Japanese-listed company Metaplanet has established a U.S. subsidiary in Florida with a capital base of $250 million to focus on bitcoin funding operations.
Strategy founder Michael Saylor wrote that MSTR financial operations have generated $5.10 billion in BTC so far this year.
Market news: The United States will order more companies to stop operating in Venezuela.
The DoD has teamed up with Scale AI to launch Thunderforge, an AI-powered battlefield simulator to boost its "Agentic Warfare" capabilities.
OpenAI announced that the carrier feature is now available to professional users in Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, and the United Kingdom. Additionally, the OpenAI team is still working to make the feature available in Europe, Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein, and Iceland, with updates to follow.
Class A shares of telecommunications operations continued to rise, China Unicom, China Telecom rose more than 5%, China Mobile rose more than 1%.
Dunamu, the operator of South Korean crypto exchange Upbit, has acquired MPAG, the global operator of digital music notation platforms. The acquisition took place in November, and Dunamu made MPAG a subsidiary by purchasing shares. MPAG operates the MyMusic Sheet platform for global users, the Mapianist platform for Korean users, and the Kokomu platform for Japanese users.
Class A shares of the three major telecommunications operators continued to rise, China Telecom rose to a record high, China Unicom rose more than 7%, China Mobile rose more than 4%.
Nasdaq-listed bitcoin miner Hut 8 released an operational update report for January 2025, which revealed that 65 BTC were mined in January (down from 89 BTC in the previous month), and the current Hut 8 bitcoin reserves reached 10,208. In addition, Hut 8 also announced that it will attend New York Bitcoin Investor Week from February 24 to 28, and the Vega data center is expected to be powered up and running in the second quarter.
Blast announced that it will merge with Arcade Research and be managed by Pacman. At the same time, the Blast Mobile app will be launched, providing BLAST token holders with an annualized return of more than 50% on their US dollar deposits. The source of income includes the 11.5% native income currently provided by Maker and the BLAST token incentive.
On January 22nd, Conor Grogan, director of product strategy and business operations at Coinbase, tweeted that he had found about 430 bitcoins in multiple wallets associated with Ross Ulbricht, which have not been confiscated by the US government and have not been moved for more than 13 years. These wallets may have been "dust wallets" at the time, but now their total value has reached about $47 million. He also joked that he wasn't sure if Ross still had the private keys to the wallets, and remi...
TikTok suspend operations in the United States, and users 170 million "stay in the United States" for 7 years will give up? Things may still turn around...
According to Synthetix, it is shifting the operational focus of its perpetual contract marketplace to the Base network, and the perpetual contract marketplace on its Arbitrum will be closed. It is currently set to position squaring-only mode, and users cannot open new positions or increase existing positions. The USDx on Arbitrum needed to be exited along with the Arbitrum perpetual contract product. Synthetix Treasury purchased USDx from the open market and funded a wrapper to support the conve...
Nasdaq-listed company Bitdeer released the latest unaudited mining and operation update report, which revealed that 145 BTC was mined in December 2024, a decrease from 150 BTC mining output in the previous month. In addition, Bitdeer also disclosed that it has fully repaid the outstanding principal balance of the senior secured notes issued to the seller when it announced the acquisition of TROLL HOUSING AS and TYDAL DATA CENTER AS 10 million USD.
According to market news, the chief operating officer of social platform Bluesky said that it plans to launch a subscription service by the end of the year.