On January 14th, the AIOS Foundation announced that it has completed the destruction of tokens held in its wallet. Previously, the AIOS Foundation issued a statement stating that in order to further enhance the transparency and fairness of the AIOS community, and to promote the AIOS project with the highest standards of integrity, it will destroy all AIOS tokens held by the foundation within the next 24 hours. Two addresses held by the foundation held 64.03% and 2.58% of the AIOS tokens respectively.

According to JPMorgan's estimate, ETPs for XRP and SOL may attract nearly $15 billion in net inflows. Matthew Sigel, Director of Digital Asset Research at VanEck, said the forecast takes into account the market capitalization and ETP traffic performance of BTC and ETH.

According to official sources, Astar Network has announced that Astar zkEVM will be migrated to Soneium L2. Liquidity providers will need to withdraw assets and liquidity from DEX/DeFi projects on Astar zkEVM and transfer them to Ethereum using Astar Portal's native cross-chain bridge for ETH, DAI, MATIC, USDC, USDT, WBTC, or wsETH. vASTR holders will need to cancel their pledges through Omni and once the pledge period ends, ASTR tokens will automatically be transferred to Astar zkEVM. Other token projects should pay attention to relevant migration announcements. NFT holders do not need to take any action.

Charles Hoskinson, the founder of Cardano, revealed that Cardano is discussing the possibility of integrating Ripple's new stablecoin, RLUSD. The aim is to strengthen Cardano's DeFi ecosystem and provide wider opportunities for the use of RLUSD.

 in a public letter on January 12th, Warren asked incoming Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent if the Treasury Department should have more power to sanction the cryptocurrency industry. Warren wrote, "Should the Anti-Money Laundering/Counter-Terrorism Financing and Sanctions Programs include a well-designed, risk-based provision to prevent money laundering or terrorist financing involving digital assets?" He is about to become the chief Democrat on the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee.

 The Data Nerd has monitored that Amber Group deposited 2.2 million VIRTUAL coins with a value of approximately 5.19 million US dollars to Gate 9 hours ago. On the other hand, 2 whales accumulated a total of 1.17 million VIRTUAL coins (approximately 3.03 million US dollars) from Gate 2 hours ago.

Gryphon, a bitcoin mining company listed on NASDAQ, announced that its stock price rose by 20% on Friday after acquiring an 850-acre industrial site powered by natural gas from Canadian oil and gas company Captus Generation for $18.7 million.

 Luo Zhuojian, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and a consulting expert of the Ministry of Finance, called for the active development of stablecoins to maintain Hong Kong's financial center advantages. He pointed out that Hong Kong can cooperate with financial institutions in other regions in the application of stablecoins, explore their potential in international settlement and cross-border application models, and also encourage traditional financial institutions, payment platforms, and technology companies to cooperate in promoting the application of stablecoins. In addition to cross-border and payment, stablecoins can also be used in fundraising and asset management, further expanding their application scope. In addition, it is necessary to expand the participation scope of the sandbox, relax the application conditions, and allow more start-ups and innovative projects to test new products in a low-risk environment.

Greg Cipolaro, Global Head of Research at New York Digital Investment Group (NYDIG), said in a research report on January 10th that even if Trump takes office on January 20th, one should "be cautious about expecting immediate changes in cryptocurrency policy". He said that the inauguration ceremony brings new hope for the new government to fulfill many campaign promises, and added that "many promises can be quickly realized, but some promises may take some time."

Lookonchain monitoring shows that six days ago, a whale withdrew 1,850 BTC from Binance at an average withdrawal price of $101,998. Eight hours ago, the same address deposited 1,850 BTC into Binance at an average deposit price of $94,963. Within six days, the address lost $13 million.

 Bithumb announced that ZRC (Zircuit) will be listed on the Korean market on January 13th, supporting Zircuit network recharge (not supporting other networks). Recharge and withdrawal will be opened within 2 hours after the announcement is released, and trading will start at 4 pm on the same day (Korean time).

former Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Randall Quarles said that tariffs may lead to a certain extent of interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve. It is expected that a large number of people will be expelled from the United States, but it will not affect the labor market. (Jinshi)

 as reported by Cryptodnes, El Salvador received 3.9 million tourists in 2024 due to the adoption of Bitcoin, a 22% increase compared to the previous year and far exceeding the levels from 2013 to 2016. The number of murder cases dropped significantly, with only one case recorded in December 2024, and the total number of murder cases for the year decreased to 114, a significant improvement compared to the 6,656 cases in 2015. In addition, the adoption of Bitcoin led to a significant increase in the number of American tourists.

According to 10x Research market analysis, since Donald Trump's election in November last year, the US stock market has erased all gains, despite initial expectations that the election would drive stronger growth and lower taxes. The expected rebound in the cryptocurrency market after the election quickly faded on December 6th last year, and trading volume has since dropped significantly, with funding rates peaking on that date, indicating its importance.

Hong Kong police recently busted a virtual currency fraud group that used deepfake technology to lure others into investing through social media platforms, involving about 34 million yuan. Hong Kong police's commercial crime department arrested 31 people between the ages of 20 and 34 last week in two office buildings in Kowloon Bay, some of whom claimed to be students or unemployed, involved in the same fraud group, and seized their pre-set "scripts".

According to Blockworks, Solana Mobile's second mobile phone, Solana Seeker, is expected to be released in mid-2025. As of October last year, Solana Mobile's general manager, Emmett Hollyer, stated that the Seeker was priced at $500 and had received 145,000 pre-orders. Additionally, a team member of Jito stated that their re-mortgage platform is expected to be launched in about a month.

DeFi Technologies, a listed digital asset company, has released its monthly business data. Its subsidiary Valour had an asset management scale of CAD 1.18 billion (USD 819 million) as of December 31, a decrease of 11% from the previous month. In addition, DeFi Technologies disclosed that it increased its holdings of DOT and sold some CORE tokens in December. Its diversified investment portfolio currently includes 208.8 BTC, 121 ETH, 586,683 ADA, 126 DOT, 14,375 SOL, 490.5 UNI, 433,322 AVAX, and 1,701,703 CORE, with a total value of about CAD 58.9 million (USD 40.7 million), a decrease of 16% from the previous month.

Arkham has announced the addition of a Market Data page, which supports users in tracking important token data for spot, futures, and options products across multiple CEX.

 the Solana Foundation has initiated the SIMD-0215 proposal, which adds a new hash called "Accounts Lattice Hash". It uses homomorphic hashing to maintain the hash of the entire account state, which can be updated quickly and securely. This allows for (1) each block to contain the hash of all accounts, not just the accounts changed in that block, and (2) the removal of Epoch Accounts Hash. If adopted, it will replace Epoch Account Hash with a lattice-based approach, enabling efficient and real-time updates to the account state without reprocessing all accounts.

market shows ETH has broken through $3,700 and is currently trading at $3,700.67, with a 24-hour increase of 0.91%. The market is volatile, so please be prepared for risk control.