# Ecosystem Related Articles

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Encrypted Recruitment Cools: Why is the Solana Ecosystem Defying the Trend in the 'Talent War'?

The crypto recruitment market experienced a significant slowdown in early 2026, with new job postings dropping by approximately 80% compared to January 2025. Only 85-90 new positions were listed in the first two weeks of the year, with 60% being technical/engineering roles and 40% in business development. Companies are prioritizing experienced hires, with 65% of roles targeting senior-level professionals. Despite the overall cooling, growth-stage companies (Series A and beyond) remain active in hiring. Notably, the Solana ecosystem is challenging Ethereum’s historical dominance in talent acquisition, attracting over 22% of new crypto developers in 2024 compared to Ethereum’s 16%. Solana-based projects raised $211 million in Q3 2025, a 70% year-over-year increase, fueling further expansion. Looking ahead, the industry is expected to prioritize projects with strong fundamentals, real users, and revenue generation. The long-term outlook remains optimistic despite current market challenges.

比推10h ago

Encrypted Recruitment Cools: Why is the Solana Ecosystem Defying the Trend in the 'Talent War'?

比推10h ago

Single-Quarter Burn of 13.62 Trillion Tokens Hits New High, $HTX Cumulative Burn Volume Approaches 10% of Total Supply

HTX DAO has successfully completed the Q4 2025 burn of $HTX tokens, destroying 13.62 trillion tokens—a record high—worth over $23.31 million. This represents a 36.4% year-on-year and 3.78% quarter-on-quarter increase, demonstrating strong performance despite a generally subdued crypto market. The burn mechanism, which uses 50% of Huobi HTX's revenue to repurchase and destroy tokens, highlights the platform's robust business fundamentals. Cumulatively, HTX DAO has now burned 99.49 trillion $HTX, approaching 10% of the total supply, accelerating the token’s transition into a deep deflationary phase. This reduction in circulating supply is expected to provide long-term value support. Throughout 2025, Huobi HTX saw significant growth, surpassing 55 million registered users and recording $3.3 trillion in annual trading volume, a 39% increase year-on-year. Moving forward, HTX DAO plans to further decentralize governance, expand $HTX utility across CeFi and DeFi ecosystems, and enhance community-driven decision-making to sustainably grow the token’s value.

marsbit14h ago

Single-Quarter Burn of 13.62 Trillion Tokens Hits New High, $HTX Cumulative Burn Volume Approaches 10% of Total Supply

marsbit14h ago

Sentient Announces Token Economics, How Will the Market Price It?

Sentient, an open-source AI platform focused on building an open, monetized, and verifiable Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) economy, has released the tokenomics for its native token SENT. The total supply is set at approximately 34.36 billion tokens (2³⁵), distributed across five categories: Community Initiatives & Airdrops (44%), Ecosystem & R&D (19.55%), Team (22%), Investors (12.45%), and Public Sale (2%). The SENT will be used for staking, model services, data-related functions, and payments within the platform's ecosystem, particularly for services powered by Artifacts. Unlock schedules vary: 30% of community and ecosystem allocations are unlocked at TGE, with the remainder linearly released over four years. Team and investor tokens are locked for one year post-TGE, then linearly vested over four and six years, respectively. The public sale portion is fully unlocked at TGE. Market expectations are high, with Polymarket prediction data indicating a 99% probability that Sentient’s fully diluted valuation (FDV) will exceed $200 million upon launch. Sentient aims to create a decentralized AGI economy where developers can monetize models, data, and innovations. Its core infrastructure, GRID (Global Research and Intelligence Directory), is a composable network of AI agents, models, and tools. The project has raised $85 million in seed funding from investors including Founders Fund, Pantera Capital, and Framework Ventures. Key advisors include Sandeep Nailwal (Polygon) and Sreeram Kannan (EigenLayer). The team is research-heavy, with core contributors coming from academic and engineering fields. The platform emphasizes transparency and collaboration through its Open, Monetized, Loyal (OML) model and has open-sourced its ROMA (Recursive Open Meta-Agent) framework to support multi-agent task coordination. Over 60 ecosystem partners have been onboarded, covering model collaboration, agents, data providers, and validators.

marsbit15h ago

Sentient Announces Token Economics, How Will the Market Price It?

marsbit15h ago

JustLend DAO's Second JST Buyback and Burn: Cumulative 10.96% of Total Supply Destroyed, Accelerating Entry into a New Era of Value Growth

