A trader bought GAS for $394 and made a profit of $420,700, achieving a return of 535x.

Jan. 16 — Decentralized social prediction market platform Slips has raised $3.5 million in seed funding, led by Las Olas Capital and Sunset Bay Capital, with participation from Andrew Schwartzberg—co-owner of the NBA’s Charlotte Hornets and Leeds United Football Club. Slips offers AI-powered P2P prediction markets and location-based group activities, enabling real-time online and offline user interactions. Proceeds from the round will fund the expansion of its financial services infrastructure, including support for crypto payments and stablecoin withdrawals.

On January 16, per Globenewswire, U.S.-listed AlphaTON Capital—a TON Treasury firm—announced it has raised $15 million via a registered common stock offering. The company is issuing 15 million common shares at $1 per share, with HC Wainwright & Co. serving as the exclusive placement agent for the transaction. AlphaTON noted it intends to allocate the net proceeds toward expanding Cocoon AI GPU deployments, supplementing working capital, and general corporate purposes.

On January 16, Forward Industries—a Solana-native treasury-listed firm—announced its financial performance. As of January 15, the company held a total of 6,979,967.46 SOL, nearly all of which has been staked since it established its Solana Treasury. To date, it has earned 133,450 SOL in staking rewards.

On January 16, Hong Kong-listed firm Diginex announced that its Hong Kong subsidiary Diginex Securities Limited received conditional approval from the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) on January 15 to offer virtual asset advisory services—upgrading its existing Type 4 license (securities advising). Under the approval terms, Diginex Securities may only provide this advisory service to professional investors who are existing clients of its Type 4 business. The firm had previously secured approval to upgrade its Type 1 license (securities dealing). Diginex Holdings noted it expects to officially launch virtual asset trading services in February this year, following completion of system connectivity and testing with SFC-licensed platforms. This license upgrade will support the Group’s strategy in the virtual asset and Real World Asset (RWA) tokenization sector.

As of January 16th, Space—Solana’s on-chain leveraged prediction market—has raised over $14 million in its public sale, with an oversubscription rate of 567.58% and less than 13 hours left until the sale concludes. Per details, $2.5 million worth of tokens are being offered at a fixed fully diluted valuation (FDV) of $50 million. Once the target is hit, sales will continue, and the FDV will rise linearly to a cap of $69 million. Post-public sale, participants will receive tokens at a unified price calculated based on their contributions.

On January 16, CME Group announced that spot-traded XRP (QXRP) and SOL (QSOL) futures are now available for trading. Additionally, 24/7 electronic trading for crypto options and futures is set to launch soon. Furthermore, CME Group plans to launch Cardano (ADA), Chainlink (LINK), and Stellar (XLM) futures (expected to go live February 9, pending regulatory review) — along with micro futures for ADA, LINK, and XLM — at the same time.