Daily | Metaplanet plans to increase BTC holdings to 10,000 this year; Binance Alpha adds FREYA, pippin and OPUS

Organized by: Fairy, ChainCatcher

Important information:

• "National Data Infrastructure Construction Guidelines": Using blockchain, encryption technology and smart contracts to build a trusted data circulation system
• Binance Alpha adds FREYA, pippin and OPUS
• Metaplanet plans to increase BTC holdings to 10,000 in 2025
• Ripple CEO: 75% of Ripple Labs job openings are currently in the United States, and the “Trump effect” has made cryptocurrency great again
• Data: Vitalik earned US$139,000 from selling DOG, DINU and other MEME tokens today
• Data: Today’s trading volume of 6 Hong Kong virtual asset ETFs is approximately HK$105 million

"What important events happened in the past 24 hours?"

[Data: Vitalik earned US$139,000 from selling DOG, DINU and other MEME

tokens today](https://www.chaincatcher.com/article/2160915)

According to Lookonchain monitoring, Vitalik sold some memecoins obtained for free today, with a total profit of US$139,000. He sold $340 billion in DOG for 5.2 $ETH (worth $19,000), $5.048 billion in ESTEE for 116,307 $USDC, and $10 trillion in DINU for 4,181 $USDC.

["National Data Infrastructure Construction Guidelines": Using

blockchain, encryption technology and smart contracts to build a trusted data circulation system](https://www.chaincatcher.com/article/2160903)

According to the "National Data Infrastructure Construction Guidelines" issued by the National Development and Reform Commission, the Data Bureau, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the document clearly proposes to use blockchain technology, encryption technology, and smart contracts to build a trusted data circulation system. The guidelines encourage industries and localities to explore blockchain networks and privacy-protecting computing platforms to enhance trust and security in the data circulation process, promote the construction of a national integrated distributed data directory and digital identity system, and at the same time strengthen the traceability and security of data asset certificates. trustworthiness. The planning goal is to achieve a large-scale trusted data circulation pattern covering large and medium-sized cities in the next few years.

[Binance Alpha adds FREYA, pippin and

OPUS](https://www.chaincatcher.com/article/2160901)

Binance Alpha announced a new batch of project lists, including: FREYA, pippin and OPUS.

[Data: Today’s trading volume of 6 Hong Kong virtual asset ETFs is

approximately HK$105 million](https://www.chaincatcher.com/article/2160892)

Hong Kong stock market data shows that as of the close of trading, the trading volume of six Hong Kong virtual asset ETFs today was approximately HK$105 million.

in:

The trading volume of ChinaAMC Bitcoin ETF (3042.HK) was HK$68.84 million;

The trading volume of ChinaAMC Ethereum ETF (3046.HK) was HK$10.32 million;

The trading volume of Harvest Bitcoin ETF (3439.HK) was HK$11.85 million;

The trading volume of Harvest Ethereum ETF (3179.HK) was HK$2 million;

The trading volume of Boshi HashKey Bitcoin ETF (3008.HK) was HK$10.85 million;

The trading volume of Boshi HashKey Ethereum ETF (3009.HK) was HK$811,000.

[Binance launches third phase of Megadrop project Solv Protocol

(SOLV)](https://www.chaincatcher.com/article/2160883)

Binance launched the third phase of the Megadrop project Bitcoin staking protocol Solv Protocol (SOLV). Binance will list Solv Protocol (SOLV) at 18:00 on January 17th, Beijing time, and open SOLV/USDT, SOLV/BNB, SOLV/FDUSD and SOLV/TRY trading pairs. The seed tag will be applied to SOLV.

[Bithumb adds FIL Korean Won trading

pair](https://www.chaincatcher.com/article/2160829)

According to official news, Bithumb has added the Filecoin (FIL) Korean Won trading pair.

[Metaplanet plans to increase BTC holdings to 10,000 in

2025](https://www.chaincatcher.com/article/2160813)

According to Cointelegraph, Japanese listed company Metaplanet announced plans to expand its Bitcoin holdings to 10,000 in 2025. The company's CEO Simon Gerovich said on January 5 that it will use the most value-added capital market tools to achieve this goal. The company currently holds 1,762 Bitcoins worth approximately $173.4 million through 19 purchases.

As Asia’s largest corporate Bitcoin holder, Metaplanet ranks 15th in the world’s listed companies’ Bitcoin holdings. The company plans to increase its position through various means including loans, equity and convertible bonds. The company last purchased 619.7 Bitcoins on December 23, accounting for more than 35% of its total holdings, with an average purchase price of $77,196. Gerovich said that if the United States establishes a strategic Bitcoin reserve under the new administration, it could trigger a global chain reaction, with Asian countries such as Japan likely to follow.

[Aave governance proposal plans to link Ethena’s USDe to USDT, raising

community concerns about potential conflicts of interest](https://www.chaincatcher.com/article/2160812)

According to Protos, the Aave Governance Forum recently proposed a proposal to link Ethena’s USDe to USDT at a 1:1 ratio, triggering community concerns about potential conflicts of interest. The proposal proposes to replace the current Chainlink USDe/USD oracle with the USDT price to avoid bad debts caused by liquidation.

