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

According to monitoring by The Data Nerd, two wallets (likely belonging to the same entity) swapped 729,015 UNI, worth $3 million, for 1,578 ETH, also valued at $3 million, today.

KITE Foundation, a payment infrastructure for the AI Agent economy, tweeted that it detected an attack targeting KITE tokens. The attack was immediately identified and contained, with no funds lost. The foundation stated that its security monitoring system flagged abnormal KITE token transfer activity on the Ethereum mainnet. The team promptly initiated an incident response and suspended all KITE token transfers on the Ethereum mainnet, including cross-chain functionality. Affected tokens have been frozen and will not enter the secondary market. The investigation remains ongoing.

，日本日元稳定币发行方 JPYC 宣布完成 B 轮扩展融资，本次累计新增募资约 60 亿日元。公司表示，资金将主要用于拓展 金融与 Web3 生态，加快日元稳定币「JPYC」的社会化应用落地。公告显示，物流企业 AZ-COM 丸和控股株式会社 参与本轮投资。JPYC 认为，稳定币与物流网络结合，有望推动「链上金融」在商业、物流与资金结算场景中的整合应用。当前，JPYC 已在 Avalanche、以太坊、Polygon 和 Kaia 四条区块链上发行。

Japan's SoftBank Group has reported a smaller-than-expected decline in its quarterly net profit, driven mainly by gains in its chip-related investment portfolio, while the firm awaits further returns from its investment in OpenAI. The Tokyo-based technology investment company saw its first fiscal quarter net profit drop 18% to 347.3 billion yen (about $2.2 billion), as unrealized gains from its chipmaker investments offset the drag from falling startup valuations. By comparison, the market had forecast the company's net profit to be roughly 166 billion yen.

SoftBank's Vision Fund posted a first-quarter profit of 5.43 billion yen, plummeting 99% year-on-year.

Last night, leading decentralized exchange (DEX) protocol Uniswap announced the official launch of its own launchpad pools.trade on the Robinhood Chain. According to Hayden Adams, the platform had already gained massive traction in the crypto community ahead of its official release, enabling token issuance and trading via on-chain contract interactions, with cumulative trading volume exceeding $150 million. Meanwhile, Uniswap’s move has impacted the interests of existing launchpad players. Multiple industry figures, including Bankr founder (@0xDeployer), have expressed dissatisfaction with what they term Uniswap’s "monopolistic" behavior. Additionally, pons, a previously viral token launch platform on Robinhood Chain, has seen its token market cap decline for multiple consecutive days following pools.trade’s launch, dropping from a peak of $67 million to below $20 million. Almost concurrent with pools.trade’s launch, Bankr’s founder and Sushi’s founder engaged in "close interactions", hinting at deep collaboration in the launchpad space to co-build pools.fun. Some analysts believe Bankr will migrate its existing Robinhood Chain launch process from Doppler/Uniswap v4 to Sushi’s launch framework, while retaining its distribution layer. BlockBeats notes that the current launchpad war on Robinhood Chain has entered a white-hot phase, but market consensus holds that the current environment lacks neither launch platforms nor liquidity; what is missing are narratives and innovations that can truly trigger user FOMO.