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According to Axios, Anthropic is expanding its presence in the U.S. capital in preparation for the midterm elections. Anthropic will triple the size of its policy team and open a permanent office in Washington this spring to engage with policymakers and think tanks in the long term.Anthropic's new head of public policy, Sarah Heck, stated, "The pace of AI development is faster than any technology in history, and the window for making the right policies is closing." Heck takes over the role from co-founder Jack Clark and will report to President and co-founder Daniela Amodei.

Investment bank TD Cowen stated that the U.S. Congress may be close to passing legislation to permanently prohibit the Federal Reserve from issuing a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). This move could benefit stablecoin issuers but may also introduce new complexities for cryptocurrency market structure legislation.Last week, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz proposed an amendment in the housing bill "21st Century ROAD to Housing Act," calling for a permanent ban on the Federal Reserve issuing CBDC. The amendment aims to convert the currently effective temporary ban, which lasts until 2030, into a permanent provision. The housing bill is expected to be submitted for a Senate vote as early as this week.Jaret Seiberg, Managing Director of TD Cowen's Washington research department, indicated that the housing bill ultimately submitted for the president's signature is likely to include this ban, and the possibility of a permanent ban is higher than that of a temporary one. Seiberg pointed out that the amendment is primarily aimed at solidifying the current policy stance.The Federal Reserve has repeatedly stated that it will not issue a digital dollar without explicit authorization from Congress. Meanwhile, several U.S. lawmakers have recently co-signed a letter to congressional leadership, urging for a permanent ban on CBDC. Congressman Ralph Norman stated that unlike cash, CBDC could allow the government to track transactions and monitor individual spending behavior, thus a permanent ban is necessary to protect the privacy and freedom of Americans.It is noteworthy that the U.S. House of Representatives passed the "Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act" last year, which prohibits the Federal Reserve from directly issuing CBDC to individuals. Cruz has also been actively pushing for similar legislation in the Senate.

According to Cointelegraph, U.S. Congressman Michael Cloud, along with 28 other lawmakers, has sent a letter to congressional leadership requesting a permanent ban on the issuance of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) in the United States.The lawmakers believe that the current bill, which only proposes a temporary measure to prohibit the Federal Reserve from issuing a CBDC until 2031, is insufficient. They warn that a CBDC could lead to financial surveillance, grant excessive power to the Federal Reserve, and threaten citizens' freedoms. They call for the restoration of stricter permanent ban provisions previously proposed in the "Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act."Any ban on the issuance of a U.S. central bank digital currency must be "permanent," and they warn that issuing a U.S. central bank digital currency is "essentially anti-American."

According to on-chain analyst MLM (@mlmabc), the total buyback amount of the Hyperliquid Assistance Fund has surpassed $1 billion, a milestone achieved just 15 months after the launch of the $HYPE token.The analyst stated that a total of 41.71 million HYPE tokens have been permanently destroyed, valued at approximately $1.35 billion at current prices, accounting for 4.17% of the total supply of HYPE tokens.

According to The Block, the Federal Reserve recently announced a proposal to permanently remove the consideration of reputational risk factors from the banking regulatory framework, and has opened a 60-day public comment period.The proposal aims to ensure that banking regulatory decisions are based solely on substantive financial risks, preventing banks from refusing services due to customers' political views, religious beliefs, or involvement in legal but sensitive industries.Federal Reserve Vice Chair Michelle W. Bowman stated that there have been multiple cases of de-banking, and such discriminatory practices should not exist within the Federal Reserve's regulatory framework. Senator Cynthia Lummis welcomed the proposal, stating that this move will help the U.S. become a global hub for digital assets.

MicroStrategy stated during a live interview on a Middle Eastern television program that if the company sells credit instruments equivalent to 1.4% of its capital assets, it can pay the MSTR dividend and permanently increase the amount of BTC it holds.

Aster announced on the X platform that it has executed a 100% destruction of the repurchased tokens from the fourth and fifth phases. A total of 98,400,345.46 ASTER tokens have been permanently destroyed, with 53,920,060.26 tokens destroyed in the fourth phase and 44,480,285.2 tokens destroyed in the fifth phase. The related destruction transactions have been verified and published on BscScan.The announcement also pointed out that the sixth phase of the repurchase plan is still ongoing, and users can track the repurchase dynamics through the provided on-chain address.

The Flow Foundation officially announced the progress of the security incident resolution, confirming the permanent destruction of 87.4 billion counterfeit FLOW tokens, marking the complete technical resolution of the security incident.The related destruction operations were executed on-chain by the community governance committee, and all seized counterfeit assets have been completely withdrawn from circulation, in accordance with the independent recovery plan disclosed in the previous technical review. Currently, the validation nodes completed the deployment of security patches within 24 hours after the incident, and the network has continued to operate normally since then, with additional security measures introduced at the protocol level. Furthermore, network operation data shows that Flow has returned to a fully healthy state, processing over 3 million transactions in the past week, with all core DeFi protocols operating normally. With the completion of all security repairs, future efforts will focus on ecosystem expansion and product development. Previously, it was reported that Flow suffered a loss of $3.9 million due to a hacker attack, but user deposits were unaffected. In mid-January, its community governance committee completed the final recovery of unliquidated counterfeit FLOW tokens from centralized exchanges, including Binance and HTX.

