Odaily Planet Daily reports that Aztec announced on the X platform that the sequencer signal confirmation for the AZTEC TGE proposal has been completed and is now in the community voting phase. Voting will begin at 5 PM UTC on Monday, January 26th. Token sale participants can vote to unlock their tokens. If the vote passes, TGE could launch as early as 7 AM UTC on February 12th.

According to Odaily Planet Daily, when the South Korean won broke through 1480 won against the US dollar last Wednesday, the trading volume of Tether on South Korea's five major exchanges reached 378.2 billion won, a 62% increase compared to January 1st. Korbit began waiving USDC transaction fees last week and launched a trading competition lasting until March, where retail investors with a weekly cumulative trading volume of 10 million won can share 25,000 USDC. Coinone has also taken similar measures, distributing 8,000 USDC rewards to participants every week. Upbit and Bithumb expanded by listing new assets, simultaneously launching USDe, a synthetic stablecoin launched by Ethena Labs, on January 14th. Upbit has been conducting three rounds of promotional activities since January 17th, distributing Ethena token rewards to top USDe traders. Industry insiders say that during market downturns, stablecoins are seen as a key means to increase trading volume and develop new revenue streams. (koreatimes)

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, seven addresses associated with a certain entity (0x037...9e52, 0x471...f725, 0x3ed...41a0, 0xfdc...a74c, 0xfe1...8b9f, 0x278...b4e8, 0x29a...3295) purchased 4,300 XAUT tokens at a price of $5,049 each, for a total expenditure of $21.71 million.

According to Odaily Planet Daily, the Gwangju District Prosecutors' Office in South Korea recently confirmed the loss of a large amount of Bitcoin held in custody during a routine inspection of seized assets in criminal cases. While the exact amount lost has not been disclosed, sources within the prosecution agency revealed that the loss amounted to approximately 70 billion won, equivalent to about US$48.55 million. It is understood that the assets were lost due to a phishing website access error while managing the keys to the seized assets via a mobile storage device. The South Korean prosecution is currently conducting an internal investigation, and the Gwangju District Prosecutors' Office stated that it could not confirm the specific details.

According to Polymarket data, traders predict a 77% chance of another US government shutdown by the end of January, a probability that has risen 67% in the past 24 hours. This comes after US President Donald Trump indicated that another Democratic-led government shutdown is possible. This expectation increases uncertainty surrounding the CLARITY Act's legislative timeline, following Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong and other executives withdrawing their support for the current version of the bill. Galaxy Digital's research director, Alex Thorn, stated that negotiations regarding stablecoin yields remain stalled, with neither side reaching a significant consensus on a compromise.