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On Friday, Trove said it would shift its planned perps DEX from Hyperliquid to Solana just days before its token generation event. On Monday, the team disclosed it will keep $9,397,403 to continue building, while issuing refunds, and the TROVE token plunged over 95% to $0.0008 within ten minutes of launch.

Aster's price remains in a downtrend after Bitcoin's drop below $94.5k, with a short-term rebound of just over 10% possible in the coming days. Key levels include the prior demand at $0.683–$0.703 and the 78.6% retracement at $0.695, while a move above $0.81 and $1 is needed to shift bias.

Trove said it will shift its perpetual DEX development from Hyperliquid to Solana, drawing community skepticism over leadership and fundraising practices. As of January 19, 2026, Hyperliquid (HYPE) traded at $23.63 with a $7.14 billion market cap and a 5.52% 24-hour drop, while 60-day performance showed a 38.14% decline.

On January 19, 2026, ASTER hit a fresh all-time low around $0.62 and briefly dipped to $0.53, prompting the Aster DEX team to activate Strategic Buybacks, according to Cryptopolitan. The Stage 5 framework is currently channeling 20%–40% of daily platform fees into targeted repurchases, with provisions allowing up to 80% allocation. Aster said its treasury has begun swapping BNB for ASTER through a reserve wallet.

MOVE climbed over 15% after Hyperliquid added the token to its spot market, enabling collateral use for perpetual trading and coinciding with a 515% jump in daily volume. Long liquidations neared $4 million versus $2.67 million in shorts with leverage up to 50x. Weekly transactions totaled 4.2 million even as monthly active addresses fell 31% to 14.8K.

Uniswap has gone live on OKX's X Layer, an Ethereum layer-2 network launched in 2024, where it will function as the chain's preferred decentralized exchange. The integration connects X Layer users to Uniswap's token pairs and liquidity pools at layer-2 transaction costs, with no additional fees from Uniswap Labs, and forms a key part of OKX's phase-two DeFi rollout strategy.

On Wednesday, Lighter said users must stake LIT to deposit into its Lighter Liquidity Pool, with a 1:10 ratio allowing 1 LIT to unlock up to 10 USDC. The change takes effect immediately for new participants, while existing depositors have a two‑week grace period ending Jan. 28; fee waivers kick in at 100 LIT staked.

Sui confirmed a mainnet stall on 14 January that disrupted transactions and access to dApps for nearly three hours. Explorer data highlighted repeated system-level entries and reduced throughput as validators failed to consistently finalize blocks. Earlier that day, TVL was about $1.05 billion, DEX volume near $371 million, and SUI traded around $1.90.

Updated on January 14, 2026 at 2:18 PM UTC, this roundup highlights hiring across Web3. According to Cryptopolitan, Bitcoin reached $95,500, while OP Labs, Uniswap, BitGo and others list roles with defined salary ranges, experience levels and remote or on-site options in engineering, go-to-market, and operations.

Perpetual decentralized exchanges are expanding rapidly, with CoinGecko data showing their share of derivatives revenue increasing from 2.1% in January 2023 to 11.7% in November 2025. Delphi Digital's 2026 outlook argues that these onchain venues are structurally more efficient than fragmented and costly TradFi infrastructure, while Cantor Fitzgerald models a long-term price path for Hyperliquid's HYPE token based on a 15% compound annual growth rate and planned buybacks. Perp DEX trading volume also tripled in 2025 to $12.09 trillion, though it remains small beside the $846 trillion notional value of outstanding OTC derivatives reported in June 2025.