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

According to an official announcement, Binance will temporarily suspend U.S. stock trading to carry out system upgrades for its partner broker program. During this period, users will be unable to submit stock trading orders. The system upgrade is scheduled from 18:50 to 21:30 on September 12, 2026 (GMT+8).

According to a report by the Financial Times, foreign ministers of Gulf countries plan to meet with their Iranian counterpart in response to an initiative by Oman and Iran, to secure support for a temporary agreement on managing shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. Meanwhile, regional nations are seeking ways to ease tensions surrounding the key waterway. Proposed by Oman, the meeting will mark the first gathering between senior diplomats from the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and Iranian officials since the outbreak of US-Iran tensions in late February. Sources said the meeting is scheduled for next Monday in the Omani coastal city of Salalah. While details have not been finalized, multiple countries have confirmed the meeting is expected to proceed as planned. If held, the talks will underscore the region’s urgency to try to reopen the Strait and de-escalate US-Iran hostilities. (Jinshi)

From 动察 Beating AI Express: Security researcher Shou Chaofan said he recently purchased around 6TB of Fable model call data from a leading Chinese large language model (LLM) proxy. The dataset contained sensitive credentials including SSH keys, VPN configurations, Alibaba Cloud keys, and GitLab tokens. He added that the keys were sufficient to gain access to servers or internal systems of 19 leading Chinese enterprises and 7 Chinese and CIS government-related entities, including Huawei, Xiaomi, Nio, and MiniMax. LLM proxies sit between users and models like Claude, processing all requests and responses, so they have full access to plaintext data. Once developers insert SSH keys, API keys, VPN configurations, and other sensitive data into agent contexts, if proxies store or sell these records, the company’s system keys will leak. This is not Shou’s first warning about proxy risks. In an April paper he co-authored, 428 LLM proxies were tested: 9 actively injected malicious code, 17 used intentionally planted AWS test keys to access AWS services, and 1 directly siphoned ETH from a test wallet. Shou is co-founder of blockchain security firm Fuzzland, with a long focus on vulnerability and supply chain security research. In late March, he also led the discovery that Claude Code 2.1.88’s release package accidentally exposed roughly 500,000 lines of TypeScript source code via source maps.

Bitget’s API now fully supports Contracts for Difference (CFDs), further extending its algorithmic trading capabilities from crypto assets to global markets including gold, foreign exchange (forex), stock indices, and crude oil. Institutional clients and professional traders can directly manage CFD accounts via the API, covering core functions such as order execution, account inquiry, fund transfers, real-time market data, and risk control parameters, enabling them to extend their existing strategies to traditional financial derivatives markets within a familiar API framework. This upgrade further enriches the scenario dimensions of algorithmic trading. Traders can integrate factors like macroeconomic data, Federal Reserve policies, employment and inflation figures, oil prices, and stock index fluctuations into their strategy models, and flexibly configure these alongside different account types such as ECN, STP, and Pro. Through a unified API framework, the platform provides professional traders and institutional clients with more comprehensive algorithmic trading capabilities for global markets.

According to GMGN market data, the token STONK of Solana-based token launch platform StonkFun has hit a new all-time high, with its market cap exceeding $250 million and currently standing at $251 million, up 40.06% in the past 24 hours. StonkFun is an innovative launchpad on Solana, with its core narrative being "truly bridging memes and real-world assets (RWA)". The platform allows users to launch tokens with one click and freely select paired assets, including tokenized stocks like xStocks (e.g., SPYx tracking the S&P 500), pre-IPO shares, fiat currencies, commodities, other mainstream cryptocurrencies, and even another StonkFun token. STONK acts as a utility token for "all leveraged launch platforms with liquidity pools that can pair real assets", aiming to directly link Solana ecosystem meme culture with RWA liquidity. BlockBeats reminds users that most meme coins lack practical use cases, are highly volatile, and investors should exercise caution.

According to Lookonchain’s monitoring, address 0xc021a withdrew 1.1 million USDT from Binance four hours ago, then purchased 9.53 million units of the token "牛来" at an average price of $0.1155.