Binance has announced the launch of TradFi Perpetual Contracts, offering perpetual futures trading for traditional assets

On January 9th, per GMGN monitoring (https://t.me/gmgnaibot?start=i_m4TE56o8), on-chain market sentiment for BSC has heated up notably. Chinese-focused meme coin trends have been particularly strong lately. Recently, many new meme coins have seen a "pump on listing" trend, while a handful of established meme coins have also climbed simultaneously. Below are key tokens leading the gains: - Binance Life: 24-hour gain of 9%, market cap of $147 million, current price ~$0.147 - Hakimi: 24-hour gain of 10%, market cap of $38.76 million, current price ~$0.038 - I Stepped on the Horse: 24-hour gain of 420%—market cap hit $16 million earlier today before pulling back, now at $13 million, price ~$0.013 - Life Candlestick: 24-hour gain of 360%—market cap has surged past its previous high, now at $3.09 million, price ~$0.003 BlockBeats reminds users: Meme coin trading is extremely volatile, driven mainly by market sentiment and concept hype—no actual value or use case. Investors sho

On January 9th, monitoring from HyperInsight (via its Telegram channel at https://t.me/HyperInsight) reveals a whale opened a 14x leveraged long position of 4,383.15 ETH at 12:40 today, valued at approximately $13.67 million. Earlier, the same whale established a hedge by opening a 20x leveraged short position of 397.98 BTC, worth around $36.22 million. The account is currently slightly in the red.

On January 9, three masked men broke into a home in Manosque, France, this past Monday evening, holding a woman at gunpoint before stealing a USB drive containing her partner’s cryptocurrency data. According to French newspaper *Le Parisien*, the incident occurred on Cherry Orchard Path in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence region. The suspects threatened the victim with a handgun, slapped her, seized the USB drive, and fled the scene. The victim—reportedly unharmed—freed herself within minutes and alerted authorities. Local police have launched an investigation, assigning the case to the regional criminal investigation unit and national police. Last year, Casa Chief Technology Officer Jameson Lopp documented more than 70 violent cryptocurrency-related attacks worldwide in his public database, making France a European hotspot for such crimes—with over 14 related cases recorded there. Cybercrime consultant David Sehyeon told Decrypt: “France has a relatively high baseline of criminal act

January 9 — South Korea’s Ministry of Economy and Finance announced that the nation will launch a digital asset spot ETF. (Source: Jinse)

January 9th: Per Onchain Lens monitoring, a whale has transferred 8.09 million USDC to HyperLiquid and placed a limit order to purchase 59,458 SOL, targeting a price range of $133.88 to $135 per SOL (valued at roughly $8 million total). The whale also holds 427,441 HYPE tokens, worth approximately $11.09 million.

Jan. 9 — Crypto markets have pulled back to the $90,000 mark following a recent rebound, per data from Coinglass. Funding rates across major centralized (CEX) and decentralized (DEX) exchanges currently reflect bearish sentiment for both Bitcoin and altcoins, with specific rates for top coins available in the attached chart. BlockBeats Note: Funding rate is a fee charged by crypto exchanges to align perpetual contract prices with their underlying asset values. It facilitates fund transfers between long and short traders—exchanges do not collect this fee themselves. The mechanism adjusts the costs or profits of traders holding positions to keep contract prices close to underlying asset prices. Rate Context: A 0.01% funding rate is the baseline. Rates above 0.01% signal bullish sentiment, while rates below 0.005% indicate bearishness.