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According to The New York Times, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated last July that the company's new artificial intelligence model would be launched in about a year. However, according to three insiders, Zuckerberg seems to be increasingly struggling to meet that deadline.Sources indicate that Meta's new generation "frontier" artificial intelligence model, developed over several months, has not performed at the level of leading AI models from competitors like Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic in internal tests focused on reasoning, programming, and writing abilities.Two insiders revealed that the model, codenamed "Avocado," performs better than Meta's previous AI models, but its performance falls short of the "Gemini 3.0" model launched last November. As a result, Meta has postponed the release of the "Avocado" product from this month to at least May.

Strategy founder Michael Saylor posted on the X platform, "You know, there is a time delay between our purchase of Bitcoin and the surge in Bitcoin prices."

According to Jinshi News, Morgan Stanley stated that the Federal Reserve may resume interest rate cuts as early as June, but the oil price shock caused by the Iran war could delay the Fed's actions. Although rising energy prices may exacerbate inflation, the bank's economists still maintain their prediction that the Fed will cut rates twice this year, in June and September, by 25 basis points each time. However, they believe that the Fed's first rate cut may be delayed until September or even December.

Binance Wallet tweeted that the token airdrop originally scheduled for today at 18:00 has been delayed. Please wait for the official announcement for the specific claiming time.

Cryptocurrency trading platform QCP Capital stated that Bitcoin is currently fluctuating around $66,000. Over the weekend, tensions in the Middle East briefly pushed the price down to a low of $60,000, but it has since returned to its recent trading range.Analysts pointed out that the initial drop triggered about $300 million in long liquidations, but compared to the disorderly sell-offs earlier this year and in 2025, this deleveraging is relatively mild. Macroeconomic factors are also important, as the prolonged expectations of tightening Federal Reserve policy keep the opportunity cost of non-yielding assets high. Stephen Coltman, macro head at 21Shares, noted that wars have historically had inflationary effects, driving up commodity prices and expanding fiscal deficits, which could complicate the outlook for interest rate cuts even if risk assets initially experience turbulence.In the context of escalating military conflict in the Middle East and uncertainty surrounding Federal Reserve policy, the cryptocurrency fear and greed index showed a reading of 15 on Monday, indicating "extreme fear" levels.

Musk stated that a vulnerability was discovered that needs to be fixed, so the release of the new version of "X" will likely be delayed until this weekend.Previously, Musk announced that the app could be updated to use the "For You" recommendation feature.

Yzi Labs investment partner Alex Odagiu recently wrote to the CEA Industries board, accusing it of recklessly delaying the annual shareholder meeting, which could put the company at risk of being delisted from Nasdaq.The letter pointed out that it has been over 400 days since the last shareholder meeting. The board attempted to exploit a loophole by changing the fiscal year-end date to April 30 through "accounting maneuvers," extending the interval between meetings to 16 months. Alex Odagiu stated that this move by the board was to evade voting and that last December, they used the excuse of a "ski vacation" to cover up their actions of obstructing shareholder democracy through the "poison pill plan" and amending the bylaws.The letter emphasized that although the board tried to comply technically, its malicious manipulation could trigger Nasdaq's delisting discretion. Yzi Labs demands that the board immediately announce the date of the 2025 annual shareholder meeting and cease actions that jeopardize the company's listing status to maintain their positions.

Co-founder of Story Protocol, SY Lee, responded to the project's postponement of the first large-scale IP token unlock to August 2026, stating that the blockchain network still needs "more time" to build real use cases. This postponement lasts for 6 months, during which the team and investors' tokens will remain locked to reduce short-term circulation pressure.SY Lee mentioned that the current on-chain revenue being close to zero does not accurately reflect Story's business status, as its business model does not rely on gas fees, but instead provides licensing services for human-generated data to AI training in an off-chain manner.He pointed out that the project is shifting from tokenized media content to "non-scrapable" human contribution data and enterprise-level licensing collaborations. While this adjustment reduces short-term visible on-chain revenue, it helps to release long-term commitments and alleviate token supply pressure.

