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The latest report from blockchain analysis company Elliptic points out that a cryptocurrency exchange related to Russia, known as the "shadow network," is assisting in evading international sanctions through large-scale cryptocurrency transactions and names five platforms, most of which have not yet been sanctioned and still provide Russian entities with funding channels to bypass traditional banking regulations. Among them, ABCeX is identified as the largest, having processed at least $11 billion in cryptocurrency transactions.The report also notes that although Exmo claims to have exited the Russian market, on-chain data shows that it still shares custodial wallet infrastructure; Rapira, registered in Georgia and with an office in Moscow, is said to have direct transactions exceeding $72 million with the sanctioned exchange Grinex; Bitpapa evades monitoring by frequently changing wallet addresses; and Aifory Pro provides cash-to-crypto exchange services in Moscow, Dubai, and Turkey.Analysis indicates that the previously targeted cryptocurrency-related sanction evasion infrastructure in Russia has not disappeared but has instead dispersed across more platforms.

The founder of Openclaw, Peter Steinberger, recently confirmed in an interview with Lex Fridman that Openclaw has received acquisition offers from multiple companies. Regarding potential funding in the hundreds of millions or even billions, Steinberger stated, "I am not interested at all. I have been a CEO once, and that path would consume all my time and lead to conflicts of interest, such as prioritizing the enterprise version or modifying the open-source license, which would harm the community. What I want is completely free and open-source without any conditions. Moreover, relying on donations is simply not sustainable; even popular projects like Tailwind are laying off staff."Additionally, Steinberger mentioned that Openclaw is currently losing money. Monthly revenue is between $10,000 and $20,000, but it subsidizes personal maintenance of dependency projects. Companies like OpenAI provide some support, but it is still not sustainable. Regarding the option to collaborate with large labs, Steinberger stated that the core condition is that the project must remain open-source, similar to Chrome and Chromium. "This matter is too important to be left entirely to one company. Moreover, the community atmosphere of ClawCon is particularly precious; it embodies the enthusiasm that was present in the early days of the internet. I want to spread it to more people; this year is the year of personal agents, and collaborating with labs is the fastest way. I have never worked at a large company, and I want to experience that."

CZ posted on the X platform that Binance has shown a net inflow of funds over all time periods of 1 day, 7 days, and 1 month, totaling billions of dollars. Some potential FUD initiators have shown a net outflow of funds.

Billions Network Asia-Pacific Head Lulu confirmed attendance at the "Build and Scale in 2026" themed forum to be held on February 10 in Hong Kong. This event is co-hosted by ChainCatcher, RootData, and Alibaba Cloud, and is one of the important peripheral activities of the Consensus HongKong conference.Billions Network is a digital identity verification platform aimed at providing a mutually trustworthy future for humans and artificial intelligence. The platform utilizes zero-knowledge proof technology to offer a scalable and secure method for verifying the identities of humans and AI. This forum will focus on industry convergence trends, growth paths, and market opportunities in the new cycle, with in-depth discussions around key tracks such as RWA, stablecoins, AI, payments, and DeFi. The event aims to gather high-quality project parties, investment institutions, and developers from around the world to build a high-value industry network and jointly explore future opportunities and value potential in the Web3 ecosystem.Event registration: https://luma.com/md5v6b5z

According to South Korean media Ohmy News, the Gwangju District Prosecutor's Office recently suspected that a large amount of Bitcoin, seized and stored due to criminal cases, has gone missing. The specific number of lost Bitcoins has not been disclosed, but it is understood to be worth hundreds of billions of Korean won. The prosecution is conducting an internal investigation.The Gwangju District Prosecutor's Office discovered the loss during a routine check for any anomalies in the financial assets. At that time, they were examining the passwords related to Bitcoin stored on a removable storage device (USB drive). A prosecutor official stated, "We learned that the incident occurred during a routine check of the seized Bitcoins, where we inadvertently accessed a so-called 'fake (scam) website.' Internal discussions within the prosecution suggest that the lost Bitcoins could be worth up to 70 billion Korean won." An official from the Gwangju District Prosecutor's Office responded to media inquiries by stating, "We cannot confirm this matter."

