NYC Token Deployer Profits Around $1 Million by Adding One-Sided Liquidity

January 14 – Solana-based social token platform Believe App has rolled out its v2 beta iOS version, introducing a "Human Sentiment Market" trading mechanism: Users can perpetually bet on the rise or fall of an individual’s reputation using two tokens—Believe and Doubt. The first market centers on founder Ben Pasternak, with a current "belief value" of 62%. This market never settles, and the combined value of Believe and Doubt tokens always equals $1. The project team stated that initially, it will focus on manually listing high-profile figures, with plans to later expand to any X account and launch a fee-sharing model. Overall, this version aims to act as an entry point centered on "real-time sentiment tracking," streamlining the shift from meme tokens to prediction markets.

**January 14** Meta rolled out its latest 2026 layoffs this week, targeting its Reality Labs division (home to VR/AR hardware and the metaverse project) — a clear strategic retreat from Mark Zuckerberg’s "metaverse" vision he’s championed aggressively since 2014, Fox Business reports. The cuts will trim 10% of Reality Labs’ workforce — over 1,000 roles total — with affected employees starting to receive notifications Tuesday. Meta is shifting focus from metaverse products to wearables, specifically AI smart glasses. Reality Labs has long struggled with profitability: it’s racked up more than $70 billion in operating losses since 2021, including a $4.4 billion deficit in Q3 2025 alone.

On January 14, data from DefiLlama reveals that Aave’s share of the DeFi lending market has exceeded 51.3% — marking the first time since 2020 that a single protocol has claimed over 50% of usage in the space. Below are the top 10 DeFi lending protocols by Total Value Locked (TVL): - Aave: ~$35.833B TVL | ~51.3% market share - Morpho: ~$6.861B TVL | ~9.8% market share - JustLend: ~$4.015B TVL | ~5.8% market share - SparkLend: ~$3.811B TVL | ~5.5% market share - Maple: ~$2.724B TVL | ~3.9% market share - Kamino Lend: ~$2.402B TVL | ~3.4% market share - Compound Finance: ~$2.051B TVL | ~2.9% market share - Venus: ~$1.799B TVL | ~2.6% market share - Fluid Lending: ~$1.545B TVL | ~2.2% market share - Jupiter Lend: ~$1.131B TVL | ~1.6% market share

On January 14, per GMGN monitoring, the broader market rebounded today, though Chinese meme coins posted stark performance divergence. The BSC-based meme coin “Binance Life” surged 45% in the past 24 hours, with a market cap of $260 million and a current price of roughly $0.26. In contrast, several Chinese meme coins that rallied sharply in recent days failed to follow the broader market trend, instead posting a broad decline—nearly 40% down over the past 24 hours. Key details are as follows: - “I Stepped on the Horse”: 39% 24-hour drop, $16.9 million market cap, current price ~$0.0169 - “Daddy”: 39% 24-hour gain, $7.9 million market cap, current price ~$0.0079 - “Life Candlestick”: 46% 24-hour drop, $7.65 million market cap, current price ~$0.0076 BlockBeats notes that meme coin trading is highly volatile, heavily tied to market sentiment and hype, with no underlying value or utility. Investors should be mindful of these risks.

On January 14, per HyperInsight monitoring, the "aggressive long-focused trader" (address 0x3bcae) liquidated a 250 BTC long position at 14:02, incurring a $104,000 loss. **Current Positions**: - 10x leveraged long: 2,492,537,310 PUMP tokens (entry price $0.0024); unrealized profit = $790,000 - 10x leveraged long: 15,285,248.7 FARTCOIN tokens (entry price $0.3733); unrealized profit = $665,000 - 10x leveraged long: 100,000 LTC (entry price $76.83); unrealized profit = $135,000 The address launched perpetual contract trading on January 11, focusing on a high-frequency leveraged long strategy. Its total net profit to date stands at $1.64 million.

On January 14, Daniel Hynes—Senior Commodity Strategist at ANZ Bank—stated that gold and silver’s outlook remains bullish for 2026 following a strong 2025 performance. Renewed geopolitical tensions, concerns over the Federal Reserve’s independence, and a lack of U.S. fiscal discipline are expected to keep driving fund flows into gold. For silver, worsening physical supply tightness is amplifying price volatility. Hynes noted that confirmation of U.S. import tariff exemptions would ease supply pressure, but supply-demand imbalances and robust industrial demand will still provide solid price support. ANZ Bank forecasts gold will break above $5,000 per ounce in the second half of the year. (Source: FX678)