The French Senate has passed the 2025 budget, which includes a tax on the "unproductive wealth" of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. The tax will be levied annually on unrealized gains on cryptoassets, meaning that cryptocurrency holders will be taxed even if they do not sell their assets. The proposal is currently awaiting a vote by the National Assembly.
The TON Core team will roll out updates in the first half of 2025, including: a large "accelerator" kernel update on the mainnet; new tools for validators; improved Toncenter API (operations, pending, emulation, domains); user experience improvements + collaboration with community products; release of Payment Network Layer 2; sidechain research; new features in TOLK 1.0 (structures, pattern matching, smart contracts); support for $TON $BTC Teleport; new standards (pending TX ID, secure signature...
Starknet announced that the second phase of the STRK staking program will be launched in the second quarter of 2025. Data show that the first phase has attracted more than 60,000 delegates to participate, with a total of 150 million STRKs pledged, and a total of 100 validators connected to the network. Starknet said that the first phase was mainly used to test the basic principles of the pledge mechanism and economic parameters, which lasted about three months. The second phase will give validat...
On January 27th, the decentralized AI platform Nodepay released its roadmap for 2025. According to the roadmap, Nodepay will launch a number of important products: Unified client side NodeOS Desktop, support edge computing and achieve revenue and contribution linkage; Data and workload marketplace, providing real-time data retrieval and custom processing services; developer ecosystem, including public APIs and JS-SDKs; Public beta of NodeSearch, a decentralized search engine based on real-time d...
The People's Bank of China: In January 2025, the People's Bank of China did not conduct open market treasury bond trading operations.
People's Bank of China: In January 2025, the People's Bank of China launched a 1.70 trillion yuan buyout reverse repurchase operation by means of fixed quantity, interest rate invite tenders, and multiple price points win the bidding.
On January 27th, the general offices of the Ministry of Commerce and other six departments issued a notice on doing a good job in the "renewal" of home improvement kitchens and bathrooms in 2025. The notice proposes that all localities should focus on green, intelligent, and suitable for the elderly. The subsidy categories are mainly five categories of decoration materials, sanitary ware, furniture lighting, smart home, and home senior-friendly transformation products. The specific categories wi...
According to TrueUp data, as of January 2025, the number of open positions in the crypto industry reached 5,154, an increase of more than 40% from the end of 2023. Among them, OKX, Crypto.com and Binance opened 473, 399 and 361 positions respectively. Recruitment demand is mainly concentrated in the fields of marketing, talent recruitment and enterprise development. Scott Fletcher, partner at recruitment consultancy Intersection Growth Partners, said crypto hiring has recovered to peak levels in...