JustLend DAO has executed its second major JST token buyback and burn, permanently removing 525 million JST (5.3% of total supply) from circulation. This brings the cumulative burned amount to over 1.08 billion JST, representing 10.96% of the total supply, significantly accelerating JST’s deflationary trajectory. The burn was funded by $10.19 million from Q4 2025 net profits and $10.34 million from accumulated reserve earnings, demonstrating the protocol’s strong financial health and sustainable revenue model. Key drivers include JustLend’s TVL surpassing $7.08 billion, robust growth in sTRX staking (over 9.3 billion TRX staked), and widespread adoption of GasFree smart wallets, which have facilitated over $46 billion in transactions and saved users $36.25 million in fees. Additionally, USDD’s multi-chain ecosystem reached a milestone with TVL exceeding $1 billion, further supporting JST’s value accrual mechanism. This burn reinforces JST’s transition from a governance token to a yield-backed asset tied to ecosystem cash flow. Market response has been positive, with JST’s market cap breaking $400 million and trading volume rising 21.92% amid a 10.82% monthly price increase. The recurring burn mechanism establishes a deflationary model that enhances scarcity, governance weight per token, and long-term value alignment with holders, setting a new standard for sustainable tokenomics in DeFi.

marsbit19h ago

JustLend DAO's Second JST Buyback and Burn: Cumulative 10.96% of Total Supply Destroyed, Accelerating Entry into a New Era of Value Growth

marsbit19h ago

Off to a Strong Start! USDD TVL Surpasses $1 Billion Mark, Embarking on a Powerful Journey in 2026

USDD, a decentralized stablecoin, has achieved a significant milestone at the beginning of 2026 by surpassing $1 billion in Total Value Locked (TVL). This growth reflects strong market confidence in its decentralized mechanism, value stability, and sustainable model. Key drivers include its innovative yield-generating mechanism, multi-chain ecosystem, and robust risk management. USDD functions as an "interest-bearing USDT" through its Smart Allocator system, which dynamically allocates reserve funds to vetted on-chain projects, generating over $8.34 million in actual returns. The introduction of sUSDD allows users to easily earn passive yield with auto-compounding features. USDD has expanded across major blockchains like TRON, Ethereum, and BNB Chain. A collaboration with Binance Wallet’s Yield+ campaign attracted over 3,000 users in its first week, boosting sUSDD TVL by 867% to $295 million. The stablecoin uses an over-collateralized debt model with strict minimum collateral ratios, ensuring transparency and 1:1 redeemability with major stablecoins. In 2026, USDD aims to shift from incentive-driven growth to real-use-case adoption, focusing on deeper integration with DeFi protocols, exchanges, and payment tools. Its decentralized, non-freezable, and yield-bearing features position it as a compelling alternative to centralized stablecoins. Breaking the $1 billion TVL mark is just the beginning of its upward trajectory.

marsbit20h ago

Off to a Strong Start! USDD TVL Surpasses $1 Billion Mark, Embarking on a Powerful Journey in 2026

marsbit20h ago

X Personally Terminates InfoFi Incentive Model, The Era of 'Mouth Farming' Comes to an End

X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, has officially terminated the API access for InfoFi applications that reward users for posting, effectively ending the "post-to-earn" model. This decisive move, announced by X product lead Nikita Bier, targets what the company identifies as a primary source of AI-generated spam and low-quality replies flooding the platform. The policy shift immediately impacted several prominent InfoFi projects. Tokens like KAITO and COOKIE experienced significant double-digit price drops. Projects such as Cookie DAO's Snaps platform have ceased operations, while Kaito has shut down its Yaps incentive program and is pivoting to a new, more traditional creator marketing model called Kaito Studio. X's core objection was not to the content itself, but to the fundamental structure of external, unpermissioned incentives directly driving platform engagement. This model was seen as compromising content quality and, crucially, undermining X's sovereignty over its own content ecosystem and user experience. The platform emphasized that it does not need the revenue generated from these API fees. The event signals a major recalibration, forcing InfoFi projects to either retreat to a pure data/tooling role or completely reinvent their business models to align with platform policies. The era of easily farming rewards for social media posts ("嘴撸时代") is over, as content control is firmly reclaimed by the platform itself.

