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According to official news, Polymarket has announced an exclusive partnership with Substack.According to the announcement, Substack authors will be able to natively integrate Polymarket market data into their content, using real-time prediction market information to assist news reporting.Both parties stated that this move aims to embed prediction market data into the writing process, providing data reference support for content creators.

According to the official announcement, Gate Square will open additional content mining rewards from February 10 to March 11. During the event, both creators and viewers will have the chance to win generous rewards. Creators will receive up to 60% in creation rebates. Creators who earn more than 0.1 USDT in mining rewards during this event can share a 1500 USDT new miner prize pool. Meanwhile, viewers who click on any content card's trading component in the square and complete a transaction will have the opportunity to be among the top 20 users by trading volume to receive up to 50 GT in rewards and exquisite Gate merchandise.

Vitalik Buterin posted on the X platform discussing the design ideas of creator coins, pointing out that the overall effectiveness of the crypto industry in the content incentive field has been limited over the past decade. The core issue is not a lack of content supply, but rather an insufficient mechanism for filtering and discovering high-quality content. In the current context where AI can generate a large amount of content at a low cost, the industry's goal should shift from "incentivizing more content" to "identifying and amplifying high-quality content."Vitalik believes that Substack is a relatively successful case of creator incentives, with the key being the platform's active selection and support of quality creators, rather than relying solely on mechanism design. He points out that existing creator coin projects generally have a structural issue of "high social influence users dominating the rankings," which does not truly reflect content quality.On the proposal level, Vitalik suggests establishing a non-tokenized creator DAO, where members vote to select creators and maintain clear content positioning and scale control to build a stable brand and commercial bargaining power. At the same time, creators should be allowed to issue personal tokens; if they join the creator DAO, the DAO's earnings can be used to buy back and destroy the creator tokens, transforming the role of speculators into "high-quality creator predictors," thereby reducing pure speculative cycles and improving the efficiency of high-quality content filtering.Vitalik stated that future effective governance mechanisms may increasingly combine prediction markets and multi-party governance structures to enhance the system's resistance to manipulation and goal consistency.

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Binance founder CZ posted on social media, stating that there are signs of a suspected organized public opinion attack surrounding his recent remarks.CZ mentioned that some accounts, which were previously unfamiliar, have concentrated on posting highly similar content within a short period, displaying obvious characteristics of copying and amplification. The overall behavior is more akin to systematic operation rather than natural discussion. The related topics continue to spread within the community.

On January 27, Gate officially announced the 2025 Year-End Community Gala Peak Streamer and Content Creator Rankings. The rankings are based on platform data and community performance, aiming to recognize creators who excel in live content creation and community influence. Among them, the top three in the Peak Streamer Rankings are Yu Le Trading Diary, Liang Xi Killer 2, and u Yue Lai Yue Hao; the top three in the Shining New Star Rankings are Genius Trader Brother Jie, Old AGood, and Old Ink; the top three in the Content Creator Rankings are Ryakpanda, xxx40xxx, and Nice Next Door Uncle Wang.In terms of the reward mechanism, Gate has established a clear tiered incentive system for different rankings, covering multiple dimensions such as physical gifts, trading experience rights, and platform identity recognition. Creators in the top ranks of the Peak Streamer and Shining New Star Rankings can receive rewards including the Xiaomi Mi Band 9 Pro, official merchandise, and up to $500 trading experience vouchers, along with a unified VIP5 designation; the Content Creator Rankings further introduce a certified creator designation, with rewards extending to the top twenty.Through multi-level incentives and long-term identity support, Gate aims to continuously encourage high-quality content creation, activate community interaction, and promote the robust development of the platform's content ecosystem.

According to official news, Gate Square has recently completed the upgrade of its "content mining" mechanism and has simultaneously launched the public beta of the Renewal Season, focusing on optimizing content incentives and trading rebate paths to promote the conversion of content value into actual earnings. During the public beta, creators who publish qualified content on Gate Square and guide users to complete real transactions such as spot, contracts, or Alpha can participate in the fee rebate sharing, with a single creator able to receive up to 60% of the fee rebate.In terms of the revenue structure, all eligible creators can receive a 10% basic rebate guarantee, while the platform introduces an interactive incentive mechanism, allowing for additional rebate bonuses upon achieving posting or interaction targets. Furthermore, Gate Square will conduct weekly rankings based on the number of posts and interaction performance, providing extra rewards to the top 100 creators; for newly onboarded and returning creators, a double rebate benefit will be offered during the public beta.Gate stated that it will continue to optimize content incentives and trading conversion mechanisms in the future, encouraging more creators to cultivate long-term engagement in Gate Square and jointly build a more vibrant and sustainable content and trading ecosystem.