It is worth noting that both authors of the proposal, ChaosLabs and LlamaRisk, have worked with Ethena. MakerDAO community member ImperiumPaper expressed concern about this, believing that this is similar to "a real estate agent representing both buyers and sellers."

Critics point out that USDT is fully backed by off-chain assets, while USDe relies on a delta-neutral strategy of ETH long and short positions and faces the risk of negative funding rates when market sentiment turns. At the same time, Ethena founder Guy Young denied the existence of a conflict of interest and emphasized that the company has established a risk committee to ensure external oversight of product management.

[Bitcoin mining company MARA: 16% of Bitcoin reserves have been used for

short-term third-party loans to obtain income](https://www.chaincatcher.com/article/2160808)

According to The Block, Bitcoin mining company MARA disclosed in its December production report that it had used 7,377 Bitcoins (approximately $730 million) for short-term third-party lending operations, accounting for 16.4% of its reserves, in order to obtain " Single-digit yields.

According to the announcement, MARA purchased 22,065 Bitcoins in 2024 at an average price of $87,205 and mined 9,457 at the same time, bringing its total reserves to 44,893 Bitcoins, worth more than $4.4 billion at current prices. The company has exceeded its computing power target of 50 EH/s, reaching a peak of 53.2 EH/s.

Robert Samuels, vice president of investor relations at MARA, said the loan program will begin in 2024 and will mainly cooperate with well-known third-party institutions. CEO Fred Thiel emphasized that the two-pronged strategy of mining and purchasing provides the company with greater flexibility and helps enhance long-term shareholder value.

[Ripple CEO: 75% of Ripple Labs job openings are currently in the United

States, and the “Trump effect” has made cryptocurrency great again](https://www.chaincatcher.com/article/2160805)

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse disclosed that 75% of Ripple Labs’ job vacancies are currently in the United States, and the company has concluded more deals and cooperation in the United States after the November 2024 election than in the previous six months.

Garlinghouse attributes these changes to the incoming Trump administration and Trump’s pro-cryptocurrency rhetoric. Garlinghouse wrote in a Jan. 5 Say what you want, but the ‘Trump effect’ has made cryptocurrencies great again.”

“What are some great articles worth reading in the past 24 hours?”

[Final Thoughts on Crypto + Agent: Inevitability, Combination Points and

Development Stages](https://www.chaincatcher.com/article/2160746)

This article explores three key questions:

1. Is Crypto + Agent a short-term concept hype or an inevitable development trend?
2. What are the inseparable and mutually reinforcing intersections between crypto + intelligence?
3. What stages will crypto+agents go through, and where are we now?

[We conducted a survey among 42 important figures in the Solana

ecosystem. What are their views on the encryption industry?](https://www.chaincatcher.com/article/2160815)

Lightspeed launched an anonymous survey and distributed it to Solana founders, heavy users, etc. to get a true understanding of their views on other ecosystems, venture capital firms, startups, etc.

Survey questions covered a variety of options, with writing spaces provided, and were edited for grammar and clarity.

[Forbes analyst profile: Why an old-school value investor is betting on

Bitcoin?](https://www.chaincatcher.com/article/2160900)

My first trip to Las Vegas is still vivid in my mind. I had just graduated from college for a year, and my best friend gave me a free plane ticket and invited me to hang out for a few days. We stayed at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, which had a party-like atmosphere, a smaller and more intimate gaming table area than the big casinos on the Las Vegas Strip, and extremely generous giveaways, which for someone my age Said, it is simply an ideal place.

Even after 27 years, the memory is still fresh. I remember playing blackjack for hours. We started out playing at tables with a $10 minimum bet, but an initial flurry of luck led us to quickly start upping our bets. My first two days there, I won about $1,700. But on the third day, his fortune took a turn for the worse. By the end of the night, my friend went from winning a few hundred dollars to losing $750. He was very upset and decided to go back to his room to sleep early.

My situation was even worse. My profit of $1,700 shrank to only $300. But unlike my friends, I don’t want to stop just yet. I was unwilling to lose so much money, so I took the remaining 300 US dollars and saw an unoccupied gambling table with a minimum bet of 100 US dollars. I thought, how about giving it a try? Lady luck struck me again, and in less than 20 minutes, I turned that $300 into $3,000. When I finally got home, I had won about $3,600. For a 23-year-old living in New York City in the late 1990s, that was a lot of money.

Meme Hot List

According to the Meme token tracking and analysis platform GMGN market data, as of 19:40 on January 6:

The top five popular Ethereum tokens in the past 24 hours are: PERCY, KEKIUS , RAI , SPX , DGE

The top five popular Solana tokens in the past 24h are: PERCY, UltraAi , BOLT , ZYS , PENGU

The top five popular tokens in the past 24h Base are: VIRTUAL , SHIBUSSY , $BLOCK, DOGE , BONE