Binance's latest Launchpool has received over 18.4 million BNB

**U.S. Senate Banking Committee to Advance Digital Asset Regulation Bill in Second Week of January** The U.S. Senate Banking Committee is expected to move forward with deliberations on a digital asset market regulation bill during the second week of January, following months of delays. Sources familiar with the matter and recent reports indicate the committee may hold a markup session on the *Responsible Financial Innovation Act* that week. This marks a milestone breakthrough for the legislation, which had stalled amid Democratic lawmakers’ concerns over decentralized finance (DeFi) and the longest government shutdown in federal history. Cody Carbone, CEO of digital asset advocacy group The Digital Chamber, confirmed the Senate will at minimum hold a markup for pending market structure legislation in the second week of January. Separately, the Senate Agriculture Committee is reviewing its own version of a market structure bill, which could later advance to a full Senate vote.

January 1 – Per monitoring from AnChain.AI, Turkish cryptocurrency exchange BtcTurk has been hit by another hack, resulting in a $48 million loss. Stolen funds were transferred across multiple networks including Ethereum, Arbitrum, and Polygon, before being consolidated into a single address. Previously, BlockBeats reported that BtcTurk suffered an approximate $54 million loss in an August 2025 hack.

January 1 – Per Onchain Lens monitoring, a new wallet tied to Jez (@aerobatic) deposited 2.06 million USDC into HyperLiquid and opened 20x-leveraged long positions on BTC, ETH, and SOL.

Jan. 1 — Per Onchain Lens data, a new crypto wallet withdrew 5,798 ETH (roughly $17.24 million) from exchange Kraken two hours ago and sent the funds to another wallet.

On January 1, Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino took to social media to state that the company had accumulated 8,888.8888 Bitcoins in Q4 2025. Previously, BlockBeats reported that Tether had completed two quarterly accumulations of 8,888 Bitcoins each—one in Q1 2025 and another in Q3 2025.

January 1st — Market sources report a Binance market maker account is suspected of being hacked. The alleged hacker used $10–20 million from the account to pump the BROCCOLI714 token on Binance’s spot market in the early hours today. The token’s price surged from ~$0.013 to $0.16 (a 1,130% jump) before crashing to a low of $0.012 within 15 minutes. It’s currently trading at $0.017.