🪙 In January 2026, Binance once again became the largest spot liquidity center: trading volume grew to $409 billion, which is almost 5 times more than its closest competitor.

Additionally, the platform holds about 65% of stablecoin reserves among exchanges — $47.5 billion according to CryptoQuant, which is approximately 5 times more than the next player.

Total stablecoin reserves on Binance grew by 31% year-on-year, and the slowdown in outflows to $2 billion indicates liquidity stabilization and the preservation of market participants' trust.

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🎶 A video was published online showing a Chinese farm of 150 TikTok accounts — some devices continuously upload AI-generated videos, while others boost likes and comments to increase reach.

According to the author of the publication, such a scheme can generate about $37,000 per month from advertising.

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💸 Coinbase reported that the Base network will gradually phase out the Optimism Stack and begin developing its own technology stack — this will allow for more flexible infrastructure development and ecosystem scaling, independent of Optimism's decisions.

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🤖 OpenAI in collaboration with Paradigm introduced EVMBench — a tool for evaluating the performance of AI agents with smart contracts.

The solution allows testing how correctly models analyze and interact with contracts in the EVM environment.

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🪙 Banking giant Bank of America 17 times increased its stake in BitMine — to 3.1 million shares ($86 million).

Recall that BitMine owns over 4,300,000 ETH, which accounts for 3.6% of the coin's total supply.

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🚬 Nabiullina proposed a legislative ban on cryptocurrency operations outside the official regulated field — the proposal has already been sent by the Bank of Russia to the government for discussion.

"People sell cryptocurrency and in return receive money that was stolen by fraudsters from honest people. In fact, these cryptocurrency sellers become unwitting participants in a fraudulent scheme."

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⚙️ Ethereum Foundation outlined 3 priorities for Ethereum's development for the next year:

1️⃣ Scale — increasing the gas limit to 100 million, expanding L2 throughput, and preparing for parallel transaction processing.
2️⃣ Improve UX — implementing smart wallets at the protocol level and simplifying interaction between different L2s.
3️⃣ Harden the L1 — strengthening security, increasing censorship resistance, and preparing for quantum threats.

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💸 Coinbase launched a new lending program, which allows US customers to borrow up to $100,000 in USDC using XRP, DOGE, ADA, and LTC as collateral.

Previously, the exchange allowed US users to borrow up to 1,000,000 USDC using cbETH as collateral — tokenized staked Ethereum.

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🦅 Putin stated that cryptocurrency is increasingly used by terrorist and criminal structures as a means of settlement and obtaining illegal income, while new forms of digital crimes are emerging.

According to him, current legislation does not always keep up with the development of technology, therefore the Supreme Court should promptly develop unified approaches and, if necessary, initiate changes in laws.

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