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Title: Truth Comes Later
Author: Thejaswini M A
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Reprint: Mars Finance
Every time prediction markets become controversial, we keep circling around one question but never truly face it:
Are prediction markets really about the truth?
It's not about accuracy, practicality, or whether they outperform polls, journalists, or social media trends. It’s about the truth itself.
Prediction markets price events that have not yet occurred. They are not reporting facts but allocating probabilities to those still open, uncertain, and unknowable futures. At some point, we started treating these probabilities as a form of truth.
For most of the past year, prediction markets have been immersed in their victory parade.
They have beaten polls, cable news, and holders of PhDs, and

This week, Bitcoin spot ETF net inflows reached $1.42 billion, with BlackRock ETF IBIT experiencing the highest inflow at $1.035 billion. Fidelity ETF FBTC followed closely. Grayscale GBTC saw a net outflow of $1.6757 million. The total net asset value is $124.56 billion, accounting for 6.53% of Bitcoin's total market capitalization.

Mars Finance News, according to Nansen, reports that in the past week, the number of active addresses on the Solana network reached 27.1 million (a 56% increase week-over-week), with a transaction volume of 515 million transactions, both ranking first. BNB Chain and Tron follow closely behind.

January 18th, the Cryptocurrency Fear and Greed Index is at 49, indicating that market sentiment remains neutral, a rebound from last week's average of 29 and last month's average of 16. The index comprehensively assesses factors such as market volatility and trading volume.

Mars Finance News: According to Cointelegraph, data from the Ethereum validator queue shows that the exit queue has decreased from its peak of 2.67 million ETH in September 2025 to 0 ETH, while the number of validators entering the queue has increased more than fivefold in the past month, reaching 2.6 million ETH, the highest level since July 2023. The waiting time to enter the queue has now extended to 45 days, while the processing time for exiting ETH takes only a few minutes.

Mars Finance News: According to Coinglass data, the cryptocurrency fear and greed index is currently at 50, up 1 point from yesterday. The average over the past 7 days is 44, and the average over the past 30 days is 30.

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Written by: Seed.eth
$200 million is the recently announced figure.
BitMine Immersion Technologies (BMNR), chaired by well-known Wall Street analyst Tom Lee, announced that it will invest in the parent company behind the top internet celebrity MrBeast, Beast Industries. Meanwhile, Beast Industries mentioned in an official statement that the company will explore how to “integrate DeFi into the upcoming financial services platform.”
If you only look at the news, this seems like another familiar crossover: traditional, crypto, internet celebrities, entrepreneurship—on one side is a global subscriber count exceeding 400 million.

Hong Kong Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po published an essay pointing out that the importance of gold in central bank reserves and investments is continuously increasing, and gold prices are expected to rise by 60% cumulatively by 2025. The Hong Kong gold market is active, driving the establishment of a central gold settlement system to improve trading efficiency and liquidity.

Mars Finance reports that according to Lookonchain monitoring, over the past year, Tron has issued an additional 22.7 billion USDT, bringing the total USDT supply to 82.4 billion. Meanwhile, Tron USDT holders increased by 11 million over the past year, with the total number of holders exceeding 70.6 million.

The Nigerian Securities and Exchange Commission has issued new regulations requiring digital asset exchanges and custodial institutions to maintain a minimum capital requirement of 200 million Naira, and to meet this standard by June 30, 2027, or face license revocation. Capital requirements for other related institutions have also been increased.

In the past 24 hours, the total liquidation amount across the entire network reached $95,069,300, including $52,469,000 in long positions and $42,600,300 in short positions. Bitcoin and Ethereum experienced liquidations of long and short positions respectively, with a total of 83,255 people liquidated. The largest single liquidation occurred on the Hyperliquid platform.

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Source: What Bitcoin Did
Compiled by: Felix, PANews
Recently, Strategy founder and executive chairman Michael Saylor appeared on the What Bitcoin Did podcast for an in-depth conversation with host Danny Knowles.
In the interview, Saylor pointed out that Bitcoin's true victory is not in short-term price movements but in historic breakthroughs in fundamentals, including restoring insurance, adopting fair value accounting standards, and full acceptance by the banking credit system. He also shared Strategy's grand vision of building "digital credit" and responded to external doubts about DAT company. Below are the highlights.
Fundamentals Achieve Multiple Breakthroughs, Institutional Adoption Is the Biggest Progress
Danny: Bitcoin has

Mars Finance News: Trust Wallet has issued a security alert on the X platform, stating that it will never ask users for their seed phrases or private keys. If such requests occur, they are not made by Trust Wallet. If you have any questions, please immediately stop trading and contact Trust Wallet through official channels. Previously, Trust Wallet experienced a security incident due to a vulnerability in browser extension version 2.68, resulting in stolen assets totaling approximately $8.5 million.

Mars Finance reports that if Ethereum falls below $3200, the liquidation of long positions on mainstream CEXs will reach 920 million; if it breaks above $3400, the liquidation of short positions will reach 985 million. The liquidation chart shows the impact of price changes on liquidation intensity.

On January 17, 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto released the Bitcoin client v0.1, supporting users to run nodes and introducing IRC chat functionality and a virtual poker game framework, but the latter was removed in version v0.8.2.