The OpenClaw project received sponsorships from OpenAI and Baidu on GitHub, with Baidu becoming the first Chinese tech company to support the project through GitHub Sponsors. The project plans to integrate PaddleOCR. Tencent Lightweight Cloud has also joined as a sponsor. Founder Peter Steinberger has committed to returning 100% of sponsorship funds to the community to encourage contributors and support upstream open source projects.

BlockBeats News, January 15 — According to Bloomberg, Bank of England Deputy Governor Dave Ramsden stated that the UK may need to provide protection for stablecoin deposits similar to safeguarding bank savings. Ramsden noted on Wednesday that the central bank is considering how to maintain public trust in the currency if systemically important stablecoins fail.

Foresight News reported that Cardano SPO Dave tweeted, "You know I don't like Solana, but I support interoperability. Solana should consider this proposal (bringing SOL into ADA), skipping the step of transferring through Base." Solana co-founder Toly replied, "Let's do it," Cardano founder Charles.

Pennsylvania Republican Senator Dave McCormick disclosed this week that he recently purchased a Bitwise Bitcoin ETF worth approximately $65,000 to $150,000. McCormick is a member of the Senate Banking Committee's digital asset subcommittee, and this investment has attracted market attention. According to the periodic trading report, he made two purchases on November 24 and the following day. The Bitwise Bitcoin ETF is managed by Bitwise Asset Management and provides investors with Bitcoin investment opportunities through traditional financial markets.

Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy invested over 2 million dollars on Monday, purchasing 1 million dollars of XRP, 750,000 dollars of Bitcoin, and 400,000 dollars of Ethereum, and expressed his investment strategy of taking advantage of the big dump in the market on social media.