According to ChainCatcher, major U.S. technology companies saw a decline in their stock prices on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Nvidia's shares fell by 2%, while both Microsoft and Alphabet experienced a 2.3% decrease.

According to BlockBeats, on January 19, Hyperinsight reported that the whale trader known as 'Short-term Swing' (0x8c949) closed a long position of 100 BTC at 15:07, incurring a loss of $270,000. The address currently holds no positions and remains in a wait-and-see mode. Recently, this address has demonstrated an aggressive trading style with a high-risk appetite, primarily focusing on short-term swing trading.

According to Foresight News, London-listed tech firm The Smarter Web Company is set to collaborate with Bitcoin Treasuries Unconference to organize an informal meeting on Bitcoin funds. The event will take place in Bristol, bringing together business executives, company directors, institutional investors, and long-term Bitcoin holders for in-depth discussions on practical experiences.

According to Odaily, Starknet ecosystem's perpetual contract decentralized exchange, Paradex, announced on its maintenance page that the team has identified the root cause of the current issue. They plan to roll back the chain state to block height 1604710, which corresponds to 04:27:54 UTC. This block represents the state before database maintenance began and is confirmed as the last normal state. Paradex stated that once the rollback is complete, all user accounts will be restored to their status prior to the database maintenance.

According to ChainCatcher, Vitalik Buterin has expressed concerns that the current practices in the crypto industry regarding Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) have deviated from their original vision. He suggests a need to rethink and construct 'different and better DAO designs.' Buterin notes that Ethereum's initial concept was heavily inspired by DAOs, but they have now often been reduced to 'token-voting controlled vaults,' which, while operational in form, are inefficient, easily manipulated, and fail to address issues arising from human political games. Buterin emphasizes that DAOs remain an indispensable infrastructure with applications such as improving oracle design, enabling on-chain dispute arbitration, maintaining various critical lists, quickly launching short-term collaborative projects, and supporting long-term project maintenance after the original team exits. He believes the current issues lie not in participant motivation but in the inadequacies of governance and oracle system designs. In terms of governance frameworks, Buterin introduces the analysis perspective of 'concavity and convexity problems,' suggesting that different types of issues require different governance structures. Scenarios favoring consensus and robustness should emphasize broad participation and resistance to manipulation, while those requiring decisive action should allow for leadership, balanced by decentralized mechanisms. Buterin further points out that for DAOs to truly function, they must address the challenges of privacy and decision fatigue. This can be alleviated through privacy technologies like zero-knowledge proofs (ZK) and multi-party computation, as well as AI and consensus-based communication tools to ease governance burdens. He stresses that AI should not replace human judgment but serve as a tool to amplify and assist human intentions. Finally, Buterin states that future DAO designs need to consider governance mechanisms, privacy technologies, and communication layers as core components rather than auxiliary modules, ensuring that the decentralization and robustness of Ethereum's underlying infrastructure are maintained in its upper-layer applications.

Paradex maintenance extends beyond scheduled time, sparking user concerns over liquidation and market implications. source: https://coincu.com/news/paradex-delay-user-concerns/

Starknet 生态永续合约 DEX Paradex 在其维护页面发布公告称，团队已定位到当前问题根源，计划将链状态回滚至区块高度 1604710（UTC 时间 04:27:54）。该区块对应数据库维护开始前的状态，也是目前确认的最后一个正常状态。Paradex 表示，回滚完成后，所有用户账户将统一恢复至数据库维护前的状态。

Fitch Ratings has affirmed Saudi Arabia’s long-term foreign-currency issuer default rating at ‘A+’ with a stable outlook, highlighting the kingdom’s […] source: https://catenaa.com/saudi-arabia-fitch-rating-a-plus-2026/

Ethereum is handling more transactions than at any point in its history while charging users some of the lowest fees seen in years. source: https://cryptonews.com/news/ethereum-transactions-hit-record-high-as-fees-fall-to-multi-year-lows/

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao denied rumours of a relationship with actress Sydney Sweeney, saying they have never met and calling the claims “fake news.” Experts say fake news and AI-generated disinformation are spreading faster and harder to spot, often mixing true and false details to mislead the public.

Vitalik Buterin 发文表示，当前加密行业对 DAO 的实践已偏离最初愿景，有必要重新思考并构建“不同且更好的 DAO 设计”。Vitalik 指出，以太坊最初的构想深受去中心化自治组织启发，但如今 DAO 多被简化为“由代币投票控制的金库”，虽然在形式上可运行，却效率低下、易被操纵，且未能真正缓解人类政治博弈带来的问题。Vitalik 强调，DAO 依然是不可或缺的基础设施，应用场景包括：改进预言机设计、实现链上争议仲裁、维护各类关键清单、快速启动短期协作项目，以及在原始团队退出后支持长期项目维护。他认为，当前问题不在于参与者动机，而在于治理与预言机等系统设计本身仍然不足。在治理框架上，Vitalik 引入“凹性与凸性问题”的分析视角，认为不同类型的问题需要不同治理结构：偏向共识与稳健性的场景，应重视广泛参与与抗操纵能力；而需要果断决策的场景，则允许领导力存在，同时通过去中心化机制加以制衡。Vitalik 进一步指出，DAO 要真正发挥作用，必须解决隐私与决策疲劳两大难题，并可借助零知识证明（ZK）、多方计算等隐私技术，以及 AI 和共识型沟通工具来缓解治理负担。他强调，AI 不应取代人类判断，而应作为放大与辅助人类意图的工具。最后，Vitalik 表示，未来的 DAO 设计需要将治理机制、隐私技术与沟通层视为核心组成部分，而非附属模块，以确保以太坊底层的去中心化与稳健性能在其上层应用中得到延续。

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As Coinbase negotiates with the administration, the fate of the CLARITY Act—and U.S. crypto regulation—is in flux.

白芝浩原则前置，可能是各国金融机构，应对AI产业革命唯一的选择。

拆解CLARITY法案背后的故事，以及散户避险及掘金的行动指南。

比特币及以太坊等加密市场再度出现“闪崩”，是否与突发的地缘风险相关，宏观地缘风险难道又成为了加密市场震荡的导火索？

法国在加密资产领域的制度建设体现了规范与激励并重的思路。

银行业对稳定币生息的严防死堵，支付行业的稳定币化已经势不可挡，但和 DeFi 基本是失联的奇妙状态。

加密货币市场比以往任何时候都更加机构化、更加规范，资金也更加雄厚。下一轮上涨行情将会更加平静，也更具选择性。

Binance has reopened direct Australian dollar deposits and withdrawals for all local users via PayID and bank transfers. This restores normal banking access after more than two years, allowing users to move money faster and more easily.