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According to CoinDesk, Galaxy founder Mike Novogratz stated that Galaxy will match deposits of $1,000 in "Trump Accounts" from the U.S. Treasury for the children of eligible employees.

The Financial Secretary of Hong Kong, Paul Chan, stated in his budget speech that in order to further attract family offices and funds to settle in Hong Kong, the tax system will be optimized, with digital assets, precious metals, and others listed as eligible investments for tax relief, planned to take effect from the 2025/2026 tax year.In addition, the economic cooperation and development organization (OECD) framework for cryptocurrency asset reporting and the newly revised common reporting standards will be implemented over the next two years, in line with international efforts to enhance tax transparency and combat cross-border tax evasion. It is expected that the draft amendment to the Tax Ordinance will be submitted in the first half of the year. Chan also stated that the Hong Kong government will continue to regularly issue tokenized bonds, and a digital asset platform will be established within the year to support the issuance and settlement of digital bonds, gradually expanding to other digital assets and connecting with other tokenized platforms in the region.

According to a press release from the Hong Kong government, the Financial Secretary Paul Chan stated in his budget speech that to further attract family offices and funds to settle in Hong Kong, the tax system will be optimized, with digital assets, precious metals, and others listed as eligible investments for tax relief, planned to take effect from the 2025/2026 tax year.In addition, over the next two years, the implementation of the OECD's crypto asset reporting framework and the newly revised Common Reporting Standard will be carried out, in line with international efforts to enhance tax transparency and combat cross-border tax evasion, with a draft amendment to the Tax Ordinance expected to be submitted in the first half of the year. Chan also stated that the Hong Kong government will continue to regularly issue tokenized bonds, and a digital asset platform will be established within the year to support the issuance and settlement of digital bonds, gradually expanding to other digital assets and connecting with other tokenized platforms in the region.

The BNB Chain developer team stated that as the ecosystem continues to expand, applications need to share rules for seamless collaboration. To this end, BNB Chain has launched the BAP (BNB Application Proposal) mechanism, allowing developers to reach consensus on application layer standards such as NFT utility, AI agent behavior, and identity specifications without touching the consensus layer or EVM.The official introduction also presented the first proposal BAP-578, which is the Non-Fungible Agent (NFA) token standard. This standard proposes that the NFA is an AI-driven asset existing on-chain, capable of autonomous operation, wallet holding, executing transactions, recording behavioral history, and functioning across multiple dApps. BAP-578 is seen as one of the infrastructures for the "agent economy," aiming to promote the flow and collaboration of AI agents within the BNB Chain ecosystem according to unified standards.BNB Chain pointed out that the BAP is designed to be community-driven, allowing developers to participate in reviewing BAP-578, providing feedback, or submitting new BAPs to collectively shape the application layer standard system.

According to The Block, the Financial Services Agency (FSA) of Japan has opened a public consultation period to solicit opinions on draft rules regarding the types of collateralized bonds for stablecoins, with a deadline of February 27, 2026.This move aims to implement the Payment Services Act of 2025 by defining the "specific trust beneficiary rights" of the issuer's reserves. The Financial Services Agency stated that the finalized standards will specify the asset composition of all regulated, yen-pegged stablecoins issued within that jurisdiction.

Binance announced on the X platform that by trading stock tokens with the Binance Wallet, users can earn Binance Alpha task points.Event time: January 20, 2026, 21:00 --- February 3, 2026, 20:59 (UTC+8).During the event, users who successfully purchase a single stock token of ≥50 USDT/USDC in the Binance Wallet (App/Web) will receive 5 Binance Alpha points (limited to one per user).

According to the official X account of Solana Mobile, Solana Mobile has disclosed the specific allocation details of the SKR airdrop. This airdrop distributes nearly 2 billion SKR to the community, with approximately 1.82 billion allocated to 100,908 users and about 141 million allocated to 188 developers, covering both user and developer groups.The official announcement states that SKR will be officially available for claim on January 21 at 02:00 (UTC). Eligible participants can check their individual allocation amounts and corresponding levels in advance and need to prepare a small amount of SOL to pay for the on-chain fees incurred during the claim process. After claiming, SKR can be staked to earn rewards.In addition, Solana Mobile has confirmed that Season 2 has been launched, and related ecological incentive programs are ongoing.

The Bitcoin Layer 2 network Mezo announced an airdrop of MEZO tokens to users who use BTC for lending within the Ethereum ecosystem (including protocols such as MakerDAO, Compound, Aave, Morpho, Euler, Spark, etc.). Users can visit their official website to check eligibility and register their wallets.Mezo stated that users become eligible for the airdrop after borrowing MUSD on Mezo. If the allocated tokens are locked as veMEZO for six months, users can receive a 2x reward multiplier. Additionally, Mezo plans to launch vaults with reward bonuses and conduct liquidity migration this month.

