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PANAMA CITY, Jan. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The cryptocurrency market remains range-bound amidst the interplay of macro uncertainty and gradually recovering sentiment at the start of 2026. Against a backdrop of relatively modest market-wide gains, several sector-specific assets listed on HTX posted notable weekly advances between January 5 and January 11, led by the BSC-based Chinese memecoin project Binance Life and the privacy-focused protocol ZKP. Global leading exchange HTX once again demonstrated its explosive potential for listing assets in their early stages by identifying strong narratives early.
DeFi and Privacy Take the Lead: FXS Rebounds Strongly as ZKP Drives Narrative Expansion
This week, privacy and DeFi infrastructure emerged as the strongest-performing sectors. Privacy tokens ZKP and XMR advanced in tandem, as the narrative around financial privacy continued to gain momentum, making it one of the few segments showing a clear directional trend.
- FXS (Frax Finance): +110%, topping the weekly leaderboard. Frax Finance is a DeFi protocol offering three core products, FRAX, FPI, and frxETH, designed for yield generation, liquidity provision, and staking within the DeFi ecosystem.
- ZKP (zkPass): +90%. As a leading project in the privacy computing space, zkPass leverages the zero-knowledge proof technology to address identity verification challenges in Web3. HTX's early listing enabled users to fully capture the inflection point as the privacy narrative shifted from stagnation to renewed growth.
- XMR (Monero): +36%. As a long-established privacy asset, XMP's steady appreciation reinforces the market's renewed focus on financial privacy. Capital flows are shifting from isolated speculation toward sector-wide revaluation.
BSC-Based Chinese Memecoins: Binance Life Breaks Out and Early Positioning Pays Off
Within the memecoin segment, Binance Life emerged as the clear standout this week. As activity on the BSC ecosystem recovered and Chinese-language meme narratives gained traction, capital increasingly flowed toward assets with early community recognition and strong cultural resonance.
Notably, HTX was among the first platforms to list and support Binance Life, identifying its viral potential and providing liquidity at an early stage.
- Binance Life: +63%. Unlike traditional animal-themed memecoins, Binance Life, deeply rooted in the Chinese crypto community culture, originated from shared experiences around life in the crypto industry. The token has a strong community cohesion in the BSC ecosystem.
Building on this momentum, HTX has initially launched several popular Chinese memecoins on BSC, including "我踏马来了（(Wo Ta Ma Lai Le)）", "人生K线（Ren Sheng K Xian）", and "老子（Lao Zi）". The platform has also introduced isolated-margin trading for select pairs, 我踏马来了/USDT (10X) and 老子/USDT (10X), further strengthening support for the narratives in the BSC ecosystem.
To reward community participation, HTX has simultaneously rolled out a Chinese Asset campaign, running through January 19, with a total prize pool of up to $200,000.
Moreover, B (BUILDon) gained 28%, further confirming structural opportunities within the BSC memecoin sector. Meanwhile, Solana-based memecoins remained active, with CHILLGUY (Just a Chill Guy) rising 33%. These assets offer HTX users diversified exposure across ecosystems.
AI Sector: Narrative Persists as Capital Becomes More Selective
The AI sector could remain one of the defining long-term narratives for 2026. This week, AI-related assets continued a consolidation-driven recovery, with speculative fervor cooling and capital increasingly favoring projects featuring clearer positioning and real-world applicability.
- ARC (AI Rig Complex): +42%. Positioned as an "AI + Memecoin" hybrid within the Solana ecosystem, ARC attracted attention through its cross-narrative appeal. The project is a basic AI infrastructure built on RIG, a Rust-based LLM framework designed for AI agent development.
- AIC (AI Companions): +53%. AI Companions aims to integrate AI, VR/AR, and blockchain technologies to create personalized digital companions, offering immersive virtual interaction experiences.
- RENDER (Render Token): +23%. Render is a relatively mature AI infrastructure project, with its token demonstrating more stable price movement. The protocol operates as a decentralized GPU rendering network built on Ethereum.
Initial Listings Become a Source of Return "Certainty" in Volatile Markets
Looking ahead, HTX will continue to rely on forward-looking, multi-sector trend analysis to identify and support high-potential assets. As market structure evolves, the value of early positioning is once again being validated.
About HTX
Founded in 2013, HTX (formerly Huobi) has evolved from a virtual asset exchange into a comprehensive ecosystem of blockchain businesses that span digital asset trading, financial derivatives, research, investments, incubation, and other businesses.
As a world-leading gateway to Web3, HTX harbors global capabilities that enable it to provide users with safe and reliable services. Adhering to the growth strategy of "Global Expansion, Thriving Ecosystem, Wealth Effect, Security & Compliance," HTX is dedicated to providing quality services and values to virtual asset enthusiasts worldwide.
