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According to Jinshi, Fed's Daly stated that artificial intelligence is a mechanism to help us cope with inflation, but at the same time, it is also a restrictive policy.

According to Tom Lee, co-founder of Fundstrat and chairman of Bitmine, in an interview with Decrypt, the market should be very close to the bottom, as the current market sentiment is extremely poor and the price trend is also very bad.Fundstrat's analyst Tom Demar has been saying since last November that BTC would drop to $60,000. He initially believed that the bottom for ETH should be around $2,400, but if it cannot hold, it would bottom out near $1,890. He thinks it just needs to dip one more time, which would be the lowest point, indicating that we are very close to the end of the downward trend.Previously, Fundstrat stated in its 2026 cryptocurrency strategy advice to internal clients that the market would experience a deeper correction in the first half of the year, with a target price for BTC of $60,000 to $65,000; a target price for ETH of $1,800 to $2,000; and a target price for SOL of $50 to $75. However, Tom Lee himself has publicly claimed that both BTC and ETH will reach new highs in January 2026.

The General Office of the State Council issued implementation opinions on improving the national unified electricity market system, which pointed out the need to enhance various functions of the electricity market, accelerate the establishment of a green electricity consumption certification mechanism, comprehensively introduce technologies such as blockchain, and carry out full-chain certification for green electricity production, consumption, and other links.

According to the Hong Kong Economic Journal, the newly appointed president of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Lo Chok-kin, stated that guidelines are being developed to help the accounting and business sectors understand how to handle virtual assets in accounting. The first part of the guidelines, which involves virtual currencies and stablecoins, has been issued, while the second part, which has not yet been announced, relates to the auditing requirements for stablecoins set by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority. The Institute is currently in discussions with the Hong Kong Monetary Authority on this matter, and it is expected to be released within six months. The third part of the virtual asset accounting guidelines aims to be launched by the end of the year at the earliest, but it will still require communication and consensus with regulatory bodies and the industry before it can be released.

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has completed a $30 billion Series G funding round, achieving a post-money valuation of $380 billion. GIC and Coatue led the round, with participation from D. E. Shaw Ventures, Dragoneer, Founders Fund, ICONIQ, and MGX. Accel, Addition, JPMorgan Chase, Sequoia Capital, and Temasek also participated. The funds raised will be used to help deepen research, continue product innovation, and ensure the team has sufficient resources to expand infrastructure.

Binance posted on the X platform that the withdrawal issue has been identified and resolved. Withdrawal services have now resumed and are being processed.According to previous news from ChainCatcher, Binance: The platform experienced a technical failure in withdrawals and is undergoing emergency repairs.

According to Valor, the Central Bank of Brazil (BC) has issued rules for banks and brokerage firms wishing to engage in cryptocurrency activities. The directive requires such institutions to hire a qualified independent company to demonstrate their compliance with the regulatory requirements for virtual asset service providers (PSAV) set by the monetary authority. The certifying entity must clearly indicate that there is no conflict of interest with the audited party.

Binance Wallet indicates that by combining similar address transfer alerts, transaction history filtering, and address book features, it supports the identification and removal of malicious and low-value transaction records, helping users avoid address poisoning attacks and effectively ensuring asset security.Address poisoning is increasingly becoming a serious security threat. Attackers interfere with users' transaction history through on-chain technology, jeopardizing asset security.

According to official news, Huobi HTX's "New Year's First Lesson" series of courses will officially start on January 22 at 19:00. The first course is themed "Seizing the Opportunity in the Bull Market: Decoding the New Order of Global Assets," featuring Yu Jianing, the president of Uweb Business School in Hong Kong and a director of the Hong Kong Registered Digital Asset Analysts Association, as the guest speaker. The course will focus on methods for identifying bull market cycles and strategies for allocating globally high-potential assets, systematically breaking down the core reasons why "it's easy to exit in the early stages of a bull market," helping participants establish clear judgments during the market initiation phase and avoid missing out on trend dividends.At the same time, the course will combine practical perspectives, from cognitive upgrades to actionable allocations, outlining an executable global asset allocation framework.It is reported that the Huobi HTX "New Year's First Lesson" series aims to create an annual iconic educational brand in the Web3 field, connecting quality creators through systematic and forward-looking content output, consolidating industry consensus, and promoting the market towards a more rational and mature cognitive stage.

Emmett, the head of the Solana Mobile project, posted on the X platform that before the SKR release, the team is actively identifying additional Seeker clusters, in addition to the anti-witch measures already taken. These subscription shares will be removed from the initial SKR distribution and returned to the future airdrop pool. The team did not disclose specific detection details and stated that this move aims to ensure the fairness of the SKR distribution, directing it towards users and developers who drive the platform's development.

Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin financial services company Strive announced the official completion of its acquisition of Semler Scientific. The merged company currently holds a total of 12,797.9 bitcoins, making it the 11th largest publicly traded company in terms of BTC holdings globally.The company also announced the appointment of Avik Roy as Chief Strategy Officer, while former Semler Scientific Chairman Eric Semler joins Strive as an independent director, and Bitcoin Strategy Director Joe Burnett takes on the role of Vice President of Bitcoin Strategy at Strive.

Pump.fun has released the mobile push notification feature. This includes the ability to push tokens every 6 hours; to remind all followers through push notifications; and to upgrade on the global shoutcaster leaderboard.

According to CoinDesk, cryptocurrency analysis firm Chainalysis stated in its latest report that losses from cryptocurrency scams and fraud could reach as high as $17 billion in 2025.Among these, impersonation scams have seen a year-on-year increase of 1400%, while AI-assisted scams are 4.5 times more profitable than traditional scams.

Strive announced that the shareholders of Semler Scientific voted to approve Strive's acquisition proposal. As part of an all-stock transaction, Strive will acquire 5,048.1 bitcoins held by Semler Scientific. Strive also announced the purchase of an additional 123 bitcoins for its corporate treasury at an average price of $91,561 per bitcoin, for a total purchase price of $11,264,000 (including fees and expenses), bringing Strive's total bitcoin holdings to 7,749.8 bitcoins.Upon completion of the acquisition of Semler Scientific, the merged company will hold 12,797.9 bitcoins, making it the 11th largest corporate holder. Strive stated that its goal is to tokenize Semler's medical diagnostics business and address a $120 million debt issue.With the completion of the merger, the board approved a 1:20 reverse stock split for the Class A and Class B common stock of the merged company. Strive plans to disclose more details regarding the anticipated reverse stock split, including the expected effective date and the new CUSIP number for Class A common stock, in an upcoming current report on Form 8-K.After the transaction is completed, Semler Scientific Executive Chairman Eric Semler will join Strive's board of directors. Following this announcement, the stock prices of Strive and Semler Scientific fell by approximately 10%, respectively.

Cointelegraph posted on the X platform that Nigeria now requires cryptocurrency transactions to be linked with Tax IDs and National IDs.

GoPlus has launched a new feature in its browser extension, GoPredict, which provides event risk identification support for the prediction market Polymarket. GoPredict is based on the official Gamma API of Polymarket and conducts real-time risk analysis of market events from multiple dimensions, including event verifiability, market liquidity, and price volatility. It directly marks risk levels on the Polymarket event list page, helping users quickly identify potential high-risk events before placing bets, reducing the information asymmetry risk for ordinary users in the prediction market, and enhancing participation safety and decision-making efficiency.GoPredict is now available with the GoPlus browser extension, and users can download and experience it through the Chrome Web Store.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has issued the "Action Plan for Empowering the Integration of Industrial Internet and Artificial Intelligence." The goal is to significantly enhance the level of integration and empowerment of industrial internet and artificial intelligence by 2028. The scale of new industrial networks that meet the communication needs of high throughput, low latency, high reliability, and low jitter for artificial intelligence industrial applications will continue to expand. Key industries such as raw materials, equipment manufacturing, consumer goods, and electronic information will accelerate the deployment and application, promoting the transformation and upgrading of no less than 50,000 enterprises to new industrial networks.The system for gathering, governance, circulation, and sharing of industrial data will be continuously improved, creating a number of high-quality datasets in 20 key industries. Focusing on key links and typical scenarios of important industrial chains, a batch of intelligent solution providers will be cultivated to effectively promote the collaborative upgrading of large, medium, and small enterprises. Key enterprises, technical products, public services, and other resource elements will achieve efficient allocation.

According to Jinshi reports, sources say that ARM, the artificial intelligence chip company under Baidu, plans to raise up to $2 billion in an IPO in Hong Kong.

NVIDIA (NVDA.O) announced that the highly anticipated new "Rubin" data center product will be launched this year, allowing customers to trial the technology and accelerate the development of artificial intelligence. NVIDIA stated that six Rubin chips have been delivered from manufacturing partners and have passed several key tests, indicating that customer deployments are progressing as planned. The newly launched Rubin accelerator improves training performance by 3.5 times compared to the previous generation Blackwell, and speeds up the running of AI software by 5 times.The company emphasized that the operating costs of Rubin-based systems will be lower than those of Blackwell-based systems, as they achieve the same results with fewer components. It is reported that Microsoft and other large remote computing service providers will be the first to adopt this new hardware in the second half of this year. (Jin Shi)