DeFi & Web3
SharpLink Deploys $170M ETH on Linea in Institutional-Scale DeFi Move
SharpLink moved $170 million of its Ethereum treasury onto Consensys’s Linea zkEVM on January 8, 2026,
8 January, 2026
SharpLink moved $170 million of its Ethereum treasury onto Consensys’s Linea zkEVM on January 8, 2026,
BlackOpal launched GemStone on Jan. 8, 2026 as a tokenized product built on Brazilian credit-card receivables,
Bitmine Immersion Technologies increased its staking footprint by deploying roughly 100,000 ETH, valued at about $344.4
Binance introduced USDT-settled perpetual futures tied to precious metals, launching gold (XAUUSDT) on Jan. 5, 2026
Zcash (ZEC) sold off after the core development team behind the protocol resigned from the Electric
Memecoin markets rallied in early January 2026 as traders rotated back into higher-beta crypto instruments, lifting