Futu Holdings has announced that its wholly-owned Cheetah Trading Platform has obtained comprehensive licenses and officially commenced operations, becoming Hong Kong's first licensed virtual asset trading platform operated by a brokerage. The platform will integrate deeply with Futu Securities to provide comprehensive financial services.

Odaily News Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin stated that memes and emojis are driving the English language towards a more "pictographic" evolution. English social media has even begun to form highly abstract expressions similar to Chinese idioms. He used the meme "leopard eats human face" as an example, saying that these types of memes no longer require text and can represent complex contexts with just an image, becoming emerging "deep meaning symbols" in the English system.