To learn more about HTX, please visithttps://www.htx.com/ or HTX Square, and follow HTX on X, Telegram, and Discord.
PANAMA CITY, Jan. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The cryptocurrency market remains range-bound amidst the interplay of macro uncertainty and gradually recovering sentiment at the start of 2026. Against a backdrop of relatively modest market-wide gains, several sector-specific assets listed on HTX posted notable weekly advances between January 5 and January 11, led by the BSC-based Chinese memecoin project Binance Life and the privacy-focused protocol ZKP. Global leading exchange HTX once again demonstrated its explosive potential for listing assets in their early stages by identifying strong narratives early.
DeFi and Privacy Take the Lead: FXS Rebounds Strongly as ZKP Drives Narrative Expansion
This week, privacy and DeFi infrastructure emerged as the strongest-performing sectors. Privacy tokens ZKP and XMR advanced in tandem, as the narrative around financial privacy continued to gain momentum, making it one of the few segments showing a clear directional trend.
- FXS (Frax Finance): +110%, topping the weekly leaderboard. Frax Finance is a DeFi protocol offering three core products, FRAX, FPI, and frxETH, designed for yield generation, liquidity provision, and staking within the DeFi ecosystem.
- ZKP (zkPass): +90%. As a leading project in the privacy computing space, zkPass leverages the zero-knowledge proof technology to address identity verification challenges in Web3. HTX's early listing enabled users to fully capture the inflection point as the privacy narrative shifted from stagnation to renewed growth.
- XMR (Monero): +36%. As a long-established privacy asset, XMP's steady appreciation reinforces the market's renewed focus on financial privacy. Capital flows are shifting from isolated speculation toward sector-wide revaluation.
BSC-Based Chinese Memecoins: Binance Life Breaks Out and Early Positioning Pays Off
Within the memecoin segment, Binance Life emerged as the clear standout this week. As activity on the BSC ecosystem recovered and Chinese-language meme narratives gained traction, capital increasingly flowed toward assets with early community recognition and strong cultural resonance.
Notably, HTX was among the first platforms to list and support Binance Life, identifying its viral potential and providing liquidity at an early stage.
- Binance Life: +63%. Unlike traditional animal-themed memecoins, Binance Life, deeply rooted in the Chinese crypto community culture, originated from shared experiences around life in the crypto industry. The token has a strong community cohesion in the BSC ecosystem.
Building on this momentum, HTX has initially launched several popular Chinese memecoins on BSC, including "我踏马来了（(Wo Ta Ma Lai Le)）", "人生K线（Ren Sheng K Xian）", and "老子（Lao Zi）". The platform has also introduced isolated-margin trading for select pairs, 我踏马来了/USDT (10X) and 老子/USDT (10X), further strengthening support for the narratives in the BSC ecosystem.
To reward community participation, HTX has simultaneously rolled out a Chinese Asset campaign, running through January 19, with a total prize pool of up to $200,000.
Moreover, B (BUILDon) gained 28%, further confirming structural opportunities within the BSC memecoin sector. Meanwhile, Solana-based memecoins remained active, with CHILLGUY (Just a Chill Guy) rising 33%. These assets offer HTX users diversified exposure across ecosystems.
AI Sector: Narrative Persists as Capital Becomes More Selective
The AI sector could remain one of the defining long-term narratives for 2026. This week, AI-related assets continued a consolidation-driven recovery, with speculative fervor cooling and capital increasingly favoring projects featuring clearer positioning and real-world applicability.
- ARC (AI Rig Complex): +42%. Positioned as an "AI + Memecoin" hybrid within the Solana ecosystem, ARC attracted attention through its cross-narrative appeal. The project is a basic AI infrastructure built on RIG, a Rust-based LLM framework designed for AI agent development.
- AIC (AI Companions): +53%. AI Companions aims to integrate AI, VR/AR, and blockchain technologies to create personalized digital companions, offering immersive virtual interaction experiences.
- RENDER (Render Token): +23%. Render is a relatively mature AI infrastructure project, with its token demonstrating more stable price movement. The protocol operates as a decentralized GPU rendering network built on Ethereum.
Initial Listings Become a Source of Return "Certainty" in Volatile Markets
Looking ahead, HTX will continue to rely on forward-looking, multi-sector trend analysis to identify and support high-potential assets. As market structure evolves, the value of early positioning is once again being validated.
About HTX
Founded in 2013, HTX (formerly Huobi) has evolved from a virtual asset exchange into a comprehensive ecosystem of blockchain businesses that span digital asset trading, financial derivatives, research, investments, incubation, and other businesses.
As a world-leading gateway to Web3, HTX harbors global capabilities that enable it to provide users with safe and reliable services. Adhering to the growth strategy of "Global Expansion, Thriving Ecosystem, Wealth Effect, Security & Compliance," HTX is dedicated to providing quality services and values to virtual asset enthusiasts worldwide.
