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According to Jinshi News, Damian Boey, portfolio strategist at Wilson Asset Management, stated that Waller tends to favor lowering interest rates but hopes the Federal Reserve will reduce the size of its balance sheet to achieve rate cuts.The market is reacting by contemplating what the world will look like if the Federal Reserve's balance sheet shrinks. Once discussions about withdrawing support begin, assets such as gold, cryptocurrencies, and bonds will be sold off.

The Hong Kong Legislative Council's Financial Affairs Committee announced that a briefing will be held on January 30, with the Hong Kong Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau presenting policy measures. Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury, Christopher Hui, and Deputy Secretary, Chan Ho-lam, will attend.Relevant documents state: In order to promote the sustainable and healthy development of the digital asset industry in Hong Kong and further consolidate Hong Kong's position as an international financial center, legislative proposals will be submitted to the Legislative Council this year to implement revisions related to the crypto asset reporting framework and common reporting standards established by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The goal is to automatically exchange tax information related to crypto asset transactions with other tax jurisdictions starting in 2028, in order to combat cross-border tax evasion and enhance international tax transparency. Public opinions are currently being collected on the legislative proposals.

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government today launched a public consultation on the implementation of the OECD's framework for the declaration of crypto assets and the amendments related to the Common Reporting Standard in Hong Kong.The OECD announced the declaration framework in 2023, which requires partner tax jurisdictions to automatically exchange tax information related to crypto asset transactions annually, as well as to incorporate new digital financial products and optimized declaration and due diligence rules into the Common Reporting Standard. The Hong Kong government plans to complete the necessary local legislative amendments within the next year, aiming to automatically exchange tax information related to crypto asset transactions with relevant partner tax jurisdictions starting in 2028, and to implement the newly revised Common Reporting Standard from 2029. Hong Kong will automatically exchange tax information with suitable partners on a reciprocal basis, provided that the partners meet standards related to the confidentiality and security of the information. The public is invited to submit comments on the various proposals by February 6, 2026.

According to Forbes, 29-year-old Lopes Lara has just become the youngest self-made female billionaire in the world, surpassing 31-year-old Lucy Guo, co-founder of Scale AI, who held the title after taking it from Taylor Swift in April this year.The report states that Lopes Lara and Kalshi co-founder Mansour both grew up in Lebanon and met at MIT. They belong to the same international student circle, and their elective courses were quite similar, both majoring in computer science. In 2018, they both interned at Five Rings Capital in New York, which brought them closer together. One night, while returning to their internship apartment in the Financial District, they suddenly came up with the idea of starting a prediction market. Thus, Kalshi was born.Previously, it was reported that Kalshi completed a $1 billion funding round at a valuation of $11 billion. This round was led by Paradigm, with other investors including Sequoia Capital, a16z, and Y Combinator.

The Ethereum Foundation posted on the X platform, stating that the account abstraction team, along with Vitalik Buterin, has released the "Trustless Manifesto" and placed it on-chain. The original intention of Ethereum was not to enhance financial efficiency, but to enable people to collaborate without the need for trusted intermediaries. This manifesto clearly articulates a series of related values, including trustless neutrality, self-custody, verifiability, and a resistance to "convenient" centralized models.The manifesto is fully stored on-chain in the form of a smart contract and provides a single operation: pledge(). This contract has no owner, no administrator, and the text is immutable, with all operations relying on the Ethereum network. When the pledge() operation is called, the system will record the caller's address and the timestamp of the first pledge, and emit a public Pledged(address, timestamp) event. This operation only consumes gas fees and does not provide any form of incentives such as airdrops, points, or early access. If relevant parties make a pledge, it indicates their concern for the importance of user self-authorized operations, their desire for their protocols not to rely on private servers and opaque relayers, and their willingness to bear the actual costs to maintain Ethereum's trustless characteristics.

ChainCatcher news, Solara goes live on Bybit Alpha. According to current data from Bybit Alpha, the meme token officially released by Solana with the Chinese name "索拉拉" has surged by up to 44% after going live on Bybit Alpha, with a current price of $0.014.It is reported that Bybit users can quickly trade on Alpha just by logging in, without the need to set up another wallet, and can track the market trends of popular tokens in real-time.

ChainCatcher message, Solana co-founder toly (Anatoly Yakovenko) forwarded a tweet from SNS.sol and commented: "solara.sol"

ChainCatcher message, GMGN market shows that the Solana ecosystem meme coin "Solara" has surged past 10 million dollars, with a 1H increase of 105%, currently priced at 0.0098 USDT.

ChainCatcher news, according to crypto journalist Eleanor Terrett on the X platform, U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres has denied the joint motion submitted by Ripple and the SEC, which requested the court to issue a "guiding ruling." The ruling was originally intended to provide legal direction for potential subsequent proceedings for both parties, but has now been rejected.

ChainCatcher news, according to Jinshi Data, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government today (26th) issued the "Hong Kong Digital Asset Development Policy Declaration 2.0," reiterating its commitment to making Hong Kong a global innovation center in the digital asset field. The new policy declaration is based on the initiatives proposed in the first policy declaration issued in October 2022.Financial Secretary Paul Chan stated that the "Policy Declaration 2.0" demonstrates the SAR government's vision for the development of digital assets and showcases the practical applications of tokenization, promoting the diversification of application scenarios. By combining prudent regulation with encouragement of market innovation, it aims to build a more vibrant digital asset ecosystem that integrates with the real economy and social life, bringing benefits to the economy and society while consolidating Hong Kong's leading position as an international financial center.

ChainCatcher news, according to Iran's semi-official Tasnim News Agency, Iran has launched a "Victory Declaration" missile operation against U.S. bases in Iraq and Qatar.In addition, according to CGTN Europe, Israel estimates that Iran has so far fired 10 missiles at the U.S. base in Qatar. (Jinshi)

VhainCatcher news, according to Yahoo Finance, the Acting Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury, Chen Haolian, stated that a second policy declaration regarding the development of virtual assets will be launched within this year. The next step will explore how to combine Hong Kong's traditional financial advantages with technological cooperation and innovation in virtual assets, utilizing virtual assets to enhance the security and flexibility of the local real economy, as well as encouraging local and international enterprises to explore innovative applications of virtual assets.

ChainCatcher news, according to AFP: Iran defines the Israeli attack as a "declaration of war." (Jinshi)

ChainCatcher news, the Financial Secretary of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Paul Chan, stated at the 2025 Caixin Summer Summit that Hong Kong has launched a licensing system for digital asset trading platforms and a licensing system for stablecoins, and is advancing regulatory arrangements for custody and over-the-counter trading. "This month, we will publish the second policy declaration regarding the development of digital assets in Hong Kong, focusing on the integration of financial services and innovation, and expanding the application scenarios of digital assets," (Shanghai Securities Journal)