the Newport City Council in Wales plans to permanently close and seal a landfill site during the 2025-26 period. The landfill contains a hard drive mistakenly discarded by IT engineer James Howells in 2013, which stores 7,500 Bitcoins worth about $750 million at current prices. The council plans to convert part of the site into a solar power generation field to supply power to the municipal electric vehicle fleet.

on the eve of the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit, French President Macron announced that 109 billion euros will be invested in the field of artificial intelligence in the coming years. Macron hopes that France can seize the opportunities of this new era and said that 100,000 young people will receive training in this project. He emphasized that Europe should avoid regulating before innovating when facing the challenges of artificial intelligence, otherwise it will deviate from the track of innovation and fall behind in the competition in this field. The Artificial Intelligence Action Summit is scheduled to be held in Paris, France from February 9th to 12th. (Jinshi)

On February 10th, Alliance DAO co-founder Qiao Wang stated in his latest podcast video that "a year ago, I thought there was no difference in developing projects on Ethereum L2 or Solana, but after nearly a year of observation and comparison, I found that the same startup projects have no transactions or users on Ethereum L2, while they are more active on Solana." Therefore, Qiao Wang suggests that crypto startups should launch on Solana.

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, Smart Money 7rCbH...s5jt5 spent 200 SOL to buy 14.54 million tokens at a cost as low as $0.002725 per token after half an hour of CAR going live. Subsequently, all the tokens were sold in batches during the rise, with an average selling price of $0.375, resulting in a profit of $3.08 million and a return rate of 7786%.

Musk once again released the US Government Efficiency Department LOGO with a Shiba Inu DOGE icon on the X platform. It is reported that at the end of last month, the official website of the US Government Efficiency Department deleted the LOGO containing Shiba Inu elements, and the website has not yet restored the LOGO with the Shiba Inu DOGE icon.

Nate Geraci, the president of The ETF Store, pointed out in a post that meme coin traders are fully aware that they are playing a crypto version of the "musical chairs" game. These investors do not mistake it for investing in Fortune 500 companies, but rather see it as a "greater fool theory" game, and do not view meme coins as legitimate crypto projects. At the same time, he referred to the "Memecoins101" content on the Phantom platform, pointing out that the meme coin market is highly speculative and volatile, with prices often driven by "influence" rather than basic technology or utility, and advised investors to be cautious and conduct thorough research before participating.

Lookonchain monitoring shows that a whale made more than 66 million US dollars in just 4 hours on MELANIA. Four hours ago, the whale spent 2,500 SOL (688,000 US dollars) to buy 5.02 million MELANIA, and then sold 203,000 MELANIA at a price of 2.14 million USDC, leaving 5 million MELANIA worth 64.9 million US dollars.

 The Data Nerd has monitored that a smart money address (an insider) spent $800,000 to purchase 3.838 million MELANIA tokens (with an average entry price of $0.21). Afterwards, they sold 1.92 million tokens for $13.14 million and still hold 1.92 million tokens (~$24.9 million), resulting in a total profit of approximately $37.24 million and an investment return rate of x46.5.

the latest data from Coingecko shows that the trading volume of Official Trump (TRUMP) in the past 24 hours exceeded 38.3 billion US dollars, reaching 38,337,866,621 US dollars, surpassing USDC (37,619,430,347 US dollars), becoming the fourth largest cryptocurrency in trading volume in the past 24 hours, second only to Tether, Bitcoin, and Ethereum.

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa,regarding the liquidity of MELANIA token, as of now, the DEV address has added unilateral liquidity of 129 million tokens to the MeteoraMELANIA/USDC pool; 10% of the tokens (i.e. 100 million tokens) will be used for LP according to token economics. Currently, the pool has 9.64 million MELANIA tokens and 275 million USDC tokens, with a TVL of up to 393 million US dollars. Regarding the distribution of chips, the DEV address has distributed 870 million tokens to five addresses, of which three receiving addresses have no action yet, while addresses 7Wk1V...xdMkA and 3XKsc...t6uKu are also executing the action of adding liquidity.

Coinbase Support replied to a user on X, stating that MELANIA is not yet available on Coinbase or Coinbase Wallet. It is important to verify the availability of the token before making any transactions.

 the market shows that AAVE has fallen below $300, currently reporting at $299.95, with a 24-hour drop of 6.59%. The market is experiencing significant volatility, please exercise caution in risk management.

Eric Trump, the second son of Trump, retweeted a tweet on X platform about the purchase of a large amount of ETH by World Liberty (WLFI), and said, "Wait and see what they will do tomorrow."

On January 17th, Bitcoin mining service provider Blockware Solutions submitted a governance proposal to Aave, suggesting adding new sources of revenue to the protocol through Bitcoin mining business. The proposal is currently in the preliminary discussion stage, and plans to use Aave funds to purchase the latest S21XP mining machine, which is expected to achieve a net annualized return rate of 33.03%.

Crypto developer Michael Lewellen, a member of Coin Center, has filed a lawsuit against US Attorney General Merrick Garland, seeking a ruling that his non-custodial crypto software, Pharos, is legal and to prevent any future prosecution. Lewellen's lawyers argue that the Department of Justice's interpretation of money-transmitting laws extends beyond the limits of the Constitution, violating the First and Fifth Amendments. Coin Center is supporting the suit, which comes amid heightened concern in the crypto industry over the prosecution of software developers. Lewellen has asked the court to declare that his business does not violate money-transmitting laws and to block the DOJ from using those laws to prosecute him.