Odaily News: Binance has invested $100 million in Circle Internet Group as part of an expanded stablecoin partnership between the two parties to drive USDC adoption in emerging markets.A Binance spokesperson stated that Binance will integrate USDC into existing and new digital asset savings and investment products, and offer incentives such as reduced spot trading fees for USDC-denominated trading pairs. Binance and Circle previously established a partnership in December 2024 to expand USDC adoption. USDC currently has a market capitalization of approximately $75 billion. (The Wall Street Journal)

Odaily News: Grayscale announced in a post that it has updated the list of crypto assets planned for consideration for inclusion in future investment products. According to the latest list, the Currencies category includes Bitcoin and XRP, among others; Smart Contract Platforms have added Stacks, Sui, Toncoin, and Tron, among others; assets under consideration in the Financials category include Ethena, Hyperliquid, and Jupiter, among others; Consumer & Culture includes Dogecoin and Decentraland, among others; assets under consideration in the AI category include Worldcoin, Virtuals Protocol, Story, and Grass, among others; the Utilities & Services category includes Chainlink, LayerZero, and Helium, among others. Grayscale stated that this list is evaluated quarterly to provide investors with diversified digital asset investment choices.

Odaily News Grayscale stated in a post on its official website that it has updated the list of crypto assets proposed for consideration for future investment products. According to the latest list, the Currencies category includes Bitcoin, XRP, and others; the Smart Contract Platforms category adds Stacks, Sui, Toncoin, and Tron, among others; assets proposed for consideration in the Financials category include Ethena, Hyperliquid, and Jupiter, among others; Consumer & Culture includes Dogecoin and Decentraland, among others; assets proposed for consideration in the AI category include Worldcoin, Virtuals Protocol, Story, and Grass, among others; the Utilities & Services category includes Chainlink, LayerZero, and Helium, among others. Grayscale stated that this list is evaluated quarterly, aiming to provide investors with diversified digital asset investment choices.

Odaily News Grayscale announced updates to the component weightings of its three multi-asset funds: the Grayscale Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Fund, the Grayscale Smart Contract Fund (GSC Fund), and the Grayscale Decentralized AI Fund (AI Fund). As of January 6th:1. The updated asset weightings for the DeFi Fund are: Uniswap (UNI) 42.67%, Aave (AAVE) 26.23%, Ondo (ONDO) 14.10%, Curve (CRV) 6.16%, Lido (LDO) 5.48%;2. The updated asset weightings for the GSC Fund are: Solana (SOL) 29.55%, Ether (ETH) 29.00%, Cardano (ADA) 18.55%, Sui (SUI) 8.55%, Avalanche (AVAX) 7.66%, Hedera (HBAR) 6.69%;3. The updated asset weightings for the AI Fund are: Bittensor (TAO) 29.88%, NEAR Protocol (NEAR) 27.31%, Render (RENDER) 15.05%, Filecoin (FIL) 13.73%, Story (IP) 8.73%, The Graph (GRT) 5.30%. (Globenewswire)

According to an official announcement from OKX, the timetable for completing the PP upgrade on X Layer and launching the OKB Gas Token economic model optimization is as follows (Beijing time): August 13, 2:10 PM: OKT will cease trading on the OKX exchange. OKTChain will continue to produce blocks and process transactions normally. August 13, 3:00 PM: OKX will stop withdrawing OKB to ETH L1. August 15, 10:00 AM: The platform automatically converts OKT in user accounts into OKB according to the rules. August 15th, 2:00 PM: OKB will be destroyed all at once, and the smart contract will be called to perform the on-chain destruction. August 18, 2:00 PM: OKB Smart Contract will be upgraded to remove the issuance and destruction functions.

Odaily News Grayscale Smart Contract Fund announced its latest holdings, including Ethereum (31.22%), Solana (31.30%), Cardano (18.23%), Avalanche, Sui, Near and Polkadot. The fund is rebalanced every quarter, weighted by market value, with a cap of 30% for each rebalance.

Odaily News According to official news, Movement announced the launch of the AI hackathon "Movement MAInia", offering a prize pool of US$555,555 and focusing on 5 tracks, including DeFAI (DeFi + AI), Consumer AI dApp, GAIming, Social Intelligence, and Smart Contract Security. Project application deadline: February 16; Shortlist: February 16-24; Winners announcement date: February 26.

Odaily星球日报讯 灰度发布加密货币行业分类框架，将数字资产市场划分为五大板块：货币类（Currencies）、智能合约平台（Smart Contract Platforms）、金融类（Financials）、消费文化（Consumer & Culture）以及基础设施服务（Utilities & Services）。报告显示，尽管比特币今年实现大幅上涨，但加密资产类别整体呈现分化走势。与公开股票市场一样，加密货币的回报也在某些代币中得到整合。货币类包括比特币、XRP 和莱特币等；智能合约平台包括以太坊、Solana 和 Cardano 等；金融类包括 Maker、Uniswap 和 Aave 等；消费文化类包括 ApeCoin、ImmutableX 和 Sandbox 等；基础设施服务类包括 Chainlink、Filecoin 和 Lido 等。

According to official news from Odaily, digital asset market maker and multi-stage Web3 investment institution DWF Labs will purchase US$10,000,000 of TokenFi tokens as part of its vision to support TokenFi to become a dominant player in the tokenization industry. It is reported that the acquisition will be carried out from TokenFi’s Finance Department for a period of two years. This move will ensure that TokenFi has sufficient resources to develop innovative and competitive products, including products incorporating artificial intelligence (AI), such as TokenFi Generative AI for NFTs , TokenFi AI Smart Contract Auditor, etc.

Odaily News Web3Foundation announced the list of the 19th batch of Polkadot ecological Grant funding. This time, a total of 100 applications were received, the most in more than two years. A total of 33 grants were approved, with an allocation amount of more than 1.1 million US dollars. Among the funded projects, the number of tool authorizations to improve smart contract functionality has increased significantly. These grants are mainly used to test, analyze and improve the developer experience when interacting with Ink. Funded products mainly include applications, data tools and infrastructure (such as wallets, parachains and data dashboards) that serve users. Among them, there are 8 user interface categories: justmert, TPScore, Stake Plus Inc, MOBR Systems, Infra3, Liisa, Decentration and Lastic; 8 chain and Pallets categories: ZeroDAO, Centrifuge, AISLAND DAO, Eiger, Myriad Systems LTD, Eiger, Off Narrative Labs and Open Smart Contract; There are three smart contract categories: Protofire, NeoPower Digital and DAOsign; There are 10 tool, API and language categories: SO/DA zone, Coong Crafts, Starks, ChainSafe, Federico Cicciarella, Salaheldin Soliman, CoinFabrik, David Semakula, Zondax AG, and Jonathan Brown; one research category: Moonsong Labs; three wallet categories: Orochi Network, PolyCrypt GmbH, and Tesseract.