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DeFi data

1. Total market value of DeFi tokens: $106.861 billion

DeFi Total Market Cap Data Source: coingecko

2. Trading volume of decentralized exchanges in the past 24 hours: $40.42

Trading volume of decentralized exchanges in the past 24 hours. Data source: coingecko

3. Assets locked in DeFi: $119.475 billionbillion

Top 10 DeFi Projects by Locked Assets and Total Value Locked (Data Source: defillama)

NFT Data

1. Total Market Cap of NFTs: $110.256 billion

NFT Total Market Capitalization, Top Ten Projects by Market Capitalization Data Source: Coinmarketcap

2.24-hour NFT transaction volume: $2.044 billionUSD

Top 10 NFTs by Sales Growth in the Last 24 Hours. Data Source: NFTGO

Toutiao

PayPal Announces Acquisition of Cymbio

PayPal Holdings Inc. has agreed to acquire Cymbio, a platform that helps merchants sell products through AI chatbots. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. This acquisition is the latest move by the payment platform to become a one-stop service provider for merchants, aiming to help them adapt to the growing trend of consumers discovering products through chatbots.

MEME Hot Topics

1. X Platform Adds Meme Section Category to "Global Trends" Page

January 22nd news: The X platform recently added a meme section category to its "Global Trends" page, where users worldwide can post various interesting internet memes, funny videos, and other content. Users can also learn about current mainstream internet memes through this page.

DeFi Hot Topics

1. USDC Treasury Burns 50 Million USDC on Ethereum Chain

According to Jinse Finance, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink stated at the World Economic Forum in Davos that tokenization is inevitable, and a universal blockchain is the future. If all investments are conducted on a tokenized platform, it will reduce fees and facilitate the seamless flow of capital between money market funds, stocks, and bonds.

Garrett Jin, an agent for "BTC OG Insider Whale," noted that Larry Fink's reference to a "universal blockchain" likely refers to Ethereum. BlackRock's flagship tokenization fund, BUIDL, is built on Ethereum and supported by partners like Securitize. This effectively demonstrates that BlackRock is implementing Larry Fink's vision of a "single universal blockchain" and positioning Ethereum as the leading institutional-grade real-world asset (RWA) tokenization infrastructure.

2. BNB Chain Launches Good Vibes Only Hackathon

Jinse Finance reports that BNB Chain has announced the launch of an 8-day Good Vibes Only Hackathon, from January 22nd to 29th, 2026. This hackathon focuses on Vibe Coding, open to all, even non-experienced developers. There are no strict themes required, and all project ideas, development progress, and demos will be publicly available on X and GitHub throughout the event.

3. Hardware wallet maker Ledger plans US IPO, valuation may exceed $4 billion

January 23 news: Hardware wallet maker Ledger is planning a US IPO, with a potential valuation exceeding $4 billion. The company has partnered with Goldman Sachs, Jefferies, and Barclays to advance the transaction, which could be completed as early as this year. Previously, Ledger CEO Pascal Gauthier stated in November last year that the company was considering a US IPO, and that the company's annual revenue had reached hundreds of millions of dollars.

4. Ethereum Mainnet Daily Active Addresses Surpass All Layer-2 Blockchains

According to Jinse Finance, Ethereum's mainnet network activity has now surpassed that of Layer-2 extended blockchains, although this may not all come from real users. With gas fees remaining low, Token Terminal stated on Thursday that Ethereum is showing a "return to the mainnet" trend, with its daily active addresses exceeding those of all major Layer-2 networks. The number of active addresses has recently surged, approaching 1 million addresses per day. According to Etherscan data, active addresses surged to approximately 1.3 million on January 16th, but subsequently fell back to approximately 945,000 daily active addresses. This figure is higher than all Layer-2 blockchains, including popular networks Arbitrum One, Base Chain, and OP Mainnet. According to L2Beat data, the total value locked across all Layer-2 networks is currently $45 billion, a 17% decrease compared to the past 12 months.