This snapshot provides a brief overview of recent developments across the crypto ecosystem. The updates include institutional activity, expansion of tokenized markets, and new infrastructure launches across on-chain finance.

2025 revealed two dominant VC strategies: high-volume participation across stages and selective, high-capital lead investments. Corporate VCs led by deal count, while firms like a16z, Pantera, and Paradigm dominated by capital deployed.

2025 revealed two dominant VC strategies: high-volume participation across stages and selective, high-capital lead investments. Corporate VCs led by deal count, while firms like a16z, Pantera, and Paradigm dominated by capital deployed.

Xpin Network is running a new incentive campaign in partnership with Gate. The event runs from January 19 to January 26, 2026 (UTC), with 132.5M XPIN distributed across different incentives. 

Alongside the campaign, XPIN continues to roll out ecosystem updates, integrations, and incentive programs, with the latest developments highlighted below.

Oriole Insights — the new predictions platform for tracking community sentiment across the crypto market. This week, we review its latest listings on Up/Down and ROI Markets, along with the top-trending polls.

Digital asset investment products recorded their largest weekly inflows since October 2025, led by Bitcoin and supported by Ethereum and Solana, though spot Bitcoin ETFs saw $394M in net outflows on Jan 16.

As of Jan 20, institutional accumulation remains active, with Strategy announcing the acquisition of 22,305 BTC ($2.13B) and BitMine staking an additional $270M in ETH.

Ethereum processed 2,812,123 transactions on January 15, 2026, marking its highest daily transaction count on record.

This surge follows the increase in the block gas limit to 60M, which has expanded network capacity and coincided with a steady rise in new Ethereum addresses on a 30-day rolling average.

ℹ️ The milestone highlights:

- Sustained on-chain activity growth

- Strong network usage despite market cycles

- Increasing demand from DeFi, L2s, and Real-World Applications

This record reinforces Ethereum’s position as the most actively used smart contract network.

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Perpetual DEXs hit record trading volumes in 2025 as demand for on-chain leverage surged. Market leadership, however, stayed firmly in the hands of Hyperliquid, Lighter and Aster.

Open Interest is the total value of open derivative positions that have not yet been closed or settled. It shows how much active capital and leverage is currently deployed in the market.

Top 10 crypto rankings remained structurally stable year over year, but capital rotation tells a different story. Price compression, shifting narratives, and ecosystem momentum quietly reshaped positions across the leaderboard.