To learn more about HTX, please visithttps://www.htx.com/ or HTX Square, and follow HTX on X, Telegram, and Discord.
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HTX Hot Listings Weekly Recap (Jan 5-11): Binance Life and ZKP Lead the Rally as First-Mover Advantage Continues to Shine
HTX Hot Listings Weekly Recap (Jan 5-11): Binance Life and ZKP Lead the Rally as First-Mover Advantage Continues to Shine
- New framework brings together Aon's Risk Capital and Human Capital data with public sentiment analysis from Gallup to create a portfolio view of risk
- Creates further clarity into how risks compound across four megatrends, how resilience is built and activated and where targeted actions can most effectively influence performance
DUBLIN, Jan. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Aon plc (NYSE: AON), a leading global professional services firm, announced today that it is releasing insights from a new, data-driven tool to help organizations build sustainable resilience and unlock growth: Aon's Resilience Quotient.
Developed in collaboration with Gallup, Aon's Resilience Quotient responds to a critical insight: in a time of increasing populism and fragmented sources of information, quantitative data alone is not enough to make long-term decisions. Combining public sentiment on global issues with risk and people data and analytics enables greater clarity and confidence to invest and grow amidst uncertainty and volatility.
By integrating Aon's proprietary Risk Capital and Human Capital analytics with the results of Gallup's World Poll covering 140 countries for more than 20 years, the firm's Resilience Quotient captures both objective conditions and subjective sentiment, revealing where sentiment signals hidden risks and potential opportunities to achieve greater resilience. This system-level view enables leaders to spot emerging risks sooner, prioritize resilience investments and move from reactive risk management to proactive decision-making.
"When making decisions around investment, workforce or managing geopolitical risk, a portfolio view is far superior to a siloed perspective," said Greg Case, president and CEO of Aon. "Understanding sentiment can be an opportunity signal or an early warning. Leaders who are limited to only some of the relevant metrics risk missing the signals that matter most. Aon's Resilience Quotient delivers an integrated view to help organizations act decisively, strengthen resilience and unlock sustainable growth."
Four interconnected megatrends – Trade, Technology, Weather and Workforce – are reshaping the global operating environment in ways that traditional models struggle to anticipate. Aon's Resilience Quotient provides a clearer view of the tradeoffs within these interactions: how trade volatility can amplify technology risk, how climate pressures influence workforce mobility and how sentiment can either reinforce resilience or heighten operational risk, even when the fundamentals appear strong.
To illustrate the insights from its Resilience Quotient, the firm published three case studies addressing some of the most relevant and urgent issues facing the 2026 global economy:
- Realizing the Opportunity of AI: Securing Data Center Growth
Data centers are the backbone of the digital economy and with nearly $1.3 trillion projected to be invested globally in data centers by 2030, their rapid expansion brings unprecedented risks. Aon's Resilience Quotient shows that resilience varies sharply at the sub-national level, often more than underlying risk. Within the U.S., Iowa emerges as the most resilient destination for data center development, combining very low overall risk with exceptionally strong trade and weather resilience. "Aon's Resilience Quotient shows that Iowa's resilience–risk balance is roughly twice the national median, demonstrating how governance quality, institutional confidence and preparedness materially shape long-term infrastructure outcomes," said Joe Peiser, CEO of Commercial Risk Solutions at Aon. "This underscores the opportunity for leaders who understand the combined effect of low risk, resilient trade and weather systems and a strong foundation of public trust — factors that ultimately determine where AI infrastructure can grow at scale."
DUBLIN, Jan. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Aon plc (NYSE: AON), a leading global professional services firm, announced today that it is releasing insights from a new, data-driven tool to help organizations build sustainable resilience and unlock growth: Aon's Resilience Quotient.
Developed in collaboration with Gallup, Aon's Resilience Quotient responds to a critical insight: in a time of increasing populism and fragmented sources of information, quantitative data alone is not enough to make long-term decisions. Combining public sentiment on global issues with risk and people data and analytics enables greater clarity and confidence to invest and grow amidst uncertainty and volatility.
By integrating Aon's proprietary Risk Capital and Human Capital analytics with the results of Gallup's World Poll covering 140 countries for more than 20 years, the firm's Resilience Quotient captures both objective conditions and subjective sentiment, revealing where sentiment signals hidden risks and potential opportunities to achieve greater resilience. This system-level view enables leaders to spot emerging risks sooner, prioritize resilience investments and move from reactive risk management to proactive decision-making.
