BNB Token Holds Strong Amid 3.32% Price Drop and $2.87B Trading Surge After $930 Rejection
BNBUSDT experienced a 3.32% price decline in the last 24 hours, with the current price at 894.58 USDT, reflecting downside pressure after rejection from the $930 area and a period of consolidation around the $900 mark. This movement is primarily attributed to short-term cooling in momentum following recent highs, broader market volatility, and sentiment shifts triggered by technical resistance levels and earlier bearish signals observed on January 17. While the daily uptrend remains intact, ongoing developments such as the BNB Foundation's investment initiatives and expansion of the BNB Chain ecosystem have provided support, but have not offset short-term profit-taking and resistance-driven pullbacks. Trading volume remains strong, with recent 24-hour volume reported at approximately $2.87 billion, and BNB retains its position as the 4th largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization at $122.03 billion, highlighting sustained investor interest despite current consolidation.
Walrus Protocol is carving its niche on Sui as the decentralized storage backbone for AI-driven apps and privacy-first data markets. $WAL enables fiat-stable prepaid storage (locking predictable costs long-term), staking for node rewards, governance decisions, and burns from growing usage to boost scarcity.
Fresh momentum: Myriad prediction markets now use it for immutable image/data layers, Yotta Labs taps it for AI workflows, plus tighter Sui Stack ties for verifiable infra. Price around $0.14 with decent volume holding steady in early 2026 volatility.
If you're eyeing the intersection of AI, privacy, and scalable blobs, $WAL looks like solid infra exposure. Who's adding it to their watchlist? Let's discuss..
#walrus $WAL @WalrusProtocol
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📉 Crypto Price Performance (Since Then)
$BTC −13%
$ETH −5.8%
$SOL −50%
$UNI −65%
$XRP −40%
$LINK −48%
$AVAX −68%
$DOGE −68%
$SHIB −65%
$PEPE −72%
$ONDO −74%
$TON −71%
$SEI −73%
$TRUMP −82%
$APT −83% (assuming “SAPT” = APT)
$MELANIA −98.8% (assuming “SMELANIA” = MELANIA)
🔎 Notes
Removed duplicate entries (UNI, DOGE, AVAX were repeated).
Fixed typos:
$5OL → $SOL
SAPT → $APT
SMELANIA → $MELANIA
Overall trend: broad market drawdown, with memes & low-cap tokens hit hardest.
What Confidential Smart Contracts Enable on @Dusk_Foundation Foundation’s Network
Most public blockchains expose every transaction detail, leaving sensitive financial strategies vulnerable and creating friction for regulated institutions.
@Dusk_Foundation Foundation solves this with confidential smart contracts. Each contract executes privately while remaining fully verifiable.
Zero-knowledge proofs protect transaction data, so developers can build tokenized assets, regulated DeFi applications, and financial instruments without exposing critical details.
What sets @Dusk_Foundation apart is intent. Privacy and compliance are embedded into the protocol from the ground up—they’re not afterthoughts. The network is built to support regulated finance, not just speculative activity.
For developers and institutions alike, confidential smart contracts redefine trust. They allow innovation without compromise. How could confidential smart contracts reshape your approach to building or investing in on-chain financial systems?
#dusk
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Failure Is Expected, Not Feared
Walrus is built with a trivial intention: nodes fail. This is simply a fact. Equipment dies. Links fail. Operators go dark. This is considered a special case not with Walrus. This is simply normal.
The data is broken up, replicated, and distributed across numerous independent nodes. There is not a machine in sight that is relied upon to remain connected at all times. When a node goes dark, other nodes just keep serving up the same information.
This has implications for long-running systems. In a regulated financial industry, information has to remain accessible even during outages. Decentralized systems can’t rely on optimal performance.
Through prior preparation for failure, Walrus Network does not make fragile assumptions. This network will remain in a "stable" state, but that doesn't mean that "nothing goes wrong." This occurs because "the system will be built for things going wrong."
@WalrusProtocol #walrus $WAL
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⚖️ Gold Miner Gears Up to Seize Peru’s Overseas Assets Over $67M Unpaid Award
Canadian company Lupaka Gold is preparing to go after Peruvian state-owned assets abroad — including property, ships, Petroperú holdings, and even sovereign bond payments — to collect a $67 million arbitration award that Peru still hasn’t paid.
The dispute goes back to the Invicta gold project, which got blocked by government actions. In 2025 the arbitration tribunal ruled in Lupaka’s favor, ordering Peru to pay roughly $67M plus interest.
So far no payment, so Lupaka is now hunting for enforceable Peruvian assets outside the country to force collection.
Since the award came down, Lupaka’s share price has more than tripled as investors bet on them actually getting the money.
This kind of move really shines a light on growing sovereign risk worries for mining projects across Latin America.
$XAU $PAXG $BTC
#LupakaGold #Peru #Arbitration #SovereignRisk #PreciousMetals
The thing that is really big for @WalrusProtocol now is that it is working with Chainbase. Chainbase is a network that people who make things and tools use to get the data they need. Chainbase wants to use Walrus to store an amount of data in a safe way. This data is really big. It covers more than 220 blockchains. Walrus is going to be the storage layer for all of this data, from Chainbase.
This partnership with Walrus is important because it puts Walrus at the center of a system for storing data across many chains. Now Chainbase does not have to use services that store all the files in one place. Instead Chainbase can store a lot of chain data on Walrus nodes using files that are not controlled by one company. The data that is stored on Walrus becomes something that people can check and trust. It is easy to see what is going on with the data. Also the data, on Walrus is protected from being changed or hidden by someone which is a big advantage of using Walrus.
Developers who are building analytics dashboards and data apps and multi-chain explorers and AI data connectors are in a position when they have storage that is not controlled by one entity and is reliable.
This way analytics dashboards and data apps and multi-chain explorers and AI data connectors can get the data they need without having to worry about the servers being down or the people, in charge of the servers changing the rules.
For the Web3 ecosystem this integration means something big: Web3 decentralized file storage is not, on the outside anymore. Web3 decentralized file storage can now handle jobs that companies need.
Chainbase is getting access to Walrus capacity. That is really good for the network. It helps people see the network better. It gets more attention from developers. The people who build things and use Chainbase for their data are now finding out that Walrus storage is a choice for the backend layer. Chainbase and Walrus are working together. That is making things better, for everyone. Chainbase users are learning that they can depend on Walrus storage.
#walrus $WAL
Plasma has been on my radar because it’s not trying to be “everything for everyone” — it’s clearly chasing one job: make stablecoin payments feel instant, cheap, and boring (in the best way). If sending USDT/USDC is going to become normal for salaries, remittances, and daily transfers, the chain behind it needs predictable fees, fast settlement, and a smooth UX for normal users.
That’s the angle I like about @Plasma And $XPL becomes more interesting when usage is tied to real payment flow, not just hype cycles. I’m watching for real integrations, merchant-style activity, and steady on-chain volume — that’s where the value story gets real.
#plasma $XPL
Stablecoins are already winning.
They have become the default unit of account for on-chain markets, digital settlement, and cross-border transfers.
However, the blockchains moving these assets were never built for payment at a global scale. There are huge fees, finality is probabilistic, and throughput collapses under real demand. When volumes were small and alternatives scarce, these compromises were tolerated. With stablecoins becoming financial infrastructure, that tolerance is gone. Plasma (XPL) exists because the systems moving digital dollars are expected to function like real money, not an experiment.
@Plasma #Plasma $XPL