The Espresso Foundation, a blockchain infrastructure, stated that "the ESP airdrop registration page is now live, and users can check if they qualify for the Espresso airdrop. The token claim page will open in early 2026. From now until the claim opens in early 2026, more airdrop eligibility criteria are planned to be added."

The cryptocurrency wallet app Phantom tweeted that its prediction market is now open to eligible users, powered by Kalshi. Users can make predictions using any Solana token in their wallet, including CASH. Additionally, the official statement noted that its prediction market is not available in all jurisdictions.

The cross-chain Perp DEX aggregator VOOI has announced the airdrop rules and eligibility criteria. Eligible users can start claiming the VOOI token on the VOOI App at 20:00 Beijing time on December 18, with a validity period of 30 days.Eligible users for the airdrop include VOOI trading point earners, traders on VOOI V1 from May 9 to June 31 this year, and qualified participants who ranked high in the VOOI x Cookie co-branded event. VOOI stated that each registered account claiming the airdrop must undergo a multi-layer anti-witch attack verification process.

The prediction market predict.fun announced yesterday that Predict will officially launch today. The team has taken snapshots of the following user addresses:Addresses that have traded a certain scale of Meme coins on the BNB Chain;Addresses that have participated in perpetual contract trading on Aster DEX;Active users in prediction markets such as Polymarket, Limitless, Myriad Markets, Opinion Labs, etc.;Existing participants of Predict (Blast) are also included.The airdrop query page will also be open today.

The Aave community has passed a proposal to remove the collateral eligibility of USDS (adjusting LTV to 0), exclude it from e-Mode, and increase the reserve factor (RF) from 10% to 25%, currently awaiting final execution of the AIP.The main reasons are the decline in USDS yield contribution, low collateral utilization, and potential risk exposure from the issuance mechanism.MakerDAO founder Rune responded that the proposal misunderstands the borrowing methods of Stars like Spark and Grove from Sky, stating that they have actually paid reasonable interest rates and settled regularly. He emphasized that if Sky significantly improves transparency and scalability through Data Hub, Grove, and Sentinel Network in the future, USDS still has a chance to return to the Aave collateral asset list, promoting broader adoption.

According to the official announcement, Binance Alpha will launch GaiAi (GAIX) on November 29. Eligible users can visit the Alpha Events page to claim the airdrop using Binance Alpha points after the trading opens. More details will be announced soon.

According to the official announcement, Binance Alpha will launch the Sparkle (SSS) token on November 24.Eligible users can go to the Alpha Events page to claim the airdrop using Binance Alpha points after the trading opens. More details will be announced soon.

According to the official announcement, Binance Alpha will become the first platform to launch ULTILAND (ARTX) on November 21.Eligible users can go to the Alpha event page to claim the airdrop using Binance Alpha points after the Alpha trading opens. Further details will be announced separately.

A representative of FTX creditors, Sunil, stated on social media that FTX's total assets before repayment to creditors are between $16 billion and $17 billion. A repayment of $454 million is scheduled for February 18, 2025, followed by a repayment of $5 billion on May 30, 2025, and another $1.6 billion on September 30, 2025, bringing the total repayment amount to $7.1 billion.The next repayment is expected to take place in January 2026, and the deadline for determining distribution eligibility may be in December (creditor representative Sunil indicated that the specific date still awaits an official announcement).

ChainCatcher news, Binance Alpha will be the first platform to launch SigmaDotMoney (SIGMA). Eligible users can claim the SIGMA airdrop using Binance Alpha points on the Alpha event page after the Alpha trading opens. Specific rules and details will be announced later through Binance's official channels.

ChainCatcher news, according to the official announcement, Aster has launched the second phase airdrop check page. A total of 153932 wallets are eligible. Eligible participants will be able to claim on October 14, with the specific time to be announced on that day. There is no vesting period for this phase.Previously, Aster stated that it has added more flexibility to the way users can claim Genesis Phase 2 (S2) rewards: Option 1: Receive ASTER airdrop as usual. Option 2: Full refund of S2 transaction fees. Treat it as a zero-fee trading activity.

ChainCatcher message, Binance Chinese indicates that if any tokens are found to have suspected price manipulation or malicious scoring behavior, their related Alpha points eligibility will be directly canceled without further notice, and the right to take further action is reserved.