance, ensuring stablecoin holders have priority creditor status in bankruptcy proceedings. Ramsden's comments suggest that the Bank of England might extend current bank deposit protection measures to widely used stablecoins. The central bank has already increased the protection limit for regular cash deposits from £85,000 to £120,000 to safeguard against bank failures. The Bank of England plans to implement stablecoin regulatory rules by the end of the year.

1. The Senate Banking Committee canceled its market structure meeting due to the Coinbase incident; 2. Kraken's co-CEO stated that the problem should be addressed by improving the legislation, rather than abandoning years of legislative progress; 3. Arthur Hayes stated that the expansion of dollar liquidity will drive Bitcoin's rise in 2026; 4. Sonic Labs announced that it has fully distributed the recovered 5.829 million S tokens to affected users; 5. Global Settlement Network plans to advance a $200 million tokenized water project in Asia, with the first stop in Jakarta; 6. He Yi responded to users' expectations for CZ's role, stating that diversity needs to be respected and that being down-to-earth does not preclude looking up at the stars; 7. Trump stated that although Powell is facing an investigation, he has no intention of removing him at this time; 8. Robinhood's CEO stated that the United States should play a leading role in crypto policy and support the passage of the market structure bill; 9. Genius responded to platform vulnerabilities, stating that transaction gas costs have been significantly reduced and that BNB cross-chain exchange has been optimized; 10. He Yi responded to Solana and Starknet. Regarding the controversy over activity levels, the statement said that everyone is friends and should prioritize harmony; 11. The Polygon Foundation announced the launch of the PIP-69 proposal, under which validator share tokens will be displayed as dPOL at a 1:1 ratio; 12. ETHGas stated that the Discord Interactive Points snapshot has been completed, and the token airdrop snapshot will take place on January 19th.

All the prerequisites for the original Web3 vision are in place, momentum is strong, and will continue to strengthen in the coming years.

XAI, Technology, Law, Artificial Intelligence: The XAI Incident Reveals Different Understandings of Technological Overreach Between China and the US (Golden Finance). Technological globalization has ended; strong intellectual property rights are taking its place.

BTC remains a liquidity story, and dollar liquidity will increase significantly in 2026.

X has restricted Grok from editing or creating sexualised images of real people after global backlash and regulatory action over misuse of the chatbot. Several countries have launched investigations or blocked the service, pushing the company to tighten safety controls and limit image tools to paying users.

The layer-1 blockchain restored operations after a six-hour consensus halt, marking its second major disruption since launch in 2023.

Chinese AI leaders MiniMax and Zhipu AI have entered the capital market with a market value of over 100 billion yuan, while across the Pacific a16z announced the completion of a $15 billion fundraising. This is not only a capital event, but also a comparison of the national capabilities of China and the United States and two innovation paradigms in the technological era.

Jinse Finance launches its daily cryptocurrency and blockchain news bulletin, "Jinse at 8 AM," issue 2937, providing you with the latest and fastest news on the digital currency and blockchain industry.

Polymarket, from 100% cashback to 20%: The game behind Polymarket's fee adjustment. (Jinse Finance, timeline of events related to Polymarket fees)

Jinse Finance launches the "Jinse Web3.0 Daily," providing you with the latest and fastest news on MEME, DeFi, DAO, NFT, and the metaverse industry.