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Gold Finance reports that BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said investors are too quick to conclude that high inflation is over, raising the likelihood that bond yields will rise in line with higher prices in the future. “The biggest risk facing the world today is that the world thinks the high point of inflation is over,” Fink told Bloomberg on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, adding that his view is at odds with that expressed by market forces. “I really think we're going to face high inflation.” When it comes to AI investments, Fink said building data centers requires a lot of money from the private sector. BlackRock is teaming up with Microsoft and others to raise a $30 billion fund, and Fink said the private market needs to pay particular attention to how data centers are powered. “In the short term, let's be clear, it's going to be powered primarily by natural gas, and in the U.S. it's natural gas,” Fink said, adding that the power demand should spark discussions about the future role of nuclear energy.

Foresight News has announced that the Solana VM SOON public mainnet is now live, with more than 20 ecosystem projects deployed across wallets, cross-chain bridges, DEX, lending, consumer apps and more. Its official cross-chain bridge, the SOON Bridge, supports ETH cross-chaining between the SOON and Ether mainnets, and the Hyperlane Nexus Bridge supports SOL and BONK cross-chaining between Solana's mainnets, in addition to integrating third-party cross-chain bridges.   SOON said that a total of 11,936 NFTs were minted by 3,015 participants in its first round of COMMing SOON NFT casting, and that unsold NFTs (545 SOON Squad and 179 SOONer NFTs) will be distributed to the community: the remaining SOON Squad NFTs, which amount to 22% of the total SOON Squad supply from the first round, will be distributed to the community based on the SOON Squad NFTs. The remaining SOON Squad NFTs, equal to 22% of the total Round 1 SOON Squad supply, will be allocated to SOON Squad purchasers in proportion to the number of SOON Squad NFTs held by the SOON Squad purchasers. The remaining SOON Squad NFTs will be reserved as rewards for a series of community events in the coming months. Additionally, information on COMMing SOON NFT Casting Round 2 will be released next week.