Foresight News reported that Asher Genoot, CEO of Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin mining company Hut 8, explained why the company chose to establish a strategic Bitcoin reserve, stating that 'fundamentals-first operational strategy + proactive capital management = exceptional value creation potential.' According to a screenshot shared by Asher Genoot, Hut 8's strategic Bitcoin reserve supports a flywheel effect, combining capital and operational strategies to accelerate value creation across the business. Its capital strategy includes: allocating capital to projects with high ROIC, capturing BTC price increases, and strengthening the balance sheet, increasing strategic BTC reserves through low-cost production and strategic market purchases, and focusing on delivering exceptional long-term returns for shareholders; its operational strategy includes: scaling and expanding geographic reach, developing a digital infrastructure platform, expanding BTC mining scale, and reducing BTC mining costs.

According to Foresight News, according to Whale Alert monitoring, USDC Treasury issued an additional 50 million USDC on the Ethereum chain at 18:02.

Foresight News reports, according to Barrons, MicroStrategy Chairman Michael Saylor recently did not explicitly state whether the company could be included in the S&P 500, but he mentioned that, given the optimistic outlook on Bitcoin, MicroStrategy may report billions of dollars in quarterly net income next year due to the increase in the value of its Bitcoin holdings. The accounting rule changes coming into effect in 2025 may enable MicroStrategy to meet the profit requirements for joining the S&P 500.

Foresight News reports that since October, the National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR) has submitted shareholder proposals urging Microsoft and Amazon to consider investing in Bitcoin, believing this would protect these companies and their investors from inflation. The organization stated that more Bitcoin proposals are in the works and that promoting the adoption of Bitcoin aligns with its agenda of 'supporting freedom' since cryptocurrency is essentially not controlled by the government.

Foresight News reports that Germany's DekaBank has obtained a cryptocurrency custody license issued by the country's regulatory authority BaFin and the European Central Bank (ECB). Commerzbank was the first German bank to obtain a license last year, while other major banks have not yet received licenses. BaFin has issued an additional 11 cryptocurrency custody licenses, primarily targeting cryptocurrency companies.

Foresight News reports that the AI Agent project VaderAI has updated the VADER token economic model. VaderAI indicates that it will launch two types of DAOs: a passive DAO managed by VaderAI, which charges a 0.5% management fee and rewards VADER stakers; and an active DAO run by managers, which charges a performance fee ranging from 0-20%, with 20% of the performance fee pool rewarding VADER stakers. The incentive mechanisms include: staking 100,000 VADER to launch the DAO; withdrawing positive yield rewards in VADER, with a 1% fee for destruction; and advertisers airdropping 100% of tokens as rewards to VADER stakers, among others.

Foresight News reports that Shaw, the founder of ai16z, published a post answering questions about the project structure and the relationships between entities: ai16z is a decentralized DAO, owning the tokens ai16z and degenai; ElizaOS is an open-source AI agent framework; Eliza Labs is responsible for developing ElizaOS. Shaw also emphasized that the DAO is decentralized, adopts a fair launch model, and has no entity intervention, team allocations, venture capital, or similar arrangements. Additionally, the ELIZA token is developed by an independent team, receiving support but not being an official product.

Foresight News reports that the cross-chain interoperability platform Wormhole has announced that Wormhole DAO will launch in the first quarter of 2025. To participate in the initial voting, W holders must complete governance staking. The Wormhole Staking Rewards Program (SRP) is currently ongoing, supporting Solana and all EVM chains. Users participating in governance staking can earn rewards, with the initial rewards pool allocating no less than 50 million W tokens.

Foresight News reports that on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa monitored that "smart money profited $4.92 million through PEPE fluctuations in the past six months" and four hours ago re-entered with 475.3 billion PEPE, valued at $8.2 million, with an average price of $0.00001724, currently showing a floating profit of $142,000. Since December, four other whales heavily invested in PEPE include: a whale that bought low and sold high, profiting $6.24 million, re-entered on December 21 with 250 billion PEPE at a cost of $0.00001697; address 0x53A...63F4 first entered on December 16 with 230.1 billion PEPE at a cost of $0.00002455; an ETH fluctuation whale with a win rate of 85% entered on December 15 with 788.2 billion PEPE at an average price of $0.00002394. A PEPE fluctuation whale with a win rate of 100% again increased their position by $3.68 million in PEPE, currently holding 1.129 trillion PEPE at an average cost of $0.00001647.

Foresight News reports that Azuki founder Zagabond stated, "This is not just the story of Azuki—this is the story of Web3. Born from the spirit of decentralization on Ethereum, built by all of us. After months of writing in seclusion, the Azuki World Bible is complete, and we can't wait to share our story with the world." with an accompanying image titled "Azuki World Bible V1.01".

