Watcher.Guru posted on X that Steak 'n Shake is officially starting to pay employees a "Bitcoin bonus" of $0.21 per hour.

Forecasting trading platform Kalshi partners with Game Point Capital to enter institutional sports risk hedging, providing performance bonus insurance for teams to reduce financial pressure caused by sports results.

Gate Founder and CEO Dr. Han shared the future talent strategy and compliance development ideas at the annual meeting, emphasizing the normalization of online work and self-driven work. He pointed out the need to reduce inefficient communication, promote efficient collaboration, and utilize AI technology to reshape roles. The company will adhere to the principle of high effort and high return, maintain transparent evaluations, incentivize outstanding talent, focus on compliance capabilities, and ensure stable operations and global expansion.

Ink Ecosystem DEX Nado will launch its first season public testing on January 30th, introducing a weekly points distribution mechanism. Points are earned through natural trading, participating in NLP, and referrals. Each week, 950,000 points will be distributed, along with a private Alpha bonus pool and additional reward points.

Gate's Gate Live officially launches the "Live Mining Rebate Program" upgrade public beta, optimizing the rebate structure and incentive mechanism. Qualified hosts can receive up to 30% commission rebate, along with a new token component rebate mechanism, and a limited-time task bonus system to encourage hosts to create high-quality content.

Aster announces the launch of the Anhe and LIBERTY trading pairs on the X platform, and collaborates with BNB Chain and others to hold a USD1 trading competition. During the event, trading will enjoy bonus points and fee waivers. Aster also launches ARTX/USDT trading and offers a reward pool to attract user participation.

Gate News bot message: Gate launches an additional reward pool product for BTC 7-day fixed-term financial management. New product subscriptions enjoy an extra 10% annualized bonus, with a maximum comprehensive annualized return of up to 10.3%, and a total of 250,000 ACU in additional rewards, available on a first-come, first-served basis. The ACU token project is Acurast, the first decentralized verifiable computing network driven by smartphones. The project leverages billions of smartphones worldwide as computing resources to build a verifiable, scalable, and privacy-preserving computing network. Users can run secure applications at scale on decentralized infrastructure. Currently, the Acurast incentivized testnet has connected over 168,500 smartphones globally. Additional rewards are distributed daily in equivalent ACU, with a cap on individual extra rewards per user, available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Gate and F1 Red Bull Racing Team jointly launch the Red Bull Trading Tour, with registration from January 22 to February 20. The official competition begins on January 23. The event is open to all users, and participation in trading will be counted towards the rankings, with total rewards reaching up to 60,000 GT. Additionally, an end-of-year bonus airdrop will be distributed, totaling 3,000 GT.

Pendle announces that vePENDLE will be replaced by the sPENDLE mechanism, where sPENDLE is a liquid staking token with a 14-day exit period. Protocol revenue will be used to buy back PENDLE and distribute it to sPENDLE holders. Those who do not participate in governance will lose rewards. The voting mechanism will be upgraded, with an expected emission reduction of 30%. A snapshot of existing vePENDLE will be taken on January 29, offering up to 4x sPENDLE bonus, with a gradual two-year transition.

Gate News bot message, according to the official Gate announcement on January 15, 2026 Gate Launchpool will open the 354th Launchpool, launching the Fogo (FOGO) project. Users can stake BTC, GUSD, or FOGO tokens to share 2,000,000 FOGO tokens for free, with rewards automatically distributed to spot accounts every hour. The mining period is from 22:00 on January 15, 2026, to 22:00 on January 22, 2026 (UTC+8), with 100% of rewards unlocked. Fogo is a new generation Layer 1 public chain designed for an ultimate on-chain trading experience. The proportion of user staked assets will determine the reward distribution ratio per hour. The platform supports users staking in advance to lock assets before the official mining begins to earn rewards. Additionally, users who stake BTC and then redeem and transfer assets into the YubiBao 7-day fixed-term product can receive an extra 50% airdrop bonus on top of the original staking rewards. Users staking GUSD can enjoy minting rewards, automatically distributed daily.