Odaily星球日报20h ago

X Personally Terminates InfoFi Incentive Model, The Era of 'Mouth Farming' Comes to an End

Odaily星球日报20h ago

JST Embarks on Its Second Buyback and Burn: Cumulative 10.96% of Total Supply Destroyed, Accelerating Entry into a New Era of Value Growth

JST, the token of the JUST ecosystem, has completed its second major buyback and burn event on January 15, 2026, permanently removing 525 million JST (5.3% of total supply) worth over $21 million. Combined with the first burn, a total of 10.96% of JST's supply has been destroyed, accelerating its deflationary trajectory and reinforcing its value proposition. The buyback was funded by $10.19 million from JustLend DAO's Q4 2025 net profits and $10.34 million from accumulated reserve earnings, demonstrating the ecosystem's strong profitability and financial health. Key drivers include JustLend DAO's robust performance, with Total Value Locked (TVL) exceeding $7.08 billion, innovative products like sTRX (with over 9.3 billion TRX staked), and the widely adopted GasFree smart wallet, which has facilitated over $46 billion in transactions and saved users $36.25 million in fees. Additionally, growth from the USDD decentralized stablecoin ecosystem, which recently surpassed $1 billion in TVL, contributed significant incremental revenue. This burn signifies a fundamental shift for JST from a utility governance token to a yield-backed asset, directly tethering its value to the ecosystem's cash flow. The reduced supply increases scarcity, enhances per-token governance power for holders, and establishes a sustainable, transparent deflation model for DeFi. With a market cap surpassing $400 million and growing trading volume, JST is positioned for continued value appreciation driven by real yield and strategic tokenomics.

marsbitYesterday 01:09

JST Embarks on Its Second Buyback and Burn: Cumulative 10.96% of Total Supply Destroyed, Accelerating Entry into a New Era of Value Growth

marsbitYesterday 01:09

MegaETH Loses Another Key Player! Noise Shifts to Base After Securing Funding from Paradigm

Noise, an early incubated project of MegaETH, has secured a $7.1 million seed round led by Paradigm, with participation from Figment Capital, Anagram, and others. The platform is a trend-trading marketplace where users can long or short contracts based on the popularity of trends, brands, and ideas, using aggregated social activity data from X (formerly Twitter) to create a transparent attention index. Despite being part of MegaETH’s accelerator program, Noise announced it will launch its mainnet on Base in the coming months, rather than remaining within the MegaETH ecosystem. This move has sparked controversy, with some viewing it as a betrayal, while others argue Base’s larger user base and liquidity may better support Noise’s growth. This is not the first time a key project has left MegaETH; earlier, DEX GTE also departed after raising significant funding, and stablecoin project Cap adopted a dual-chain strategy prioritizing Ethereum. These exits highlight ongoing challenges for MegaETH in retaining ecosystem projects, though they also underscore its ability to incubate high-potential startups.

marsbitYesterday 12:08

MegaETH Loses Another Key Player! Noise Shifts to Base After Securing Funding from Paradigm

marsbitYesterday 12:08

Gate Presents Annual Awards to Honor Global Partners, Strengthening Long-Term Ecosystem and Industry Recognition

Gate, a leading global digital asset trading platform, has announced its annual awards to recognize outstanding contributions from its global partners. The awards highlight key participants in areas such as content creation, brand collaboration, business development, and community growth. Categories include "Annual Content Pioneer Award" and "Annual Forward-Looking Insight Award," reflecting Gate’s systematic approach to valuing diverse roles within its ecosystem. The initiative aims to strengthen connections across regions and provide a shared value framework for global partners. Gate also invites top collaborators to exclusive events such as F1 race viewings, global travel exchanges, and major industry conferences to deepen engagement. Emphasizing the importance of high-quality content and expertise in the fast-paced digital asset industry, Gate’s awards reinforce trust-building through rational analysis and consistent output. Over the past year, Gate has grown to nearly 50 million users, with increased activity in spot and derivatives trading. The platform continues to advance its "Trade + Earn + Web3" strategy, enhancing its product offerings and institutional services. Founded in 2013 by Dr. Han, Gate supports over 48 million users and 4,300+ crypto assets, with a proven 100% reserve model. The company remains committed to secure, innovative, and sustainable growth in the digital asset sector.

marsbitYesterday 07:40

Gate Presents Annual Awards to Honor Global Partners, Strengthening Long-Term Ecosystem and Industry Recognition

marsbitYesterday 07:40

Polygon makes a $250 mln stablecoin bet – But POL still struggles

Polygon Labs has made a significant $250 million acquisition of crypto payment firm Coinme and wallet infrastructure Sequence to expand its influence in the stablecoin market and cross-border transactions. This move aims to capitalize on growing institutional crypto adoption and positions Polygon as a key player in on-chain payments. Despite strong network activity, with daily transactions averaging over 6 million and a solid user base, its native token POL faces bearish pressure. After reaching $0.18, it retraced to $0.16 due to profit-taking. If selling continues, POL could drop to $0.14, but positive market reaction to the acquisition may push it back toward $0.20.

ambcrypto2 days ago 00:02

Polygon makes a $250 mln stablecoin bet – But POL still struggles