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PANews reported on January 11 that market data shows the Chinese meme coin "我踏马来了" has seen its market cap drop to $39.05 million, after peaking at $52.27 million, marking a 6.44% decline over 6 hours; "币安人生" has a market cap of $178.6 million, with a 24-hour increase of 23.46%; "老子" currently has a market cap of $10.6 million, reaching as high as $13.32 million, with a 24-hour increase of 202.2%. "人生 K 线" has a market cap of $26.22 million, peaking at $41.87 million, with a 24-hour increase of 672.4%.

According to ChainCatcher, Johann Kerbrat, Head of Robinhood Crypto, recently shared in an interview the latest developments regarding the company's upcoming Ethereum Layer 2 network, tokenized stock project, and staking business. Johann Kerbrat stated that Robinhood ultimately chose to build a Layer 2 within the Ethereum ecosystem, rather than developing an independent Layer 1, out of a focus on "specialization." By anchoring to Ethereum, Robinhood can directly leverage its mature security, decentralization features, and the vast liquidity within the EVM space, allowing the company to concentrate on developing core functionalities such as stock tokenization. Currently, this Layer 2 network is in the private testnet phase, and no public launch timeline has been announced yet. It is worth noting that Robinhood's tokenized stocks are already operating on Arbitrum One, with the number of available stocks expanding from 200 at its launch in July last year to over 2,000 now. Kerbrat emphasized that this is just the beginning, with future plans to expand tokenization to private equity, real estate, and art. In addition, thanks to updated policies from the US SEC, Robinhood launched its Staking service in most regions of the United States in June last year.

BlockBeats News, January 11, according to Engadget citing security company Malwarebytes, a data breach occurred on Instagram, exposing sensitive information of approximately 17.5 million users, including usernames, email addresses, phone numbers, and physical addresses. The related data has already been sold on the dark web and may be used for phishing attacks and account takeovers. Malwarebytes stated that this incident may be related to an API exposure issue on Instagram in 2024. Affected users have recently received frequent password reset emails. As of now, Meta has not issued an official response. Security agencies recommend users enable two-factor authentication (2FA) and change their passwords.