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According to Odaily, Stellar has announced the upgrade of its community fund with the launch of Stellar Community Fund v7.0, aiming to accelerate ecosystem growth and help developers achieve scale more quickly. The fund has been in operation for six and a half years, and this upgrade follows the successful SCF Pilot vote through Soroban Governor, adapting to the network's maturity and developers' needs. SCF v7.0 will optimize and adjust the funding allocation method to encourage execution, speed, and delivery. Specifically, 10% of the funds will be paid at the time of the grant, 20% at the mid-development milestone stage, 30% at the advanced product readiness stage (testnet), and 40% upon mainnet launch verification and user experience readiness.

According to Odaily, Eli5DeFi posted on X stating that the incentive-driven DeFi model will disappear by 2026. DeFi protocols lose users when incentives end, essentially because risk-adjusted returns revert to real levels. The growth in total value locked (TVL) during the incentive phase often reflects subsidized participation rather than lasting user demand or fee income. It pointed out that the "rented liquidity" model has three stages: the incentive period attracts capital by compensating risk with high emissions; the normalization period sees reduced incentives and real returns emerge; and the exit period, where capital recalculates costs and withdraws after returns normalize. The collapse in retention is due to incentives temporarily masking structural weaknesses, including subsidized impermanent loss risk, yields that are essentially marketing expenses rather than income, highly internalized demand, and high friction costs. Eli5DeFi believes that only when the economic model remains effective after incentives normalize can retention rates improve. Protocols must address impermanent loss and principal risk, anchor yields to real demand rather than token inflation, and expand the ecosystem to increase revenue sources. Future DeFi should be evaluated based on sustainable income, capital efficiency, and risk-adjusted returns.

BlockBeats News, January 17, Crypto Quant analyst Axel published an article stating that according to the "Bitcoin Short-Term Holder 24-Hour Profit and Loss Transfer to CEX Total Volume Chart" data, in the past 24 hours, about 35,400 profitable bitcoins have flowed into CEX, marking the highest figure in nearly two months. Meanwhile, the outflow of loss-making coins was extremely low, at only about 4,600. The profit/loss outflow ratio is approximately 7.5:1. Profit-taking behavior is clearly dominant, with very little panic selling. Axel explained that a high amount of profit-taking occurring when the loss rate is extremely low is a logical market behavior. Investors who bought in the $85,000–$92,000 range are using the opportunity of prices approaching their cost basis to lock in profits. This flow structure indicates that profit-taking is the main driver of market selling pressure, which is a completely different type of pressure compared to panic selling from loss positions. Once the profit/loss ratio reverses (i.e., selling driven by losses begins to dominate), a bearish scenario will intensify, although this is not a necessary condition. Various charts depict a coherent picture: the loss rate has narrowed to its lowest level, and it is precisely in this range that profit-taking activity has become active. The price is testing the cost benchmark area while facing high supply pressure from profitable positions.