The product head of OKX Planet Community, Jason, stated at the OKX New Year's dinner event that the OKX Planet Community has launched its public beta. This marks OKX's first complete attempt in the direction of community products, aiming to create a crypto community that integrates information acquisition, trading opportunity sharing, active creators, and deep communities. The community product encompasses four major content areas: public domain creation, public domain persona display, live interaction, and private domain communities, and provides continuous exposure and traffic conversion for creators and users through a recommendation page.In terms of incentives, the Planet Community advocates for dynamic calculations based on key factors such as community user value, effective interaction between content consumers and creators, and community user duration. Jason emphasized that the community has a competitive weekly cash prize pool, where the higher the community user engagement and trading activity on OKX, the greater the incentives for creators. In the long term, the Planet Community will gradually integrate with the OKX platform in terms of products, information, rights, and ecology, such as promoting new community and trading gameplay through X Layer. The goal is to focus on rapid iteration in the short term, expand community operations and gameplay, and enhance user experience, making every user an important part of the community's growth.

According to the official announcement, the globally leading cryptocurrency trading platform Gate has announced that its Gate Live App has completed a systematic overhaul. This upgrade focuses on the presentation of content and user browsing habits, reconstructing the overall visual design and live broadcast structure, aiming to further enhance the efficiency and immersion of live broadcast content delivery, and improve the platform's content ecosystem capacity.The Gate Live App overhaul introduces a brand new UI design language, simplifying the information presentation method and aggregation logic, concentrating on current live broadcasts and discussions, reducing page levels and transitions, allowing users to efficiently browse and select content. At the same time, the new version of the page adopts an infinite scroll to display all ongoing live rooms and has reorganized the preview module to ensure that core content is always in the preferred browsing area.Gate stated that this upgrade not only reflects the platform's continuous investment in content. By lowering browsing thresholds, enhancing content exposure, and increasing viewing immersion, Gate is gradually transforming the live broadcast module from a single functional area into an important entry point connecting users, content, and the trading ecosystem, promoting the construction of a user experience-centered product ecosystem.

According to FinanceWire, AI-native content creation engine and publishing platform AKEDO has announced the completion of a $5 million seed round financing. This round was led by Karatage, with participation from investors in the gaming, artificial intelligence, and cryptocurrency sectors, including Sfermion, Collab + Currency, MARBLEX, Seed Club, The Open Platform, TON Ventures, Gagra Ventures, Kenetic Capital, and Metalabs Ventures.AKEDO is dedicated to building an "atmosphere coding" platform powered by a multi-agent AI system, aimed at significantly enhancing the efficiency of game and content development through collaborative AI agents. The platform allows users to create game collections, generate AIGC content, and plans to support one-click publishing of collection tokens in the future, unlocking diverse revenue streams for creators and protocols. The company's CEO stated that the funds will be used to expand its multi-agent infrastructure.

X product lead and Solana advisor Nikita Bier previously disclosed that they are currently developing Smart Cashtags. Some users in the crypto community have questioned the backend for querying crypto assets, stating that some small-cap crypto assets that are not yet listed on mainstream exchanges may not be queryable, ultimately forcing users to switch to DEX for queries.In response, Nikita Bier stated that the API (Application Programming Interface) used by the X platform will be able to process almost any on-chain minted content in real-time. Additionally, when users asked whether it would be possible to conduct crypto transactions on X using self-custody wallets or even CEX widgets in the future, Nikita Bier did not provide a clear response, only replying with a "follow" emoji.

The father of smart contracts and co-founder of Castle Island Ventures, Nic Carter, posted on the X platform stating that the incentivized posts on platforms like Kaito combined with AI have generated a large amount of low-quality content. The early fun of the crypto tweet circle was in grassroots gaming, but the current industry growth focus has shifted towards stablecoins and financial infrastructure, leaning more towards institutional and VC narratives, making it difficult for ordinary retail investors to feel the opportunity for "fair participation and getting rich against the odds," leading to a decline in participation enthusiasm.Additionally, the "de-niche" design of the X platform, which enhances "recommendations for you," makes it difficult for creators to reach their niche communities, resulting in fewer opportunities for crypto professional content to be recommended. Nic Carter added that the X platform has quickly responded by revoking the API access for the "InfoFi" application to reduce platform spam content, and he strongly supports this approach.

Digital Asset Trading Platform Gate Announces Annual AwardsThe digital asset trading platform Gate has announced its annual awards, focusing on recognizing partners and participants who have made outstanding contributions in content creation, brand communication, and community development within its global ecosystem. The awards cover KOLs, advertising partners, brokers, and core community contributors, with titles such as "Annual Content Pioneer Award" and "Annual Forward Insight Award," reflecting the platform's recognition of diverse ecological value.Through a unified annual recognition mechanism, Gate further organizes and presents its global cooperation network and ecological structure, strengthening connections between cross-regional partners and establishing a clearer value consensus for ecological collaboration. In addition, Gate invites partners each year to participate in diverse exchange and hospitality arrangements, such as attending F1 events, global travel exchanges, and international large-scale industry exhibitions, further deepening cooperative relationships.Looking back over the past year, Gate has continuously invested in expanding its cooperative ecosystem, content system, and community operations, with a global user base nearing 50 million. The activity levels of spot and derivative trading have also increased simultaneously, maintaining an overall market share among the global leaders. Gate stated that it will continue to improve cooperation and incentive mechanisms in the future, working hand in hand with ecological partners to promote the long-term healthy development of the digital asset and Web3 industries.

