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Today is January 18, 2026. I took a look at the alpha returns for January, and I can only describe it as bleak. I received only two airdrops for the points I earned, and due to the depreciation of the trading competition, it barely covers the daily cost of brushing alpha. You can see my screenshot; there were only two airdrops after the 21st that I claimed, esim and brev. The others were rewards for recharges or the trading competition, meaning I only received two throughout the month. I didn't participate in Fogo, and I felt that the odds for the 350 million subscription weren't high. I didn't expect the spot market to open quite well, although it has now fallen below the issuance price. Therefore, my earnings for this month amount to 100U. This is still considering that I participated in the trading competition; for friends who didn't, the thousand U low guarantee accounts are probably just barely breaking even.

Suddenly realized that tasks that are simple for me may be quite difficult for some beginners, so I decided to get up and write a detailed tutorial.
First, let's talk about the rewards. Completing the task can earn you at least 60 coins, with a pre-market value of 0.7u, so 5 points are very worthwhile. Everyone should participate as much as possible. There are limited spots, with one task having 40,000 spots and another having 80,000. Currently, a few thousand people have participated, and there's still time.
First, prepare the ladder and go to Japan, as many countries have restrictions. Then follow the task guide to create a username, continue step by step, and you can skip the step of filling in the invitation code if there is nothing to fill in.

Plasma<cm-13/>XPL) was quite popular when the mainnet launched in September 2025, touted as a 'stablecoin killer chain', with zero-fee USDT transfers, 1-second block times, over 1000 TPS, and full EVM compatibility, making it capable of running DeFi directly. Backed by Bitfinex and Tether, the TVL surged to over $2 billion in stablecoins right from the start, ranking in the top ten, with major players like Aave and Ethena integrated. The price peaked at $1.68, and the FDV once soared to over $10 billion, causing retail investors to FOMO heavily.
Now in February 2026, reality has become more stark. The price has dropped to around $0.093, with a market cap of approximately $170-200 million, a circulation of about 2.2 billion, and a total supply of 10 billion. The 24-hour trading volume is around 70-90 million, which is still considered active, but it has fallen by over 94% from its peak. The TVL is now over $300 million (DefiLlama data), and the stablecoin balance is around $1.8 billion, still ranking high, but has significantly shrunk from its peak. There is significant unlocking pressure, especially with large-scale releases in between, and selling pressure has not ceased.

This project, to be honest, is quite low-key right now, but if you look closely, you will find that it is actually doing significant things quietly. The current price of $VANRY is around $0.0063, with a market cap of just over 14 million, a 24-hour trading volume of 2-3 million, and a circulating supply of over 2.2 billion. The total supply cap is 240 million, and there isn't much pre-mining by a team, so it’s pretty clean. It has climbed up a bit from the low point at the end of last year, but it's still far from its historical high, having dropped more than 98%. Everyone is struggling in this bear market.
Essentially, it is an AI-native L1 chain with a five-layer architecture that sounds impressive: a modular blockchain at the base level, high throughput and security; above that, semantic memory is added to allow on-chain data to 'understand' context; then there’s the on-chain reasoning engine Kayon, which can directly run AI decisions without relying on external servers; Neutron is responsible for storage compression, turning large files into 'seeds' stored on-chain; and at the application layer, it promotes PayFi and RWA tokenization. In simple terms, it aims to make dApps self-aware, allowing games to intelligently adjust difficulty, DeFi to optimize strategies in real-time, and NFTs to make automatic recommendations.

The article posted yesterday revealed that indeed some friends do not know how to participate in the Dusk creator activity of the square. I only advised participation without writing the steps, which is my fault. Today, I will provide a step-by-step tutorial on how to participate in Dusk's low welfare activity, ensuring you will understand it at a glance.

Before starting the task, we need to prepare a ladder. If you don’t have one, you can download a fast connection tool, which will give you a free trial period on your first use, enough for X registration and posting. X registration requires an email, so prepare an email account. I registered a NetEase email in advance to receive codes, and I don’t know if QQ email still works; the NetEase one I just registered can still be used.

