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Wu Jihan responded to the matter of "Bitdeer liquidating Bitcoin" in a post on X, stating: "Having a position of 0 now does not mean it will always be this way in the future. Thank you for your attention."

According to Jin Shi reports, 2028 FOMC voting member and St. Louis Fed President Bullard stated in an interview with Fox Business that if the Trump administration maintains most tariffs through other means, his outlook on the economic prospects will not change significantly. He also mentioned a desire to understand whether companies will receive tariff refunds and the amount of those refunds. Regarding the possibility of interest rate cuts this year, Bullard stated that the Fed's benchmark interest rate is currently at or below the "neutral rate" level.

IoTeX announced on platform X that it has noticed recent reports of suspicious activities regarding the IoTeX token vault. The team is assessing and managing the situation.Preliminary estimates indicate that potential losses are far below the rumored amount. IoTeX has coordinated with major exchanges and security partners to actively assist in tracking and freezing the hacker's assets. The situation is now under control, and IoTeX will continue to monitor and update the community on progress.

Vitalik Buterin posted on the X platform that he is trying to push forward a more ambitious plan: to build an "Ethereum that follows cyberpunk principles and is not ugly" as an extension layer on top of the existing system, while achieving tight integration and high interoperability with the current framework as much as possible.The proposal will develop gradually, while ensuring that Ethereum itself acquires the necessary system-level characteristics of cyberpunk and simplicity, including censorship resistance, friendliness to zero-knowledge proofs, and attributes of the consensus layer.Vitalik Buterin further stated that within the next 5 years (or even faster in the case of accelerated AI coding and formal verification), an open path may be established, allowing the existing system to migrate to smart contracts written in the new system language when needed.Ethereum has previously completed significant upgrades during its operation, akin to "changing jet engines in mid-air"—such as the "Merge"—and still has the capacity for about four more system-level transformations of similar scale in the future, including state tree optimization, streamlined consensus, ZK-EVM verification, and changes to the virtual machine layer.

According to Jinshi, the U.S. December core PCE inflation exceeded expectations, and inflation in January is expected to accelerate further, strengthening the market's expectation that the Federal Reserve will not cut interest rates before June. Data from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis shows that the core PCE index, excluding food and energy prices, rose 0.4% month-on-month in December, while economists had predicted a 0.3% increase. The core PCE inflation rate rose 3% year-on-year, up from 2.8% in November.

The Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin mining company Bitdeer announced that it has expanded the fundraising scale of its previously issued convertible preferred notes to $325 million. In addition, Bitdeer plans to grant the initial purchasers of the notes an option to purchase up to an additional $50 million principal amount of the notes within 13 days (including the day of issuance) from the date of the initial issuance.

According to crypto journalist Eleanor Terrett, this morning's third meeting on the "Cryptocurrency Market Structure Bill" (the CLARITY Act) regarding stablecoin yields was smaller than last week's, with representatives from Coinbase, Ripple, a16z, and the Crypto Industry Association in attendance, but no bank representatives present individually; the banking industry's voice was conveyed through the industry association.The situation at this meeting was notably different: the White House led the discussion, rather than allowing cryptocurrency companies and banks to dominate the conversation as in previous meetings. Patrick Witt, the Executive Director of the White House Cryptocurrency Committee, brought a draft text that became the focal point of the discussion.The text acknowledged the concerns raised by banks last week in the "Prohibition of Yields and Interest Principles" document, while clearly stating that a key goal of stablecoin-related legislation is to prohibit earning yields on idle stablecoin balances. The debate has narrowed down to whether crypto companies can offer stablecoin rewards tied to specific activities, with banks' concerns seeming to stem more from competitive pressure than the initially perceived worry about deposit outflows.Sources from the banking sector indicated that they are still working to include a study on deposit outflows in the draft—this study would examine the growth of payment stablecoins and their potential impact on bank deposits. Additionally, the banking industry is encouraged by the proposed anti-tax avoidance provisions, which would empower the SEC, the Treasury, and the CFTC to enforce the ban on paying yields on idle balances, imposing a civil penalty of $500,000 per day for each violation.Sources stated that discussions could be finalized by the end of the month, with negotiations continuing in the coming days.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin responded to Sigil on the X platform, stating that extending the feedback distance between humans and artificial intelligence is not a good thing. This trend often leads to AI generating low-quality content rather than truly solving real human problems, and it has not achieved good optimization even at the level of entertainment experience.Vitalik further warned that once AI develops to a sufficiently powerful and potentially dangerous stage, such developmental paths could maximize the risk of irreversible anti-human outcomes, even leading the promoters themselves to feel regret. The goal of Ethereum is to grant freedom to humanity, not to create a self-operating system that leaves human conditions unchanged or even worsened.Additionally, Vitalik Buterin pointed out that current mainstream models operate on centralized infrastructure such as OpenAI and Anthropic, which is not true self-sovereignty. This disregard for centralized trust assumptions is contrary to the principles that Ethereum opposes.The trend of exponential technological growth itself is difficult to stop; therefore, the core task of the current era is not to further accelerate exponential expansion, but to guide its direction of development, avoiding the system sliding into uncontrollable or undesirable attractor states.ChainCatcher previously reported that X user @0xSigil announced on the X platform the construction of an AI system capable of autonomously generating income, self-improvement, and replication without human intervention. This technology aims to provide AI with "write" permissions to the world and supports a "new network" composed of exponentially growing sovereign AIs.The author introduced the concept of "WEB 4.0" in related discussions, defining it as the stage of the birth of superintelligent life. This system demonstrates the technological path for AI to achieve self-sustainability and evolution.Moreover, both Solana and Ethereum have retweeted this post, stating that the technology is closely related to the project.

