After Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his resignation on Monday, prediction market users gave crypto-friendly politician and Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre an 89% chance of being elected Canada’s next prime minister.

Virtuals Protocol and Sovrun are forming a joint venture called “ReadyGamer” that will focus on the integration of AI and gaming.

Dennis Porter, co-founder of Satoshi Action Fund, said on X platform that as many as 20 "Strategic Bitcoin Reserve" bills will be proposed at the state level in the United States - there may be multiple bills in the same state - and legislators are competing fiercely to be the first in history. The vast majority of these bills will be based on the SBR (Strategic Bitcoin Reserve) model proposed by Satoshi Action Fund. Previously, Porter said that the 14th state in the United States is now ready to introduce "Strategic Bitcoin Reserve" legislation.

Calamos Investments is launching a Bitcoin ETF with 100% downside protection. According to information released by the company, the ETF, named CBOJ, will debut on the Chicago Board Options Exchange on January 22 and aims to address Bitcoin's volatility while providing growth potential.

In his latest blog post, Arthur Hayes, co-founder of BitMEX, explained why he believes the crypto market will peak in mid-March and then experience a severe correction. The article stated that Bitcoin bottomed out in the third quarter of 2022 when the Fed's reverse repurchase tool peaked; Yellen adjusted the bond strategy and withdrew more than $2 trillion from RRP, injecting liquidity into the market and driving cryptocurrencies and stocks up. In the first quarter of 2025, the market is concerned about whether the liquidity of the US dollar can offset the slow implementation of Trump's policies. If liquidity is sufficient, increasing risk exposure will be a safe choice.

Michael Barr, the Federal Reserve's vice chairman for supervision, announced today that he will resign from the position. Barr will no longer serve as the third-ranking official on the Federal Reserve Board, but he intends to remain at the Fed until further notice. It is widely believed in the industry that Barr is one of the key factors in the failure of US banks to get involved in cryptocurrencies and related services.

Gemini Trust Co., the crypto exchange founded by the Winklevoss twins, has agreed to pay $5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The lawsuit claimed that Gemini misled the derivatives regulator when it tried to launch the first U.S.-regulated bitcoin futures contract. The settlement, disclosed in documents signed by both parties on Monday, avoids a trial that was scheduled to begin on Jan. 21, the day after Trump was inaugurated for the second time as U.S. president. Gemini neither admitted nor denied liability in the case.

U.S. stock market trends show that Nvidia's stock rose by more than 5%, and its market value surpassed Apple, ranking first.

Memecoin issuance platform Pump.fun has accounted for more than 70% of Solana network token issuance in the past two days and contributed more than 56% of decentralized exchange trading activities. In the past 24 hours alone, Pump.fun has issued more than 45,000 tokens, and its cumulative issuance for the whole year has exceeded 5.5 million.

- The Office of the Financial Committee of the Guangzhou Municipal Party Committee issued the "Action Plan for Further Promoting the Digital RMB Work in Guangzhou". The plan clearly states that by June 2025, the application of digital RMB in areas such as people's livelihood, sports, and consumption will be expanded; by the end of 2025, breakthroughs will be made in key innovation scenarios such as cross-border payments, port and shipping trade, and by the end of 2026, basic full coverage of specific areas will be achieved, forming a complete digital RMB ecosystem.

The average purchase price is $94,004 per Bitcoin. As of January 5, 2025, the company holds a total of 447,470 Bitcoins, with a total purchase cost of approximately $27.97 billion and an average purchase price of $62,503 per Bitcoin.

MoonPay, BitStaete, FinTech ZBD and Hidden Road have received a Crypto Asset Service Provider License (CASP) from the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM), which will allow them to operate across the 27 EU member states.