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

Renowned trader Ouyang Zhuai Bai commented in a post that the storage sector staged a sharp rebound today after days of steep declines. As extreme conditions often trigger reverse forces, examples include Zhang Xiaolong’s call for college students to invest in tech stocks and the "Hynix Girl" posting messages about Seoul’s golden era. Just a few weeks ago, the storage sector’s fundamentals remained largely unchanged, yet stock prices have halved—this is the reverse deleveraging momentum formed by unanimous bullish sentiment across trading levels. Earlier, he stated, “I will continue taking positions today,” placing stepped limit buy orders for SK Hynix ADRs in the range of roughly $122 to $94. A few days ago, he noted that the year’s biggest trading opportunity had arrived, and began bottom-fishing for storage concept stocks via a strategy of no stop-losses and stepped spot purchases. Ouyang Zhuai Bai has long employed a low-leverage trend trading strategy, with core tenets including “going long on real breakouts,” short-term adjustments during extreme market sentiment, and strict position control—total leverage usually does not exceed 2x. His trading philosophy emphasizes achieving compound returns through trend-aligned holdings and phased bottom-fishing, with staying active in the market as a primary principle, and he opposes high leverage and full-position trading.

According to BIT (bit.com) market data, during U.S. trading hours, Strategy’s perpetual preferred stock (ticker: STRC) is trading at $89.43, up 2.35%, hitting its highest price since July 2. Strategy will release its Q2 financial results at 5 a.m. UTC+8 on July 31. Additionally, Strategy has not added to its Bitcoin holdings for the fifth consecutive week. Recently, Strategy founder Michael Saylor emphasized that the company will not issue new STRC shares when the stock trades below $100. The firm has repurchased 288,930 STRC preferred shares for a total of roughly $25 million, at an average price of $86.52 per share. Strategy plans to remain a "regular and disciplined buyer," continuing repurchases when STRC is priced below $100. It will increase buying activity when the price is far from $100, and reduce repurchase volumes as it approaches that level. Currently, Strategy has approximately $975 million available for preferred stock repurchases. Funds for STRC repurchases will not come from its U.S. dollar reserves; instead, they will be raised via methods such as selling MSTR stock and Bitcoin, depending on market conditions, with the goal of stabilizing STRC’s price near $100.

According to market data from BIT (bit.com), Situational Awareness, the fund run by 25-year-old Wall Street AI stock prodigy Leopold, was revealed today to have sold off the majority of its holdings, with Leopold falling just before the dawn. Likely driven by the liquidation news, all stocks previously held by the fund (per Q1 13-f filings) surged sharply, including: CleanSpark (CLSK) up 21.61%; Riot Platforms (RIOT) up 23.70%; Applied Digital (APLD) up 21.27%; Core Scientific (CORZ) up 22.93%; IREN Ltd (IREN) up 28.83%; CoreWeave (CRWV) up 24.53%; SanDisk (SNDK) up 24.34%; Bloom Energy (BE) up 27.05%.

Nonprofit promotion organization Ethereum Institutional has released a statement to celebrate the 11th anniversary of Ethereum. Since the Ethereum mainnet launched on July 30, 2015, Ethereum has operated nonstop for 11 consecutive years of block production with zero interruptions; become the settlement layer for stablecoins, holding more than half of the total stablecoin supply; captured the largest share of decentralized real-world assets across all networks; built the largest decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem in the crypto space; fostered the industry’s largest developer ecosystem; and emerged as the default venue for institutional blockchain transactions. No company owns it, no one can shut it down, and it remains fully neutral. Everything on-chain is verifiable. For the next 11 years, let Ethereum become a sacred ground in the financial sector.

According to sources, tokenized asset protocol Ondo Finance is evaluating a potential acquisition worth between $250 million and $500 million.

According to people familiar with the matter, Situational Awareness, an AI-themed hedge fund founded by 25-year-old rising Wall Street AI stock prodigy and former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, has sold most of its stock portfolio to Ken Griffin’s Citadel after incurring massive losses. The fund had recently been seeking buyers for its holdings and attempting to raise new capital. As of the end of the first quarter, Situational Awareness’s top holdings included Nebius, SanDisk, Micron, and CoreWeave, all of which have seen their stock prices drop by more than 35% this month. Ken Griffin is a renowned American billionaire hedge fund manager who founded Citadel in Chicago in 1990 and has served as its founder and CEO ever since. Citadel is one of the world’s largest and most successful hedge funds, managing hundreds of billions of dollars in assets and employing a multi-strategy investment approach covering equities, fixed income, commodities, quantitative trading, and more. Its subsidiary, Citadel Securities, is one of Wall Street’s most important market makers, holding a dominant market share in U.S. stock trading. Griffin is known for his shrewd trading style, rigorous risk management, and massive influence in the hedge fund industry, consistently ranking among the world’s wealthiest hedge fund managers. Earlier reports noted that the so-called "AI stock prodigy’s" fund had liquidated all publicly listed stock assets, initiating a gradual wind-down.