According to Cointelegraph, Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire stated that stablecoins are the only systems capable of supporting billions of AI agents in large-scale transactions.

According to official news, Moonbirds' parent company Orange Cap Games (OCG) has officially released the "Birbillions Thesis" white paper, proposing a hybrid business model of "physical collectibles + crypto memes."The white paper points out that the core pain point of the crypto industry lies in the disconnection between "serious companies" and "absurd memes." OCG aims to capture the attention of non-crypto users through the distribution of physical toys (via channels like Asmodee, GTS, etc.) and uses the $BIRB token as a value coordination layer.Data shows that OCG's physical revenue in its second year of operation has reached $8 million. The argument claims that its goal is to become the first crypto-native consumer company that does not rely on transaction fees or token sell-offs, but instead achieves $1 billion in annual revenue through physical sales.

According to Bloomberg, Strategy may disclose a multi-billion dollar loss for the fourth quarter of 2025, due to the group's approximately $60 billion in Bitcoin assets, which fell 24% in the fourth quarter, leading to anticipated significant paper losses. If true, this means that Strategy could wipe out the $2.8 billion profit recorded in the previous quarter due to the Bitcoin crash.As Strategy's enterprise value is on the verge of falling below the value of its Bitcoin holdings, concerns have arisen in the market about the group potentially needing to sell Bitcoin. To alleviate these concerns, Strategy established a cash reserve by selling common stock on December 1. Strategy previously anticipated that its annual operating performance would range from a loss of $7 billion to a profit of $9.5 billion, provided that Bitcoin trading prices remain between $85,000 and $110,000.

Meta announced the acquisition of the Chinese AI star project Manus's company Butterfly Effect for billions of dollars.It is reported that the founder and CEO Xiao Hong's personal profile on the app has a "btc holder" label. Public information shows that he started buying BTC as early as 2013 and significantly increased his investments in BTC after the 2017 bull market, holding it long-term as a hedge against entrepreneurial risks and as a faith asset.

According to TheDefiant, a recent study by the data analysis platform RWAio found that the fragmentation of blockchain networks causes a value loss of $600 million to $1.3 billion annually in the RWA market. Currently, the total value of RWA in circulation (including private credit, U.S. Treasury bonds, and commodities) has exceeded $36 billion.RWAio discovered that the same asset often trades at different prices on different blockchains, with price discrepancies ranging from 1% to 3%. Additionally, due to fees and slippage, transferring assets between different chains can result in investors losing 2% to 5% on each transaction. Currently, Ethereum holds 52% of all RWA tokenized value, while Polygon holds 62% of RWA tokenized bonds.According to forecasts, if the market size of tokenized assets reaches $16 trillion to $30 trillion by 2030, annual losses could amount to $30 billion to $75 billion.

Pineapple Financial, a Canadian fintech company, announced the launch of a mortgage tokenization platform on the Injective blockchain, planning to migrate its entire historical portfolio (over 29,000 mortgages, with a total value of approximately $10 billion) to the blockchain. Currently, the company has successfully tokenized over 1,200 mortgage documents, valued at approximately $412 million. Each tokenized record contains over 500 data points, aimed at enhancing transparency and operational efficiency.In previous news, the publicly listed company Pineapple Financial launched a $100 million Injective digital asset vault strategy.

JPMorgan stated in a report on Thursday that if the global financial index company MSCI removes Bitcoin "vault giant" MicroStrategy (MSTR) from its stock index, the related outflow could reach up to $2.8 billion; if other exchanges and index providers follow suit, the total outflow could reach as high as $11.6 billion.Analysts pointed out that the recent decline in MSTR's stock price—coupled with the overall weak performance this year—is more due to market concerns about its potential removal from MSCI and other indices like the Nasdaq 100 and Russell 1000, rather than a drop in Bitcoin's own price."It is precisely because of the inclusion in these indices that Bitcoin's exposure has indirectly permeated into the portfolios of retail and institutional investors," analysts wrote. "However, as MSCI now considers removing MicroStrategy and other companies primarily holding digital assets from the stock index, this previous indirect exposure may reverse."MSCI is evaluating a proposal to exclude companies whose primary business is holding Bitcoin or other crypto assets, and where such assets account for more than 50% of their balance sheet.MSCI stated last month that this "consultation" will continue until the end of this year, with a final decision to be made by January 15.

