OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced last week the technology products that will be released in 2025. They are: AGI (general artificial intelligence), Agents, a better GPT-4o upgrade, better memory storage, better context windows, "Grow up mode", deep research features, better Sora, and better personalization.

In a d/acc concept article published today, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin proposed setting up a global "soft pause button" to replace the dangerous artificial general intelligence (AGI) race. The function of this button is to "reduce the world's available computing power by about 90%-99% for 1-2 years at a critical moment, buying more preparation time for humans."

Aave Governance Forum recently proposed a proposal to peg USDe to Tether's USDT at a 1:1 ratio, which has raised concerns about potential conflicts of interest, especially given the difference in decoupling risks between the two. The proposal, which is currently in the comment stage, aims to replace the existing Chainlink USDe/USD oracle by hard-coding the USDe price to match the USDT price in the Aave pricing feed to ensure seamless integration and reduce disruptions caused by USDe price fluctuations.

Interactive Brokers is tightening its exposure to MicroStrategy (MSTR) by gradually increasing margin requirements to a minimum of 50% on January 13, 2025. This is a clear sign that they are preparing for the upcoming volatility.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin shared his latest views on d/acc (decentralized acceleration) in his latest blog post, pointing out that there is actually an important connection between d/acc and cryptocurrency. d/acc extends the underlying values of cryptocurrency, such as decentralization, censorship resistance, and open economic and social concepts, to other technical fields. As early adopters, cryptocurrency users' communities naturally become testing grounds for d/acc technology. The community attaches great importance to practice rather than empty talk, making the cryptocurrency community an ideal incubator for d/acc technology, especially in group-oriented fields such as information and biodefense. Cryptocurrency practitioners are good at working together. In addition, cryptocurrency technologies such as blockchain and zero-knowledge proofs can be applied to the construction of d/acc's financial, governance and social media infrastructure, and to protect privacy. Today, many prediction markets are based on blockchain and are becoming more complex, decentralized, and democratized. Collaboration on cryptocurrency-related technologies, such as formal verification, software and hardware security, and adversarial robust governance techniques, is both beneficial to cryptocurrency projects and key to the d/acc goal of enhancing the security and robustness of the Ethereum blockchain, wallets, and DAOs, while reducing the vulnerability of network attacks (including the threat of super-intelligent AI). In addition to these direct intersections, there is another critical common focus: funding mechanisms. This is another way that the cryptocurrency community can help d/acc: by carefully exploring these funding mechanisms and making them work in their own environment, preparing for broader adoption of broader open source science and technology.

PANews reported on January 5 that according to Caixin.com, 2024 will be a bull year for both Chinese stocks and bonds. Among global assets, virtual currencies and US technology stocks performed well. The strong dollar has put pressure on global exchange rates. In terms of global market performance in 2024, the first tier is mainly scarce assets: cocoa (NYBOT futures price), which has the highest increase, has increased by 169.36% throughout the year, Bitcoin (BTC) has increased by 133.83%, and FAAMNG (the six US technology giants: Facebook; Amazon; Apple; Microsoft; Netflix; Google) has increased by 60.77%.

PANews reported on January 5 that Nick Tomaino, founder of 1confirmation, posted on the X platform that it is likely that countries will soon compete to try to adopt MicroStrategy's "Bitcoin script": issuing government bonds of different maturities (5-year, 7-year, 10-year, etc.); using bonds to purchase cryptocurrencies; repaying loans on time according to the loan term.

PANews reported on January 5 that Michael Saylor, founder of MicroStrategy, released information related to Bitcoin Tracker for the ninth consecutive week, but this time it was different from the previous ones. He said: "Something on the website is not quite right." (Note: Every time MicroStrategy bought BTC, the website would mark a green dot on the corresponding date, while the BTC price trend line was blue.

PANews reported on January 5 that Token Unlocks data showed that tokens such as APT, MOVE, and KAS will be unlocked in large amounts next week, including: Movement (MOVE) will unlock about 50 million tokens at 8 pm Beijing time on January 9, which is 2.22% of the current circulation and worth about 53 million US dollars; io.net (IO) will unlock about 3.22 million tokens at 8 pm Beijing time on January 11, which is 2.50% of the current circulation and worth about 11.8 million US dollars; Kaspa (KAS) will unlock about 182 million tokens at 8 am Beijing time on January 6, which is 0.72% of the current circulation and worth about 22.7 million US dollars; Axie Infinity (AXS) will unlock about 815,000 tokens at 9:10 pm Beijing time on January 12, which is 0.52% of the current circulation and worth about 5.6 million US dollars; Aptos (APT) will unlock approximately 11.31 million tokens at 9:59 am Beijing time on January 11, accounting for 2.03% of the current circulation and worth approximately US$110 million; Ethena (ENA) will unlock approximately 12.86 million tokens at 3:00 pm Beijing time on January 8, accounting for 0.42% of the current circulation and worth approximately US$16.2 million; Optimism (OP) will unlock approximately 4.47 million tokens at 4:00 am Beijing time on January 10, accounting for 0.33% of the current circulation and worth approximately US$9.3 million; Delysium (AGI) will unlock approximately 33.59 million tokens at 8:00 am Beijing time on January 6, accounting for 2.45% of the current circulation and worth approximately US$5 million; Eigenlayer (EIGEN) will unlock approximately 1.29 million tokens at 3:00 am Beijing time on January 8, accounting for 0.61% of the current circulation and worth approximately US$5.2 million.

PANews reported on January 5 that according to the Federal Reserve's official website, in 2025 the Federal Reserve will welcome two "hawkish" voting members, one "dovish" voting member and one neutral voting member. Chicago Fed President Austan D. Goolsbee, Boston Fed President Susan M. Collins, St. Louis Fed President Alberto G. Musalem, and Kansas City Fed President Jeffrey R. Schmid will become new rotating voting members to replace the four rotating voting members in 2024: Richmond Fed President Thomas I. Barkin, Atlanta Fed President Raphael W. Bostic, San Francisco Fed President Mary C. Daly, and Cleveland Fed President Beth M. Hammack.

Profit of over $5.14 million on GOAT: The trader bought GOAT when its market cap was below $2 million, spent $62,000 to buy 11.1 million GOAT, and sold all GOAT for $5.2 million, making a profit of $5.14 million

The official X account of RWA lending protocol Centrifuge has been stolen. Please do not interact with its account and pay attention to the safety of your assets.