The mining company Bitdeer (BTDR) announced its plan to issue $300 million in principal amount of convertible senior notes due in 2032 through a private placement, and intends to grant initial purchasers an additional purchase option of up to $45 million.A portion of the net proceeds from this offering will be used to pay for capped option trading costs, as well as to repurchase some of the 5.25% convertible bonds due in 2029. The remaining funds will primarily be used for data center expansion, high-performance computing and AI cloud business expansion, ASIC miner research and manufacturing, as well as working capital and other general corporate purposes.

Bitfinex released an analysis report indicating that the decline in inflation in the U.S. market and the rise in interest rate cut expectations provide psychological support for risk assets, but the cryptocurrency market is more likely to experience phase fluctuations rather than a one-sided trend.The expansion of the Federal Reserve's balance sheet reduces systemic liquidity risks, which historically tends to benefit scarce assets like Bitcoin. However, the current pace of liquidity recovery is relatively slow, and selling pressure on spot Bitcoin re-emerged earlier this week, with cumulative sell-offs reaching several billion dollars. Although the market's ability to absorb sell orders has improved compared to before, on-chain indicators show that the adjusted SOPR (Spent Output Profit Ratio) has dropped to the range of 0.92–0.94, reflecting that most cryptocurrencies are being transferred at a loss, indicating that structural pressure still exists.The current macro environment provides a certain liquidity buffer for the cryptocurrency market, but it is still insufficient to support a sustained bull market. Bitcoin has tactical rebound potential in the short term, while long-term structural upward movement requires clearer signals of declining inflation and sustained spot demand support.

"Fed's mouthpiece" Nick Timiraos stated that the content not mentioned in this Federal Reserve meeting minutes is more worthy of attention. He pointed out that in several meetings last year until December, staff predicted that the inflation rate would fall to 2% by 2027, but the December minutes pushed the timeline back to 2028.In the January meeting minutes, there was no specific mention of when the inflation rate would reach 2%, only indicating that the values were "slightly higher and balanced" compared to the December forecast, and it was expected that the impact of tariffs would end after mid-year, with inflation returning to the previous downward trend. The previous mention of "reaching 2% by 2028" did not reappear.Nick Timiraos hinted that this reflects a weakening confidence from the Federal Reserve regarding the inflation path, influenced by tight resource utilization and rising import prices. The official minutes confirmed a slightly higher forecast than in December but did not specify a return year, highlighting policy uncertainty.

Public information shows that Zhao Changpeng attended the World Liberty Forum event held at Trump's Mar-a-Lago today, but did not deliver a formal speech.Zhao Changpeng X Platform responded, "I benefited greatly from listening to the speech of the CFTC chairman on site."

According to Jinshi, Fed's Daly stated that it is necessary to ensure that the vulnerabilities in the labor market do not evolve into substantial weakness.

According to Jinshi reports, Federal Reserve Governor Barr stated that the neutral interest rate level has risen slightly, but there has not been a dramatic change.

Cryptocurrency researcher anıl posted on the X platform that, based on historical data, when the MVRV Z-Score drops below 0, especially below -0.20, Bitcoin is at its price low point. In this cycle, the lowest value Bitcoin reached was +0.26, which means the classic "green zone" has not yet been tested. In every previous major cycle, the Z-Score has entered negative territory. If this value enters negative territory again, it could signal the most attractive medium to long-term risk-reward ratio range for Bitcoin.

CryptoQuant's Bull-Bear Index recently hit its lowest point since the FTX collapse in 2022. This indicator measures market momentum by the difference between the market profit and loss index and its 365-day moving average. Historical data shows that similar extreme bear market levels often signal the formation of a bottom.

Strategy founder Michael Saylor posted on the X platform: "Markets closed. Bitcoin open. Happy Hodlday," but did not disclose any information about increasing Bitcoin holdings, suggesting that he may not have made any purchases last week.