Due to the latest policy of the Indian regulator, all transactions and product usage by Indian users on the platform will be temporarily restricted from 8AM UTC on January 12, 2025. The only exception is the withdrawal function, which can still be used normally.

The trillion-dollar dormant Bitcoin needs an answer to “becoming more liquid from idle assets”.

Binance announced that it will launch spot trading pairs of aixbt by Virtuals (AIXBT), ChainGPT (CGPT) and Cookie DAO (COOKIE) at 21:00 Beijing time on January 10, including AIXBT/USDC, AIXBT/USDT, CGPT/USDC, CGPT/USDT, COOKIE/USDC and COOKIE/USDT. Users can now top up AIXBT, CGPT and COOKIE to prepare for trading, and withdrawal services will be opened at 21:00 on January 11. There is no listing fee for this launch, and the relevant smart contract addresses have been announced. Please note that these tokens have been listed on Binance Alpha Market before.

In the latest update of the "Asset Inspection List" on Grayscale's official website this morning, a variety of digital assets that may be launched as investment products in the future are listed, including $KAS, $APT, $ARB, $TIA, $HBAR, $MNT, $SEI, $S, $STRK, $TON, $TRX, $AERO, $BNB, $ENA, $INJ, $JUP, $ONDO, $PENDLE, $RUNE, $DOGE, $IMX, $AKT, $FET, $AR, $EIGEN, $HNT, $JTO, $PYTH and $WLD, etc. Grayscale also encourages the community to provide feedback on whether there are any potential assets that have been missed in order to further improve the layout of investment products.

Artela Network, a L1 network for fully on-chain AI agents, has released its token economic model, which aims to support the large-scale application of on-chain AI agents. As the native asset of Artela, the ART token assumes core functions such as staking, paying gas fees, governance rights and ecological liquidity, becoming the key to network security, governance and economic operation. The ART token adopts an inflation model, with an initial annual inflation rate of 8%, decreasing by 1% each year, and eventually reaching a long-term issuance rate of 0%, ensuring that supply growth is controllable and supporting long-term value stability. The total supply of ART is 1 billion, and the distribution includes 62% for the community (4.5% for airdrops, 28.5% for network staking, 23% for ecological development, etc.), 15% for the team, 18% for investors and 5% for early contributors. The tokens will be gradually released according to a clear unlocking plan to support the sustainable development of the ecosystem. Earlier news, blockchain infrastructure startup Artela completed a $6 million seed round of financing, led by Shima Capital.

Looking ahead to 2025, institutions are generally optimistic and believe that Bitcoin may exceed $200,000 in 2025.

Sui Foundation announced on January 8 that a total of 12 teams in the first Hydropower Accelerator Program completed eight weeks of project development. These projects cover the fields of DeFi, DePIN and RWA, including advertising networks, digital gift platforms and new liquidity staking tools. Participating teams include: 7k: The second largest transaction aggregator on Sui, providing an intelligent trading ecosystem. AdToken: Peer-to-peer advertising network, paying by advertising performance. CryptoMate: Stablecoin fintech operating system, supporting low-code and AI functions. Gifted: Digital gift platform, focusing on interactive experience. InsiDeX: DeFi analysis and trading platform on Sui chain. Lotus Finance: Decentralized market maker and high-frequency trading infrastructure. Nativerse: Non-custodial liquidity staking tool to help Bitcoin liquidity. Nemo Protocol: Sui native income trading platform. Pomerene: International trade DePIN network. Printr: Cross-chain tokenization and fundraising platform. Protocol Media Labs: Innovative news platform, supporting independent media. The twelfth team is in confidentiality mode and no information is disclosed.

The French romance of stablecoins?

The co-CEO of major South Korean entertainment company Cube Entertainment has sparked controversy for misleading investors into investing in the local cryptocurrency, reportedly by luring them into investing with false promises of returns.

On January 10, the Ministry of Public Security held a press conference, and the spokesperson of the Ministry of Public Security, Zhang Ming, introduced the issue of telecommunications network fraud involving China in northern Myanmar, which has attracted the attention of all walks of life. Since the deployment of a special task to combat telecommunications network fraud crimes involving China in northern Myanmar in July 2023, the Ministry of Public Security has relied on the China-Myanmar law enforcement and security cooperation mechanism to direct public security organs in Yunnan, Zhejiang and other places to jointly fight and fully carry out case investigation. By the end of 2024, a total of more than 53,000 Chinese suspects of fraud had been arrested, and the notorious "Four Families" criminal group in Kokang, northern Myanmar had been completely destroyed. The large-scale electronic fraud park in northern Myanmar near the border with China has been completely eradicated. The special work has achieved significant phased results, leading to a significant decline in the number of telecommunications network fraud cases and losses nationwide. At present, the cases of the "Four Families" criminal group have gradually entered the litigation stage.