Foresight News message, THORChain V3 released, this update includes upgrading to Cosmos SDK v0.50, switching from Tendermint to CometBFT, introducing Cosmos ecosystem compatibility, adding Rujira application layer, etc.

Foresight News reports that asset management company GraniteShares has submitted an application for a 2x leveraged ETF for cryptocurrency companies in the US stock market, with components including cryptocurrency-related companies such as Riot Platforms, Marathon Digital, MicroStrategy, and Robinhood. Marathon Digital and Riot are two major Bitcoin mining companies and are the third and second largest holders of Bitcoin, holding 44,394 and 17,429 Bitcoins on their balance sheets, respectively. MicroStrategy holds the most Bitcoin, with 439,000, and Robinhood is one of the main platforms for cryptocurrency and stock investment in the United States.

Foresight News reports that, according to Ember monitoring, a certain whale spent 32.45 million USD in USDC to purchase 8.917 million EIGEN at an average price of 3.64 USD through 21 addresses in October. Since last night, they have been gradually redeeming EIGEN and selling it on-chain. Since 7 PM last night, they have redeemed 1,270,507 EIGEN (5.02 million USD) from the EigenLayer staking contract through 4 addresses and sold it on-chain for ETH or USDC.

Foresight News reports that, according to data from the Ministry of Finance of El Salvador, the country has once again increased its holdings by 11 bitcoins, approximately 1.06 million dollars, half an hour ago. The country currently holds a total of 5,993.77 bitcoins, valued at over 580 million dollars, with an increase of 30 bitcoins in the last 7 days and 53 bitcoins in the last 30 days. Foresight News previously reported that Max Keiser, a senior bitcoin advisor to President Bukele, revealed that the president has intensified daily bitcoin purchases, with a medium-term goal of adding 20,000 bitcoins to the holdings.

Foresight News reports that ai16z founder Shaw stated that AI agents can now use the 0G Labs plugin to send files to each other, and this feature has been released in the main version.

Foresight News report, in January 2025, Google's new advertising policy will take effect. Log content indicates that starting January 15, 2025, Google will allow advertisers to promote cryptocurrency exchanges and cryptocurrency wallet ads targeting the UK market, as long as the advertisers are registered with the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Additionally, advertisers must comply with all other local legal requirements. For hardware wallets, the condition is that such wallets must meet the following criteria: designed to store private keys for cryptocurrencies, NFTs, or other crypto assets, but do not provide additional services such as buying, selling, exchanging, or trading assets. At the same time, advertisers must also comply with all other local legal requirements.

Foresight News reported that the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) has issued a red notice against Richard Heart, founder of Hex and PulseChain, on behalf of Finland, accusing him of serious tax evasion and assault. The website of the European law enforcement agency, Europol, shows that Finland has issued an arrest warrant for Schueler on charges of tax evasion amounting to "hundreds of millions of euros" and the alleged assault of a 16-year-old boy. Foresight News previously reported that the U.S. SEC filed a lawsuit against Richard Heart in 2023, accusing him of raising over $1 billion in an unregistered securities offering and using those funds to purchase luxury cars, designer clothing, and rare black diamonds worth over $4 million.

Foresight News reports that according to Blockspace, Halliburton, the world's second-largest oilfield services company, has invested in Austin startup 360 Energy, entering the Bitcoin mining sector. 360 Energy (also known as 360 Mining) has joined Halliburton Labs' 'collaborative ecosystem' as part of its energy technology accelerator program. Additionally, Halliburton Labs has also become an equity investor in 360 Energy.

Foresight News reports that, according to Ember Monitoring, Arthur Hayes withdrew 7.85 million USDC from Binance, and the 7 million ENA transferred to Binance last night has already been sold at an average price of $1.12. Foresight News previously reported that Arthur Hayes marked the address to un-stake 9.018 million ENA and then deposited 7 million ENA into Binance, valued at $8.47 million.

Foresight News reported that, according to Reuters, informed sources revealed that the Biden administration plans to add the AI company Sophgo, associated with Bitmain, to the U.S. Department of Commerce's restricted trade list due to the company's TSMC-manufactured chips being illegally included in Huawei's artificial intelligence processors. Foresight News previously reported that Sophgo had issued a written statement in response, emphasizing that it has never had any direct or indirect business relationship with Huawei, and stated that it has submitted a detailed investigation report to TSMC to prove its unrelatedness to the Huawei investigation. However, the statement did not deny the cut-off of supply by TSMC.