Odaily Planet Daily reports that Gonka, a decentralized AI computing network, recently explained its phased adjustments to its Proof-of-Concept (PoC) mechanism and model operation in a community AMA. These adjustments primarily include: unifying PoC and inference using the same large model; changing the PoC activation method from delayed switching to near real-time triggering; and optimizing the calculation method for computing power weights to better reflect the actual computational costs of different models and hardware. Co-founder David stated that these adjustments are not aimed at short-term output or individual participants, but rather a necessary evolution of the consensus and verification structure as the network's computing power rapidly expands. This aims to improve the network's stability and security under high load, laying the foundation for supporting larger-scale AI workloads in the future. Regarding the issue raised in community discussions about the high token output of smaller models at the current stage, the team pointed out that there are significant differences in the actual computing power consumption of models of different sizes with the same number of tokens. As the network evolves towards higher computing power density and more complex tasks, Gonka is gradually guiding computing power weights to align with actual computational costs to avoid long-term imbalances in the computing power structure that could affect the network's overall scalability. Under the latest PoC mechanism, the network has reduced PoC activation time to less than 5 seconds, minimizing computational waste caused by model switching and waiting, and enabling a higher proportion of GPU resources to be used for effective AI computing. Simultaneously, by unifying model operation, the system overhead of nodes switching between consensus and inference is reduced, improving overall computational efficiency. The team also emphasizes that single-card and small-to-medium-sized GPUs can continuously earn rewards and participate in governance through mining pool collaboration, flexible participation on an Epoch basis, and inference tasks. Gonka's long-term goal is to support the long-term coexistence of different levels of computing power within the same network through mechanism evolution. Gonka states that all key rule adjustments are driven by on-chain governance and community voting. In the future, the network will gradually support more model types and AI task formats, providing a continuous and transparent space for participation for GPUs of different sizes globally, and promoting the long-term healthy development of decentralized AI computing infrastructure.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that the ETHGas Foundation announced the completion of the GWEI airdrop snapshot, taken on January 19, 2026 at 08:00. The announcement indicates that GWEI airdrop eligibility will be available from 21:00 on January 20th, and the community airdrop will take place on January 21st at 21:00. Airdrop eligibility will be determined based on a user's historical gas consumption on the Ethereum mainnet and their social and community engagement records in the Gasless Future project. ETHGas states that eligible users must meet specific historical gas consumption thresholds using their Gas ID to track their gas usage on the Ethereum mainnet, and participate in designated community activities, including sharing their Gas ID on the X platform or engaging in social activities related to the Open Gas Initiative.

According to Huoxun Finance, Binance Alpha will launch the HeyElsa (ELSA) airdrop on January 20th and the ETHGas (GWEI) airdrop on January 21st. Eligible users can claim the airdrop using Binance Alpha Points on the Alpha event page after trading opens on Alpha. Further details will be announced separately.

Huoxun Finance reported on January 19th that, according to PeckShield citing ZachXBT, on January 10th, 2026, a user allegedly had over $282 million worth of BTC and LTC stolen due to a social engineering attack on a hardware wallet. The attacker transferred 928.7 BTC (approximately $71 million) to the Ethereum, Ripple, and Litecoin networks via THORChain, converting them into 19,631 ETH, 3.15 million XRP, and 77.2K LTC. Subsequently, 1,468 ETH were transferred to TornadoCash, and over 2,400 ETH flowed into exchanges such as WhiteBit, KuCoin, and Huobi for money laundering.

According to Huoxun Finance, on January 19th, Binance will launch the BTC/U and LTC/USD1 spot trading pairs on January 20th, 2026 at 16:00 (UTC+8), and will simultaneously open trading robot services for these pairs.