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According to ChainCatcher, citing Golden Ten Data, since Trump posted about the Greenland issue, spot gold has dropped by up to $80, and spot silver has fallen by more than $3. Spot platinum and palladium also plunged in the short term, while major U.S. stock indexes surged rapidly, with gains exceeding 1.3%. Trump stated that his meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has preliminarily established a framework for future agreements regarding Greenland and the Arctic region.

BlockBeats News, January 22nd, according to Hyperinsight monitoring, as Ethereum fell to the $2900 level, the "BTC OG Insider Whale" saw its unrealized losses expand to $16.85 million. There have been no new operations since adding leverage to long ETH five days ago. The current position is as follows: · BTC Long (5x): Unrealized Loss $3.77 million · ETH Long (5x): Unrealized Loss $60.24 million · SOL Long (10x): Unrealized Loss $1.89 million · Cumulative Funding Fee: Loss $8.124 million · Position Value: $797 million

BlockBeats News, January 22, Farcaster founder Dan Romero announced on social media that Neynar is acquiring Farcaster. In the coming weeks, the existing team will transfer the protocol smart contracts and codebase, the Farcaster app, and ownership of Clanker to Neynar. Neynar will be responsible for running and maintaining all subsequent work. They are the most suitable candidates to take over the leadership of Farcaster, and they will soon share a new vision focused on builders. Dan Romero said, "This was not an easy decision to make. Farcaster and the people who built on top of it mean a lot to the founding team. We are very proud of everything the team has built and everything the community has built with us. But after five years, it is clear that Farcaster needs a new approach and new leadership to fully realize its potential." Some members of the Merkle team (Farcaster's founding company), Varun Srinivasan (another co-founder), and Dan Romero personally will gradually step back from Farcaster's daily work and move on to new projects. It is reported that Neynar is the most core third-party infrastructure and developer platform in the Farcaster ecosystem and one of the earliest Farcaster clients. Its infrastructure has supported most of the developer activities in the Farcaster ecosystem. BlockBeats previously reported that Farcaster announced a $150 million funding round in May 2024, the second-highest funding amount in the encryption field that year. The round was led by Paradigm, with a16z crypto, Haun, USV, Variant, Standard Crypto, and others participating. The top-tier list of investors made Farcaster one of the hottest projects at the time, with the funding round even being seen as a sign of the beginning of the thriving decentralized social media era.