News on January 16: The Bitcoin Layer 2 network Merlin Chain announced a strategic partnership with the AI Agent project ElizaOS. Through this collaboration, developers can utilize Eliza OS's multi-agent simulation technology and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) system to deploy AI Agents with conversational memory capabilities on Merlin Chain, enabling more efficient cross-chain transactions and asset discovery, among other functions. In the past 10 months, Merlin Chain has facilitated over $24 billion in Bitcoin asset cross-chain transfers, formed a liquidity pool of $46.5 million in areas such as BRC20, Runes, and NFTs, and attracted over 2.4 million wallet addresses globally.