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.

According to @ai_9684xtpa monitoring, the three SWARMS whales have accumulated floating profits of US$21.573 million. The costs and floating profits of the whales are summarized as follows.

SlowMist founder Yu Xian tweeted that Solv Protocol's official X account has been stolen, please do not click on suspicious links.

JPMorgan Chase's global market strategists said in a report that with the help of Trump's victory, 2024 is a key year for digital assets, with a record $78 billion expected to enter the crypto market. This capital inflow includes several key parts: $27 billion in net inflows from crypto funds, $14 billion invested in CME futures, $14 billion raised by crypto venture capital funds, $22 billion in Bitcoin purchased by MicroStrategy, and another $1 billion in Bitcoin purchased by Bitcoin miners. In other words, MicroStrategy's Bitcoin purchases alone accounted for 28% of last year's record crypto market capital inflows.

NFT sales on the Ethereum network fell 25.72% to $56 million, but the number of buyers increased 14.35% to 72,241. NFT sales on the Bitcoin network rose against the trend, with sales rising 8.38% to $30.3 million, attracting 67,423 buyers, up 13.68% from the previous week. Mythos Chain climbed to third place with sales of $11.8 million, up 3.63%. Although the Solana network had the largest number of buyers, reaching 234,220, sales fell 57.91% to $9.4 million, falling to fourth place.

In 2024, the value of transactions settled through the Bitcoin network will exceed $19 trillion, more than double the $8.7 trillion settled by the network in 2023, reversing a two-year trend of declining transaction volumes since 2021. According to data from Pierre Rochard, vice president of research at mining company Riot Platforms, Bitcoin transaction volume peaked at about $47 trillion during the 2021 bull run and fell sharply in 2022 and 2023.

"Gold's rise over the past year has far exceeded the moves suggested by changes in the dollar and real bond yields, likely reflecting the reemergence of this 'depreciation trade,'" JPMorgan analyst Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou wrote in a report. They added that at the same time, record capital inflows into crypto markets in 2024 suggest that Bitcoin is also becoming a "more important component" of investors' portfolios.

PANews reported on January 4 that this week, the largest ETF tracking Bitcoin, the darling of global speculators, experienced the worst outflow of funds in history, the volatility index of U.S. Treasury bonds quietly rose, and U.S. stocks experienced the worst year-end decline on record. There is no sign of panic in the market, but the market trend does indicate a vigilance that has been basically non-existent in the past 12 months, at least in the field of risky assets.