PANews reported on January 31 that according to Globenewswire, Canadian technology company Matador announced that it had increased its holdings of 3.38 BTC at a price of 500,000 Canadian dollars (347,022 US dollars), with an average price of 102,703 US dollars. After this acquisition, Matador currently holds about 64.69 bitcoins (and bitcoin equivalents) and plans to acquire another $350,000 worth of bitcoin in the near future. In addition, Matador announced that it also holds about 2.3 million Canadian dollars in cash reserves and 2 kilograms of physical gold (about 264,000 Canadian dollars), and revealed plans to combine the tangible value of physical gold with Bitcoin blockchain technology to launch digital gold products in the first quarter of 2025.