Odaily News British police have seized £28 million ($34 million) in assets from an international bitcoin fraud ring that exploited a vulnerability on an Australian cryptocurrency exchange website. The investigation centered around James Parker of Blackpool, who discovered the vulnerability in 2017. Within three months, Parker and his accomplices used the security flaw to steal more than £20 million in credit lines, with the proceeds of the scheme laundered with the help of Stephen Boys, nicknamed Rodney. The investigation revealed Parkers lavish spending, including handing out £5,000 gift cards on the street and buying cars for random acquaintances in the pub. Boys admitted carrying £1 million in cash to buy villas from Russians and paying corrupt officials £60,000 to continue the money laundering operation. Police seized 445 bitcoins worth £22 million at the time, as well as luxury watches, houses, cars and designer goods. Parker died in 2021 before being prosecuted and his accomplices were sentenced in January 2023, with Boys, 61, jailed for six years for money laundering. Victims have been awarded full compensation of £24.5 million. Due to the rise in the price of Bitcoin, the seized assets were £3 million higher than the initial amount of the fraud. The surplus will be divided between the Home Office, the courts and Lancashire Constabulary. DS Dave Wainwright of the Economic Crime Unit noted that the defendants have three months to comply with the court order or risk an additional 14 years in prison. The investigation involved international cooperation with law enforcement in Australia and Finland. (crypto.news)

PANews reported on January 19 that Bybit CEO BEN tweeted to reflect on the market effect after $TRUMP, saying: Yesterday, all CEXs had a large outflow of SOL and USDC, rushing to the chain in exchange for $TRUMP. Moonshoot + Meteora/Jupiter created more than 30 billion memecoins in less than 10 hours without any CEX. In 2025, we will focus on building Onchain Bybit, investing heavily in Bybit web3 wallet (self-custody) user experience and onchian infrastructure, hoping to become the user's gateway to web3. The reason is simple, if you don't join this revolution, you will be eliminated.

Odaily News DWF Labs co-founder Andrei Grachev posted on X that the platform has launched TRUMP and institutional clients can trade RFQ/OTC spot and derivatives.

Odaily News According to blockchain analysis platform Arkham Intelligence, Trumps net worth skyrocketed to $28 billion overnight, thanks to the meme coin TRUMP issued by Trump, which increased his estimated net worth by 400%. The token price reached $28, and Trumps affiliated companies CIC Digital LLC and Fight Fight Fight LLC controlled 80% of the supply, and the value of his cryptocurrency holdings alone soared to $22.4 billion. For context, Forbes valued Trumps net worth at $5.6 billion last November.

Odaily News According to official data, as of January 16, Circle has issued about $3.3 billion USDC in the past 7 days, redeemed about $2.2 billion USDC, and increased the circulation by about $1.1 billion. The total circulation of USDC is $46.4 billion, and the reserve is $46.5 billion, of which about $5.8 billion is in cash, and the Circle Reserve Fund holds about $40.8 billion.

PANews reported on January 19 that according to CNBC, US artificial intelligence company Perplexity AI proposed to merge with TikTok US and submitted an acquisition offer to TikTok's parent company ByteDance. The new structure will allow most of ByteDance's existing investors to retain their equity.

PANews reported on January 19 that Moonshot tweeted that after being recommended as the preferred purchase method on the $TRUMP website, it processed nearly $400 million in trading volume in 12 hours, breaking the record for fiat currency entry. It has currently brought nearly 400,000 new users to the chain.

Odaily News On Saturday, Perplexity AI officially launched its acquisition of TikTok and submitted an acquisition offer to its parent company ByteDance, intending to merge Perplexity, TikToks US business and new capital partners into a new entity. A person familiar with the matter revealed that the new structure will allow most of ByteDances existing investors to retain their equity and will bring more videos to Perplexity. Perplexity AI is an artificial intelligence search engine startup that competes with OpenAI and Google. Against the backdrop of the booming development of artificial intelligence, it has attracted more and more investor interest. The company was valued at approximately US$500 million in early 2024 and approximately US$9 billion at the end of the year. (CNBC)

According to PANews on January 19, according to monitoring by on-chain analyst Yu Jin, a whale used 61,205 SOL to purchase 1.271 million $TRUMP at $11.15 yesterday. Not a single one has been sold yet. The whale is currently the 10th largest holder of $TRUMP, with a floating profit of up to $21.41 million (+151%).

