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 a report by South Korean media outlet OhmyNews on January 25th, the Gwangju District Prosecutors' Office in South Korea has reportedly lost a large amount of Bitcoin seized and stored in connection with a criminal case. The exact amount of Bitcoin lost has not been released, but it is understood to be worth hundreds of billions of won. The prosecution is conducting an internal investigation. The Gwangju District Prosecutors' Office discovered the loss during a routine check of seized financial assets for any irregularities. At the time, they were examining Bitcoin-related passwords stored on a USB flash drive. A prosecution official stated, "We understand that the incident occurred during a routine check of seized Bitcoins when someone inadvertently visited a so-called 'fake (fraudulent) website.' Internal discussions within the prosecution suggest the lost Bitcoins are worth as much as 70 billion won." An official from the Gwangju District Prosecutors' Office, responding to media inquiries, stated, "We cannot confirm this."

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.

Huoxun Finance News, January 25th - The VanEck Avalanche Spot ETF (VanEck Avalanche ETF, ticker symbol VAVX) will officially begin trading on Nasdaq next Monday (January 26th). FlowTraders has been designated as the ETF's primary market maker.