Base officials disclosed this morning that the Base mainnet experienced intermittent transaction packaging delays, and users may have noticed that transaction confirmation times were significantly higher than normal. However, the officials emphasized that blocks are still being produced continuously, and transaction processing has not been interrupted.The team has confirmed that the remediation measures are effective, the overall stability of the network has been restored, and a complete incident review (RCA) and public post-incident analysis report will be released in the coming days.In the context of increasing network congestion, transactions may still experience delayed packaging or be dropped. The team is advancing long-term solutions and will continue to provide updates on progress.

According to Jin10 reports, the CICC research report pointed out that the Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged at the January meeting, which aligns with market expectations. Governor Waller cast a dissenting vote, possibly related to his desire to be nominated as the next Federal Reserve Chair.Powell stated that monetary policy is "in a good place," indicating that the threshold for another rate cut in the short term has increased. CICC expects the Federal Reserve to still be able to cut rates twice in 2026, but the first rate cut may be delayed until the second quarter.

According to Finance Feeds, a new survey released by the UK Crypto Asset Business Council shows that UK banks are widely blocking, delaying, or refusing customer transfers to cryptocurrency exchanges, even when these exchanges are regulated by the UK's Financial Conduct Authority.The survey estimates that about 40% of such transfer attempts are intercepted or delayed by banks. The survey of the top ten centralized exchanges in the UK found that 80% of exchanges reported an increase in customers experiencing blocked or restricted transfers in the past 12 months, with none reporting any easing of the situation.The report indicates that over the past year, 80% of the surveyed exchanges reported an increase in the number of customers facing bank restrictions, with none reporting any easing of the situation. The restrictions include major commercial banks setting strict limits on transfers to exchanges and credit card payments or directly blocking them.

Galaxy Digital's research director Alex Thorn stated that the U.S. Senate Banking Committee's originally scheduled hearing on the cryptocurrency market structure bill has been postponed, highlighting the deep divisions between Congress and the industry on several key issues, particularly focusing on stablecoin yield mechanisms and DeFi-related provisions. This delay occurred just hours after Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong withdrew his support for the bill. Armstrong publicly opposed the bill's references to tokenized securities, DeFi restrictions, and stablecoin yields. Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott subsequently announced the postponement of the hearing, but no new timeline has been provided. With the Senate set to recess next week, the earliest possible restart could be between January 26 and 30.Alex Thorn pointed out that within just 48 hours, the bill draft was released late at night, over 100 amendments were submitted, and stakeholders continued to discover new points of contention at the last minute, significantly increasing the difficulty of political coordination. On the market side, following the announcement of the delay, cryptocurrency assets generally declined, with Bitcoin and Ethereum dropping about 2% on the day; related U.S. stocks also faced pressure, with Coinbase down 6.5%, Robinhood down 7.8%, and Circle down 9.7%. In his analysis, Thorn believes that although there is a broad consensus on "market structure" itself, non-core but highly sensitive issues surrounding stablecoin yields, DeFi compliance, and granting the SEC regulatory tools in the area of tokenized securities have created an insurmountable political divide. "The apparent gap in disagreements is not large, but the substantive chasm is deep."

The Binance contract was originally scheduled to launch the AIAUSDT U-based perpetual contract on January 16, 2026, at 23:30, but it has now been decided to postpone it. The specific time will be announced separately.

According to Jinshi News, Rogier Quadevelich, an economist at the Dutch Bank, stated in a report that the investigation into Federal Reserve Chairman Powell could affect the prospects of interest rate cuts in the short term. He pointed out that challenges to the independence of the Federal Reserve might prompt board members to take a tougher stance, delaying the decision on rate cuts. This investigation involves cost overruns in the renovation project of the Federal Reserve headquarters, and Quadevelich believes this is a means to pressure the Federal Reserve Chairman, which could lead to a delay in rate cuts.

