Odaily News AKEDO announced the completion of a $5 million seed round to accelerate the development of its AI-native content creation engine and Launchpad. This round was led by Karatage, with participation from Sfermion, Collab+Currency, MARBLEX, Seed Club, The Open Platform, TON Ventures, Gagra Ventures, Kenetic Capital, Metalabs Ventures, and others.

AKEDO stated that it is building a multi-agent collaborative AI content creation platform that supports game and AIGC content generation, and plans to launch features such as one-click issuance of collection tokens. The company disclosed that the platform currently has over 2 million registered users, with more than 1 million on-chain transactions and approximately 30,000 daily active on-chain users. (FinanceWire)

Odaily News According to Lookonchain monitoring, a wallet (0x194...633E) suspected to be associated with Fenbushi Capital deposited 7,798 ETH, worth $25 million, into Binance today after staking for 2 years.

Odaily News According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a newly created address (0x830...7225) withdrew $25 million worth of USDT and USDC from Binance and OKX. Subsequently, it deposited 5 million USDC into HyperLiquid, provided 20 million USDT to HyperLend, and borrowed 400,000 HYPE. Additionally, the address has transferred 5 million USDC to a spot account for purchasing HYPE.

Odaily News Decentralized AI computing power network Gonka recently explained the phased adjustments to its PoC mechanism and model operation methods during a community AMA. The key adjustments include: unifying the use of the same large model for both PoC and inference, changing the PoC activation method from delayed switching to near real-time triggering, and optimizing the computing power weight calculation to better reflect the actual computational costs of different models and hardware.

Co-founder David stated that these adjustments are not aimed at short-term output or individual participants. Instead, as the network's computing power scale rapidly expands, they represent a necessary evolution of the consensus and verification structure. The goal is to enhance the network's stability and security under high-load conditions, laying the groundwork for supporting larger-scale AI workloads in the future.

Addressing community discussions about small models currently yielding higher token outputs, the team pointed out that models of different scales have significantly different real computing power consumption for the same number of tokens. As the network evolves towards higher computing power density and more complex tasks, Gonka is gradually aligning computing power weights with actual computational costs. This aims to prevent long-term imbalances in the computing power structure, which could affect the network's overall scalability.

Under the latest PoC mechanism, the network has compressed the PoC activation time to within 5 seconds, reducing computing power waste caused by model switching and waiting. This allows GPU resources to be used for effective AI computation at a higher ratio. Simultaneously, by unifying model operation, the system overhead for nodes switching between consensus and inference is reduced, improving overall computing power utilization efficiency.

The team also emphasized that single-card and small-to-medium-scale GPUs can continue to earn rewards and participate in governance through methods such as mining pool collaboration, flexible participation by Epoch, and inference tasks. Gonka's long-term goal is to support the long-term coexistence of computing power at different levels within the same network through mechanism evolution.

Gonka stated that all key rule adjustments are advanced through on-chain governance and community voting. In the future, the network will gradually support more model types and AI task formats, providing continuous and transparent participation space for GPUs of various scales globally, and promoting the long-term healthy development of decentralized AI computing power infrastructure.

Odaily News ETHGas Foundation announced that the GWEI airdrop snapshot has been completed, with the snapshot taken at 08:00 on January 19, 2026.

The announcement indicates that the GWEI airdrop eligibility query will open at 21:00 on January 20, and the community airdrop will be conducted at 21:00 on January 21. Airdrop eligibility will be determined based on users' historical Gas consumption on the Ethereum mainnet and their social and community participation records within the Gasless Future project.

ETHGas stated that eligible users need to meet specific historical Gas consumption thresholds through their Gas ID to track their Gas usage on the Ethereum mainnet, while also participating in designated community activities, including sharing their Gas ID on platform X or engaging in social interactions related to the Open Gas Initiative.

Odaily News According to BitcoinTreasuries.NET, the latest report from the approximately $15.6 billion Louisiana State Employees Retirement Fund in the United States shows that it currently holds 17,900 shares of Bitcoin fund company Strategy (stock ticker MSTR). Based on the price at the time of disclosure, the position is valued at approximately $3.2 million.

Odaily News Binance Alpha announced that it will be the first platform to list HeyElsa (ELSA) and ETHGas (GWEI). The ELSA airdrop will open on January 20th, and the GWEI airdrop will open on January 21st.

The announcement indicates that eligible users can claim the airdrops using Binance Alpha points on the Alpha event page after Alpha trading opens. Specific rules and details will be announced separately.

Odaily News CryptoQuant analyst Mignolet stated that the market recently experienced the strongest CPG (Coinbase Premium Gap) selling premium in quite some time. He pointed out that since the Bitcoin ETF market was not open during the relevant period, this selling pressure did not originate from ETFs but rather from US whale addresses operating outside the ETF system.

Mignolet further indicated that this type of CPG selling premium led by US whales is one of the traditional selling patterns that have occurred multiple times in the past.

Odaily News: Verse 8 announced on platform X that the Verse8 Creator Guild is now open to everyone. Creators who apply to join have the opportunity to earn rewards from a $10,000 prize pool.

According to official news, Gate Launchpad has officially opened subscription for the 6th phase of Immunefi (IMU). This event will last until January 21st at 16:00 (UTC+8). The total subscription amount for this phase of Gate Launchpad is 212,404,419 IMU, supporting dual-currency subscription with USD1 and GUSD. The current subscription price is 1 IMU = 0.01177 USD1/GUSD, with a maximum allocation of 2,124,044.2 IMU per user.

Furthermore, Gate's Coin Savings has launched a USD1 wealth management activity and a newcomer bonus.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a whale, who previously borrowed $45 million USDT to buy stETH, withdrew 32,395 ETH from Binance, valued at $103.75 million. This whale may deposit the ETH into Aave and borrow USDT to purchase more stETH.

Odaily News Vitalik Buterin published an article stating that he is "significantly more supportive of native rollups" compared to the past. Vitalik recalled that a major reason for his previous opposition to native rollups was that their precompilation solution had to choose between ZK mode or Optimistic mode. At that time, ZK-EVMs were not yet mature, and L2s often had to choose between "fast withdrawals but bearing proof risk" and "relying on Ethereum's security but waiting 2–7 days for withdrawals," typically opting for the latter. This weakened Ethereum's composability and promoted the adoption of solutions like multi-signature bridges.

Vitalik pointed out that the situation is now changing: Ethereum's timeline for fully embracing ZK at the L1 level is gradually aligning with the practical progress of introducing native rollup precompilations, which is expected to eliminate the aforementioned core obstacle. He also mentioned that the community is increasingly viewing "synchronous composability" as one of the core values of L2 and is exploring ways to combine rollup-based solutions with low-latency pre-confirmation mechanisms.

Furthermore, Vitalik emphasized that the design of native rollup precompilations should not be hastily implemented. He proposed a vision for the future: if developers are building a rollup that is "EVM plus a few extensions," they should be able to directly reuse the EVM portion from the native rollup precompilation and introduce a custom proof system only for the new functionalities, connecting the two through a standardized approach.