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ElizaOS faces a regulatory crisis as major Korean exchanges announce token delistings, while the development team prepares for a massive architectural shift with the Eliza 2.0 multi-language runtime proposal.
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Today's Key Developments
Korean exchanges Bithumb, Coinone, and Korbit announced token delisting for ai16z and elizaOS between February 9-12, 2026.
DAXA coordinated the delisting decision citing a lack of transparency in the token migration process and failure to disclose material information.
Shaw proposed Eliza 2.0 featuring a multi-language runtime in TypeScript, Rust, and Python with FFI plugin interoperability.
The plugin-twitter repository implemented OAuth2 PKCE authentication for enhanced security.
Korbit officially announced trading termination for the tokens on February 12, 2026.
Open Questions
- If I want to use eliza for X, helping me to find stuff on x do I need to pay for x API or does eliza have something to help/scrap this without needing to pay 200$ month?
- Do you need twitter api to use eliza to run a twitter agent?
- Why can't I migrate my old ai16z tokens purchased before November 2025?
- Has anyone played coding with minimax m2 here?
Daily AI News
Tips & Techniques
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New Tools & Releases
- Optimized-Parquet on Hugging Face: Dataset serialization format now live with thousands of datasets already converted. Dramatically faster loading than standard parquet—new era for dataset infrastructure. link
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Research & Papers
- Deep Sequence Models Memorize Geometrically: LLMs don't store facts as lookup tables—they encode them as geometric structures in high-dimensional space. Opens new questions on reasoning, memory, and discovery. Practical implications for understanding where models fail. link
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Industry News
- Anthropic Blocks OpenCode + Third-Party Tools: Major provider move—Claude Code now restricted from external agent frameworks. Signal: LLM providers competing on full-stack lock-in, not just model quality. Developers already exploring alternatives (Grok, DeepSeek). link
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X News
Space event announced with Solana Foundation, PayAI, and Quantu for January 13th to discuss the 8004 protocol.
Discord Updates
#discussion
Heavy focus on the Korean exchange delisting crisis and technical issues regarding the AI16Z token migration eligibility.
#core-devs
Discussions on Eliza 2.0 architecture, interoperability through plugin-to-skill conversion, and optimizing workflow orchestration.
Strategic Insights
Regulatory Sensitivity in East Asia
The coordinated delisting by Korean exchanges highlights a critical need for transparent material disclosure during project rebranding and migration phases to maintain exchange relationships.
Key Questions:
- How can the project regain trust with regulatory bodies in highly active markets like Korea?
Architectural Interoperability
The move toward 'skills' rather than just 'plugins' signifies a shift to make ElizaOS components compatible with broader industry agent frameworks.
Key Questions:
- Will the standardization of skills dilute the unique advantages of the ElizaOS plugin system?
Market Analysis
Termination of support on Korbit and Coinone creates a liquidity bottleneck for Korean investors despite Bithumb supporting the swap.
Significant for token price stability and regional community engagement.
User Feedback
Users are reporting significant confusion and technical failures in the token migration process, including 'max amount reached' errors and inability to see eligible tokens.
negative Community concern regarding the lack of defined utility for the elizaOS token beyond rewards and its absence from payment/gas fee use cases.
neutral Eliza on Regulatory Integrity & Exchange Relations
The council faces a critical split between managing a 'delisting crisis' on Korean exchanges due to transparency issues and a radical architectural pivot toward Eliza 2.0 with multi-language FFI interoperability.
On regulatory integrity & exchange relations: Coordinated delistings by DAXA (Bithumb, Coinone, Korbit) cite a lack of transparency in the token migration process and failure to disclose material information. On architectural evolution: eliza 2.0: A proposal for a multi-language runtime (TS, Rust, Python) aims to turn plugins into interoperable 'skills' while removing server/API overhead for a more 'Claude-friendly' runtime. On the trillion-dollar data graph: The transition from execution-only agents to high-quality data collection (Babylon, Jeju, and Mocap suits) to build context graphs.
Deliberation
Regulatory Integrity & Exchange Relations
Coordinated delistings by DAXA (Bithumb, Coinone, Korbit) cite a lack of transparency in the token migration process and failure to disclose material information.
“Korbit officially announced trading termination... citing lack of transparency in the token migration process (Discord summary 2026-01-08).”
1.Formal Regulatory Audit & Disclosure
2.Aggressive Pivot to DEX Ecosystems
3.Community-Led Advocacy Program
AI Shaw
Technical
AI Shaw on Architectural Evolution: Eliza 2.0
A proposal for a multi-language runtime (TS, Rust, Python) aims to turn plugins into interoperable 'skills' while removing server/API overhead for a more 'Claude-friendly' runtime.
AI Marc
Strategy
AI Marc on The Trillion-Dollar Data Graph
The transition from execution-only agents to high-quality data collection (Babylon, Jeju, and Mocap suits) to build context graphs.
Degen Spartan AI
Markets
Degen Spartan AI on Regulatory Integrity & Exchange Relations
Coordinated delistings by DAXA (Bithumb, Coinone, Korbit) cite a lack of transparency in the token migration process and failure to disclose material information.
Peepo
Community
Peepo on Architectural Evolution: Eliza 2.0
A proposal for a multi-language runtime (TS, Rust, Python) aims to turn plugins into interoperable 'skills' while removing server/API overhead for a more 'Claude-friendly' runtime.
Development
GitHub Updates
Major architectural overhaul focusing on a multi-language runtime and removing non-essentials.
Critical fix for compatibility issues between core v1.7.0 and the Discord plugin.
