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BlockBeats News, January 17, cryptocurrency mining company Riot Platforms announced on Friday that it had paid for an acquisition worth $96 million by selling approximately 1,080 bitcoins, acquiring 200 acres of land in Rockdale, Texas. The company also signed a data center leasing and service agreement with semiconductor company AMD, initially deploying a "critical IT load capacity" of 25 megawatts. Riot stated that this agreement, with an initial term of 10 years, could bring the company approximately $311 million in revenue, and if three five-year renewal options are exercised, the potential could reach $1 billion. Driven by this news, the company's stock traded on a certain exchange surged to $18.80, an increase of 11% in the past 24 hours.

Jinse Finance reported that Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin stated on the X platform that Ethereum has experienced significant setbacks in many areas over the past decade, and 2026 will be a year of regaining lost ground. This means Ethereum will make it easier to run full nodes through ZK-EVM and BAL, verify RPC data via Helios instead of blindly trusting, request data without compromising privacy using ORAM and PIR technologies, enhance security by promoting social recovery wallets and time locks, improve the user experience of private payments through wallet privacy payments, achieve privacy and censorship resistance with technologies such as ERC-4337, and enable more on-chain UI DApps using IPFS. Vitalik Buterin stated that there will be no more compromises in 2026, and Ethereum deserves a greater ecosystem.

On-chain monitoring shows that a new address, 0xC3a…4CC16, has accumulated 20,000 ETH, with a total value of approximately $65.4 million. Six hours ago, during a market correction, this address withdrew tokens from an exchange at a price of $3,269.85 per ETH. The current unrealized profit is about $282,000. (Ai Yi)