Solana-based prediction market protocol TBD completes $3 million seed round funding, led by CMT Digital and ParaFi, with participation from several well-known investors.

BlockBeats News, January 24 — According to official sources, MGBX will soon be listed on Snowball Life (Snowball Life) spot trading. Deposit opening time: (TBD) Trading opening time: (TBD) Withdrawal opening time: (TBD) Snowball Life is a decentralized token project issued on the BNB Chain (BSC). It adopts a deflationary mechanism, destroying all 3% of transaction fees, allowing the token value to accumulate over time like a snowball.

A draft of an unfinished cryptocurrency market structure bill circulating within the industry recently reveals that decentralized finance (DeFi) will receive a certain level of legal protection, but key issues such as stablecoin rewards and yields remain unclear. The draft obtained by CoinDesk shows that the document is a discussion draft for a forthcoming hearing by the Senate Banking Committee, spanning 272 pages. The Senate Banking Committee plans to review the bill provisions on Thursday and accept amendments proposed by senators, all of which must be submitted by Tuesday evening. The draft explicitly outlines the regulatory framework for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) concerning securities, illegal financial activities, DeFi, banking operations, and "responsible regulatory innovation," but whether stablecoins are linked to yields or rewards is marked as "TBD." Additionally, the draft does not include the ethical concerns proposed by Democratic lawmakers last year regarding Donald Trump, his family, and their associations with crypto enterprises.

BlockBeats News, December 10 — After investing hundreds of billions of dollars to build the most expensive team in tech history for months, Meta CEO Zuckerberg is now deeply involved in daily R&D and is pushing the company's strategy toward directly monetizable AI models. According to sources, a new model codenamed "Avocado" is expected to be released in Spring 2026 and may be launched in a closed-source manner (i.e., strictly controlled by Meta and sold for access). This move marks a significant deviation from Meta's long-standing advocacy of an open-source approach. Zuckerberg is dedicating a large amount of time to a core team called TBD Lab, which, during the training of Avocado, even integrated third-party models including Google Gemma, OpenAIgpt-oss, and Alibaba Qwen. Meanwhile, M