The Bitcoin Genesis Block was mined by Satoshi Nakamoto on the afternoon of January 3, 2009, with a block reward of 50 BTC. As of today, it has been 16 years since its creation, and the current total Bitcoin block height has reached 877,566.

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According to the announcement of Cango Inc., the company's bitcoin production in December 2024 reached 569.9, an increase of 56% from 363.9 in November. At the end of the month, the number of bitcoins held increased to 933.8, and no bitcoins were sold during the period. The company's average computing power reached 30.4 EH/s, a month-on-month increase of 2%.

Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon was charged with a new crime: money laundering conspiracy. This is a new charge in the superseding indictment unsealed by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on January 2. The indictment states that Do Kwon conspired with others to facilitate these financial transactions despite knowing that transactions exceeding $10,000 involved illegal proceeds.

Decentralized exchange Uniswap has announced that Uniswap version 4 (v4) will be “coming soon” in 2025, after failing to release in the third quarter of 2024 as originally planned. Notably, the announcement did not specify a release date, as the platform remained in beta throughout 2024.

Morgan Stanley's online stock trading unit E-Trade is exploring adding cryptocurrency trading in response to a more favorable cryptocurrency regulatory environment brought about by the incoming Donald Trump administration, two people familiar with the matter said. If Morgan Stanley goes ahead with the launch of the service, E-Trade will become one of the largest mainstream financial companies to offer cryptocurrency trading, putting the traditional brokerage giant in competition with Coinbase and other cryptocurrency exchanges.

The T3 Financial Crimes Countermeasures Unit (T3 FCU), jointly established by Tether, TRON and TRM Labs, has frozen a total of 100 million USDT used by illegal actors since its establishment in September 2024.

Binance announced that it has received approval from the Central Bank of Brazil to acquire Sim;paul, a locally licensed broker-dealer in the country, marking Binance’s 21st major milestone in global regulation and consolidating its position as the world’s most licensed cryptocurrency exchange.

This week, USDT's market value fell by nearly 1.1% to $137.24 billion, the largest drop since the FTX exchange crash in the second week of November 2022. In mid-December 2024, USDT's market value reached a record high of $140.72 billion.

Binance Futures will launch perpetual contracts with a maximum leverage of 75x at the following times: GRIFFAINUSDT, AI16ZUSDT, and ZEREBROUSDT.

DWF Labs said in a report on Thursday that Memecoin achieved significant growth in 2024, with its market value soaring from $20 billion in January to over $120 billion in December, an increase of 500%. DWF Labs' report highlights how crypto infrastructure has changed the way digital assets are created and distributed. This efficiency has led to a new era of rapid development, lowering the threshold for value creation and making the market more agile and responsive in all areas.

Binance officially announced that the number of registered users of Binance worldwide has exceeded 250 million, and stated that 1 billion users is the benchmark for large-scale adoption, and a quarter of it has been completed.

Telegram has released its first update of the year, adding a third-party-supported account verification method, new message search filters, and the ability to convert gifts into NFTs. Accounts verified by a third party will display a unique new logo instead of the traditional blue checkmark. Telegram pointed out in a blog post: "This decentralized additional verification platform can effectively prevent fraud, reduce misinformation, and set a new security benchmark for social platforms with a unique proactive solution."

Binance Alpha announced a new list of projects, including: swarms, TAOCAT, and degenai.