Wu's Daily Selected Crypto News - QCP: Rising Risks of Japan's Interest Rates and Tariffs, Market Turns to Safe-Haven

WuSaidBlockchainW · 2026-01-21T13:52:33+00:00

The global markets have shifted to risk aversion due to rising Japanese interest rates and tariff tensions between Europe and the US, and Bitcoin has failed to demonstrate its safe-haven characteristics. Vietnam has launched a pilot cryptocurrency trading platform requiring a minimum paid-in capital. The Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission proposed legislative suggestions for virtual currencies. SlowMist Technology warned that North Korean hackers had already used VS Code to implant backdoors in attacks 7 months ago.

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2026-01-21 13:52:33

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QCP: Japanese interest rate and tariff risks intensify, market shifts to safe haven
QCP analysis indicates that, influenced by the re-pricing of Japanese government bond yields and renewed US-EU tariff tensions, global markets are rapidly shifting to safe assets. Rising Japanese interest rates are seen as a potential trigger for global volatility, while trade tensions may further suppress risk appetite. In this context, Bitcoin has failed to demonstrate safe-haven properties, acting more like a high-beta macro asset, highly sensitive to interest rates, geopolitical risks, and cross-asset volatility; before clearer policy signals emerge, the crypto market may continue to follow passively.
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Vietnam has officially launched a pilot program for crypto asset trading platform licenses
According to Decision No. 96/QD-BTC issued by the Ministry of Finance on January 20, 2026, the State Securities Commission has begun accepting applications for the establishment, modification, and revocation of licenses for crypto asset trading platforms. The relevant regulations are implemented based on Government Resolution No. 05/2025/NQ-CP. The new rules require applicants to be domestic Vietnamese companies, with a minimum paid-in capital of 100 billion VND. Several brokerages and banks have already expressed interest in participating.
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Central Political and Legal Work Conference: Proactively propose legislation on virtual currencies
The Central Political and Legal Work Conference, in its deployment of 2026 political and legal work and promotion of scientific legislation, emphasized the need for forward-looking research on new issues such as the rights protection of new employment groups, virtual currencies, and low-altitude economy, and to proactively propose legislative suggestions.
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SlowMist: North Korean hackers’ attack method of implanting backdoors via VS Code automated tasks was exposed 7 months ago
SlowMist CTO @im23pds posted a reminder that the recent high-profile attack method by North Korean hackers targeting developers actually appeared 7 months ago in the GitHub repository “VSCode-Backdoor.” This attack involves North Korean-related personnel using false recruitment information to lure developers. Once a developer opens a malicious VS Code project, hidden tasks automatically run, fetching JavaScript code from Vercel and deploying backdoors, enabling remote code execution (RCE).

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