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Lai Tsui-pik, Chief Executive Officer of the Accounting and Financial Reporting Council of Hong Kong, stated that the Council is developing guidelines for the application of AI in the accounting and auditing industry, referencing international standards. These guidelines are expected to be launched soon. They are not mandatory rules but rather advisory in nature, aiming to assist the industry in properly managing related risks while embracing technology. (Ta Kung Pao, Hong Kong)

According to market sources, 21Shares has launched a Bitcoin & Gold ETP on the London Stock Exchange. (Cointelegraph)

The Solana Policy Institute has written to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), advocating for a clear distinction between centralized trading platforms and decentralized, non-custodial DeFi software, emphasizing that developers should not be treated as intermediaries for regulation. This move aims to secure regulatory exemptions for open-source DeFi projects and prevent technology developers from assuming financial intermediary obligations. (Solid Intel)

According to BlockBeats On-chain Detection, on January 13, a BlackRock-associated address transferred 3,290 Bitcoin and 5,692 Ethereum to a centralized exchange (CEX) address. The transaction suggests the possibility of further asset deposits.

According to Cointelegraph, the offline computation protocol Truebit recently experienced a $26 million exploit due to a flaw in its smart contract. This vulnerability allowed an attacker to mint tokens at nearly zero cost, leading to a dramatic 99% crash in the value of the Truebit (TRU) token. The breach underscores the persistent security risks that even long-standing blockchain projects face. Blockchain security firm SlowMist conducted a post-mortem analysis, revealing that the exploit stemmed from a loophole in the protocol’s smart contract logic. This flaw enabled the attacker to mint a significant number of tokens without incurring any ETH costs. SlowMist identified a lack of overflow protection in an integer addition operation within the Purchase contract of Truebit Protocol. This oversight resulted in incorrect calculations of the ETH required to mint TRU tokens. Consequently, the smart contract’s price calculations were erroneously reduced to zero, allowing the attacker to deplete the contract’s reserves by minting $26 million worth of tokens at minimal cost. The contract was compiled with Solidity 0.6.10, a version that lacked built-in overflow checks, leading to a "silent overflow" when calculations exceeded the maximum value of "uint256," causing the result to wrap around a small value near zero. The incident highlights the vulnerability of even well-established protocols to hacking threats. Truebit, launched on the Ethereum mainnet in April 2021, is not alone in facing such challenges. Interest in smart contract security surged at the end of last year when an Anthropic study revealed that commercially available artificial intelligence (AI) agents had identified $4.6 million worth of smart contract exploits. Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.5, Claude Sonnet 4.5, and OpenAI’s GPT-5 collectively developed these exploits when tested on smart contracts, according to a research paper by the AI company’s red team, which focuses on discovering code vulnerabilities before malicious actors can exploit them. Smart contract vulnerabilities were identified as the largest attack vector for the cryptocurrency industry in 2025, with 56 cybersecurity incidents, according to SlowMist’s year-end report. These vulnerabilities accounted for 30.5% of all crypto exploits, while account compromises ranked second with 50 incidents. Meanwhile, crypto phishing scams emerged as the second-largest threat in 2025, costing investors $722 million across 248 incidents, as reported by blockchain security platform CertiK. These scams, which involve social engineering rather than code hacking, saw a 38% decrease in losses compared to the $1 billion stolen in 2024, indicating that investors are becoming more aware of such threats.

Fan Wenzhong, Vice President of the Beijing Academy of Social Sciences and Executive Director of the China Finance Society, wrote an article in the Hong Kong Wen Wei Po entitled "Steadily Promoting the Collaborative Innovation of Digital RMB and Hong Kong Stablecoins." In it, he pointed out that the current cross-border use of digital RMB mainly relies on the internal regulations and pilot policies of the People's Bank of China, lacking clear legal authorization. He suggested adding clauses to the revision of the "People's Bank of China Law" to clarify the cross-border payment function of digital RMB and the legality of interconnection with compliant overseas digital currency systems. He also recommended striving to clarify "special regulatory requirements and preferential policies for stablecoin issuing institutions that exchange with the mainland central bank's digital currency" in the implementing rules of the Hong Kong "Stablecoin Ordinance," forming a synergy of regulations. (Hong Kong Ta Kung Pao)

A Bank of Italy paper warns: a major Ethereum collapse could cripple the network, freeze over $800 billion in tokenized assets, and transfer systemic risk from crypto to traditional finance. source: https://en.spaziocrypto.com/ethereum/bank-of-italy-warns-an-ethereum-collapse-could-freeze-800-billion-in-assets/

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has once again sold a batch of unsolicited tokens sent to his public wallet, continuing a pattern of liquidating memecoins that appear in his wallet without his request. According to the Ether developer’s wallet tracking by Arkham Intelligence, about two hours before this publication, Buterin swapped several small-cap tokens into a […] source: https://www.cryptopolitan.com/vitalik-buterin-dumps-free-memecoins/

Zak Folkman, co-founder and COO of World Liberty Finance, the Trump family's crypto project, announced on the X platform that WLFI Markets has officially launched the USD1 points program. Users supplying USD1 will have the opportunity to earn points, but the specific points rewards depend on the terms of each partner's promotional activities. These terms are subject to change at any time, and users can decide for themselves whether to participate.

Michael Saylor is back on the Bitcoin (BTC) cycle debate, and his message may surprise those declaring the end of the familiar four-year pattern, whereas others might agree with his views. com. source: https://www.techgaged.com/corporate-bitcoin-pioneer-predicts-explosive-2026-for-btc/

Currency-related cases often encounter obstacles when seeking civil remedies. This article analyzes the core obstacles and lawyers' coping strategies through three typical cases.

Privacy, Decentralization, Crypto Trends in 2026: A New Battleground for Privacy, Decentralization, and Security. Golden Finance: Privacy will become the most important moat in the crypto world this year.

Polymarket boasts numerous "god-like" addresses that have achieved single-transaction profits of $100,000. However, with hundreds of thousands of accounts, a core question consistently plagues participants: Is this replicable alpha, or unsustainable luck?

Early morning on January 13th, Beijing time, Apple and Google jointly issued a statement announcing a multi-year, in-depth cooperation agreement.

After burning $70 billion on virtual worlds, Meta signals a dramatic retreat from the metaverse as artificial intelligence takes over the company’s future.

PayPal will soon be a payment option in Google’s new AI-powered checkout through the Universal Commerce Protocol, which connects AI agents, retailers, and payment providers. The protocol was developed with major retailers and aims to make online shopping easier, more secure, and interoperable across different platforms.

The fifth episode of the third season of "Blockchain Masters," a light-hearted variety show about the Web3 industry, jointly launched by Jinse Finance, Twinkle, and Dashu Finance, and produced by HTX DAO and OracleX, was officially launched on January 8, 2026.

Ethereum's goal is to become the home of trustless and trust-minimized applications, whether in finance, governance, or other fields.

Chinese AI company DeepSeek is rapidly expanding in Africa, Russia, Belarus, and other markets using low-cost, open-source models backed by government subsidies. Microsoft warns that U.S. tech firms risk falling behind as their paid, controlled AI systems struggle to compete on price and accessibility.