OpenAI founder Sam Altman rarely published a long article to clarify related messages, stating that OpenAI does not seek or wish for the government to provide guarantees for data centers. He believes that the government should not pick winners or use taxpayer money to bail out failing companies. If OpenAI fails, other companies will continue to work. He suggests that the government should build and own AI infrastructure itself, with the profits going to the government, which may provide low-cost capital to establish a national reserve of computing power, but for government interests rather than private companies.OpenAI expects its annual revenue to exceed $20 billion this year, reaching hundreds of billions by 2030, and anticipates about $1.4 trillion in investment commitments over the next eight years. Revenue sources will include categories such as enterprise products, new consumer devices, robotics, AI scientific discoveries, etc.; direct sales of computing power; and possibly issuing equity or debt in the future. OpenAI does not seek to be "too big to fail," and if it fails, it should be handled by the market. In addition, it hopes that artificial intelligence can be widespread and affordable. This technology is expected to have huge market demand and improve people's lives in many ways.

ChainCatcher news, according to Bloomberg, Anthropic is negotiating with Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet, to sign a "high tens of billions of dollars" cloud computing service agreement to provide computing power for its AI training and inference; the two parties have collaborated before and Google has invested approximately $3 billion in total.The news states that Google rose about 3.5% in after-hours trading.

ChainCatcher message, according to the Web3 asset data platform RootData X tracking data, in the past 7 days, the Solana ecosystem governance project MetaDAO has been the project that X (Twitter) top influencers have unfollowed the most. The new influencers who have unfollowed this project include well-known cryptocurrency trader Ansem (@blknoiz06), Mr. Block (@mrblocktw), and famous KOL 0xSun (@0xSunNFT).In addition, the projects with the most unfollows from X top influencers also include Billions and LAB.

ChainCatcher news, on October 14, Garrett Jin posted, "The biggest problem in the cryptocurrency space is that most projects lack cash flow. In contrast, TikTok was sold in the U.S. for $14 billion, while many cryptocurrency projects with negative cash flow are valued at hundreds of billions of dollars. This has led to funds flowing out of Bitcoin and Ethereum. Exchanges and stablecoins extract hundreds of billions of dollars from the industry each year, but there is no healthy capital backflow into the market. Therefore, the market lacks liquidity and upward momentum."Previously, Garrett Jin was a whale who made headlines by selling over $4.23 billion in BTC for ETH just before the flash crash on October 11.

ChainCatcher message, on-chain detective ZachXBT posted: "The high-profile identity event of the BTC whale swapping ETH still has too many unknown factors for me to draw a conclusion that I would be willing to publish. All the posts currently under scrutiny are actually exaggerated versions of immature theories.What is known is: Garrett Jin / Exe seems to have started collaborating with a Chinese whale, who previously had ten-digit funds on-chain that had been dormant until recently."

ChainCatcher news, according to Crypto In America, the U.S. Treasury is preparing to formally relax a proposed rule. This rule was originally intended to impose a 15% tax on unrealized Bitcoin gains held by companies like Strategy under the Corporate Alternative Minimum Tax (CAMT) legislation.The CAMT legislation requires large companies to pay a minimum tax on their financial statement income. Under current accounting standards, companies must value their held cryptocurrencies at market value, which means that even without selling, their book profits (unrealized gains) will be taxed.Previously, companies like Strategy and Coinbase had written to the Treasury, arguing that taxing unrealized gains on digital assets is unfair and would force U.S. companies to sell assets to pay taxes, putting them at a disadvantage in global competition.