Coinbase International Station announced on the X platform that Coinbase International Station and Coinbase Advanced will add support for AIXBT, PNUT and VET perpetual futures contracts. The AIXBT-PERP, PNUT-PERP and VET-PERP markets are expected to open on or after 17:30 on January 23, 2025, Beijing time.

Emile Dubie, CEO and founder of multi-chain self-custodial wallet solution Ctrl Wallet, said in an interview that the company is for sale, and the sale process was initiated after the company received two M&A proposals at the end of last year. The wallet provider (formerly XDEFI) received an acquisition offer from a crypto protocol and a proposal to merge with a large decentralized exchange (DEX). Dubie added that the company subsequently hired investment bankers to organize the sale process and was advised by Imperii Partners. The auction process is ongoing, the deadline for bids is January 28, and the winning bidder is expected to be announced on January 31.

Nasdaq has filed a 19b-4 filing for Canary Capital’s Litecoin ETF.

Federal Reserve Board Governor Waller said, "I don't think we can rule out a rate cut in March; if the data performs well, there may be three or four rate cuts this year."

Grayscale Helium Trust (HNT) is registered in Delaware.

Puffer Finance, a re-staking protocol, released its Season 2 update, which introduced a community-driven reward system. The biggest change is that Puffer points will be on-chain, and the incentive mechanism will now be paid in the form of CARROT, an ERC-20 token used to reward activities such as staking, voting, and providing liquidity. Regarding CARROT token economics, the total supply of CARROT tokens is capped at 100 million, and will be dynamically issued every two weeks based on the governance indicators voted by the community, and rewards will be allocated based on the indicator support ratio.

Swiss state-owned bank PostFinance AG has expanded its digital asset offering by launching a staking service that allows Ethereum holders to earn passive income. PostFinance will add staking services for other tokens in the “near future,” according to a statement on Thursday.

Coinbase Resumes Bitcoin Loans for US Users with MORPHO: DEFILLAMA

U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis launches investigation into U.S. Marshals Service’s bitcoin sales.

RWA tokenization is just the first step. RWAfi is the real answer to capturing future growth.

SOL has regained its position as the fifth largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, surpassing BNB. Currently, SOL has a market capitalization of approximately $104.6 billion, while BNB has a market capitalization of approximately $104.3 billion.

Retail trading platform eToro has filed confidential documents with U.S. regulators, taking a major step toward an initial public offering (IPO) in New York this year that could value the company at more than $5 billion.

Dunamu, the operator of South Korean crypto exchange Upbit, has officially responded to recent reports that the platform may be subject to a suspension of business by the Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit (FIU) under the Financial Services Supervisory Service (FSS) of South Korea. Dunamu made it clear that the financial regulator's penalty plan has not yet been finalized and will clarify the issues raised through subsequent processes including the Sanctions Review Committee. At the same time, Dunamu also emphasized that even if the penalty is finally implemented, it will not affect the cryptocurrency trading services for existing and new users. The penalty will only limit new users to transfer virtual assets from the Upbit platform within a specific time.

Trump is "open to the idea of establishing a strategic reserve containing digital currencies created by the United States." The article wrote: "While many in the cryptocurrency community are cheering Trump's upcoming executive order in support of cryptocurrency, one proposal has caused more controversy: the establishment of an "America First" strategic reserve that would give priority to digital currencies created by the United States, such as Solana, USD Coin and Ripple. In recent weeks, Trump has met with the founders of these digital currencies, and according to sources, he is open to the proposal. Industry insiders who wish to remain anonymous said they are worried that the move could delegitimize efforts to promote Bitcoin."

The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has issued a circular to new virtual asset trading platforms seeking to be licensed: a refined licensing process and an enhanced external assessment. The circular focuses on the licensing plan and the enhanced external assessment for new corporations applying for a virtual asset trading platform license, and replaces the subject scope of the external assessment report published in June 2023. All virtual asset trading platform applicants who submit license applications after December 18, 2024, please see this circular. The SFC proactively communicates and strengthens communication with virtual asset trading platforms to provide guidance on the regulatory standards to be achieved in a direct and effective manner, which is the key to the fast-track licensing program. The SFC follows this approach for all virtual asset trading platform applicants seeking to be licensed. Under the refined licensing process, virtual asset trading platform applicants must engage external experts to conduct an external assessment after setting up all relevant systems and control measures. The SFC becomes an agreed participant in the external assessment of applications to be conducted by virtual asset trading platform applicants. The SFC has also optimized the external assessment to enhance its effectiveness. The enhanced external assessment will focus on ensuring that the policies, procedures, systems and control measures of virtual asset trading platform applicants are appropriately designed and implemented, and must be conducted in a direct attestation manner based on relevant standards and frameworks.