"When it comes to sovereign wealth funds, I said, 'monetizing the balance sheet' is definitely not what I want," Mr. Bescent, the Treasury secretary, said of revaluing gold reserves. Pressed if he would discuss the issue, he repeated, "It's not what I want." Gold reserves are currently priced at $42.22 an ounce, the traditional official price from decades ago. Revaluing these assets based on current market prices could...
Trump's pro-cryptocurrency policies and the continued depreciation of the yen are driving a surge in demand for bitcoin in Japan.
1. The US FDIC is reassessing its regulation of cryptocurrency activity, and the original regulatory warning has been removed. 2. Citi: The correlation between the crypto market and the stock market will weaken in the long run. 3. Standard Chartered predicts that bitcoin will rise to $500,000 during Trump's term. 4. Bloomberg Analyst: BlackRock may launch a bitcoin ETF in Europe. 5. New Mexico Senator submits a strategic bitcoin reserve bill. 6. CME Group: The average daily trading volume of mic...
On January 27th, Shaw, founder of ai16z, commented on big models such as DeepSeek. He pointed out that the AI field is experiencing an open-source revolution, with major AI labs from Google, OpenAI, Claude to today's DeepSeek continuously achieving breakthroughs in benchmarks and capabilities. Shaw particularly emphasizes that open-source models like DeepSeek are a major boon for the industry as they help developers scale AI applications to millions of users at a lower cost. As AI models become ...
South Korea's Ministry of Personnel Management has asked all government entities to reassess the implementation of restrictions on cryptocurrency holdings by government officials. Agencies must review their compliance and submit reports by Jan. 31. The ministry specifically emphasized that not only institutions dealing with virtual asset policies, drafting and enforcing regulations, but also those involved in promoting economic and industrial policies may be subject to restrictions on access to ...
BEX: Establish an information disclosure evaluation system for listed companies. In terms of evaluation methods, four evaluation grades of A, B, C, and D are set up, and points are added or subtracted on the basis of unified benchmark points for initial rating. Then the evaluation results are revised through the "negative list" to enhance the effectiveness of the evaluation.
On November 12th, a video conference on the reform and supervision of local state-owned enterprises was held on the 12th. Zhang Guoqing, a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, attended and delivered a speech. He pointed out that it is necessary to adhere to the problem orientation, strengthen the penetrating supervision covering all levels of secondary subsidiaries, and solve the outstanding problems restricting the high-quality devel...
The Ethereum Foundation says it is launching the first short-term Pectra testnet, Mekong, after a scoping assessment of the Pectra fork, a successful interoperability event, and four development networks. The Mekong testnet contains all the EIP proposals that will be used for the Ethereum Pectra fork. These changes include user experience (UX) improvements via EIP-7702, staking changes via EIP-7251, deposit and exit mechanism changes via EIP-6110/EIP-7002, and more.
OpenAI says it has launched a new benchmark called SIMPLEQA to evaluate the factuality of language models and made it open-source.
[List of domestic brokerage agencies' evaluation of the Ministry of Finance's press conference] 1. CITIC Securities: Boosting market expectations, bonds will be the focus of this round of fiscal policy. 2. Great Wall Securities: In the next two or three years, localized bonds will still be the focus, and the sustainability of this round of market prices is still worth looking forward to. 3. Dongfang Jincheng: Judging that the incremental scale of fiscal policy in this package of incremental poli...