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Foresight News reports that the AI agency protocol Virtuals has made robotics a core pillar of its strategy and investment this year. Its robotics data project SeeSaw has recorded over 500,000 tasks within two months of launching. Currently, Virtuals is in the early stages of integrating Embodied Agents with robotic ACP. Additionally, Virtuals predicts that Q1 2026 will be a turning point for the development of embodied intelligent agents.

Foresight News: The People's Bank of China has released the China Financial Stability Report (2025). The report points out the importance of solidly advancing the 'five major articles' of finance, vigorously developing technology finance, green finance, inclusive finance, pension finance, and digital finance, and increasing support for major national strategies and key areas and weak links in economic and social development. It emphasizes the establishment of a comprehensive macro-prudential management system, strengthening the monitoring and assessment of systemic financial risks, and reinforcing macro-prudential management in key areas. It aims to prevent and mitigate financial risks in key areas, firmly promote financial support for the resolution of financing platform debt risks, actively and prudently deal with risks in small and medium-sized financial institutions, ensure proper macro-prudential management in real estate finance, and firmly maintain the bottom line of preventing systemic financial risks.

Foresight News, BNB Chain Developers have released a notice that the BSC mainnet Fermi hard fork upgrade is expected to activate on January 14, 2026, at 10:30. This upgrade will reduce the block interval from 750 milliseconds to 450 milliseconds to enhance network throughput and transaction processing efficiency.

Foresight News reports that, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, the BlackRock ETF address deposited 1,044 BTC, worth approximately $91.9 million, and 7,557 ETH, worth approximately $22.41 million, into Coinbase.

Foresight News reports that according to Onchain Lens monitoring, Arthur Hayes' address increased its holdings by 549,868 PENDLE tokens, worth approximately $975,000.

Foresight News reported that the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan and the Japan Innovation Party released the outline for tax reform for the fiscal year 2026 on December 19. They proposed a different direction for the taxation of virtual currencies compared to the past. They also put forward certain guidelines for the separation of taxation system that many investors have requested. The tax system may change in the future. The outline indicates that the direction is to classify virtual currencies as financial products that contribute to public asset accumulation, rather than categorizing them all as 'speculative' products. They are considering applying the separation of taxation system for virtual currency income similarly to stocks and investment trusts.

Foresight News reported that, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, Arthur Hayes withdrew 1.85 million LDO from Binance, worth approximately 1.03 million USD.

Foresight News reported that Aave founder Stani Kulechov tweeted that the recent DAO vote on brand asset ownership has concluded, and he is committed to making the economic interests between Aave Labs and AAVE token holders more transparent. Stani pointed out that the Aave DAO has generated $140 million in revenue this year, exceeding the total of the past three years, and that AAVE token holders have control over the treasury. Regarding his recent personal expenditure of $15 million to purchase AAVE, Stani clarified that these tokens did not participate in this proposal vote, and his increase in holdings is based on confidence in the project's long-term prospects. In the future, Aave Labs will more clearly articulate how the developed products create value for the DAO and token holders, and will continue to support service providers within the protocol ecosystem.

According to Foresight News, as per Bitget market data, FLOCK once broke through 0.13 USDT, currently reported at 0.125 USDT, with a 24-hour increase of about 28%.

Community news reports that the FLock team is advancing the development of a new product FOMO (FLOCK Open Model Offering), which will focus on the design around 'model assetization and revenue return', turning AI models into tokenized assets supported by real income. More details will be gradually announced.

The future in the rearview mirror: when AI becomes the 'steel' and 'steam' of the organization.

Written by: Ivan Zhao

Compiled by: AididiaoJP, Foresight News

Every era is shaped by its unique technological materials. Steel forged the Gilded Age, and semiconductors opened the digital age. Today, artificial intelligence arrives in a form of limitless intelligence. History tells us: whoever masters the materials defines the era.

Left image: Young Andrew Carnegie and his brother. Right image: Steel mills in Pittsburgh during the Gilded Age.

In the 1850s, Andrew Carnegie was still a telegraph messenger running through the muddy streets of Pittsburgh, at that time six out of ten Americans were farmers. Just two generations later, Carnegie and his peers forged the modern world, with horses giving way to railroads, candlelight yielding to electric light, and iron being replaced by steel.

Foresight News reported that the General Office of the National Financial Supervisory Administration issued a plan for the high-quality development of digital finance in the banking and insurance industries, proposing to serve the development of advanced manufacturing. The plan requires the use of industrial internet and industry knowledge graphs to improve data collection, analysis, and application capabilities for manufacturing enterprises in production transactions, warehousing, logistics, and other links. At the same time, the plan clearly states that it will strengthen credit support for the digital transformation of manufacturing, using technologies such as big data and blockchain to standardize the development of supply chain finance and actively connect the financing needs of upstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain. In addition, the plan suggests actively using digital technology to provide insurance compensation services for major technical equipment and the first batch of new materials to enhance safety risk prevention capabilities.

