BlockBeats News, January 14th. Brian Martin, Chief Economist of the G3 economies at ANZ Bank, stated that the Federal Reserve may keep interest rates unchanged in January, but the view that the rate-cutting cycle will be paused for a long time lacks a reasonable basis. He believes that the Fed should quickly resume rate cuts, with the committee likely to cut the federal funds target rate by 25 basis points in March and another 25 basis points in June, bringing the target rate to 3.00%-3.25% by mid-year. Martin pointed out that as the impact of the previous tariffs on prices diminishes, wage growth slows, and housing inflation cools, U.S. inflation will gradually ease in 2026. (FXStreet)

BlockBeats News, January 14th, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published a post looking back on the 2014 blockchain vision: The idea back then was to have permissionless decentralized applications that could support financial, social media, ride-sharing, organization governance, crowdfunding, and even potentially create a completely alternative network, all built on a set of technologies. Over the past five years, this core vision has sometimes become blurred, with various "meta-narratives" and "themes" taking precedence at times. But the core vision has never died. In fact, the core technology supporting this vision is becoming increasingly powerful.

Vitalik stated that in 2014, decentralized applications were still just toys, much harder to use in the Web 2.0 era than they are now. By 2026, Fileverse is already user-friendly enough that I can use it frequently to write documents and collaborate with others. The decentralized renaissance is on the horizon, and you too can be a part of it.

BlockBeats News, January 14th, according to Reuters, sources said Pakistan has signed an agreement with a World Liberty Financial-affiliated company to explore using World Liberty's stablecoin for cross-border payments.

World Liberty Financial is the main crypto-financial business owned by the family of U.S. President Trump, launched in September 2024. This cooperation is one of the first publicly announced collaborations between World Liberty and a sovereign nation.

BlockBeats News, January 14th, according to Hyperinsight monitoring, the "mid-term swing" whale (0x08bed) closed a 60 BTC long position at 14:14, earning $142,000. Currently, the address holds no positions and is waiting on the sidelines.

This address uses high-leverage isolated margin trading, with an average holding period of 3-7 days, belonging to the mid-term swing trading style.

BlockBeats News, January 14th. The Solana ecosystem social token platform Believe App released the v2 beta iOS version, introducing the "Human Sentiment Market" trading mechanism: Users can perpetually stake the rise and fall of individual reputation through Believe/Doubt two tokens. The first market corresponds to founder Ben Pasternak, with the current "belief value" at 62%. This market never settles and maintains the constant sum of Believe + Doubt to be 1 US dollar.

The project team stated that early on, it will mainly focus on "manually deploying high-profile individuals," with the possibility of later expanding to any X account and introducing a fee-sharing mechanism. Overall, this version aims to serve as an entry point with "real-time emotion tracking," simplifying the transition from Meme tokens to the prediction market.

BlockBeats News, January 14th, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, a whale transferred 12,000 ETH from Binance, worth $39.98 million.

The whale currently holds a total of 80,980 ETH, worth $269.46 million.

BlockBeats News, January 14th. According to Fox Business, Meta conducted its latest round of layoffs in early 2026, primarily targeting its Reality Labs division (responsible for VR/AR hardware and the metaverse project), marking a significant strategic retreat from Mark Zuckerberg's "metaverse" vision that he has vigorously promoted since 2014. Meta will reduce its Reality Labs division workforce by 10%, equivalent to over 1,000 positions. The affected employees have begun to receive notifications starting this Tuesday.

Meta is shifting from metaverse products to wearable devices, particularly AI smart glasses. Its metaverse project has been deeply unprofitable for a long time, with Reality Labs accumulating operational losses of over $70 billion since 2021, and a loss of $4.4 billion in just the third quarter of the 2025 fiscal year.

BlockBeats News, January 14th, according to Hyperinsight monitoring, the "aggressive long pioneer" trader (0x3bcae) liquidated a 250 BTC long position at 14:02, realizing a loss of $104,000. Current positions are as follows:

10x leverage long 2,492,537,310 PUMP, entry price $0.0024, unrealized profit $790,000;

10x leverage long 15,285,248.7 FARTCOIN, entry price $0.3733, unrealized profit $665,000;

10x leverage long 100,000 LTC, entry price $76.83, unrealized profit $135,000.

The address started perpetual contract trading on January 11th, focusing on high-frequency long leverage trading strategy, with a total net profit of $1.64 million.

BlockBeats News, January 14th, according to GMGN monitoring, the overall market rebounded today, but Chinese Meme coins on the BSC chain showed significant divergence. The BSC Meme coin "Binance Life" saw a 45% price increase in 24 hours, with a market cap of $260 million and a current price of approximately $0.26. In contrast, possibly due to a shift in attention, several Chinese Meme coins that had seen significant gains in the past few days did not follow the overall market trend but instead experienced a general pullback, with nearly 40% price drop in the past 24 hours. The specific information is as follows:

“I Stepped on the Thunder”: 24-hour price drop of 39%, with a market cap of $16.9 million and a current price of approximately $0.0169;

“Daddy”: 24-hour price increase of 39%, with a market cap of $7.9 million and a current price of approximately $0.0079;

“Life Candlestick”: 24-hour price drop of 46%, with a market cap of $7.65 million and a current price of approximately $0.0076;

BlockBeats reminds users that Meme coin trading is highly volatile, largely driven by market sentiment and hype around concepts, with no actual value or use case. Investors should be aware of the risks.

BlockBeats News, January 14th, according to DefiLlama data, Aave's share in the DeFi lending market has exceeded 51.3%, marking the first time since 2020 that a single protocol has had a usage rate of over 50%. The top 10 lending protocols by TVL are as follows:

Aave currently has a DeFi lending TVL of approximately $35.833 billion, occupying about 51.3% of the market share;

Morpho currently has a DeFi lending TVL of approximately $6.861 billion, occupying about 9.8% of the market share;

JustLend currently has a DeFi lending TVL of approximately $4.015 billion, occupying about 5.8% of the market share;

SparkLend currently has a DeFi lending TVL of approximately $3.811 billion, occupying about 5.5% of the market share;

Maple currently has a DeFi lending TVL of approximately $2.724 billion, occupying about 3.9% of the market share;

Kamino Lend currently has a DeFi lending TVL of approximately $2.402 billion, occupying about 3.4% of the market share;

Compound Finance currently has a DeFi lending TVL of approximately $2.051 billion, occupying about 2.9% of the market share;

Venus currently has a DeFi lending TVL of approximately $1.799 billion, occupying about 2.6% of the market share;

Fluid Lending currently has a DeFi lending TVL of approximately $1.545 billion, occupying about 2.2% of the market share;

Jupiter Lend currently has a DeFi lending TVL of approximately $1.131 billion, occupying about 1.6% of the market share.