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

According to GMGN market data, the Solana-based meme coin e/acc hit a market cap of $29 million and a trading volume of $55.5 million just 9 hours after its launch. The token uses UsePaid, a tool for automatic creator fee distribution, to pay generated creator fees to Silicon Valley influencer Beff Jezos (@beffjezos) on X. The real identity behind the account is widely believed to be Guillaume Verdon, a former Google X quantum computing and quantum machine learning engineer who later founded AI hardware firm Extropic. Verdon is more famous for his e/acc (effective accelerationism) slogan than his personal profile: the ideology of pushing AI, energy, and growth to their limits through technology and capital. After the e/acc meme coin launched today, Verdon initially claimed the X Money account was under DDoS attack, but later clarified that the funds would likely be used for e/acc-related non-profit activities. Notably, Verdon has no official issuance connection to the token; he is merely named and receives funds passively. BlockBeats reminds users that most meme coins lack real use cases, exhibit extreme price volatility, and caution is required for investments.

According to Farside data, U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded a net inflow of $134.5 million yesterday, marking their seventh consecutive trading day of net inflows exceeding $100 million, with total net inflows over the seven-day period hitting $2.9783 billion. U.S. spot Ethereum ETFs saw a net inflow of $87 million yesterday, extending their streak of daily net inflows to six consecutive trading days.

Beating AI Express reports that Vercel has launched the anonymous large language model Pixel Canary on its AI Gateway, offering it for free for a limited time while the model’s identity remains confidential. Cline has also integrated with Pixel Canary for free. Vercel states that the model is primarily targeted at programming, front-end, and mobile app development, supporting both building new applications and refactoring existing code. In Vercel’s Next.js Agent Evals, Pixel Canary posted a baseline success rate of 90%, tying with GPT 6 Astra (high) and outperforming Kimi K3’s 84% rate. The success rate rises to 97% when supplemented with Next.js official documentation AGENTS.md. The evaluation uses real-world Next.js development tasks, with each task allowed up to 4 attempts, and is marked as passed if at least one attempt succeeds.

According to HTX market data, AERO is currently trading at $0.89, with a 24-hour increase of 25.5%; VELODROME is priced at $0.038, up 22.1% in the same period. Aerodrome and Velodrome will merge into a unified cross-chain DEX named Aero, whose launch date has been set for October 21. The new DEX will cover Base, Ethereum Mainnet, OP, Arc, and Ink, plus newly added Robinhood Chain and Arbitrum. The AERO and VELO tokens will be consolidated into a single AERO token, with prior revenue allocated at a ratio of roughly 94.5% to AERO holders and 5.5% to VELO holders. Both communities and trading platforms will also migrate to Aero.

Trader 0xc8F7 opened a 15x long on 2.15M $ENA ($592K) on @Aster_DEX and is now up $310.7K — a massive 786.54% return!

Trader 0xc8F7 opened a 15x long on 2.15M $ENA ($592K) on @Aster_DEX and is now up $310.7K — a massive 786.54% return!