Foresight News reports that the latest data from Polymarket shows that the market's bet on the Lighter airdrop occurring on December 29 has decreased to 68%, with the probability for December 30 at 10% and for December 31 at 3%. Additionally, the probability of betting on 'no airdrop in 2025' is 11%. Currently, the trading volume of this prediction market is approximately $7.65 million.

Foresight News reports that, according to the official website of the People's Bank of China, the central bank recently issued the (Business Rules for the Renminbi Cross-Border Payment System) (Yin Fa [2025] No. 248), which is set to officially take effect on February 1, 2026, replacing the 2018 version of the rules. The recipients of this notification explicitly include the Digital Currency Research Institute, as well as the China Development Bank, the Clearing Center, and the China UnionPay, among other institutions. The new rules clarify that the Renminbi Cross-Border Payment System (CIPS) should support a mixed settlement model, including real-time full settlement and scheduled net settlement. In addition, CIPS will support Renminbi payments, Renminbi foreign currency synchronized settlement (PvP), delivery versus payment (DvP) settlement, central counterparty clearing, and other cross-border Renminbi transaction settlement services.

Foresight News reports that Yu Xian, the founder of Slow Fog, tweeted that the new version of the Trust Wallet browser extension has completely resolved the backdoor issue and no longer contains PostHog-related code. Previously, incorrect data from intelligence sources led to the mistaken belief during analysis that PostHog had not been completely removed.

PostHog is an open-source full-chain product analysis platform that can be used to collect various information for analysis. The Trust Wallet browser extension version 2.68.0 previously had a backdoor that utilized PostHog.

Foresight News reports that Trust Wallet has confirmed approximately $7 million has been affected, and the team will ensure that all impacted users can receive refunds. Providing support to affected users is the team's top priority, and they are actively improving the refund process.

Additionally, the team urges users of the affected browser extension v2.68 to follow the steps below as soon as possible:

Step 1: Do not open the Trust Wallet browser extension v2.68 on desktop devices to ensure wallet security and prevent further issues.

Foresight News reports that, according to Cointelegraph, as traditional financial markets resume trading after the Christmas holiday, Bitcoin is testing the $90,000 mark, while gold and silver have reached all-time highs. The market is currently focused on the expiration of Bitcoin options valued at approximately $24 billion. Trader BitBull stated that as options expire, the hedging pressure that had previously suppressed prices may ease, leading to a clearer market direction.

Analyst Michaël van de Poppe stated that asset management firms will undergo asset reallocation in January, and with commodities and tech stocks at high levels, cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin may benefit from this. Analysis account Crypto Ideology pointed out that if Bitcoin confirms a breakout from its downward trend since October, the target range could point to $95,000 to $100,000.

Foresight News: The Binance Alpha airdrop will start today at 21:00. Users with at least 240 Binance Alpha points can claim tokens on a first-come, first-served basis until the airdrop pool is exhausted or the event ends. More details will be announced later.

When quantitative elites get into payments, what makes FIN, created by Citadel veterans, able to attract the attention of top venture capitalists?

Written by: KarenZ, Foresight News

In the current global financial system, large cross-border transfers are still plagued by issues such as 'slow arrival, high fees, and complicated processes.' A startup named FIN is directly addressing this pain point by leveraging stablecoins, attempting to rewrite the status quo of the industry.

As a project founded by two former Citadel employees, FIN is not playing small on the fringes but is building a large payment track through stablecoin technology, aiming to provide instant and efficient cross-border transfer experiences for enterprises and high-net-worth individuals.

Foresight News reports that the Ethereum L2 order book protocol Lighter has completed its audit for perpetual contracts and spot zk circuits, and has officially open-sourced the source code used to verify all on-chain operations (including placing orders, canceling orders, and liquidations). Lighter states that the relevant circuits verify approximately 500 million order and cancellation operations daily, and its smart contract architecture has been synchronously published to L2Beat.

Foresight News reported that, according to Ember Monitoring, an address starting with FRvv transferred 3 million TRUMP to Binance 50 minutes ago. This address withdrew these 3 million TRUMP from Binance a month and a half ago (when it was worth about 22.69 million USD), becoming the largest wallet holding TRUMP tokens (excluding project-locked contracts, liquidity pools, and exchange addresses). Currently, the value of this batch of TRUMP tokens has decreased from 22.69 million USD a month and a half ago to 14.88 million USD.