According to Cointelegraph, the viewership of cryptocurrency content on YouTube has fallen to its lowest level since January 2021, while a record 11.6 million crypto projects failed in 2025, with Memecoins being the hardest hit.Analysts pointed out that the market crash on October 10, which led to $19 billion in crypto leverage liquidations, was a key catalyst.

According to Bloomberg, Coinbase is increasing pressure on U.S. lawmakers to retain the ability to offer rewards to customers holding stablecoins.The company believes that if the restrictive provisions currently under discussion are included in the major cryptocurrency bill to be announced on Monday, this business will face risks. Sources say that if the bill includes other content beyond enhanced reward disclosure requirements, Coinbase may reconsider its support for the digital asset market structure bill, which will be reviewed by at least one Senate committee on Thursday.Industry insiders reveal that the proposed plan is to limit the ability to offer rewards to regulated financial institutions, a move supported by some in the banking sector who believe that interest-bearing stablecoin accounts could siphon off traditional bank deposits. Coinbase has applied for a national trust license, hoping to provide rewards under the regulations.However, native cryptocurrency companies are pushing to retain a platform-based reward model, which they argue can work even without a trust license, and warn that broader restrictions could disrupt the competitive landscape of the industry. The specific wording of the bill remains unclear, but it will add some provisions regarding rewards, an issue that has weakened bipartisan support for the market structure bill and could delay its passage.Sources indicate that a potential compromise could allow only licensed financial institutions to offer rewards on stablecoin balances. Recently, five cryptocurrency companies received conditional approval from the U.S. OCC to become national trust banks. Given the recent approvals, a market structure bill allowing licensed trust companies to provide yields may appease some cryptocurrency firms. If restrictions are implemented, industry insiders believe it could trigger a "whack-a-mole" game, with crypto companies seeking alternative ways to reward users.

The founder of CryptoQuant, Ki Young Ju, stated that the X platform is suppressing the influence of cryptocurrency-related posts while failing to curb the surge of automated spam, effectively punishing legitimate users. Data shows that automated activity related to the keyword "crypto" has surged, generating over 7.7 million posts in a single day. Ki Young Ju pointed out that the X platform cannot distinguish between automated accounts and real accounts, and the paid verification system has become a tool for mass messaging by bots.Nikita Bier, the product manager of the X platform, responded that the visibility issue in the crypto community partly stems from users excessively posting low-value content, such as repeatedly sending "gm," which dilutes the daily reach of accounts. In response to these remarks, Ki Young Ju stated that the X platform would rather ban crypto content than improve bot detection, which is quite absurd. Currently, the X platform remains the main real-time communication hub for the crypto industry.

The chairman of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, Tim Scott, previously stated that a hearing on the cryptocurrency market structure bill will be held on January 15. However, negotiation documents show that there are still four areas of disagreement. The main points of contention include:DeFi: There is a demand for decentralized finance (DeFi) to be supervised similarly to the U.S. Federal Regulatory Financial Corporation, but its basic definitions and issues remain unresolved.Stablecoin Yields: The GENIUS Act stipulates that stablecoin issuers cannot offer interest, but their affiliated companies can provide yields and customer reward programs. The banking sector believes this could threaten their core deposit business, while some Democrats want to limit crypto yields.Ethical Standards: There is a call to prohibit senior U.S. government officials from deriving personal benefits from cryptocurrency activities.CFTC: The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) will play a leading role in cryptocurrency regulation, but the allocation of seats between the two parties in the CFTC needs to be balanced.

Former Coinbase employee hish posted on the X platform early this morning, stating that Coinbase has not yet truly understood the value of content tokens. Content tokens must have sustainable revenue capabilities and be able to share value with token holders; otherwise, it is difficult to form long-term value accumulation. If Base cannot solve this core issue of revenue sharing, related content tokens may ultimately just become more beautifully packaged meme coins. In contrast, the construction of creator tokens has a higher threshold and is more challenging, so exploring project tokens may be a more realistic path, but this may require Coinbase to make certain trade-offs at the wallet application level.In response, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong stated that there is still a lack of understanding in the market regarding the essence of content tokens and creator tokens. He mentioned that when users purchase content tokens, they can indirectly promote the economic activities and demand of the underlying creator tokens, as both can achieve value linkage and transmission through liquidity pool mechanisms.