Shaw, founder of ai16z, posted on the social platform x that Eliza v2 is currently being developed in a private repository, and some users have been granted access. After perfecting the details, it will be merged back into the main repository and begin migrating all clients and plugins. Due to the need for extensive testing and community feedback, it is expected to replace the current branch in about 2 months. Unlike the v1 version, which was mainly developed by individuals, the core version of v2 is developed jointly by internal and external teams.

according to CryptoQuant data, the average unrealized profit rate of current spot Bitcoin ETF holders is 17%. This data reflects that ETF investors are overall profitable in the current market stage.

Sam Altman, founder of OpenAI, stated in a post that they will release a "new open-source weight language model" with reasoning capabilities in the coming months, but first they hope to collect feedback on "how to maximize its utility". An open-source weight language model refers to a model that can be publicly used, downloaded, modified, or deployed. Although not as open as a fully open-source model, it is a significant shift compared to the fully closed GPT-3 and GPT-4. OpenAI partially open-sourced the GPT-2 model in February 2019, and completed full open-sourcing in November of the same year. On February 12 of this year, Sam Altman stated that the company plans to release GPT-4.5 and GPT-5 in the coming weeks or months.

On January 16th, it was announced that Avalon Labs, an issuer of stablecoins for Bitcoin, has added support for the uniBTC asset. Users can use it as collateral to borrow other assets or use uniBTC for leveraged re-collateralization.

global fund manager survey of Bank of America: investors have a bearish attitude towards the US dollar, the largest scale in 20 years.

according to the official announcement of Binance, in order to better adapt to market demand, Binance C2C will adjust the T+1 withdrawal plan starting from April 1, 2025: Binance will add a T+0 withdrawal limit of 1000 US dollars equivalent assets to all users on the basis of the original T+1 withdrawal mechanism. If there are no assets in your Binance account, no matter how much you buy on that day, you can only withdraw up to 1000 US dollars equivalent assets on the day of purchase, and the remaining assets can only be withdrawn 24 hours after the order completion time.

On January 16th, according to official sources, Megabit officially launched the CAKE USDT perpetual contract with a maximum leverage of 75x at 20:00 (UTC+8).

 Lookonchain monitoring shows that a whale spent $1.84 million (approximately 1.84 million USDC) in the past two days to purchase 4.45 million ARC tokens at a price of $0.41 per token.

World Gold Council: Survey shows that 73% of the central banks surveyed believe that the proportion of the US dollar in global reserves will "moderately decline" or "significantly decline" in the next five years. 

study by Fidelity Digital Assets shows that the Bitcoin bull market is not over yet, as the "acceleration phase" has not reached its peak. A report from Fidelity Digital Assets questions whether the price of Bitcoin has already experienced a cyclical "peak", or whether Bitcoin is on the edge of another "acceleration phase".

Sui's ecological liquidity pledge agreement Haedal Protocol announced that it will conduct a TGE in April, with the token name being HAEDAL. In January 2025, Haedal completed its seed round financing, with participation from the Sui Foundation, among others.

 WBTC recently released its annual review, stating that in 2024, WBTC's market capitalization reached a peak of $14.3 billion (December 18), with a daily transaction volume exceeding $1.01 billion (December 5), and a daily transaction count of 1.0299 million, accounting for 75.8% of the Ethereum Bitcoin token market. Its transaction fees are as low as $0.03, and more than 10 new projects have been added, expanding to seven new chains such as Base and zkSync, achieving a multi-chain ecological layout. Since its launch in 2019, WBTC has maintained zero security incidents and has been a leading Bitcoin tokenized asset in the DeFi ecosystem. In 2025, it will continue to focus on promoting cross-chain interoperability and DeFi innovation applications.

 according to CBS reporter of the United States, President Trump hopes to completely resolve the nuclear issue with Iran.

reported by Cryptonews, the largest bitcoin mining hotspot in Russia, Irkutsk Oblast, may ban all cryptocurrency mining activities year-round starting from April 1. The ban will only apply to the southern region of Irkutsk Oblast in Siberia, but it may last until mid-2031.

 Scam Sniffer issued an alert last December about Telegram malware scams, but said that since then, criminals have begun using various means to lure new victims. The number of these scams has now exceeded traditional phishing - growing by 2,000% since November.

on January 16th that according to @EmberCN monitoring, a whale/institutional address transferred 20,000 Ethereum (approximately $67.59 million) to Kraken 30 minutes ago.

according to the official announcement, OKX has officially launched a fully compliant centralized cryptocurrency trading platform in Germany and Poland, where German or Polish users can trade over 270 cryptocurrencies, including more than 60 cryptocurrencies paired with the Euro.

just days after South Carolina withdrew its lawsuit against the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, Kentucky became the third state to withdraw such lawsuits after Vermont. The Kentucky financial regulatory agency submitted a joint dismissal filing on Monday, officially ending the legal action against Coinbase's custody services. The service was previously accused of violating state securities laws.

On January 16th, Abcoin exchange officially launched the ai16z token. As an important token in the AI Agent field, ai16z promotes technological innovation and leads investment opportunities in the AI field by managing funds through AI Agent.