The total number of existing home sales in the United States in December was 4.24 million, expected to 4.19 million, and the previous value was 4.15 million.
The total number of existing home sales in the United States recorded an annualized 4.24 million in December, the highest since February 2024.
As of the close of 23:00, the main contracts of domestic futures rose more and fell less. Cotton yarn rose more than 1%, coke, cotton, and iron ore rose nearly 1%; in terms of decline, soybean meal fell more than 1%, and bean two, glass, and low-sulfur fuel oil (LU) fell nearly 1%.
Fogo, the SVM Layer1 blockchain project, completed a $8 million financing round, led by The Echonomist, and participated by 4CMS Holdings, Big Brain Collective, and Patrons.
Rollup platform Radius completed a $7 million seed round of financing, led by Pantera Capital.
On January 24, Cynthia Lummis, chair of the Senate Banking Subcommittee on Digital Assets, posted on social media: "As we learn of the severity and injustice of Chokepoint 2.0, I will work closely with FDIC Vice Chairperson Travis Hill to end this attack on digital assets."
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company plans to invest $60 billion to $65 billion in capital expenditures in 2025 and significantly expand its artificial intelligence team.
Real estate company Propy is about to launch a cryptocurrency mortgage service for the purchase of property. Bitcoin and Ethereum holders can use their crypto assets as collateral to obtain loans to purchase tokenized properties. Propy plans to sell a tokenized apartment in Hawaii on January 29, and the entire property tokenization process will take about two weeks to complete.
According to Bloomberg senior ETF analyst Eric Balchunaspilu, spot Bitcoin ETFs have had a strong start to the year, with inflows of $4.20 billion, accounting for 6% of all ETF inflows. Since its launch, net inflows have exceeded $40 billion and asset management (AUM) has reached $121 billion, resulting in a return of 127%. At present, the asset size of the Bitcoin spot ETF has exceeded the ESG ETF ($117 billion) and is comparable to the size of the gold spot ETF.
Thumzup announced that the company's board of directors has authorized the holding of 90% of the company's remaining cash in bitcoin. This decision supports the company's ongoing bitcoin acquisition efforts as part of its fiscal asset strategy announced on November 15, 2024.
According to Bitcoin Magazine, Semler Scientific, a publicly traded company in the United States, announced that it will increase its financing size to $85 million for the purchase of bitcoin.
The initial value of the UK manufacturing PMI in January was 48.2, with expectations of 47, compared with the previous value of 47.
The UK's January services PMI was 51.2, compared with expectations of 50.9 and a previous value of 51.1.
The European Union Commission has completed its investigation into social media platform X and will decide to fine it millions of euros.
According to the official website of the United Arab Emirates Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA), the SCA has released the draft regulation of securities and commodity tokens and invited the public to provide feedback by February 14, 2025. According to the draft, security tokens include equity tokens, bond tokens, Islamic bond tokens, and commodity tokens include gold tokens, oil tokens, etc. These tokens are all built on the blockchain/DLT platform and can be traded on the virtual asset...