PANews reported on January 12 that according to Jinshi, Gregory Faranello, head of US interest rate trading and strategy at AmeriVet Securities, said that this is a very reliable report that supports the market's expectations that the Federal Reserve will skip this month's meeting or even more meetings. This is also an important number at the time of the transition between the two governments. Now the focus turns to inflation.

PANews reported on January 12 that according to Bitcoinist, Bitcoin is currently trading in the range of approximately $94,174, basically stable above the key $92,000 support level. If it breaks through $95,000, it may become a catalyst for a new round of bullish energy, potentially paving the way for a rush to the psychologically important $100,000 level.

While miners continue to struggle with revenue constraints associated with Bitcoin prices below the $100,000 threshold, stocks of these publicly traded BTC mining companies are rising, suggesting a good start to the new year. According to Bitcoinminingstock.io data, the combined market capitalization of 31 publicly traded Bitcoin mining companies is $44.09 billion. Of these, 26 companies have witnessed an appreciation in their stock value relative to the U.S. dollar. Among the top ten companies by market capitalization, Riot Platforms (NASDAQ: RIOT) topped the list with a 17.53% increase by 2025. It was followed by Hut 8 (NASDAQ: HUT), which rose 14.2%.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, 4 days ago, a smart investor sold all SWARMS and made a profit of $8.42 million. In the past 20 hours, this smart investor spent another $7.84 million to buy 29.7 million SWARMS at an average price of $0.26.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a certain ai16z whale spent 1,328 SOL (US$250,000) yesterday to purchase 12.19 million AIOS (currently worth US$1.28 million), with a floating profit of over US$1 million.

According to the screenshot taken by X user @alexzuo4, Polymarket was defined as an illegal gambling website and blocked when logged in in Singapore. The page prompts: "You are trying to access an illegal gambling website hosted by an unlicensed gambling service provider. Singapore Pools is the only licensed online gambling operator in Singapore. Those convicted of gambling with unlicensed gambling service providers will be fined up to $10,000 or imprisoned for up to 6 months."

Nate Geraci, president of The ETF Store, released a forecast for 10 crypto-related ETFs in 2025, and believes that the Trump administration will adopt significantly different policies toward cryptocurrencies than the Biden administration, which may make 2025 the "first year of cryptocurrency ETFs."

CryptoSlam data shows that NFT transaction volume increased by 10.7% this week, from $132.7 million last week to $155.4 million. The increase in total transaction volume was accompanied by a significant decline in market participants, indicating that trading volume increased while buyers decreased. The number of NFT buyers fell by 81.79% to 122,806; the number of NFT sellers fell by 73.24% to 104,090; and the number of transactions rose slightly by 0.16% to 1,483,044.

President-elect Donald Trump's pick for U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will resign from Key Square Group and sell his stake in the partnership to avoid a conflict of interest, if confirmed by the Senate.

The Litecoin (LTC) official X account was briefly hacked, and the hacker promoted a fake Litecoin token based on the Solana network on the account, with a contract address and a scam link. The Litecoin team later announced that it had regained control of the account and deleted the post, saying that the attack was due to the compromise of a delegated account, which has now been removed.

According to Onchain Lens, an insider spent 4.92 SOL ($930) to buy 25.85 million AIOS on pump.fun. The insider has not sold any tokens yet, and the current value is more than $3.05 million.

The launch of the crypto-AI-focused Aiccelerate DAO (AICC), which is currently valued at around $150 million, has sparked community criticism. The project distributed 100% of its tokens to 245 advisors and insiders, some of whom sold their allocations after the tokens skyrocketed.

New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed a lawsuit alleging that a cryptocurrency scam ring stole at least $2.2 million from New Yorkers through fake remote work opportunities. James plans to serve the lawsuit on the alleged scammers by airdropping NFTs into wallets controlled by the scammers. “NFT’s service will provide the scammers with notice of the lawsuit, providing them with a link to the [Attorney General’s Office] website containing all the pleadings,” according to a press release from the Attorney General’s Office. “No other state or federal regulator has previously brought a lawsuit using this method.”