Foresight News reports that the privacy protection project zERC20 has launched the zERC20 protocol to support the asset zBNB. The official statement says that zBNB retains the familiar and user-friendly features of BNB while adding privacy protection functions for on-chain transactions. When users wrap BNB, the original BNB will be destroyed to an irrecoverable address, and a cryptographic proof will be generated. Users can use this proof to mint zBNB to a new address, which is completely separate from historical transaction records.

Digital asset custody firm Hex Trust announces the provision of XRP DeFi access for institutional clients. Through its platform, users can mint and redeem FXRP while maintaining custody control and supporting native FLR staking. Flare also launches the FXRP lending market, allowing users to benefit without selling XRP.

Odaily Planet Daily News: Singapore-based cryptocurrency company Penguin Securities announced the completion of approximately 2.8 billion yen (about $18 million USD) in funding, with investors including mint, Tokyo University of Science Investment Management, and other Japanese investment institutions. The company was co-founded in February 2023 by Japanese entrepreneurs Yuuya Kuratomi, Kentaro Kawabe, and Shoto Setoguchi, and has obtained a Capital Markets Services License from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) in 2025. (CoinPost)

On February 2, news came out that Singapore's Gulf Bank (SGB) announced the launch of a new regulated fiat-stablecoin interoperability service, allowing institutional clients to mint, exchange, hold, and trade stablecoins within a single compliant platform. This service will be deployed on its proprietary clearing network SGB Net, supporting the circulation of mainstream stablecoins such as USDT and USDC across multiple blockchain networks, and can be directly integrated with fiat settlement systems. SGB stated that the current stablecoin management process remains complex, and institutions face high friction costs in compliance, custody, and clearing. CEO Shawn Chan pointed out that the bank's goal is to provide a unified infrastructure for traditional finance and digital assets, enabling seamless movement of funds between on-chain and off-chain.

BlockBeats News, January 20th, according to CertiK monitoring, 193 suspicious transactions related to unverified contracts associated with SynapLogic have been detected. The attacker repeatedly calls contract functions, using flash loans to borrow 1 ETH to mint 16,000 SYP tokens, then repays the ETH. The operation originates from multiple newly created addresses.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that Zama has announced that its mainnet staking feature is now live. The ZAMA token has two utilities: fees and staking. The ZAMA tokens paid as fees will be burned by the protocol, while the protocol will mint tokens at an initial annual issuance rate of 5% to pay operators. Operators are required to stake ZAMA tokens to participate and earn rewards. 40% of the rewards are allocated to FHE nodes, and 60% are allocated to KMS nodes.

On January 14, news reports indicate that the silver (XAG) price continues to strengthen, with the spot price breaking a historic $90 per ounce, driving the transaction price of American Eagle silver coins in dealer channels to over $100 each. Overall, this round of increase is not driven by short-term sentiment but is jointly propelled by structural shortages and strategic demand. As prices fluctuate rapidly, the U.S. Mint announced a suspension of all silver coin sales. The official explanation states that the sharp volatility in silver prices makes it impossible to price reasonably, which the market interprets as physical silver demand significantly exceeding supply. Market commentator Echo X pointed out that when official channels cease sales, it often means that paper prices can no longer accurately reflect the scarcity of physical silver, and premium expansion is only a matter of time.

Gate News Bot Message, January 14th, according to CoinMarketCap data, as of press time, ENA (Ethena) is trading at $0.25, up 12.62% in the past 24 hours, with a high of $0.25 and a low of $0.21. The 24-hour trading volume reached $320 million. The current market capitalization is approximately $1.978 billion, ranking 43rd, an increase of $222 million compared to yesterday. Ethena is a digital dollar solution aimed at the internet economy, offering the stablecoin USDe and yield-bearing asset sUSDe. Currently, the USDe supply is 640 million, with an APY of 5.1%, and an average historical APY of 13%. The platform covers 24 blockchains, with over 896,000 users. The USDtb supply is $852 million, with over 100% protocol support ratio and nearly 100% mint/redeem availability. Ethena is deeply integrated with multiple major exchanges and DeFi protocols such as Aave, Morpho, Pendle, supporting users to earn yields across various platforms. The platform commits to providing weekly independent third-party reserve attestations and monthly custodian attestations to ensure asset transparency and security.

In early 2026, Shiba Inu officially launched the SOU NFT framework to track and account for user losses caused by previous vulnerability incidents. This mechanism transforms the vague "post-event compensation promise" into verifiable and auditable on-chain debt records, enabling the recovery process to have clear quantitative standards for the first time. After the Shibarium Plasma Bridge vulnerability in 2025, Shiba Inu chose to mint SOU NFTs on the Ethereum network to mark the confirmed damaged amounts. Each NFT corresponds to a specific address and its entitled principal amount, serving as an on-chain accounting voucher rather than an incentive or profit asset. Users can verify claim data independently without relying on any centralized channels, significantly reducing information asymmetry.

Aster Network announced on the X platform that the integration phase of Burndrop PoC has now officially begun. This development marks a significant step forward for Aster Network in tokenomics and deflation mechanism design, and has also sparked community interest in the long-term value of the ASTR token. According to official statements, any user who deposited 2026 ASTR during the previous staking period can now mint an exclusive Burndrop Pass (SBT). This pass serves as an on-chain identity credential, used to record the entire process of user participation in the Burndrop experiment, while also enhancing on-chain transparency and verifiability.