according to the updated data on the official website of the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong, BGE's application for a virtual asset trading platform license submitted to the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong was approved on June 17th, becoming the eleventh institution in Hong Kong to obtain a virtual asset trading platform license.

American AI and cryptocurrency czar David Sacks tweeted, "Before the management started, I had sold all of his cryptocurrencies (including BTC, ETH, and SOL)."

On January 14th, the AIOS Foundation announced that it has completed the destruction of tokens held in its wallet. Previously, the AIOS Foundation issued a statement stating that in order to further enhance the transparency and fairness of the AIOS community, and to promote the AIOS project with the highest standards of integrity, it will destroy all AIOS tokens held by the foundation within the next 24 hours. Two addresses held by the foundation held 64.03% and 2.58% of the AIOS tokens respectively.

 The Data Nerd has monitored that Amber Group deposited 2.2 million VIRTUAL coins with a value of approximately 5.19 million US dollars to Gate 9 hours ago. On the other hand, 2 whales accumulated a total of 1.17 million VIRTUAL coins (approximately 3.03 million US dollars) from Gate 2 hours ago.

According to The Data Nerd monitoring, a whale withdrew 669 MKR (about $1.02 million) 30 minutes ago. The address has withdrawn a total of 1397 MKR in the past 24 hours. Two years ago, the address accumulated a total of 3234 MKR, with an average price of $757.

According to TraderT monitoring, the net outflow of the US spot Bitcoin ETF was $266.31 million yesterday.

Charles Hoskinson, the founder of Cardano, revealed that Cardano is discussing the possibility of integrating Ripple's new stablecoin, RLUSD. The aim is to strengthen Cardano's DeFi ecosystem and provide wider opportunities for the use of RLUSD.

 Layer 1 blockchain project Defx has completed a $2.5 million seed round of financing, with participation from Pantera Capital, CMT Digital, gumi Cryptos Capital (gCC), Baboon VC, CoinShares Ventures, Robot Ventures, and Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal. The new funds are intended to support the construction of a decentralized exchange optimized for perpetual contract trading.

According to JPMorgan's estimate, ETPs for XRP and SOL may attract nearly $15 billion in net inflows. Matthew Sigel, Director of Digital Asset Research at VanEck, said the forecast takes into account the market capitalization and ETP traffic performance of BTC and ETH.

Gryphon, a bitcoin mining company listed on NASDAQ, announced that its stock price rose by 20% on Friday after acquiring an 850-acre industrial site powered by natural gas from Canadian oil and gas company Captus Generation for $18.7 million.

former Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Richard Clarida warned that the battle against inflation is not over. Since January, inflation data has indeed been better than expected, but the combined effects of inventory forward movement and additional tariffs have not yet fully materialized. Richard Clarida pointed out that the actual tariff rate faced by American consumers in June has reached 15.6%, the highest since 1937, which may cause inflation to rise to the 3% range in the short term. The Fed's previous set of forecasts was released at a meeting in March this year, when the "liberation day" tariffs had not yet shocked the market and global trading partners.

According to an official announcement, the Japanese listed company Metaplanet announced today that it has increased its holding of 156 bitcoins, bringing its bitcoin holdings to 2391 coins.

On January 14th, according to an announcement by the Eigen Foundation, the Protocol Council has officially launched and the Foundation has completed the final locked transaction to transfer control to the council. The Protocol Council is the core decision-making body for EigenLayer governance, responsible for reviewing and approving EigenLayer Improvement Proposals (ELIPs) to ensure all protocol upgrades meet security requirements and support the sustainable development of the ecosystem. Council members are composed of diverse representatives from the Eigen ecosystem, aiming to promote decentralized governance of the protocol.

 in a public letter on January 12th, Warren asked incoming Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent if the Treasury Department should have more power to sanction the cryptocurrency industry. Warren wrote, "Should the Anti-Money Laundering/Counter-Terrorism Financing and Sanctions Programs include a well-designed, risk-based provision to prevent money laundering or terrorist financing involving digital assets?" He is about to become the chief Democrat on the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee.

According to OnchainLens monitoring, a giant whale cleared its holdings of PEPE and BEAM in exchange for 6.25 million DAI, resulting in a total loss of 14.14 million US dollars.

Golden Finance reported that, according to Berachain staff member Nezha (@leslienomad), "The information that 10 million BERA tokens will be unlocked this week is not true. In fact, 10 million tokens correspond to 2% of the total supply, which is all the airdropped coins for Boyco deposits. These coins will be distributed to depositors all at once in early May."

According to official sources, Astar Network has announced that Astar zkEVM will be migrated to Soneium L2. Liquidity providers will need to withdraw assets and liquidity from DEX/DeFi projects on Astar zkEVM and transfer them to Ethereum using Astar Portal's native cross-chain bridge for ETH, DAI, MATIC, USDC, USDT, WBTC, or wsETH. vASTR holders will need to cancel their pledges through Omni and once the pledge period ends, ASTR tokens will automatically be transferred to Astar zkEVM. Other token projects should pay attention to relevant migration announcements. NFT holders do not need to take any action.

 Luo Zhuojian, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and a consulting expert of the Ministry of Finance, called for the active development of stablecoins to maintain Hong Kong's financial center advantages. He pointed out that Hong Kong can cooperate with financial institutions in other regions in the application of stablecoins, explore their potential in international settlement and cross-border application models, and also encourage traditional financial institutions, payment platforms, and technology companies to cooperate in promoting the application of stablecoins. In addition to cross-border and payment, stablecoins can also be used in fundraising and asset management, further expanding their application scope. In addition, it is necessary to expand the participation scope of the sandbox, relax the application conditions, and allow more start-ups and innovative projects to test new products in a low-risk environment.