Project Updates

Tracks blockchain projects from inception to their latest updates and major milestones. By covering project financing, partnerships, and product upgrades, it helps investors stay informed about the latest industry trends and developments.

Product Update: New Options Metrics Suite

Glassnode has expanded its analytics platform from on-chain intelligence to a comprehensive derivatives suite, introducing over 40 new options metrics. The update includes coverage for BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, and PAXG, with integrated feeds from Deribit, OKX, and Bybit. Key features include Premium and Taker Flow metrics to gauge trader conviction through capital spent, Combo Strategy reconstruction to identify multi-leg trades, and advanced Implied Volatility analytics with granular Delta-based IV data and Skew Indexes. New Gamma Exposure metrics help map dealer hedging impacts, while Max Pain and IV Heatmaps provide visual insights into positioning and volatility surfaces. The platform now offers institutional-grade tools for systematic and discretionary trading strategies.

insights.glassnode01/16 11:12

Product Update: New Options Metrics Suite

insights.glassnode01/16 11:12

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.

marsbit01/16 10:46

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

marsbit01/16 10:46

MEXC Brings Back Flip Fest Event With 5,000,000 USDT Prize Pool

MEXC has announced the return of its Flip Fest event, running from January 15 to February 9, 2026, featuring a 5,000,000 USDT prize pool. The event combines futures trading with a gamified collection system where users earn Pocket Cards through registration and trading tasks. Participants can form card hands to compete for daily rewards, use Power Cards to upgrade their hands, and earn bonus points through challenges. The previous edition attracted over 200,000 users and distributed the full prize pool, with top winners earning significant rewards. MEXC, founded in 2018, serves over 40 million users globally and emphasizes accessibility and innovation in crypto trading.

TheNewsCrypto01/16 10:16

MEXC Brings Back Flip Fest Event With 5,000,000 USDT Prize Pool

TheNewsCrypto01/16 10:16

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.

marsbit01/16 10:12

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

marsbit01/16 10:12

Why is DCR’s price up today? Analyzing Decred’s 23% rally

Decred's (DCR) price surged 23% in large part due to a newly approved governance proposal. The measure, which passed with 99.98% approval, increases treasury spending to 4% to fund network growth and long-term initiatives. This move boosted investor confidence, with the rally accounting for over half of DCR's gains in the past month. The price increase is further supported by technical indicators. The Parabolic SAR and a strong ADX reading suggest the uptrend is powerful and likely to continue. Additionally, the Chaikin Money Flow (CMF) turned positive, indicating a return of buying pressure. However, the rally faces some hurdles. Spot market data shows three consecutive days of outflows, totaling around $439k in sales. Bullish sentiment also slightly declined from 86% to 81%, signaling a cautious undercurrent among some traders. Despite this, short-term market outlook remains largely positive.

ambcrypto01/16 08:02

Why is DCR’s price up today? Analyzing Decred’s 23% rally

ambcrypto01/16 08:02

Uniswap Goes Live on OKX X Layer With Zero Interface Fee Swaps

Uniswap has launched on OKX's X Layer, an Ethereum-compatible Layer 2 network, enabling users to swap tokens, provide liquidity, and access DeFi services with low transaction costs. A key feature is the absence of interface fees for swaps, allowing seamless trading of major assets like USDG, xBTC, and USDT directly through Uniswap’s interface. This integration aligns with Uniswap’s strategy to expand across chains and reduce costs, while offering OKX’s global user base access to a trusted DeFi platform with deep liquidity. The move is part of Uniswap’s broader effort to enhance accessibility, following recent upgrades such as fee removals and multi-chain expansions.

TheNewsCrypto01/16 07:51

Uniswap Goes Live on OKX X Layer With Zero Interface Fee Swaps

TheNewsCrypto01/16 07:51

Huobi HTX 2025 Annual Charity Report: Spreading Sustainable Goodness Globally

Huobi HTX 2025 Global Public Welfare Report: Spreading Sustainable Goodness Worldwide In 2025, Huobi HTX demonstrated its commitment to social responsibility through extensive charitable initiatives across the globe. Domestically, it partnered with Ximan Angel, carrying out 13 public welfare activities in 10 cities, supporting education for children in mountainous regions, rehabilitation for special-needs children, care for retired soldiers, and geographic education for migrant children. A significant donation of 2.1 million RMB was made to build an education center in Ganzi, Tibet. The organization responded swiftly to a major fire, donating 10 million HKD with Tron for emergency relief. Key initiatives included support for the visually impaired, such as sponsoring the 12th Blind Fun Games and providing equipment to aid participation. Globally, Huobi HTX extended aid to 6 countries, including Turkey, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Georgia, providing essential supplies and support to over 400 orphans, the elderly, and disabled individuals. Leveraging blockchain technology, Huobi HTX emphasized transparency and long-term commitment in its charity work, transforming technological innovation into tangible, compassionate action worldwide.

marsbit01/16 06:57

Huobi HTX 2025 Annual Charity Report: Spreading Sustainable Goodness Globally

marsbit01/16 06:57

The Hidden Costs and Structural Dilemmas of Tokenized Assets

Tokenized assets face a critical structural challenge: a severe lack of deep, reliable on-chain liquidity. While tokenization promises to unlock trillions in traditional assets for DeFi, the reality is that markets for tokens like gold (PAXG, XAUT) and stocks (e.g., TSLAx, NVDAx) are extremely shallow compared to their traditional counterparts (e.g., CME). This results in exponentially higher slippage—often exceeding 100 basis points for trades over $4M—and makes large transactions costly or impossible. Fragile liquidity also leads to market instability, such as flash crashes on exchanges that trigger cascading liquidations across connected DeFi protocols. The root cause is a misalignment with market makers' incentives: high minting/redemption fees, slow settlement times, and capital lock-ups make providing liquidity for tokenized assets inefficient and risky. Without a new market structure that bridges on-chain access with off-chain liquidity depth, tokenization will remain stuck in a low-liquidity equilibrium, limiting its scalability and utility in DeFi.

marsbit01/16 06:51

The Hidden Costs and Structural Dilemmas of Tokenized Assets

marsbit01/16 06:51

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.

marsbit01/16 05:27

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

marsbit01/16 05:27

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.

marsbit01/16 05:19

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