I just found that the rewards center has three coupons available, which are three coins: FF, pump, and xpl.
The three combined are worth about ten U. After brainstorming, I recalled that this was the reward distribution for the Contract Master Competition.
This can be considered a benefit from Binance for us users. I remember I haven't done any brushing; I just clicked to participate every time there was a contract activity, and unexpectedly, I qualified for the minimum guarantee. Although these tokens have dropped significantly with the market crash, they still hold considerable value. And a pleasant surprise is something that makes everyone happy.
After all, we are currently in a bear market, and the overall market is precarious. Making money is no longer as simple as in a bull market. However, for us who are harvesting, this is the time to sow seeds. Come next year's bull market, who knows, we might hit a big trend and become rich. The bear market belongs to us, the harvesters, as we take solid steps to enrich our time. During this period, the network is not congested, and gas fees are low, making it a great time to harvest. As long as we hold on, we will harvest on the chain; for those who can't, they can trade on exchanges. The bear market will eventually pass.

The day before yesterday, the king-level project zama went live, shocking everyone, claiming to have raised 130 million, selling coins for tens of millions, and a total of nearly 200 million raised. As a result, the total market value has now fallen below 300 million. It should be noted that the project team has done nothing to support the market and has already decided to unlock and sell, indulging in luxury. The project team has truly shown its colors. From the start of trading, they have done nothing, allowing the token price to plummet.
Coincidentally, today's ward is also a newly launched project. Many people had high hopes, thinking it would soar to 0.2. The project team directly sold one and a half million in the limited liquidity available on alpha, further destroying market confidence. I also took a little gamble and successfully lost the airdrop I received yesterday, ending up with nothing. It was already difficult to make money, and now trading is even harder due to the sharp declines. I feel even worse now.

Just now, Binance released the latest booster announcement, and surprisingly, it is the popular track prediction platform project Opinion. This project is expected to have its TGE in the first quarter, and there is a high probability of being listed on the spot market. Therefore, it could be a quick and substantial profit. The booster only allocated 0.5% of the shares, which is five million coins, with a pre-market value of over 800 million, meaning the airdrop is worth 400 WU. The first phase rewards are three million, which already amounts to 240 WU. Therefore, the event starts at 11 a.m. on the 6th, and it is highly likely that it will be competitive. I believe it's worth taking on this task even if it costs five points, as even with 100,000 spots, the average would be 20 U. If lucky, there might also be community airdrops, which would be an added bonus.

Dusk Network ($DUSK) is a privacy-focused Layer 1 blockchain specifically designed for regulated financial markets and the tokenization of real-world assets (RWA). Unlike general public chains that add privacy later, Dusk natively integrates zero-knowledge proofs (ZK-Proofs) at the protocol level, achieving a core mechanism of 'default privacy + selective disclosure': transactions and smart contract content are completely hidden from the public but can be instantly disclosed to authorized entities under regulatory requirements, perfectly aligning with the EU's MiCA, MiFID II, and DLT pilot regime.
The mainnet officially launched on January 7, 2025 (after six years of refinement), and has now been operating stably for a year as we enter 2026, providing 2-second block times, instant finality, and protocol-level compliance logic. The core technology DuskEVM is compatible with the EVM environment, allowing developers to seamlessly migrate their Ethereum toolset while naturally enjoying privacy protection. Currently, DuskTrade (in deep collaboration with the Dutch licensed exchange NPEX) is accelerating, with over €300 million in small and medium-sized enterprise securities and funds awaiting on-chain trading, becoming a benchmark case for the real-world implementation of European RWA. The integration of Chainlink CCIP and Data Streams has been completed, further ensuring cross-chain asset transfers and real-time compliance data feeds; Dusk Pay (MiCA-compliant stablecoin B2B payment network) and the Superbridge cross-chain bridge are also being launched in Q1-Q2, gradually forming an ecological closed loop.

In the cryptocurrency world, the main theme of a bear market is simply to survive. This may sound pessimistic, but it's actually the hardest truth of the past few years. During a bull market, everyone competes to see who can speculate more aggressively, who tells the sexiest stories, who can generate the most hype, and whose group chats are the craziest. As an old hand who has experienced a cycle of bull and bear markets, I really want to share my thoughts here.
The bear market has arrived, and the atmosphere has suddenly changed—everyone starts to compare who can hold their ground better, whose accounts are less in the red, who can still transfer a bit of salary to the exchange each month, and whose leverage has been reduced to 0.3x or even completely shut down their contract interface. Surviving means you've already won more than half the battle. Did you know?