The popular AI framework Virtuals Protocol will host an in-person meet-up in Hong Kong on Friday, January 17.

Robinhood Chain has gone viral across the internet today, with BSC Chain also making waves. According to GMGN market data, MarsCoin, driven by its listing on Binance’s spot market, has a market capitalization approaching the $200 million mark, currently at $192 million, with a 70% 24-hour increase. Additionally, Max, a meme coin based on the Giggle mascot, has hit a new high, with its market cap exceeding $24 million and now standing at $20.9 million, up 61% in the past 24 hours.

According to CryptoRank data, the number of tokenized stock holders surged from roughly 1 million to 2 million in August, doubling over the course of a single month. Holders on Robinhood Chain, BNB Chain, and Solana collectively account for approximately 95% of all tokenized stock holders. Earlier CryptoRank figures indicated that as of the end of July, the number of tokenized stock holding wallets on Robinhood Chain alone stood at around 329,000, representing roughly 35% of the market at that time.

According to GMGN market data, the Robinhood-linked on-chain meme token 18932 surged past $3 million in market capitalization in less than an hour after launch, and is now trading at $2.72 million. The meme token draws inspiration from asteroid 18932, which is named "Robinhood", and is paired with a liquidity pool of tokenized U.S. stock SpaceX, leveraging the Robinhood stock trading platform.

Today, the meme token project MEME listed on Robinhood Chain has suddenly become the market focus. The project’s full name is “A Meme Coin”, whose abbreviation is exactly AMC, and it uses the “MEME/AMC” trading pair, pairing the meme token with AMC Entertainment’s stock token in a single on-chain liquidity pool. According to GMGN data, MEME surged over 1,000% in a short time after launch, with its market cap once exceeding $150 million. Meanwhile, AMC’s underlying stock was also driven up, surging 21% in overnight and pre-market trading to around $3. The day before, AMC’s US stock closed at $2.54, with no major fundamental news released by the company that day. AMC CEO Adam Aron subsequently publicly criticized Robinhood on X, stating that AMC had not participated in, authorized, or endorsed such AMC stock-linked token products, and questioned their legality. Aron also said the company will hire external securities lawyers to review the matter and may file inquiries with the SEC. Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev responded on X with “What’s the concern?”, further amplifying market discussions. BlockBeats has conducted a comprehensive review of this incident in its on-site article titled “The $150M Extreme Emotional Speedrun: AMC’s Short Squeeze Comes Full Circle Every 5 Years”.

Today, besides the meme token on the Robinhood chain that surpassed $100 million in market cap in a single day, other hot projects are also gaining traction. Among them, the new token launch platform pair.fund stands out. According to its official documentation, the platform allows users to issue ERC-20 tokens with a fixed total supply of 1 billion, select 1 to 5 listed Robinhood Stock Tokens (such as AAPL, TSLA, NVDA, SPY, etc.) as quote assets, and permanently lock liquidity on Uniswap V4. As of press time, data from GMGN shows that the platform’s native token PAIR has a market cap of $8.53 million, with a 24-hour increase of 91.37%. The largest token by market cap issued on the platform is CINEMA, which currently has a market cap of $3.52 million.

Beating AI News reports that AI inference startup Gimlet Labs has closed a new $300 million funding round, lifting its valuation to $3 billion. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) led the round, with new participation from Arm and Microsoft’s M12. Gimlet operates a multi-chip inference cloud, which splits individual AI inference tasks across stages to run on the most suitable chips. The startup has secured funding at a rapid pace: roughly six months ago, it closed an $80 million Series A round; less than a year prior, it raised a $12 million seed round, bringing its total three-round funding to $392 million. CEO Zain Asgar noted the latest round was finalized quickly because the company received multiple unsolicited term sheets from investors. Originally focused on chip orchestration software, Gimlet has since expanded to assisting clients with data center construction and is building its own data center facilities. Different chips have unique requirements for cooling, temperature, and server configurations, so strong software alone is insufficient—entire data center rooms must be redesigned accordingly. For instance, prefill and decoding in AI inference have distinct demands: the former is more compute-intensive, while the latter relies heavily on memory bandwidth. Gimlet can assign these tasks to chips from different vendors. Arm is both an investor and partner in this round; the two parties will also collaborate to adapt Gimlet’s software to more Arm chips.