🌐Weekly News Digest [ January 5 – January 11 ]
That was the first full-fledged week of the new year of 2026, during which rulers forgave those who polluted their land, dismissed those who were managing their oil.
💡Here are the key highlights:
🇧🇼 Botswana
— Botswana Invites Russia to Invest in Its Mining Sector
🇨🇩 DR Congo
— Congolese clergy speaks against the US-DRC agreement.
— The government allows processing units to accept ore from artisanal miners amid protests
🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea
— Equatorial Guinea moves its capital to a brand new city built on oil revenues
🇬🇭 Ghana
— A Ghanaian prophet predicts the discovery of major onshore oil deposits in Ghana
— Ghana hopes to keep its oil fields viable until 2040
🇲🇱 Mali
— JNIM militants attack a gold mine in southeastern Mali
🇳🇪 Niger
— Niger replaces its oil minister
🇳🇬 Nigeria
— President reshuffles the country's oil sector management
🇸🇩 Sudan
— Sudan’s central bank and Sudanese Mineral Resources Company set up a joint commission to curb illegal gold exports.
🇺🇬 Uganda
— Uganda to start its first oil exports by October, despite environmental concerns
🇿🇲 Zambia
— First report on the toxic pollution caused by a Chinese company designates 160 people as victims
— Zambia is concerned over the safety of its workers in southern DRC
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Polygon обошёл Ethereum по суточным комиссиям
Впервые сеть Polygon опередила Ethereum по ежедневным комиссиям:
— пятница: $407k против $212k,
— суббота: $303k против $285k.
Основной драйвер — рост активности на Polymarket. За неделю платформа принесла сети более $1 млн комиссий.
‼️ BREAKING: INDIA TO LAUNCH ARC STABLECOIN ☺️
🇮🇳 India plans to roll out ARC, a rupee-backed stablecoin in Q1 2026.
Built by 🟣#Polygon & Anq, ARC is designed to operate under Reserve Bank of India’s CBDC framework.
➡️ India is planning to launch ARC (Asset Reserve Certificate), a rupee-pegged stablecoin (1:1 backed by government securities like treasury bills, not just debt), developed by Polygon and fintech firm Anq. It's set for a tentative Q1 2026 debut under the RBI's CBDC framework, using a two-tier system (limited to corporate accounts initially) to boost domestic liquidity, cut outflows to USD stablecoins like USDT/USDC, and drive demand for Indian bonds. It'll use tech like Uniswap v4 for compliant trading on whitelisted addresses, keeping things sovereign and regulated—no wild speculation here. No official RBI announcement yet, but project docs and sources confirm it's moving forward amid India's crypto push.
🚨 American billionaire Mark Cuban (@mcuban) unstaked and deposited 2.82M $MATIC ($2.56M, price: $0.907) to #Coinbase ~6hrs ago.
Notably, Mark Cuban received 2.5M $MATIC (then $4.25M) from the #Polygon Ecosystem Growth on May 24, 2021 and then staked them to earn more $MATIC.
👉 More details: https://platform.spotonchain.ai/en/signal-details/mark-cuban-moved-matic-to-coinbase-10-14444
🚨🚨Republic Capital just moved 24.5M $MATIC at $1.11 (~$27.2M) to #Coinbase 6hrs ago.
They received the amount from #Polygon (Matic) Ecosystem Growth on Jan 18 at $0.97 as part of the vesting process.
Republic Capital is among investors in Polygon’s $450M private funding round early last year.
Wallet address: 0xc865a52c3894025e0070b180b0e6e4e4731ee799
🚨LayerX Capital and Whales deposited 12.53M $MATIC ($11.33M) to #Binance and #Coinbase in the past 10 hours.
1. LayerX Capital deposited 3.62M $MATIC ($3.31M) to Binance at $0.916 ~10hrs ago.
- The VC still stakes 7.18M $MATIC ($6.38M) with #Polygon.
- Estimated total loss: $17.5M (-58.1%).
2. Two whales 0x2e9 and 0xdb6 (likely one person) deposited 5.27M $MATIC ($4.80M) to Binance at $0.91 on avg ~9.5hrs ago.
- Estimated profit: $36.1K (+0.76%).
3. Whale 0x5d7 deposited 3.64M $MATIC ($3.22M) to Coinbase at $0.886 ~40 mins ago.
- Estimated profit: $521K (+19.3%).
👉 More details: https://platform.spotonchain.ai/signal-details/layerx-capital-and-whales-deposited-matic-to-binance-11022
🔥🚀$MATIC increased by 80% this year and people are still excited about the #Polygon zk rollup solution.
⁃ Whale "0xa205fd7" just received 17.1M $MATIC ($23.9M) from #binance 17 hours ago (price was $1.36).
⁃ This is the first receive since he sold all $MATIC to #coinbase one year ago.
👉More details: https://twitter.com/spotonchain/status/1628677718115250176
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📈Polygon Ecosystem Token POL Drops 3.93% Amid Upbit Hard Fork Suspension
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