In his latest blog post, Arthur Hayes, co-founder of BitMEX, explained why he believes the crypto market will peak in mid-March and then experience a severe correction. The article stated that Bitcoin bottomed out in the third quarter of 2022 when the Fed's reverse repurchase tool peaked; Yellen adjusted the bond strategy and withdrew more than $2 trillion from RRP, injecting liquidity into the market and driving cryptocurrencies and stocks up. In the first quarter of 2025, the market is concerned about whether the liquidity of the US dollar can offset the slow implementation of Trump's policies. If liquidity is sufficient, increasing risk exposure will be a safe choice.

Michael Barr, the Federal Reserve's vice chairman for supervision, announced today that he will resign from the position. Barr will no longer serve as the third-ranking official on the Federal Reserve Board, but he intends to remain at the Fed until further notice. It is widely believed in the industry that Barr is one of the key factors in the failure of US banks to get involved in cryptocurrencies and related services.

Gemini Trust Co., the crypto exchange founded by the Winklevoss twins, has agreed to pay $5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The lawsuit claimed that Gemini misled the derivatives regulator when it tried to launch the first U.S.-regulated bitcoin futures contract. The settlement, disclosed in documents signed by both parties on Monday, avoids a trial that was scheduled to begin on Jan. 21, the day after Trump was inaugurated for the second time as U.S. president. Gemini neither admitted nor denied liability in the case.

U.S. stock market trends show that Nvidia's stock rose by more than 5%, and its market value surpassed Apple, ranking first.

Memecoin issuance platform Pump.fun has accounted for more than 70% of Solana network token issuance in the past two days and contributed more than 56% of decentralized exchange trading activities. In the past 24 hours alone, Pump.fun has issued more than 45,000 tokens, and its cumulative issuance for the whole year has exceeded 5.5 million.

- The Office of the Financial Committee of the Guangzhou Municipal Party Committee issued the "Action Plan for Further Promoting the Digital RMB Work in Guangzhou". The plan clearly states that by June 2025, the application of digital RMB in areas such as people's livelihood, sports, and consumption will be expanded; by the end of 2025, breakthroughs will be made in key innovation scenarios such as cross-border payments, port and shipping trade, and by the end of 2026, basic full coverage of specific areas will be achieved, forming a complete digital RMB ecosystem.

The average purchase price is $94,004 per Bitcoin. As of January 5, 2025, the company holds a total of 447,470 Bitcoins, with a total purchase cost of approximately $27.97 billion and an average purchase price of $62,503 per Bitcoin.

MoonPay, BitStaete, FinTech ZBD and Hidden Road have received a Crypto Asset Service Provider License (CASP) from the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM), which will allow them to operate across the 27 EU member states.

According to the latest weekly data from CoinShares, digital asset investment products saw a net outflow of $75 million last week. 2025 started strongly, with inflows of $585 million in the first three days.

The "Guidelines for the Construction of National Data Infrastructure" issued by the National Development and Reform Commission, the National Bureau of Statistics, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology clearly proposes to use blockchain technology, encryption technology, and smart contracts to build a trusted data circulation system. The guidelines encourage industries and localities to explore blockchain networks and privacy-protected computing platforms, enhance trust and security in the process of data circulation, promote the construction of a national integrated distributed data directory and digital identity system, and strengthen the traceability and trust of data asset certificates.

Agents cannot do without Crypto, because only Crypto can give Agents social attributes and social organization capabilities, allowing Agents to become truly intelligent life forms, that is, to become true "silicon-based people". The future development of Crypto is also inseparable from Agents. Because Agents can create countless "on-chain users" and "on-chain economies" for Crypto. Compared with carbon-based life living off the chain - humans, Crypto is more inseparable from silicon-based life that naturally lives on the chain - intelligent bodies (Agents)