Odaily News: Maretta Lai, CEO of the Hong Kong Accounting and Financial Reporting Council, stated that the council is developing guidelines for the application of AI in the accounting and auditing industry, referencing international standards. The guidelines are expected to be released in the near term. These guidelines are not mandatory rules but are advisory in nature, aiming to assist the industry in embracing technology while properly managing related risks. (Hong Kong Ta Kung Pao)
Odaily News Bitget has released its 2025 Annual Review Report, systematically outlining the phased achievements of its Universal Exchange (UEX) model in the fields of crypto assets, on-chain markets, and tokenized traditional financial assets. The report indicates a continuous increase in institutional participation on the platform, with the proportion of spot trading volume from institutional clients rising from 39.4% at the beginning of the year to 82% by year-end. In the futures market, the share of institutional trading volume increased to 60% during the same period. According to the "2025 Annual Report on the Crypto Derivatives Market" released by CoinGlass, Bitget ranked fourth globally in derivatives trading volume, with a total annual trading volume reaching $8.17 trillion.
In terms of expanding its product matrix, Bitget has continued to enhance the Universal Exchange (UEX) ecosystem through the integration of multi-dimensional assets. The On-chain Trading sector, launched in April 2025, achieved a cumulative trading volume exceeding $2.4 billion by year-end. Since its launch in September, the U.S. Stock Contracts sector has attracted over 1 million users to participate in related trading on the Bitget platform, with cumulative trading volume surpassing $15 billion.
Following the full opening of the TradFi sector, its daily trading volume reached $2 billion within a short period, allowing users to trade various assets such as forex, precious metals, indices, and commodities using USDT. The report also mentions the performance of AI scenarios. GetAgent surpassed 500,000 cumulative users in 2025, generating 2 million interactions throughout the year related to portfolio and strategy decisions.
The Bitget CEO stated: The phased achievements of 2025 demonstrate the potential unleashed by integrating global diversified markets onto a unified platform. Looking ahead to 2026, Bitget will focus on three major strategic directions: UEX, AI, and compliance.
Odaily News BitMart's Chinese in-depth interview podcast "Crypto Market Observer" has officially released its latest episode. The guest for this episode is 0xTodd, a partner at Nothing Research and co-founder of the Ethereum Staking pool EBunker; the segment is hosted by BitMart's VP of Marketing, yuanyuan.
This episode centers on the core judgment that "stablecoins are a severely underestimated killer application," systematically discussing 0xTodd's crypto research methodology, his structural analysis during the Luna/UST incident, and the foundational role Crypto plays amidst the AI wave.
He proposes that compared to sentiment and narratives, what is truly worth long-term bets are those infrastructure-level applications that can endure cycles, with stablecoins being one of the most practically significant among them. He believes the value of stablecoins lies in cross-border payments, programmable finance, real yield anchoring, and other directions, and they are becoming an efficient alternative outside the traditional financial system. Simultaneously, as AI gradually participates in trading, collaboration, and resource allocation, Crypto will naturally become the "economic settlement layer" for the AI world.
"Crypto Market Observer" aims to provide the industry with referential, reusable structural judgments through in-depth dialogues from a long-term perspective.
Odaily News: U.S. CFTC Chairman Rostin Behnam announced the establishment of a new Innovation Advisory Committee on Monday, aimed at providing guidance for the regulation of emerging technologies such as blockchain and artificial intelligence.
Behnam will serve as the sponsor of the new committee and plans to nominate 12 members of the CEO Innovation Council as founding members. The selected individuals include several leading figures in the crypto space: Gemini co-founder Tyler Winklevoss, Polymarket founder Shayne Coplan, prediction market platform Kalshi founder Tarek Mansour, Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek, and Kraken co-founder Arjun Sethi.
Executives from traditional financial institutions were also selected: Intercontinental Exchange Group (ICE) CEO Jeff Sprecher, Cboe Global Markets CEO David Howson, and Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman.
Behnam stated that the Innovation Advisory Committee will replace the original Technology Advisory Committee and is committed to involving top crypto industry opinion leaders in the CFTC's regulatory process to formulate pragmatic and forward-looking market regulatory policies. The new committee will advise the CFTC on "the commercial operations, economic benefits, and practical considerations of emerging financial products, platforms, and business models," thereby "establishing clear development rules for the golden age of the U.S. financial markets." (Cointelegraph)
Odaily News PayPal has officially announced its support for Google's Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) and will soon become a payment option within Google's new UCP-powered checkout features. This collaboration aims to enable merchants to offer their products and support purchases within Google Search's AI mode and the Gemini application. Notably, PayPal announced an upgrade to its P2P payment experience last September, planning to integrate cryptocurrencies into its new in-app P2P payment flow and launch a personalized link transfer service.
