Odaily Planet Daily reports that Binance Alpha has announced it will be the first platform to list HeyElsa (ELSA) and ETHGas (GWEI). The ELSA airdrop will open on January 20th, and the GWEI airdrop on January 21st. The announcement states that eligible users can claim the airdrop using Binance Alpha Points on the Alpha event page after trading opens on Alpha. Specific rules and details will be announced separately.

Huoxun Finance reported on January 19th that Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin stated he is currently "significantly more supportive" of native rollups (EIP-8079). He explained that his previous opposition stemmed from the fact that native rollup precompilation required a choice between "ZK mode" and "optimistic mode." Early ZK-EVM was immature, leading projects to favor solutions with 2-7 day withdrawal periods but Ethereum-secured guarantees, thus composability. Now, with Ethereum's L1 adoption of ZK largely aligned with the timeline for adding native rollup precompilation, this concern has been alleviated. Vitalik also emphasized the importance of carefully designing precompilations so that rollups with "EVM + a few features" can use a unified precompilation and include provers for new features.

Huoxun Finance News, January 19th - According to a Binance announcement, to improve market quality, 22 spot trading pairs, including 0G/BNB, 1MBABYDOGE/FDUSD, ADX/ETH, AGLD/BTC, ALT/FDUSD, ARKM/BTC, ATOM/ETH, BTC/ZAR, ENS/BTC, ETH/ZAR, HOLO/BNB, HOLO/FDUSD, MOVR/BTC, NEWT/FDUSD, OP/ETH, ORDI/BTC, OXT/BTC, POLYX/BTC, SLP/ETH, SSV/BTC, STO/FDUSD, STORJ/BTC, and TRB/BTC, will be delisted on January 20th, 2026 at 16:00 (UTC+8). This is primarily due to low liquidity or trading volume. This only affects the relevant trading pairs; the tokens involved can still be traded through other trading pairs. The platform advises users to cancel any related trading bots promptly to avoid potential losses.

Huoxun Finance reported on January 19th that Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin stated that DAO development has deviated from its original purpose. The current mainstream "token voting to control the treasury" model is inefficient, easily manipulated, and fails to address human political weaknesses. He pointed out that DAOs remain a necessary mechanism, especially in areas such as oracle design, on-chain dispute resolution, project launch, and long-term maintenance, where they should play a greater role. Vitalik emphasized the importance of using ZK technology to protect privacy, leveraging AI to alleviate governance fatigue, and considered the communication platform a key part of the DAO stack, calling for DAO governance design to prioritize the "communication layer" and "consensus tools" as core development goals.

Huoxun Finance reported on January 19th that Paradex is currently experiencing a system outage, with services including Cloud/API, UI, Blockchain, Bridge, BlockExplorer, and RPCProxy all unavailable. The official statement indicates that the issue has been identified and the chain state will be rolled back to block height 1604710 (04:27:54 UTC), the last correct state before database maintenance. All accounts will be restored to their pre-maintenance state. The incident is still under investigation and being addressed.