Odaily News Moonshot said that after being recommended as the preferred purchase method on TRUMPs website, the platforms 12-hour trading volume reached $400 million, and more than 400,000 new users joined the Solana ecosystem through its application.

Odaily News According to the on-chain analyst Ember, a whale used 61,205 SOL (US$14.18 million) to buy 1.271 million TRUMP at an average price of US$11.15 yesterday, and has not yet sold them. He is currently the 10th largest holder of TRUMP, with a floating profit of US$21.41 million (+151%).

Odaily News OKX market data shows that multiple Solana ecosystem tokens have risen, including: SOL 24H increased by 16.79%, currently at 256.41 USDT; JUP 24H increased by 32.77%, currently at 1.1349 USDT; JTO 24H increased by 5.01%, currently at 3.163 USDT; RAY 24H increased by 14.48%, currently at 7.0246 USDT.

PANews reported on January 19 that according to Crypto.news, CryptoSlam data showed that NFT transaction volume reached $164.3 million this week, up 5.8% from last week. NFT buyers surged 115.49% to 270,108; the number of NFT sellers increased 107.81% to 218,676; and the number of transactions fell 4.58% to 1,466,206. Ethereum network NFT transaction volume increased by 40% to $85.6 million, and the number of buyers increased by 52.54% to 37,913. Bitcoin network NFT transaction volume fell by 10.9% to $27.5 million. Solana network ranked third with a transaction volume of $14.6 million, a drop of 30.8%. Base still ranked fifth with a transaction volume of $8.36 million, an increase of 13.82%. Azuki ranked first with $15.4 million in trading volume, up 268.21%. The number of buyers for this series increased by 253.45%. Pudgy Penguins ranked second with $8 million in trading volume, down 8.04%. CryptoPunks ranked third with $7.8 million in trading volume, up 126.31%. BRC-20 NFT fell to fourth place with $7.6 million in trading volume, down 7.79%. This week’s best-selling NFT series: CryptoPunks #4940: $502,941 (150 ETH) CryptoPunks #7338: $319,016 (100 ETH) CryptoPunks #1782: $250,594 (75 ETH) CryptoPunks #8619: $178,123 (54 ETH) CryptoPunks #7376: $177,515 (55 ETH)

Odaily News Massachusetts proposes two more strategic Bitcoin reserve bills. (Cointelegraph) Yesterday, Massachusetts Senator Peter Durant proposed a bill to establish a strategic Bitcoin reserve in the state. It is worth noting that Massachusetts is the first deep blue state to propose legislation related to strategic Bitcoin reserves. At the same time, Massachusetts has become the eighth state to propose similar bills. Currently, eight states in the United States have proposed bills related to strategic Bitcoin reserves, namely: Oklahoma, New Hampshire, Wyoming, Texas, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and North Dakota.

Odaily News According to official news, Kraken announced the launch of TRUMP (Official Trump).

Odaily News MoonPay announced on X that after President-elect Trump launched the meme coin TRUMP, Moonshot has become the most popular financial app on the US Apple App Store and is among the top five free apps.

Odaily News GMGN market data shows that the AI agent development framework arc has broken through $0.55 in the short term and is currently trading at $0.537. The corresponding market value is currently trading at $537 million, a record high.

PANews reported on January 19 that according to Whale Alert monitoring, USDC Treasury issued an additional 250 million USDC on the Solana chain at 2:04 am.

Odaily News Trumps second son Eric Trump posted on X: I am very proud of our achievements in the field of cryptocurrency. TRUMP is currently the hottest digital meme in the world. I firmly believe that WLFI will completely change DeFi/CeFi and will become the future of finance. We are just getting started! In addition, it reminded that the token named USA has no official connection. Please be vigilant and beware of risks.

Odaily News According to Coinglass data, the total liquidation of the entire network in the past 24 hours was $519 million, and a total of 199,513 people were liquidated; of which long orders were liquidated for $381 million and short orders were liquidated for $137 million. ETH liquidated $71.2909 million and SOL liquidated $65.6693 million, both exceeding BTC (liquidation of $59.0002 million); it is worth mentioning that TRUMP liquidated $22.3393 million.