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)

According to the January 2025 Market Insights report released by Binance Research, the crypto market capitalization soared to an all-time high of $3.91 trillion in December 2024, driven by regulatory optimism, institutional adoption and Bitcoin hitting an all-time high of $108,000. However, as the Federal Reserve reduced its 2025 rate cut plan from four to two, the market pulled back in late December, with the market value evaporating by more than $0.5 trillion. Bitcoin's market value increased by about 123.4% throughout the year, becoming the world's seventh-largest asset, surpassing Saudi Aramco and silver, and second only to Nvidia's performance. The main drivers include the approval of spot ETFs, Bitcoin halving, changes in monetary policy, and more supportive regulatory expectations for cryptocurrencies. In addition, Ethena's USDe market value has reached $5.9 billion, surpassing DAI to become the third largest stablecoin, thanks to its high yield and application as Aave collateral. Decentralized spot and perpetual contract trading volumes reached record highs of $326 billion and $356 billion respectively in December, while decentralized perpetual trading volumes grew by more than 370% throughout the year, mainly driven by Hyperliquid. TVL in the DeFi field also hit new highs, with lending protocols and liquid pledge protocols reaching $55 billion and $71 billion respectively. AI agents have gradually become an emerging hot spot in the crypto field, with the market value of related tokens reaching billions of dollars and an average daily exposure of about 100,000 times. Representative projects include Virtuals and ai16z's Eliza framework, as well as individual agents aixbt, etc.

According to Binance’s announcement, Solv Protocol MegaDrop event is now open. It is reported that Binance will list SOLV at 18:00 on January 17 and open SOLV/USDT, SOLV/BNB, SOLV/FDUSD and SOLV/TRY trading pairs, and mark SOLV with the “seed” tag. This Megadrop reward pool contains 588 million SOLV, accounting for 7% of the Genesis token supply. Earlier news, Binance Megadrop launched Solv Protocol (SOLV).