MilkyWay Protocol has announced that it is gradually ceasing operations and will permanently shut down. MilkyWay stated that the demand and adoption of decentralized finance did not meet expectations, and WayCard was launched too late to alleviate the financial pressure in a timely manner.MilkyWay's revenue primarily comes from liquidity staking fees, of which the protocol retains 10%. As part of the shutdown process, the earned protocol fees will be returned to MILK token holders by proportionally distributing USDC to eligible snapshot holders.

According to official news, the Hyperliquid Foundation announced that the HYPE tokens in the aid fund system address have been officially burned, accounting for 11.068% of the circulating supply. This governance vote used a consensus mechanism calculated by staking weight, with 85% of the staked votes supporting the burn; 7% opposed; and 8% abstained.

The Hyper Foundation posted on social media, proposing a validator vote to officially acknowledge that the aid fund HYPE has been destroyed, and to permanently remove these tokens from circulation and total supply.As background information, the aid fund automatically converted transaction fees into HYPE during the L1 execution process. Similar to a zero address, the system address of the aid fund has never possessed the private keys to control its funds. Unless a hard fork occurs, the funds are mathematically unrecoverable.Voting "yes" indicates that validators agree to destroy the aid fund HYPE tokens. Since these tokens exist in a system address without private keys, no on-chain operations are required. This vote constitutes a binding social consensus that will never authorize any protocol upgrade to access this address.

According to Jin10, the Federal Reserve has removed the operational limits on the standing overnight reverse repurchase operations in the FOMC statement.

According to CoinDesk, Strategy (MSTR) Executive Chairman Michael Saylor confirmed at the Bitcoin MENA conference that the company will not launch permanent preferred shares or "digital credit" products in Japan within the next 12 months, giving Metaplanet a 12-month market first-mover advantage. Metaplanet plans to launch two new digital credit tools, "Mercury" and "Mars," which will target Strategy's STRK and STRC products, respectively.Among them, Mercury will offer a 4.9% yen yield, approximately ten times the yield on bank deposits in Japan. As Japan does not allow market sales (ATM), Metaplanet will adopt a Mobile Strike Warrant (MSW) mechanism. Metaplanet CEO Simon Gerovich expressed hope to complete the listing of Mercury before early 2026.

According to Jinshi reports, U.S. Treasury Secretary Yellen stated that the government shutdown has caused a permanent hit of $11 billion to the U.S. GDP.

Economists are concerned that key information about inflation and unemployment in the U.S. for October may disappear into a data "black hole," and they are right: White House officials have indicated that some key economic data may be permanently lost.One of President Trump's chief economic advisors, Hassett, stated in an interview on Thursday that due to the longest government shutdown in history, the unemployment rate for October will not be published, marking the first time in 77 years that this data will go unreported.However, Hassett noted that the estimates for job creation in October will still be calculated—this is in direct contrast to White House Press Secretary Levitt's claim a day earlier that the employment report might not be released at all.What remains unclear is whether the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for October will be published. Levitt had suggested that the CPI report might not be released, but Hassett did not comment on this. (Jin Shi)

According to the official announcement, Clanker will permanently return the control of fees collected in Clanker tokens back to the creators. Creators can choose to receive or burn these fees, providing more flexibility for their communities to promote development. This change will take effect on November 13, 2025, aiming to better align with Clanker's most successful projects.Additionally, the officials stated that they currently hold over 1% of the CLANKER supply. Today, they purchased a total of 2,233 CLANKER, of which 1,644 CLANKER cost $133,047, using two-thirds of the Clanker protocol fees; the remaining 589 CLANKER were obtained through liquidity fees. Now, they hold a total of 10,349 CLANKER.

Cointelegraph posted on the X platform that a U.S. court ruled that the FBI is not liable for the clearing of a hard drive containing 3,400 BTC, as the owner of the hard drive only later admitted it was theirs.This incident increases the number of cryptocurrencies considered unrecoverable, with an estimated 3.7 million BTC (approximately 18% of the total supply) currently lost.

According to The Defiant, Aave DAO has approved a permanent token buyback program, allocating $50 million annually from protocol revenue for the repurchase of AAVE tokens. The proposal was put forward by the Aave Chan Initiative (ACI) on October 22 and passed with 100% approval.Under the new plan, the Aave Financial Committee (AFC) and TokenLogic can repurchase AAVE worth between $250,000 and $1.75 million weekly, depending on market conditions and protocol revenue. Currently, Aave's total value locked (TVL) stands at $36.4 billion, with $12.7 million in revenue over the past 30 days.This move makes Aave one of the few DeFi projects to adopt a permanent income buyback program. According to a Keyrock report, since 2024, token buybacks and revenue distribution have increased more than fivefold, with projects averaging a 64% return of revenue to holders, indicating that crypto projects are shifting towards prioritizing shareholder returns like traditional corporations.