Precious Metals Remain Hot, Gold-Silver Contract on Hyperliquid Sees Over $2.5 Billion 24-Hour Trading Volume

Binance to Launch Intel (INTC), Robinhood (HOOD) Stock Perpetual Futures Trading with Up to 10x Leverage As confirmed by official sources on January 30, Binance will roll out perpetual futures trading for Intel (INTC) and Robinhood (HOOD) stocks after 22:30 Beijing time on February 2. The platform will support a maximum leverage of 10x for these new products.

On January 30, on-chain data, historical announcements, and tweet content show that Binance’s $1 billion Secure Asset Fund for Users (SAFU) has been transferred from its old address to the new SAFU wallet address (0x420) referenced in an announcement one year ago. All funds were moved as USDC, and no further actions have been taken to date. Per Binance’s official updates: - In January 2022 (early-to-mid the last bear market), the exchange stated its SAFU Fund held $1 billion in assets, including BNB, BTC, USDT, and TUSD. - On November 9, 2022 (the bottom of the last bear market), Binance noted the market downturn had cut the fund’s value to $735 million, and it would boost holdings to restore the fund to $1 billion (comprising $700 million in BUSD/BNB and $300 million in BTC). - In April 2024, Binance announced all SAFU assets would be converted to USDC to maintain stability. Launched in July 2018, the SAFU Fund safeguards user assets in extreme scenarios (e.g., hacks, secu

January 30 – Official data from Pacifica (a Solana-based perpetual contract platform) shows trading of XAU (on-chain silver) and PAXG (on-chain gold) is active, ranking sixth and eighth in the platform’s trading volume respectively. The two assets make up 9.36% of the platform’s total 24-hour trading volume—roughly $8.71 million—while their open interest accounts for about 7.13% of the total, around $5.03 million. Monitoring indicates the platform’s top traders, alongside high trading volumes, have generally allocated positions in PAXG, XAG (on-chain silver), and other precious metals, with most positions profitable. Users can use the on-chain copy trading tool Coinbob Pacifica (@CoinbobPAC_bot, https://t.me/CoinbobPAC_bot) to mirror these traders’ moves, earn profits, and accumulate Pacifica platform points for potential airdrops.

As of January 30, monitoring data from HyperInsight (via its Telegram channel @HyperInsight) shows a crypto whale opened a 40x leveraged long position on 96.31 BTC at 15:37 UTC. The average entry price was $82,564.10, and the position currently holds an unrealized profit of $10,700.

The whale’s address uses an aggressive trading strategy: it has frequently rebalanced positions recently and prefers building positions through small orders.

On January 30, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin posted on social media that the Ethereum Foundation is entering a phase of moderate belt-tightening, with two core goals: - Advance a proactive roadmap to transform Ethereum into a high-performance, scalable global computer—while preserving its robustness, sustainability, and decentralization. - Ensure the Foundation’s long-term viability, and safeguard Ethereum’s core mission and goals—including the core blockchain layer and users’ ability to access and use the chain autonomously, securely, and privately. Buterin noted: “To support this, my personal approach includes taking on responsibilities that would once have fallen to a Foundation ‘special project.’ Specifically, I’m developing an open-source, secure, verifiable full-stack software-hardware system to safeguard personal well-being and the public sphere. I’ve recently withdrawn 16,384 ETH of my own, which I’ll invest in these efforts over the next few years. I’m also explo

January 30th — Per HyperInsight monitoring, the "DASH Largest Short" whale (address 0x94d37) has just expanded its long position in the xyz:SILVER perpetual silver contract. As of now, the whale holds **$20.53 million worth of silver long positions** with 20x leverage, at an average entry price of $112.24. The position currently has an **unrealized loss of $1.1 million**. Notably, this address remains the **largest DASH short holder on Hyperliquid**: it holds 152,211.28 DASH short positions with 5x leverage, at an average entry price of $71.41. This short position has an **unrealized gain of $2.971 million**. [HyperInsight](https://t.me/HyperInsight) | [Hyperliquid](https://app.hyperliquid.xyz/join/NTOD)