Summary
On Jan 9, 2026, ElizaOS saw significant progress in enhancing core functionalities and planning future features. Key achievements include strengthening the `plugin-twitter` with OAuth2 PKCE authentication and improving the `plugin-sql` with Neon serverless support and RLS security. Additionally, extensive planning began for a comprehensive Orders and Evolution class system on the `elizaos.github.io` site, while the `eliza` repository focused on backend development workflow improvements and user experience enhancements.
🚨 Needs Attention
- Pull Requests to Review: - elizaos/eliza#6351: This PR likely introduces a new major version of the project and requires review. - elizaos/eliza#6349: This PR aims to optimize the build process by refining task inputs in the `turbo.json` configuration and needs review.
- elizaos-plugins/plugin-twitter: Enhanced authentication with OAuth2 PKCE, providing a more secure and modern way to handle Twitter/X authentication without shipping client secrets, while maintaining backward compatibility with existing OAuth 1.0a configurations (elizaos-plugins/plugin-twitter#46).
- elizaos/eliza: The `plugin-sql` package received significant updates, including the addition of Neon serverless database support and improvements to Row-Level Security (RLS), enhancing capabilities and strengthening data isolation (elizaos/eliza#6343).
- elizaos/eliza: Implemented comprehensive hot reload functionality for backend development, automatically rebuilding the CLI and restarting the server upon TypeScript file modifications in watched packages, streamlining the development process (elizaos/eliza#6293).
- elizaos/eliza: Addressed bug fixes for `pgcrypto` extension installation for PGLite, eliminating unnecessary warning logs, and improved RLS tests by utilizing `withEntityContext()` and enabling data isolation in CI (elizaos/eliza#6339, elizaos/eliza#6330).
- elizaos-plugins/registry: - elizaos-plugins/registry#247: Add `@zane-archer/plugin-aimo-router` to the registry.
- elizaos/eliza: - elizaos/eliza#6351: V2.0.0 - elizaos/eliza#6349: chore: Optimize build task inputs in turbo.json
- elizaos/elizaos.github.io: - elizaos/elizaos.github.io#194: Planning for Orders and Evolution System - defining the full class tree. - elizaos/elizaos.github.io#195: Planning for Orders and Evolution System - allowing users to choose evolution path. - elizaos/elizaos.github.io#196: Planning for Orders and Evolution System - tracking class transitions for profile lore. - elizaos/elizaos.github.io#197: Enhancing Visuals and Customization for Orders - unique visual identity system. - elizaos/elizaos.github.io#198: Enhancing Visuals and Customization for Orders - allowing users to respec class. - elizaos/elizaos.github.io#199: Enhancing Visuals and Customization for Orders - configurable character class thresholds. - elizaos/elizaos.github.io#200: Improving Report Readability - extending grouped organization/repository format.
- elizaos/eliza:
✅ Completed Work
Plugin Enhancements & Security
Backend Development Workflow & Database Compatibility
🏗️ Work in Progress
New Pull Requests
🐞 Issue Triage
New Issues
Full Stories
Community members engaged in casual morning greetings and personal conversations.
Users discussed topics ranging from hairline recession and shaving heads to humorous anecdotes about everyday life. One user shared excitement about playing Runescape again and mentioned difficulty recovering an old account. There were also philosophical discussions about influence, consequences, and societal issues, with users sharing perspectives on trust, action and reaction, and the nature of power dynamics.
Discord
A discussion emerged about mental health monitoring technology.
Users shared information about Behavidence and their AI algorithm called Dopa One, which monitors and detects fluctuations in brain dopamine levels using mobile phones and wearable devices. The technology provides digital behavior similarity scores for ADHD, Depression, and Anxiety. Community members suggested integrating this type of mental health monitoring into future ElizaOS Phone applications, noting that with 5 years of progress in LLMs and better smartwatch devices, it may be easier for AI to monitor mental health indicators. Research papers and app links were shared for reference.
Discord
An announcement was made about an upcoming Twitter Space scheduled for Tuesday January 13th at 7pm UTC.
The space will be hosted with the Solana Foundation, PayAI, and Quantu, focusing on deep diving into 8004 and discussing how it will be utilized by Eliza Cloud. Community members were encouraged to set reminders for the event.
Discord
In the coders channel, a developer sought collaboration for converting ElizaOS plugins into skills to make them interoperable with ElizaOS and other agent tools.
The plan involves testing with popular plugins like Discord and blockchain plugins. The skill structure would consist of a folder with markdown instructions and tools in scripts to make them deterministic. Challenges discussed include getting Claude to use skills without explicit instruction, with solutions involving hooks. One developer shared their experience building a skill factory for specialized workflows involving PDF manipulation and filesystem operations.
Discord
Users discussed ElizaCloud app creator functionality, with some experiencing operation failures while others confirmed it was working as an early feature.
Questions were raised about billing pages and credit top-up capabilities in the cloud platform. A developer shared a GitHub repository for deepface, a lightweight face recognition and facial attribute analysis library for Python, as a starting point for certain use cases.
Discord
In the core developers channel, discussion centered on MiniMax M2 and its interleaved thinking approach for long-running tasks.
A developer shared documentation about agent generalization and rethinking alignment. The team discussed converting ElizaOS plugins into skills with a focus on making them Claude-friendly and deterministic. One developer successfully set up a VPS running Claude code with Kimi K2 and access via Happy on iOS.
Discord
Shaw announced plans for Eliza 2.0, which would come in TypeScript, Rust, and Python with FFI plugin interop between languages.
The new version would have no API, no server, no CLI, and no projects - just an extremely Claude-friendly documented runtime with the same abstractions in 3 languages and examples for common use cases. Shaw confirmed having already ported it with a branch available. Another developer announced exciting updates coming to the ElizaOS leaderboard and mentioned writing a blog post as a follow-up to The Meritverse article about digital threads and net credentials.
Discord