According to GMGN data, RIVER has been rising steadily throughout the day, with its price once breaking through 33 USDT, a maximum increase of over 63%, and is currently trading at approximately 33.3 USDT.

According to a report by Cointelegraph on January 16, Newrez, a major U.S. lending institution, announced plans to recognize crypto assets for mortgage lending in the U.S. starting in February, without requiring them to be converted into cash.

Huoxun Finance reported on January 16th that, according to BitcoinMagazine, KBC Group, Belgium's second-largest bank, announced it will offer Bitcoin and Ethereum trading services to retail clients through its online investment platform, Bolero, becoming the first bank in the country to offer such services. The service is scheduled to launch the week of February 16th and will operate within the regulatory framework of the EU Crypto Asset Market Regulation (MiCA). KBC stated that it has submitted a complete notification of its cryptocurrency service provider status to the regulator. The service will operate on an "execution-only" model, requiring clients to make their own decisions and complete a risk knowledge and experience test before trading. To mitigate fraud and money laundering risks, the platform employs a "closed-loop" model, allowing clients to buy and sell only within the Bolero platform and preventing asset transfers to external wallets or exchanges, with custody services provided by the bank.

According to official news, BitMart has launched a new automated market-making tool, AMM Bot, introducing automated liquidity solutions for select spot trading pairs. Based on a constant product market-making algorithm, this feature automatically places buy and sell orders across multiple price ranges through independent liquidity pools, maintaining stable trading depth for trading pairs even without manual order placement. Users simply need to deposit two assets into the pool simultaneously to participate in market making and become liquidity providers. In terms of rewards, AMM Bot offers users the opportunity to continuously earn trading fee dividends. Transaction fees generated by the relevant trading pairs will be distributed to liquidity providers according to their liquidity contribution, allowing market-making users to share in the profits generated by market activity. Furthermore, AMM Bot supports flexible increases and decreases in liquidity, providing users with a more efficient way to utilize their funds.

Huoxun Finance reported on January 16th that the Berachain community has initiated a proposal to reduce the annual inflation rate of the BGT token from 8% to approximately 5%. This proposal aims to improve the network's long-term economic sustainability, increase emission efficiency, and align with the inflation levels of mainstream L1 networks. The proposal emphasizes that this will not change the existing PoL reward mechanism, treasury allocation logic, or validator incentive functions; it will only adjust the total annual issuance of BGT. Specifically, this will be achieved by reducing the "reward rate" parameter. The proposal analysis points out that reducing inflation will decrease the yield for BGT and BERA holders, but will enhance the relative scarcity of BERA. Simultaneously, the total incentives received by validators, decentralized applications, and liquidity providers will also decrease. The team stated that the goal for the future, between 2026 and 2027, is to further reduce inflation to a level closer to Ethereum's. This proposal is currently open for community discussion.