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Bitcoin native L1 protocol Bitway completes $4.444 million seed round financing, led by TRON DAO
News on January 21, according to official sources, Bitcoin native Layer 1 protocol and infrastructure platform Bitway announced the completion of $4.444 million seed round financing, led by TRON DAO, with participation from HTX Ventures and others.
As of now, Bitway has raised a total of over $5.8 million from institutional investors. After completing its first round of seed financing, it completed another round of targeted strategic financing, which valued Bitway at $100 million.
Bitway was founded by former Binance team members and has previously been incubated through YZi Labs' EASY Residency program and launched through Binance's booster program. Bitway has two core products, including the on-chain wealth management platform Bitway Earn and the Layer 1 application chain Bitway Chain specifically for payment and financing solutions.

Last month at the Frank father-son collectibles show, vendor Bryce Jenkins was putting sports cards into protective sleeves while waiting for customers to visit his booth. (Ronaldo Bolanos / Los Angeles Times)
For collectors, the thrill of opening a pack of cards and discovering a rare card is unparalleled - sometimes you can get items worth thousands of dollars for just a few dollars.
At trading venues in Southern California, savvy dealers and entrepreneurs have turned flipping cards into a radical business, with market values changing rapidly based on player performance.
The sports card industry has soared to a scale of $14.9 billion in 2024 and is expected to reach $52.1 billion in the next decade.

Layla Pizarro is a digital artist whose work explores memory, identity, and a sense of belonging through the lens of personal migration. Born in Chile, she has lived in the United States, Argentina, and Mexico, experiences that have shaped her artistic style. She combines natural elements such as wind and water with generative technologies to reconstruct fragmented memories and depict the emotional landscapes of displacement.
This interview took place in the lobby of the St. George Hotel during the Marfa Art Blocks weekend, where Layla Pizarro reflected on the emotional power of place, the beauty of transformation, and how her latest project intertwines the city, history, and personal growth through the use of wind.

Following the sell-out of tickets for the inaugural conference in 2025, CoinDesk's Consensus conference announced its return to Hong Kong from February 10 to 12, 2026. The first conference attracted nearly 10,000 attendees from over 100 countries and regions, contributing approximately HKD 275 million to the Hong Kong economy. It is expected that the 2026 conference will attract 15,000 industry decision-makers.
The agenda for the 2026 conference is carefully planned by CoinDesk, bringing together over 100 heavyweight speakers on six stages. The topics will cover institutional applications, decentralized finance (DeFi), stablecoins, robotics, AI agents, and the integration of on-chain execution.

Kenny Vaden is a generative artist whose background in neuroscience and biostatistics shapes his code-based artistic creation. He primarily uses R statistics and p5.js to create works that combine geometric precision with emotional depth, constructing pieces through iterative experimentation and carefully designed constraints.
His works encompass both physical and digital forms, often exploring how art serves as both an emotional outlet and a means of understanding the world.
This interview took place in the lobby of the St. George Hotel during the Art Blocks Marfa weekend, where Kenny Vaden reflected on the intersection of science and creativity, the role of the eternal in generative art, and how this moment in Marfa provides space for connection and reflection.

It's already 2026. Logically, the story of NFTs should have turned the page long ago.
NFTs that were once auctioned for sky-high prices have now mostly become small pictures that no one cares about. Many NFT project teams are struggling to exit amidst a wave of transformation, sales, and shutdowns. The once top-tier event NFT Paris has also recently sadly announced its suspension and is even embroiled in refund disputes.
During several consecutive years of downward cycles, hot money exited, narratives failed, and 'NFT is dead' seemed to have become a market consensus.
However, in the week of 2026, the NFT market unexpectedly showed signs of recovery, with prices rising and trading volume warming up. Are NFTs really back? What are the players who are still holding on in the market currently playing?

Welcome to the OpenSea newsletter—let’s recap the most important NFT and web3 news from this week.
Morgan Stanley files bitcoin and Solana ETF applications
Morgan Stanley has reportedly filed documents to launch bitcoin and Solana exchange-traded funds (ETFs), investment funds that track the underlying asset’s market price and trade on stock exchanges.
As large investors continue to pour funds into existing crypto-related ETFs, these documents follow, offering people a way to gain exposure to digital currencies without directly holding them.