Gianni Infantino, President of FIFA, announced the "FIFA Coin" plan at a White House summit, hoping to launch their own cryptocurrency. The aim is to leverage the $170 billion football industry and the 5 billion global football fans. They will invite cryptocurrency experts to collaborate and help realize this project.

Argo Blockchain, a bitcoin mining company listed on Nasdaq, has announced that it has signed a $40 million senior secured convertible loan agreement, with an initial financing amount of $15 million and the remaining $25 million to be completed in the next 18 months. Three multinational institutions have invested (specific institution names have not been disclosed) and will join the Argo board. The new funds will be used to expand its mining facility in Baie Comeau, strengthen the balance sheet, and conduct a series of potential merger and acquisition transactions.

According to the official announcement of Binance, Binance will update the collateral ratios of various assets under the investment portfolio margin mode on March 7, 2025 at 06:00 (UTC). The update process is expected to last about an hour. The specific adjustments are as follows: The collateral ratios of BCH, XTZ, and MANA will be reduced from 85% to 75%; The collateral ratio of ONE will be reduced from 80% to 70%; The collateral ratios of BAT and DENT will be reduced from 80% to 65%. Please note that the collateral ratio adjustments will affect the unified maintenance margin rate (uniMMR), and users need to pay close attention to avoid potential liquidation risks.

On the fifth day of Open Source Week, its Fire-Flyer file system (3FS) was officially open sourced. As a high-performance parallel file system, 3FS can fully utilize modern SSDs and RDMA networks to achieve high-speed data access, improving the efficiency of AI model training and inference.

The Hong Kong SAR Government will allocate HK$1 billion to establish an artificial intelligence research institute.

Binance Futures will launch the following quarterly 0627 delivery contracts for U-based and coin-based contracts within a few hours after the expiration of the quarterly 1227 delivery contracts on December 27 at 16:00 U.

Binance futures platform will launch perpetual contracts with a maximum leverage of up to 75 times at the following times:

 Coinbase International has launched COW perpetual contracts. COW-PERP market limit, market, stop loss, and stop loss limit orders are now all available.

Investment advisers are expanding their spot Bitcoin ETF holdings, but Coinbase warns that “large inflows” might not be seen immediately due to the slow summer period in the United States.

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