U.S. Senator: If Powell Is Fired by Trump, It Will Trigger a Market Collapse

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)

January 14th — The Bitcoin Policy Institute and several other Bitcoin advocacy groups recently sent a joint letter to top U.S. tax officials, calling for an expansion of the de minimis exemption to include Bitcoin and major network tokens (not just stablecoins). The coalition proposed two key measures: 1. Classifying stablecoins meeting the GENIUS standard as cash-equivalent; 2. Setting a $250 billion market cap threshold for eligible network tokens, alongside a $600 per-transaction limit and a $20,000 annual cap.

January 14 — While ETH prices remain in a consolidation phase, new Ethereum wallet creations hit an all-time high last week, with network adoption rebounding strongly. Over the past seven days, an average of 327,000 new Ethereum wallets were created daily, topping out at over 393,000 on Sunday — a new single-day record. Total non-zero Ethereum wallets (addresses holding any ETH) reached a new high of 172.9 million. Scheduled to go live on Ethereum in early December 2025, the Fusaka upgrade optimizes on-chain data processing, sharply cutting costs for Layer 2 networks to submit data to the mainnet. This makes Ethereum cheaper and easier to use, especially for interacting with rollups and decentralized applications (dApps). Meanwhile, Ethereum stablecoin activity surged: total stablecoin transfer volume hit a record $80+ trillion in Q4 2025, indicating the network is being used for real-world payments and settlements rather than just speculation. Analytics firm Santiment noted: “This r