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On-Chain Detective ZachXBT criticizes Ledger hardware wallet manufacturer for planning an IPO in the US, pointing out multiple security incidents leading to customer data leaks and financial losses, questioning the company's profit motives, and mentioning existing product flaws. Ledger experienced a major database leak in 2020, affecting over a million user accounts.

PANews January 23 News, ZachXBT posted that Ledger has been repeatedly hacked, leading to customer privacy data leaks, and has triggered targeted thefts, resulting in losses of "millions of dollars"; at the same time, it points out issues with existing products( such as Ledger Nano X battery failures), and questions Ledger's plan to go public in the US for an IPO to "maximize profits" after announcing a fee for clear signing.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that former PayPal president states that Bitcoin will become the native currency of AI agents and points out that it will operate on top of BTC in the future. (The Bitcoin Historian)

On January 23rd, Hyperinsight detected that the "Lightning Reversal" address synchronized adjustments to its ETH and BTC positions, first reducing and then increasing ETH short positions, with a total value of approximately $23.56 million and a floating loss of $38,100. At the same time, it increased its BTC long positions, with the total scale rising to $66.83 million and a floating loss of $160,600, demonstrating its flexible high-frequency trading strategy.

ChainCatcher Message, Stable will undergo the v1.2.0 mainnet protocol upgrade at 16:00 on February 4. This upgrade will replace gUSDT with USDT0 as the native Gas token, introduce zero Gas transaction support, on-chain signal notifications for staking withdrawal delegation, and improve the Solidity compatibility of STABLE tokens.

BlockBeats News, January 23 — According to HyperInsight monitoring, a whale shorted 57.01 BTC at 40x leverage at 15:46, with an average entry price of $89,420.4, currently showing a slight unrealized profit.
This address's trading style closely aligns with institutional quantitative strategies, employing high-leverage multi-asset strategies with BTC and ETH as the main trading targets.

CertiK founder Gu Ronghui revealed in an exclusive interview at Davos that CertiK is advancing its IPO plans, striving to become the "first Web3 infrastructure stock." He also introduced the deeply integrated AI Spoq engine, which enhances the scalability and efficiency of security technology, and has been validated by several top academic conferences.

Vitalik discusses the differences in Chinese and American crypto cultures in a Chinese-language decentralized social discussion, highlighting the advantages of Chinese-speaking developers in user experience, and emphasizing how underlying protocol redundancy and AI advancements promote application development. He mentioned that there is no need to independently develop Farcaster, allowing focus on its client.

River completes $12 million in strategic financing, with investors including Tron DAO and others. The funding will support its deployment in EVM and non-EVM ecosystems and build on-chain liquidity infrastructure.

River announces the completion of a $12 million strategic funding round, with major investors including TRON DAO, Maelstrom Fund under Arthur Hayes, and other institutions. The funds will be used to expand EVM and non-EVM ecosystems, build on-chain liquidity infrastructure, and launch yield products Smart Vault and Prime Vault.

Analyst Justin Low pointed out that the recent sharp fluctuations in the Japanese yen are similar to Japan's Ministry of Finance's "exchange rate test," a situation that occurred in 2022 and 2024. This fluctuation may indicate an upcoming market intervention, but analysts believe this is not a genuine intervention, and official statements will follow.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that Vitalik spoke at the Firefly-organized Chinese decentralized social discussion Space, stating that in decentralized social media, the functionality of wallets is crucial, including privacy features. It is very necessary to use wallets as user interfaces to reach more users. Additionally, many users of decentralized social applications with built-in wallets have not entered the Ethereum ecosystem. If these users wish to enter later, it is hoped they can use different wallet applications and switch between them at any time, ensuring users' private key self-custody rights.

BlockBeats News, January 23 — According to Onchain Lens monitoring, Arthur Hayes received approximately 5.83 million ATH tokens from Atheir unlocks, worth about $52,300.

ChainCatcher message, according to Arkham data, at 15:52, 1,386,800 TON (worth approximately $2,135,700) was transferred from Kiln to an anonymous address (starting with Uf9UjA9S...). Subsequently, this address transferred 1,386,800 TON to TON.

The Shenzhen People's Procuratorate in China has filed public charges against 30 defendants involved in illegal fundraising, including charges of fundraising fraud and money laundering. The main offender, Sui Guangyi, engaged in illegal fundraising through false investment products and a large amount of assets have been seized.

Gate News bot message, A Polymarket user itscherry, who joined the platform in July 2024 without any previous trading activity, made a sudden entry into trading today. The user placed a $46.6K bet on the position that Russia and Ukraine will not reach a ceasefire by the end of 2026. This marks itsch

Analyst Jeremy Boulton pointed out that gold prices continue to rise, reaching a historic high of $4967 per ounce on Friday. Although long positions have decreased compared to before, the gold price has increased by over $2000 per ounce, indicating that the demand mainly comes from countries adjusting their foreign exchange reserves rather than speculation.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that analyst Giuseppe Dellamotta from the financial website Investinglive stated that after the Bank of Japan's interest rate decision led to a weakening of the yen, it appears that Japanese officials indeed intervened in the foreign exchange market. It seems that Japanese officials have set the bottom line for the USD/JPY exchange rate at 159.00. Last week, we also saw the authorities increase their verbal intervention efforts, which helped ease pressure on the yen. (Jin10)

ChainCatcher News, a well-known KOL AB tweeted that the well-known crypto project query platform RootData recently conducted a survey targeting exchange industry professionals, with approximately 41% of users being related to the listing department of exchanges. They generally believe that if a project has missing or severely delayed information on public data platforms, it will lower the project’s score and raise suspicions about its operational capabilities.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that CZ appeared at the World Economic Forum in Davos yesterday and stated that for retail investors participating in crypto trading, there needs to be a learning process, and risk control is also very important. Do not invest all the money you care about in trading; you can start by trying with a small portion of your funds. "When anyone encounters something new, don't jump in all at once. If you can't swim and jump into a deep pond all at once, it might not be very comfortable."