Circle Gateway now supports the Solana network
**Circle Adds Solana Support to Cross-Chain Gateway**
Circle announced on January 21 that its cross-chain solution, Circle Gateway, now supports the Solana network. Developers can integrate non-custodial, cross-chain abstracted USDC via the tool to gain instant liquidity access for DeFi, payments, and treasury use cases.
Currently, Circle Gateway supports 12 blockchains—including Arbitrum, Avalanche, Base, Ethereum, Polygon, and Solana—with plans to expand to additional networks in the future.
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Architect Financial Technologies is planning to launch a perpetual futures contract pegged to GPU and memory pricing
On January 21st, The Block reported that Architect Financial Technologies—founded by Brett Harrison, former president of FTX US—plans to launch perpetual futures contracts tied to GPU and memory pricing.
The firm’s institutional trading platform, AX, is set to roll out perpetual futures linked to two key assets: daily rental rates for GPUs used in AI model training and inference, and dynamically priced Random Access Memory (RAM). The launch is pending regulatory approval.
These contracts were developed in partnership with Ornn Data, a computing index provider that offers benchmarks based on real-time GPU transaction data.
Last December, Architect Financial Technologies closed a $35 million funding round, valuing the company at approximately $1.87 billion.
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「Fed Oracle」: Bousquet Continues Publicly Criticizing Powell, Aiming to Ensure His Departure from the Fed in May
On January 21, Wall Street Journal reporter Nick Timiraos—known as the "Fed Whisperer"—reported that Kevin Warsh has continued to publicly criticize current Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.
In a CNBC interview yesterday, Warsh said Powell should skip Wednesday’s oral arguments in Fed Governor Lael Brainard’s case, arguing Powell would attempt to "favor the Fed."
Timiraos noted that before Warsh’s public criticism, the Justice Department had opened an investigation into the Fed, leaving Warsh uneasy. Warsh worries the probe will complicate the Trump administration’s efforts to confirm Powell’s successor. Additionally, Warsh wants to ensure Powell resigns from the Fed’s Board of Governors after his chair term ends in May.
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Bank of Italy Governor: Stablecoins Can Only Play a Complementary Role in the Monetary System
January 21 — Cointelegraph reports that Fabio Panetta, Governor of the Bank of Italy, has stated commercial bank money and central bank money will continue to play a key role in the monetary system, while stablecoins will only serve a complementary function. He noted stablecoins’ stability ultimately hinges on their peg to fiat currency, which limits their ability to operate independently within the financial system. Panetta added payments have become a core area of strategic competition for banks; amid a global shift of economic power toward technology and a more fragmented geopolitical landscape, digital finance is putting pressure on banks.
The Bank of Italy remains cautious about stablecoins. The bank’s Deputy Governor previously warned that stablecoins issued across multiple jurisdictions (dubbed "multi-collateral stablecoins") could pose legal, operational, and financial stability risks to the European Union. As such, they need to be restricted to regions with equivalent regul
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Trump: The U.S. has defeated inflation and is in the fastest economic recovery in history
At the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 21st, Donald Trump said the U.S. is seeing the fastest economic recovery ever, has curbed inflation (with a core inflation rate of 1.5%), and expects fourth-quarter GDP growth of 5.4%.
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