According to Cointelegraph, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has extended the decision deadline for two cryptocurrency-related exchange-traded funds (ETFs) while opening public commentary on a third cryptocurrency fund option.The SEC stated in a notice in the Federal Register that it will extend the consideration of proposals to allow the listing of the Canary Pudgy Penguins (PENGU) ETF on Cboe BZX and the T. Rowe Price Active Crypto ETF on NYSE Arca. Both applications follow the SEC's standard 19b-4 process, allowing the regulator to extend the initial decision window by up to 45 days.

According to three anonymous sources, Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Boozman (Republican-Arkansas) is considering delaying the committee's vote on a landmark cryptocurrency legislation, provided that bipartisan negotiations make substantial progress in the coming days.Boozman currently still plans to advance the consideration of the cryptocurrency market regulatory legislation on January 15. However, he is now open to delaying the vote, depending on the progress of his team's negotiations with the Democratic chief negotiator, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker, in the coming days. If both sides achieve a significant breakthrough this weekend, he may delay the vote to seek bipartisan support for the bill.

According to The Block, investment bank TD Cowen stated that the U.S. legislative process aimed at establishing clear rules for the cryptocurrency market may take longer than expected, with the passage of related bills potentially delayed until 2027, and actual implementation possibly postponed until 2029.In a report released by TD Cowen on Monday, it was noted that while there is still a path to push the cryptocurrency market structure bill through this year, the political maneuvering in the U.S. Congress increases the likelihood of delays. The agency believes that the Democrats currently lack the motivation to accelerate the legislative process, especially considering their assessment that they may regain control of the House of Representatives in the 2026 midterm elections.It also stated that election outcomes are always filled with uncertainty, so Democrats may reach an agreement, which could happen quickly as staff have been researching technical terms for months. Timing is favorable for the passage of the bill; if the bill is passed in 2027 and takes effect in 2029, then the issues will disappear. The cryptocurrency industry needs to accept that the presidential election may affect the final rules, and Democrats also need to acknowledge that conflict of interest provisions do not apply to Trump.

Delphi Digital posted on platform X that Solana is preparing for a major upgrade called Alpenglow. This upgrade is a complete overhaul of the consensus mechanism, aiming to achieve sub-second finality by replacing Tower BFT and Proof of History (PoH).Alpenglow introduces two new protocol components: Votor and Rotor. Votor replaces the incremental voting rounds of Tower BFT with a lightweight voting aggregation model. Validators can aggregate votes off-chain before submitting the final confirmation, allowing blocks to achieve finality within 1 to 2 confirmation rounds. This improvement reduces the theoretical finality delay to 100 to 150 milliseconds, shortening it by about 100 times from the original 12.8 seconds.Votor achieves finality through two parallel paths: when a proposed block receives over 80% of the total staked weight in the first round, it triggers fast confirmation and takes effect immediately; if the support rate is between 60% and 80% in the first round, it triggers slow confirmation, requiring a second round of voting to exceed 60% for final confirmation.Rotor reconfigures Solana's block propagation layer. The original Turbine propagation network relied on multi-hop relays with variable delays, while Rotor introduces a staked-weight relay path that prioritizes bandwidth efficiency. Validators with high stakes and reliable bandwidth will become core relay points. Simulation data shows that under typical bandwidth conditions, block propagation can be completed in as fast as 18 milliseconds. This upgrade is expected to be rolled out gradually, with an initial launch timeframe anticipated between early to mid-2026.

According to CoinShares data, in the third week of December, cryptocurrency investment products saw a net outflow of approximately $990 million, primarily concentrated in the U.S. market. Among them, Ethereum products experienced an outflow of about $555 million, while Bitcoin products saw an outflow of $460 million.Analysts pointed out that the main reason is the U.S. Congress's failure to pass the CLARITY Act, which was approved by the House of Representatives in July but is currently stalled in the Senate. The ongoing regulatory uncertainty has prompted institutional investors to reduce their positions. However, Solana and XRP products bucked the trend, attracting net inflows of $48.5 million and $62.9 million, respectively, indicating that investors are not withdrawing entirely but are shifting towards specific assets.As of 2025, the cumulative net inflow of crypto products still reached $12.7 billion, higher than last year's $5.3 billion.