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Applied Digital stock is up 6.73% in pre-market trading today, reaching $31.55, mainly benefiting from its FY2026 Q2 revenue of $126.59 million, a 98.2% year-over-year increase. This is driven by a surge in demand for AI data centers and collaborations with hyperscale operators. Investors are optimistic about its future growth potential.

A leading trading service provider has reached a deep partnership with a digital asset derivatives company, leading their Series A funding round and acquiring minority equity. This move aims to integrate the strengths of both parties, promote the development of the digital asset market, and mark the mainstreaming of the integration between traditional finance and the Web3 ecosystem.

MSCI announced a "technical freeze" on Bitcoin treasury concept stocks, no longer increasing their weight in the index, while also delaying the inclusion of new securities and scale adjustments. This change eliminates the forced selling risk but also deprives these companies of passive funding support, which may lead to increased difficulty in financing and impact their business logic.

The Ethereum ETF under 21Shares (TETH) plans to distribute a staking yield of $0.010378 per share to investors on January 9, 2026, while Grayscale's Ethereum Trust (ETHE) will also distribute $0.083178 per share. The difference between the two reflects different operational strategies that investors should pay attention to.

A whale wallet has recently been making frequent moves, consecutively establishing 18 stock positions, especially shorting companies like Tesla. At the same time, it also holds a large-scale 20x leveraged short position in crypto assets, with unrealized gains of $1.3 million, demonstrating its accurate market prediction and risk hedging strategy.

A team has launched the "Personal AI Chief Investment Officer" market intelligence system, utilizing a "zero prompt" architecture and 17 specialized AI agents to monitor investment portfolios 24/7, proactively providing insights and alerts. The platform has attracted over 481,000 users and aims to enhance automated wealth management, but its effectiveness awaits user feedback.

The Bitcoin network experienced a 1.20% decrease in mining difficulty at block height 931,392, with the latest difficulty value at 146.47 T. This adjustment reflects a slight decline in network hash rate and allows miners to earn more with the same hash power, improving mining efficiency.

XRP's recent price has been hovering around $2.16, but trading activity on January 6th reached a new high, with the number of trades exceeding $100,000 reaching 2,802, indicating that big players are active. This divergence between price and trading activity may suggest that whales are positioning themselves, and the key is whether the $2.05 to $2.10 range can hold. If it breaks below the $2.00 psychological level, it will face greater downward pressure.

C2C transactions on a leading exchange have performed excellently since their launch last year, maintaining zero freeze records, successfully intercepting nearly 83 million risks, and protecting funds worth 10.32 million USDT. The highest increase in order volume reached 818%, and the trading volume increased by 380%. In the future, we will continue to commit to zero freeze withdrawals and 100% compensation.

Recent rumors about the Venezuelan government secretly holding $60 billion worth of Bitcoin have been circulating. Expert Mauricio Di Bartolomeo pointed out that there is a lack of evidence to support these claims. Much of these statements are based on speculation, and the actual situation may be more complex. Venezuela's Bitcoin is not truly under the control of the government.

Cross-border e-commerce platform Buy&Ship completes $12 million Series C funding, with investors including DLK Advisory and MemeStrategy. MemeStrategy is optimistic about Solana's potential in asset tokenization and AI solutions, indicating that the Solana ecosystem is expanding towards practical applications, combining e-commerce, blockchain, and AI to form a new development direction.

The current enthusiasm for participation in the crypto market is rebounding, with retail investors refocusing on Meme coins such as PEPE, DOGE, and others. Meanwhile, institutions are shifting towards real-world assets and ETFs, with major firms like Morgan Stanley applying for BTC and ETH ETFs, indicating that the market landscape is being reshaped.

On January 7th, "bankrupt whale" trader James Wynn experienced 12 liquidations within 24 hours, with a total loss of $541,000. His ETH long position was floating at a loss of $94,000, facing liquidation risk, while he also held $1.3 million worth of PEPE long positions. Market volatility thwarted his gambling rebound plan.

Everstake partners with Cometh to provide compliant non-custodial staking services for EU institutional clients. After clients transfer fiat currency and complete identity verification, funds are converted into cryptocurrencies, with Everstake responsible for staking and yield conversion. This simplifies the process of participating in Web3 staking, reduces compliance costs, and promotes the standardization of DeFi.

【Crypto World】The latest labor data reveals a sobering reality: the US private sector added only 41,000 jobs in December, a figure indeed below expectations. According to statistics from the ADP Research Institute, last month still saw a decline; although there was a rebound this time, the strength was clearly insufficient.
Nela Richardson, Chief Economist at ADP, made an interesting observation—large corporations are downsizing, while small companies are still ramping up hiring at the end of the year, trying to recover from the wave of layoffs in November. This structural divergence itself indicates a problem: market confidence is diverging.
The job market has indeed been cooling over the past six months. Unemployment rates are rising, hiring enthusiasm has noticeably waned, and economists are lowering their optimism for 2026. Many Americans are beginning to worry about their job security, and this pessimistic outlook can, in turn, negatively impact consumption and investment. For those paying attention to macro trends, this is an unmissable signal—growth

Moody's latest 2026 Cross-Industry Outlook indicates that stablecoins are gradually transforming into institutional-grade infrastructure, becoming "digital cash." Banks and asset management firms have experimented with blockchain settlement and tokenization platforms. By 2030, digital financial investments are expected to exceed $300 billion, marking a turning point in the transition of blockchain technology into practical applications.

Decentralized derivatives trading platform edgeX announces its platform's transition from perpetual DEX to EDGE Chain. Public testing has now begun, and a Pre-TGE Season event has been launched to incentivize active users with XP rewards until the official Token Generation Event (TGE).