The Cyberspace Administration of China disposed of 61 counterfeit financial institution websites by 2025, involving the misleading of netizens to purchase so-called "stablecoin" and other wealth management products.

**January 1: U.S. Solana Spot ETFs Post $2.3M Net Inflow, All From Bitwise’s BSOL** Per Farside Investors data, the U.S. Solana spot ETF sector recorded a net inflow of $2.3 million yesterday (Dec. 31), with all capital flowing into Bitwise’s BSOL fund. Since their launch, total net inflows into U.S. Solana spot ETFs have hit $765 million.

**January 1 Update** NEO co-founders Erik Zhang and Da Hongfei have accused each other of monopolizing financial authority and lacking transparency. Zhang noted he will return to fully oversee the Neo mainnet to safeguard the core rights of NEO/GAS holders, and disclosed the project’s current governance structure and account status. ### On-Chain Transparent Assets (NEO/GAS) - **Protocol-Level Transparency**: Most NEO and GAS assets held by the Neo Foundation are currently publicly distributed across 21 initial node addresses and one multisig wallet. - **Asset Flow Clarification**: When Da Hongfei previously asked Zhang to step down from foundation management, roughly 8 million NEO/GAS tokens were transferred to multisig addresses Da Hongfei designated, at his request. - **Internal Payment SOP**: To ensure core asset usage compliance, a strict four-step process has long been in place: 1. NGD submits a budget proposal; 2. Da Hongfei approves it; 3. Zhang handles t

On January 1, Upbit will list Tether Gold (XAUT) for spot trading, supporting KRW, BTC and USDT markets.

Per LookOnChain monitoring on January 1st: A whale purchased 7.5 billion PUMP tokens via two wallets in a public sale six months ago, spending 3 million USDC. One hour ago, the whale deposited these tokens (valued at $1.47 million) into Hyperliquid. If sold in full, the whale faces a potential loss of $1.53 million (-51%).

January 1st: Per Onchain Lens monitoring, a wallet deposited 8 million USDC into HyperLiquid and opened multiple long positions—10x leverage on XPL and PUMP, 5x on MON, and 3x on VVV, STBL, STABLE, IP, HEMI, GRIFFAIN, MAVIA, and AIXBT.

**BROCCOLI714 Hack Recap: Equation News Founder Vida Nets $1M+** On January 1, 2026, Equation News founder Vida recapped the morning’s BROCCOLI714 hack on X (formerly Twitter)—and her $1 million gain from the event. Within 30 minutes, she spotted BROCCOLI714’s price surge over 30% due to the hack, quickly closing her pre-existing arbitrage position. Her original $500,000 arbitrage hedging position had turned into an $800,000 spot holding and a $500,000 futures contract; closing it locked in a $300,000 profit. Next, she noticed a $5 million buy wall (10% depth) on Binance’s BROCCOLI714 spot market, while the contract market only had a $50,000 buy wall at the same 10% depth. Binance’s main order book showed BROCCOLI714 had a $40 million market cap and a $26 million buy wall—leading her to infer either a user account hack or a bug in the market-making system. After confirming the hacker’s $26 million stake in the spot order book, she realized the hacker planned to pump the spot m