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According to Bloomberg, AI startup Emulate, founded by alumni of Google DeepMind, has been established for only three months and currently has no official website or products. However, venture capital firms are eager to get involved, driving its valuation to several billion dollars.The report states that due to intense competition, investors are willing to buy in at continuously rising prices during the same round of financing, leading to different valuations for the same company within the same round of financing.

According to Bloomberg, the UK AI startup Emulate, founded by former Google DeepMind researchers, is in talks for a $700 million seed funding round.

The UK AI startup Emulate, founded by former DeepMind researchers, was established just one month ago and is valued at nearly $4 billion.The company is in deep negotiations with potential investors, planning to raise up to $700 million, which would bring its valuation to $3.7 billion upon completion of the financing. This round of financing is co-led by Index Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Galaxy research director Alex Thorn stated on the X platform that for Bitcoin to achieve positive returns in 2025, its price must close above $93,389 on the last day of the year. However, the sentiment among Bitcoin investors is undoubtedly quite low at the moment, though some portfolio managers may reconsider Bitcoin in January 2026. This year, Bitcoin has received many positive news, and this "good news" seems to have become the norm. Despite a lackluster performance at the end of the year, the performance of U.S. Bitcoin ETPs has been much more stable, with cumulative inflows only down 9% since reaching a historical high of $62 billion in October, further highlighting the increasing maturity of this asset class.Galaxy believes that it may only be a matter of time before Bitcoin follows gold as a hedge against currency devaluation, potentially igniting interest from several large asset allocators and central banks.

ChainCatcher news, according to Bloomberg, due to Donald Trump's choice of a cryptocurrency-friendly financier as the head of the U.S. top financial regulatory agency, the rise of cryptocurrencies has made a few companies that mimic MicroStrategy's convertible bond sale strategy winners. These companies have followed MicroStrategy Inc.'s strategy of raising funds through the sale of convertible bonds to purchase Bitcoin.Investors have flocked to companies connected to the industry, opening the floodgates for financing. The $6.2 billion convertible bonds issued by MicroStrategy this year are just the beginning, as part of its latest plan to raise $21 billion through fixed-income issuance. Other companies have also followed this trend, with MARA Holdings Inc. selling over $2 billion in assets (also to purchase Bitcoin), while Core Scientific Inc. has raised over $1 billion so far this year.

ChainCatcher message, VanEck portfolio manager Pranav Kanade emphasized on X that Memecoins have four key aspects that all teams in the cryptocurrency space should learn from.Simplicity: Many teams over-design their tokens without realizing that: time + capital + attention = scarcity.Last year, about 600,000 tokens were issued, intensifying the competition for the aforementioned scarce resources due to the ease of token issuance.Instead, the focus should be on: simple token design, a clear vision, and demonstrating how the execution of that vision creates wealth for token holders.High liquidity, low fully diluted valuation (low entry valuation);Founder/team alignment: We can only become wealthy by achieving goals/delivering products as promised;High transparency (for example, disclosing the cost basis of venture capitalists, which is often hard to find).

ChainCatcher news, engineers on the social media platform X have stated that the platform is making likes private. Public likes can encourage undesirable behavior. For example, many people are reluctant to like content that may be "sharp" due to fear of retaliation from pranksters or to protect their public image. Soon, users will be able to like posts without worrying about who will see it. Additionally, it's worth noting that the more posts a user likes, the better the recommendation algorithm will become for them.In response, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin commented, "This is a great decision. Favoring deception is a big problem in society, and we need to see people's honest opinions. If Farcaster could also follow suit and implement ZK likes, that would be really cool. Perhaps they could borrow technology from zupoll."