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According to the official announcement from OneBullEx, the member day points redemption event on the 11th of each month has officially started, with a prize pool of up to 300,000 USDT for this member day. During the event, eligible users can redeem OBE Points for USDT at a 1:1 ratio, realizing the value of platform points and converting user activity into real rewards.It is reported that OneBullEx has established the 11th of each month as a fixed member day, providing users with stable rights and participation paths through point redemption, task incentives, and community interaction. Previously, the official stated that the platform will continue to upgrade its long-term operations around the member day mechanism, based on core rights such as the 1:1 redemption of OBE points for USDT, further improving the task system and reward mechanism, making member day an important node for users to continuously participate and realize value, and continuously enhancing user participation experience and community activity.

According to Jin Shi citing CCTV News, a representative of the Expert Assembly in Mazandaran Province, Iran, stated that the members of the Expert Assembly have fulfilled their duties, and the successor to Khamenei's legacy will be officially announced soon.He pointed out that the Expert Assembly has never faced such immense pressure as it does now, with hostile forces attempting to force the assembly to abandon its selected candidate, but the members have resisted external interference.

According to Fortune magazine, the hedge fund Situational Awareness, founded by former OpenAI researcher and former FTX Future Fund charity team member Leopold Aschenbrenner, is building positions in data infrastructure and cryptocurrency mining companies. The fund previously focused on artificial general intelligence (AGI), and as more crypto mining companies are being repurposed for AI workloads, the fund has increased its investments in this area.Its new or increased positions include: fuel cell power generation company Bloom Energy (currently the fund's largest single holding), AI cloud infrastructure provider CoreWeave, and another large cryptocurrency mining company, Cipher Mining.

Hyperliquid co-founder iliensinc posted on social media that 173,000 HYPE tokens from Hyperliquid Lans will be unstaked today and distributed to team members on March 6.

According to Jinshi Data, U.S. President Trump stated that the "Insider Trading Prohibition Act" should be passed immediately to ensure that members of Congress cannot profit from insider information.

Circle announced that it has joined the Agent ic AI Foundation, planning to promote open standards and interoperable infrastructure for AI Agents. The Agent ic AI Foundation (AAIF) announced the addition of 18 Gold members and 79 Silver members, bringing the total membership to 146, and appointed AWS Director of Developer Experience David Nalley as the Chair of the Governance Committee.

The Polymarket team member Mustafa liked the tweet "Polymarket will release an airdrop in the next 6 months" this morning.

Quantoz holds an electronic money institution license issued by the Dutch central bank. The three electronic money tokens it issues, USDQ, EURQ, and EURD, are all subject to the electronic money regulations of the European Economic Area. The reserves are stored in a dedicated account under a bankruptcy-remote fund structure at a 1:1 ratio and must additionally maintain at least a 2% reserve buffer on the balance sheet.

The Polymarket team member shampoo accused competitor Kalshi on social media of inflating its esports trading volume through data manipulation. shampoo stated that the platform artificially increased its trading volume by approximately $1.7 billion by adding a generalized "esports" category, while actual data shows its esports trading volume is only about $63 million, less than 10% of Polymarket's esports trading volume.Additionally, Kalshi also referred to the CS market as both CS:GO and CS2 for double counting.shampoo mentioned on social media that users can verify this situation themselves by checking the API data in the network requests.

According to market news, a senior member of the UAE royal family secretly purchased a 49% stake in Trump’s cryptocurrency project World Liberty Financial for $500 million.

Ethena Labs Research proposes that before next week's election, ENA token holders vote to reduce the size of the risk committee from 5 voting members to 3. Ethena Labs Research believes that reducing the number of members will help clarify responsibilities, covering specific areas such as DeFi lending exposure, reserve funds and redemption requests, protocol partner integration, and collateral assets.In addition, reducing the number of members will allow the Ethena Foundation to increase member compensation, encouraging them to invest more resources. If the proposal passes, ENA and sENA holders will elect 3 voting members, with Ethena Labs Research serving as an advisory non-voting member; if it does not pass, 5 members will still be elected as originally planned.

BitcoinTreasuries.NET posted on platform X that MicroStrategy board member Jane Dietze purchased 1,000 shares of STRC perpetual preferred stock at a price of $99.48, totaling $99,485.

According to the tracking data from the Web3 asset data platform RootData X, in the past 7 days, the membership-based project launch platform Bags has gained the most new followers from top figures on X (Twitter). New influential figures on X who have followed this project include anonymous Twitter KOL Inversebrah (@inversebrah), cryptocurrency trader The Crypto Dog (@TheCryptoDog), and DeFi analyst Ignas (@DefiIgnas).

According to BitcoinTreasuries.NET (@BTCtreasuries), Strategy board member Carl Rickertsen has purchased 5,000 shares of MSTR stock at a price of $155.88 per share, for a total transaction amount of $779,395.

The chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Rostin Behnam, announced the establishment of a new Innovation Advisory Committee on Monday, aimed at providing guidance for the regulation of emerging technologies such as blockchain and artificial intelligence.Behnam stated that the Innovation Advisory Committee will replace the previous Technology Advisory Committee and is dedicated to engaging top opinion leaders from the cryptocurrency industry in the CFTC's regulatory process to develop pragmatic and forward-looking market regulation policies. The new committee will provide advice to the CFTC on aspects such as "the commercial operation, economic benefits, and practical considerations of emerging financial products, platforms, and business models," thereby "establishing clear development rules for a golden era of the U.S. financial markets." Behnam will serve as the initiator of the new committee and plans to nominate 12 CEO Innovation Council members as founding members.The selected members include several leading figures in the cryptocurrency space: Gemini co-founder Tyler Winklevoss, Polymarket founder Shayne Coplan, prediction market platform Kalshi founder Tarek Mansour, Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek, and Kraken co-founder Arjun Sethi. Executives from traditional financial institutions are also included: Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) CEO Jeff Sprecher, Cboe Global Markets CEO David Howson, and Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman.

According to CoinDesk, Mike Selig, the new chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), issued a statement on Monday announcing that the agency is currently restructuring its advisory panel and reestablishing an innovation committee, which will initially consist of a group of cryptocurrency industry insiders.Former acting chair Caroline Pham quickly assembled a team of CEOs focused on innovative financial technology during her last days in office. Just a month after the announcement of the innovation committee, Selig confirmed the individuals on this list as the "founding members" of the innovation advisory committee. This means that the committee's initial members will include executives from cryptocurrency companies such as Gemini, Kraken, Bitnomial, Crypto.com, and Bullish, as well as executives from traditional firms like Nasdaq, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the Intercontinental Exchange, and Cboe Global Markets.The innovation committee will assist regulators in developing these new rules based on the original technical advisory committee. This committee will be one of five such external committees aimed at helping guide the agency's work in members' areas of expertise. The agency is expected to become one of the main cryptocurrency regulators in the U.S. and is currently inviting the public to submit additional member candidates and suggested topics for review by the end of January.

The scene of the repatriation of Chen Zhi, the head of the Prince Group, has been exposed. On January 7, the Ministry of Public Security of China dispatched a working group to successfully escort Chen Zhi (a Chinese national), the leader of a major cross-border gambling and fraud crime group, back to China from Phnom Penh, Cambodia.Investigations revealed that Chen Zhi's criminal group is suspected of multiple crimes, including operating casinos, fraud, illegal business operations, and concealing and disguising criminal proceeds. Chen Zhi has currently been subjected to compulsory measures in accordance with the law, and related cases are under further investigation. A relevant official from the Ministry of Public Security of China stated that the police will soon publicly announce the wanted list of the first batch of core members of Chen Zhi's criminal group and will resolutely capture the fugitives.Chen Zhi, the founder of the Cambodian telecom fraud crime group "Prince Group," was born on December 16, 1987, in Lianjiang County, Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, China. He dropped out of school after completing the second year of junior high and previously worked in internet-related jobs in China. In 2011, he went to Cambodia to invest in real estate and obtained Cambodian nationality through investment immigration in 2014 (later renouncing his Chinese nationality). In 2015, he founded Prince Holding Group (referred to as Prince Group), suspected of operating a large multinational fraud gang. In mid-October 2025, the United States and the United Kingdom announced lawsuits against Chen Zhi and confiscated approximately $15 billion worth of Bitcoin that he held.

According to official news, the decentralized AI smart network DGrid AI will officially launch its "Genesis Membership Program" on January 1, 2026, at 8:00 AM. Data shows that the number of subscribed members has exceeded 5,000 within 24 hours.The DGrid AI "Genesis Membership Program" aims to recruit the first batch of network co-builders. Users can subscribe through the official website to obtain Genesis Membership status and unlock multiple core benefits, including high quotas for AI model calls and API rights, dual token rewards, and priority in ecological co-construction. Currently, the dual token reward airdrop for DGrid Genesis Members has been launched, and subscribing to the Genesis Membership will immediately unlock $DGAI and $IOTX dual token rewards.DGrid AI is a decentralized AI smart network designed to provide low-cost, highly available, and verifiable decentralized AI capabilities for Web3 developers and AI applications. It is reported that DGrid AI has previously received seed round investment support from several institutions, including Waterdrip Capital, IoTeX, Zenith Capital, Paramita VC, and Catcher VC. The launch of the Genesis Membership marks the official entry of the DGrid network into a new phase of community-driven and value-sharing.

According to Cointelegraph, sources reveal that members of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee are expected to begin reviewing the digital asset market structure bill in the second week of January. Additionally, the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee is also reviewing its version of the market structure bill, which will then be submitted for a vote by the full Senate.

The minutes of the Bank of Japan's October policy meeting show that one committee member stated that inflation expectations among businesses and households have reached 2%, and there is a need to be vigilant about the risk of price increases. One member mentioned that fiscal policy is an important factor in setting economic and price forecasts.A few members pointed out that core inflation is gradually accelerating but has not yet reached 2%. One member indicated that Japan is expected to achieve the Bank of Japan's price target by next spring, at which point wage growth may be needed to meet the target.Several members noted that the depreciation of the yen could lead to overshooting inflation by pushing up import prices.