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

According to Lookonchain's monitoring, roughly an hour ago, an Ethereum OG whale sold 11,023 ETH via Wintermute, valued at approximately $27.23 million.

Bloomberg reports that network chipmaker Celero Communications has closed a $275 million funding round, lifting its valuation to over $3 billion. The company is benefiting from growing market demand for boosting the operational efficiency of AI data centers. The funding round is scheduled to be announced on Tuesday, with joint lead investors including Atreides Management, Valor Equity Partners, and CapitalG, the venture capital arm of Alphabet. Gavin Baker, managing partner and chief investment officer at Atreides, will join Celero’s board of directors. Founded two years ago, Celero develops coherent digital signal processors designed to accelerate data transmission for AI systems via fiber optics. Its products connect both adjacent data centers and different racks within the same data center, enabling more AI chips to be linked together to form larger-scale computing clusters.

According to market data from BIT (bit.com), Corning Inc. (GLW) rose over 7.5%, hitting a session high of $166, its highest intraday level since August 17. Telecom operator Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) saw its gain rebound to over 0.8%. Corning has signed a multi-billion dollar high-density fiber supply agreement with Verizon, with a contract term running from 2027 to 2032.

The Kremlin announced that Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump held a one-hour phone call. US President Trump focused on efforts to end the Ukraine conflict as soon as possible. Both leaders evaluated the visit of the US special envoy. Russia has no hostile plans toward Europe. Putin supports restoring US-Russia relations. The two discussed prisoner exchange. Putin also told Trump what measures the US could take to end the conflict faster, and provided Russia’s assessment of the battlefield situation to Trump.

Jiang Zhuoer, founder of BTC.TOP (莱比特矿池), posted that Bitcoin has just pulled back, Coinbase’s Bitcoin premium remains negative and its discount continues to widen, and he forecasts that the spot Bitcoin ETF (which trades on U.S. equity markets) will record net capital outflows tomorrow. ETF data is lagging; trading based on such data is equivalent to driving while looking in the rearview mirror. Though inconvenient, ETF capital inflows and outflows are highly significant, so it is necessary to keep close attention on them.

According to official announcements, Four.meme has launched the BNC4 Daily Buyback Campaign, running from 00:00 UTC on September 9, 2026, to 23:59:59 UTC on December 9, 2026. Notably, BNC4 product revenue generated on September 8 will be allocated to the first week’s buyback pool. During the campaign, all daily BNC4 product revenue will be used to repurchase eligible community meme tokens from the market, which will then be burned. Per campaign rules, daily trading volume of BNC4-pool meme projects—those using BNC4 as pool assets, with no fewer than 3,000 holding addresses and a market cap of at least $500,000 USDT—will be calculated over the 00:00 to 23:59:59 UTC period each day. The project ranking first in daily trading volume will qualify for that day’s buyback: Four.meme will allocate 100% of the day’s BNC4 product revenue to directly repurchase the project’s tokens, followed by burning all repurchased tokens. Product revenue includes transaction fees from BNC4 and fee income from BNC4 liquidity providers (LPs). Four.meme stated that daily rankings will be recalculated to determine a new top-volume project each day. Daily buyback amounts, burned token volumes, and on-chain transaction records will be made public for community verification. To ensure fair participation, projects engaging in wash trading, anomalous transactions, volume manipulation, or other improper activities may be disqualified from rankings and buyback eligibility.