According to official announcements, South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb will launch ARDR and QKC on the Korean won market.

Odaily Planet Daily News: Christopher Wong, a global foreign exchange strategist at OCBC Bank, stated in a research report that the market has almost fully priced in the expectation of the Bank of Japan raising interest rates by 25 basis points on Friday. From a market perspective, the risk lies in dovish interest rate hikes, as this may indicate that the decline of the US dollar against the Japanese yen USD/JPY may be more constrained. Additionally, there is a risk that the Bank of Japan may be inclined not to make premature commitments to future guidance to avoid unnecessary yen strength undermining any progress However, OCBC Bank still expects the US dollar/Japanese yen to show a downward trend based on the Federal Reserve's interest rate cut cycle and the Bank of Japan's further room for policy normalization. (Golden Ten)

On January 23rd, according to The Information, OpenAI and SoftBank each pledged to invest $19 billion in the Stargate data center joint venture project, with OpenAI actually holding a 40% stake in the joint venture. BlockBeats previously reported that US President Trump announced that OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle will establish a joint venture called Stargate, planning to receive $500 billion in investment over the next four years to build new artificial intelligence infrastructure for OpenAI in the United States. OpenAI will immediately begin deploying $100 billion. This infrastructure will ensure the United States' leadership in the field of artificial intelligence, create hundreds of thousands of American jobs, and bring enormous economic benefits to the world. Musk once commented on OpenAI's Stargate plan, stating that 'they actually don't have the funding'.

Odaily Planet Daily News: Zach Rynes, a well-known Chainlink community contributor with 179000 followers on X, announced in an article that he has seriously considered for the first time switching a large portion of his ETH holdings to SOL. Rynes explained that he still believes in ETH and the broader EVM ecosystem, but also acknowledges that Ethereum, as Layer 1, has gradually lost most of its competitive advantages over the years.

BlockBeats News: On January 23rd, FOX reporter Eleanor Terrett posted on social media that a CME spokesperson clarified that the information on its Beta website was mistakenly published and has been deleted. CME has not made any official decision on launching XRP and SOL futures contracts. BlockBeats previously reported that according to Cointelegraph, the CME website shows that XRP and SOL futures contracts will be launched as early as February 10, 2025, and are currently awaiting regulatory review. According to the website page information, the standard SOL contract size is 500 SOL, and the micro contract size is 25 SOL; The standard contract size for XRP is 50000 XRP, and for micro contracts it is 2500 XRP. All contracts are settled in US dollars.