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PANews reported on January 16 that Konnex has announced a $15 million strategic investment, aiming to bring the approximately $25 trillion real-world labor economy from closed systems into an on-chain collaborative ecosystem. Reportedly, high-conviction backers participating in this round include Cogitent Ventures, Liquid Capital, Leland Ventures, Covey Network, Ventures M77, and Block Maven LLC. The project’s vision is to build infrastructure that allows autonomous robots to be scheduled, verified, and paid via contracts like applications, promoting the operation of robotic labor and services under on-chain contract, settlement, and incentive mechanisms.

BlockBeats News, January 16th, according to the Belarusian Telegraph Agency, Belarusian President Lukashenko signed Decree No. 19 on January 16th, "On Several Issues of Regulation of the Cryptobank and Digital Token Sector." The decree aims to strengthen Belarus's position as a leader in financial IT technology and create conditions for the operation of "cryptobanks" domestically. According to the decree, a cryptobank is defined as a joint-stock company authorized to combine cryptocurrency activities with banking, payment, and other relevant financial activities. To enter this market, a cryptobank must be a resident of a High-Tech Park (HTP), be included in the National Bank's Cryptobank Registry, and comply with the legal requirements of non-bank credit and financial organizations as well as decisions of the HTP Supervisory Committee.

On January 16, "BTC OG Insider Whale" agent Garrett Jin stated that the increasing maturity of artificial intelligence applications will drive rapid growth in AI-assisted trading. Ethereum's smart contracts and Layer 2 solutions provide programmable, transparent, and secure execution environments for AI bots, enabling automation in trading, customer interaction, and marketing. The integration of Ethereum's DeFi and AI ecosystems demonstrates ETH's high-tech and growth-oriented characteristics, and may drive increased demand for stablecoins, thereby boosting ETH's valuation. In addition, artificial intelligence may trigger a long-term deflationary cycle and lower global interest rates, making ETH's 3% staking yield more attractive and drawing more institutional capital to consider ETH as a strategic reserve asset.