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

Crypto KOL @0xkioto today summarized the common trajectory of tokens that have reached or are near the 100 million yuan market cap since the launch of the Robinhood Chain. He pointed out that tokens like CASHCAT, AI, and PONS have strong market appeal from the start, attracting massive capital inflows. However, once the hype cools, all short-term buyers get washed out. All these tokens have seen crashes ranging from 60% to 95% after their initial rally. @0xkioto argues that these crashes transfer supply to loyal holders who will not sell, as well as a "team" accumulating tokens, laying the groundwork for the next rally. When new demand emerges, it will face thin sell orders, possibly paired with a catalyst to accelerate gains—this is when the token starts surging sharply. "The Robinhood Chain belongs to holders, not disruptors," he said. BlockBeats notes that the above summary may hold some representativeness and logic behind token consolidation. However, the performance of these tokens is also heavily influenced by overall market sentiment fluctuations since the Robinhood Chain’s launch. The Robinhood Chain launched in early July with impressive performance, but later fell into a liquidity crunch and faced challenges with its narrative due to factors like capital outflows, which is one of the key reasons behind the sharp corrections seen in the aforementioned tokens.

Beating AI Insight News: Terminal-Bench has launched version 4.0, recalibrating time, CPU, and memory parameters for agent task execution, fixing 19 tasks, and removing 8 tasks plagued by issues including saturation, refusal to answer, public solutions, or quality problems. All tasks now have a uniform maximum execution time of 8 hours, aimed at reducing the impact of timeouts and environment-related issues on performance scores. In the latest ranking, Opus 5 + Claude Code tops the list with 51.8%, Fable 5 takes second at 44.5%, while GLM-5.3 + Claude Code claims third place with 41.8%, surpassing GPT-5.6 Sol + Codex’s 37.3%. Among the top three, GLM-5.3 is the only model not developed by Anthropic. In Terminal-Bench 3.0, GLM-5.3 ranked fourth with 32.4%, trailing GPT-5.6 Sol’s 34.6%; in version 4.0, GLM-5.3 jumped to third, leading Sol by 4.5 percentage points.

Serenity has published an analysis note questioning Sivers Photonics (SIVE)’s development strategy, arguing the company remains overly focused on the Swedish market, while US investors likely prioritize its future growth potential and actual economic value derived from orders. Serenity noted US analysts are more inclined to focus on the implications of SIVE’s recent two wafer fab capacity allocations, and how much revenue and operating leverage these capacities will unlock amid supply bottlenecks and rising Average Selling Prices (ASP). Additionally, factors such as the 2028 volume ramp-up of CPO players including NPO/CPO, pluggable optical modules, and Ayar, ELS products’ collaboration with O-Net, and the scale and potential Total Addressable Market (TAM) of six new pluggable customers also warrant in-depth discussion. By contrast, local market concerns center on issues like “how to stem the bleeding”, why private clients cannot be disclosed, why the focus on transceivers, and what the “business opportunity pipeline” actually entails, forcing management to spend substantial time addressing these queries instead of discussing future growth. Serenity believes the more time SIVE devotes to the Swedish market, the more its valuation will be constrained by Swedish market investment logic, hence the need to actively showcase future growth opportunities and their underlying economic value to US investors.

According to GMGN market data, the Robinhood Chain meme token COPPERINU surged to a $10 million market cap within two hours of launch before pulling back, currently trading at $8.98 million, with its trading volume exceeding $5.7 million. On the news front, the token’s developer transferred 40% of its total supply to crypto KOL Him’s wallet. Him later publicly stated he is willing to develop the token to include features such as staking, claiming, and burning, and will use this portion of tokens for community airdrops. The COPPERINU meme originates from a January tweet by crypto KOL Cobie, who joked that trading real-world commodities like copper doesn’t need to worry about "Copper Inu" diverting attention, nor will anyone keep launching new "copper products" on Pump.fun. Crypto KOL Him previously led the promotion of the SOL-based meme token COPPERINU at the time, and is regarded by the community as the "top holder" of this theme and the main driver of its narrative. BlockBeats reminds users that related tokens experience high price volatility, so investors should exercise caution.

According to monitoring by GoPlus Security, the developer funds for the GOLD token trace back to KuCoin, and funds from 15 operator wallets can be linked to Binance. The group has also launched another token, Trump Digital Platinum (PLATINUM). Earlier news reported that the scam team behind Trump Digital Gold (GOLD) sold all its GOLD holdings at around 2 PM today, totaling approximately 824.54 million tokens, representing 82.454% of the total token supply, and reaping a cumulative profit of around 9,784.6 SOL (about $1.01 million).

Polygon Labs has issued an emergency notice, stating that Polygon PoS nodes still running older versions of Bor or Heimdall have fallen out of consensus after the activation of the Austin and Kyoto hard forks, requiring client upgrades to catch up with network progress. Austin was activated at mainnet block 91,949,700, with nodes required to run Bor v2.10.0 or above; Kyoto was activated at block height 51,533,000, requiring nodes to run Heimdall v0.11.0 or higher. The announcement adds that Austin fixed two types of Bor resource exhaustion risks: L1-to-L2 bridge state synchronization events were not included in gas limits, which could slow block processing; and the TxDependency field lacks size restrictions, potentially causing peer nodes to crash.