"When making decisions around investment, workforce or managing geopolitical risk, a portfolio view is far superior to a siloed perspective," said Greg Case, president and CEO of Aon. "Understanding sentiment can be an opportunity signal or an early warning. Leaders who are limited to only some of the relevant metrics risk missing the signals that matter most. Aon's Resilience Quotient delivers an integrated view to help organizations act decisively, strengthen resilience and unlock sustainable growth."
Four interconnected megatrends – Trade, Technology, Weather and Workforce – are reshaping the global operating environment in ways that traditional models struggle to anticipate. Aon's Resilience Quotient provides a clearer view of the tradeoffs within these interactions: how trade volatility can amplify technology risk, how climate pressures influence workforce mobility and how sentiment can either reinforce resilience or heighten operational risk, even when the fundamentals appear strong.
To illustrate the insights from its Resilience Quotient, the firm published three case studies addressing some of the most relevant and urgent issues facing the 2026 global economy:
"Aon's Resilience Quotient shows that Iowa's resilience–risk balance is roughly twice the national median, demonstrating how governance quality, institutional confidence and preparedness materially shape long-term infrastructure outcomes," said Joe Peiser, CEO of Commercial Risk Solutions at Aon. "This underscores the opportunity for leaders who understand the combined effect of low risk, resilient trade and weather systems and a strong foundation of public trust — factors that ultimately determine where AI infrastructure can grow at scale."
- Workforce Transformation: AI Adoption and the Next Generation Workforce
The acceleration of AI adoption is transforming the workforce, but most organizations face a critical gap between the demand for AI skills and their readiness to adapt. The Resilience Quotient highlights how workforce engagement, trust and institutional preparedness are essential to harnessing AI's potential, making resilience the key differentiator between organizations that thrive through change and those that risk falling behind. "Aon's Resilience Quotient equips leaders to navigate rapid AI change with confidence," said Lisa Stevens, chief administrative officer at Aon. "These insights help create the conditions for early‑career employees to build the skills and confidence they need — so instead of losing a generation of talent, we cultivate one that is more capable and resilient than ever."
"Aon's Resilience Quotient equips leaders to navigate rapid AI change with confidence," said Lisa Stevens, chief administrative officer at Aon. "These insights help create the conditions for early‑career employees to build the skills and confidence they need — so instead of losing a generation of talent, we cultivate one that is more capable and resilient than ever."
- Rethinking Humanitarian Finance: A New Approach to Forced Migration
Over 120 million people are currently displaced by conflict, climate and systemic crises, reshaping societies and economies worldwide. Aon's Resilience Quotient highlights Venezuela and Colombia to illustrate the tradeoffs between investing resources at the source of migration — supporting those facing institutional erosion, food insecurity and economic collapse — or directing investment to more stable countries like Colombia that are absorbing people fleeing unlivable conditions. "Forced displacement results from extreme weather and man-made disasters like conflict and economic failure," said Bridget Gainer, chief public affairs officer at Aon. "If we could leverage the forecasting and financial capability of insurance to better predict and more quickly mitigate the impact of this volatility, we could help create conditions that allow populations to remain and rebuild in their home countries."
"Forced displacement results from extreme weather and man-made disasters like conflict and economic failure," said Bridget Gainer, chief public affairs officer at Aon. "If we could leverage the forecasting and financial capability of insurance to better predict and more quickly mitigate the impact of this volatility, we could help create conditions that allow populations to remain and rebuild in their home countries."
"Resilience is not a single blueprint, it's the way systems mitigate, adapt and transform under pressure. Aon's Resilience Quotient functions as a pressure gauge, surfacing the trade‑offs and early signals that help leaders strengthen resilience where it matters most," said Joe Daly, managing partner at Gallup. "We're proud to collaborate with Aon to combine Gallup's global sentiment analytics with Aon's Risk Capital and Human Capital data, turning confidence into actionable insight."
New insights from Aon's Resilience Quotient suggest that going forward, resilience priorities will shift from static risk management to dynamic, localized strategies. As disruptions become more complex and frequent, organizations will need to tailor resilience investments to specific geographies, sectors and even sub-regional contexts. Aon's Resilience Quotient is supported with a real-time analytics and AI-enabled insights platform, built by Quantum Rise, providing deeper visibility into evolving risk and resilience signals as conditions change.
Aon and Gallup will join global decision-makers at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting to advance these critical discussions on restoring confidence and unlocking sustainable growth.
Learn more about Aon's Resilience Quotient and explore the case studies here.
About Aon
Aon plc (NYSE: AON) exists to shape decisions for the better — to protect and enrich the lives of people around the world. Through actionable analytic insight, globally integrated Risk Capital and Human Capital expertise, and locally relevant solutions, our colleagues provide clients in over 120 countries with the clarity and confidence to make better risk and people decisions that help protect and grow their businesses.
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Aon's Resilience Quotient Cuts Through Uncertainty and Volatility to Help Businesses Move from Risk to Resilience and Growth
