Suspected Sonic Labs-Related Address Transfers 11.78 Million S Tokens to Binance, Valued at Approximately $5.55 Million

On January 1st, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin shared a New Year’s message on social media: “Ethereum made significant progress in 2025: higher gas limits, more blobs, improved node software quality, and a milestone breakthrough in zkEVM performance. With advancements in zkEVM and PeerDAS, Ethereum has taken the biggest step toward becoming a new, more powerful form of blockchain. However, Ethereum still faces challenges: more work is needed to hit its established goals. This isn’t about chasing the “next narrative hype”—whether it’s dollar tokenization or political meme coins—nor is it about convincing people to fill block space to reshape ETH’s deflationary properties. It’s about living up to its core mission: building a world computer as the core infrastructure for a free, open internet. Vitalik emphasized that Ethereum is building decentralized applications (dApps). These apps can run without fraud, censorship, or third-party interference. They pass “off-chain tests”:

On January 1st, according to HTX market data, LIGHT (Bitlight) saw a short-term plunge of 77.3%, hitting a low of $0.5287 at one point and currently trading at $0.64. Notably, LIGHT dropped to $0.32 at 4 PM Beijing time yesterday, then surged nearly 700% afterward. It reached around $2.5 around 6:45 PM Beijing time today, before plummeting one hour later. Per Coinglass data, LIGHT has liquidated $32.11 million in the past 24 hours—second only to Bitcoin’s $47.85 million. Long positions accounted for $12.39 million in liquidations, while short positions made up $19.71 million.

**BNB Chain Hits All-Time Highs in 2025: Key Metrics Surge Across Users, Liquidity, Transactions** On January 1st, official sources confirmed BNB Chain released its 2025 annual summary report, showcasing record-breaking performance across core network indicators. Highlights from the report: - **TVL Growth**: Total Value Locked (TVL) rose 40.5% year-over-year; - **Transaction Volume**: Daily transactions hit 10.78 million, with a one-time peak of 31 million (zero downtime recorded); - **User Base**: Unique addresses exceeded 700 million; BSC and opBNB each boasted over 4 million daily active users (DAUs)—new all-time highs; - **Stablecoins & RWA**: Stablecoin market cap doubled to $14 billion (peak period); Real-world asset (RWA) size surpassed $1.8 billion; - **Institutional Adoption**: Institutional participation continued to grow. This update underscores BNB Chain’s expanding footprint in decentralized finance and Web3.

Per official sources, Binance Alpha is launching an AI Avatar (AIAV) airdrop on January 2nd—one day after its official rollout date of January 1st. Once trading opens, eligible users can claim the airdrop using Alpha Points on the Alpha Events page.

January 1 – Per HTX market data, Bitcoin rallied past $88,000 on a rebound, last trading at $88,024.