Odaily Planet Daily reports that PredictionIndex.xyz published an article on the X platform stating that it has conducted end-to-end indexed tracking of the prediction market ecosystem, covering markets, infrastructure, terminals, and new experimental projects. The total transaction volume currently tracked has reached $50.25 billion. Excluding Kalshi and Polymarket, the remaining portion of the ecosystem accounts for $1.25 billion in transaction volume. This long-tail market is crucial for testing and evolving new market designs, incentives, and ideas. Projects involved include azuroprotocol, TrendleFi, hyperstiti0ns, Limitless, MyriadMarkets, overtime, footballdotfun, xodotmarket, predictonfliq, DGbet_official, and BRKTgg.

According to Odaily Planet Daily, on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa reports that a whale who has been holding ETH for four years and is now switching to WBTC continues to increase its holdings. In the past five minutes, it exchanged 4013 ETH for 138.04 WBTC, worth $12.59 million, with a WBTC cost of $91,117.55. Since yesterday, it has cumulatively sold 18,159.4 ETH and established a position of 631.78 WBTC, with a total value of $56.8 million.

According to Odaily Planet Daily, blockchain analyst Yu Jin posted on the X platform that James Wynn (@JamesWynnReal), a trader who lost $100 million on Hyperliquid six months ago (including $87 million in profit and $21.77 million in principal), has recently gone long on PEPE. James Wynn (@JamesWynnReal) started using $10,000 to go long on PEPE on December 27th. PEPE began rising on January 1st, and within four days, his unrealized profit had grown from $10,000 to $500,000.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, two days ago, a whale (0x727...1e2c) opened a long position in PEPE with 3x leverage, and currently has a floating profit of over $2 million. Previously, this whale had traded ETH and closed its position at a loss of $488,069.

Huoxun Finance reported on January 4th that DelphiDigital announced that Solana plans to launch a major consensus mechanism upgrade, "Alpenglow," in phases from early to mid-2026. This upgrade will replace the existing TowerBFT and Proof-of-History (PoH) mechanisms, achieving a finalization time of 100-150 milliseconds, approximately 100 times faster than the original 12.8 seconds. The new architecture introduces two main components: Votor, through a lightweight voting aggregation model, allows blocks to reach finality in one to two rounds of confirmation; Rotor restructures the block propagation mechanism, employing a stake-weighted relay path, achieving a propagation latency as low as 18 milliseconds under sufficient bandwidth.