Binance platform now supports users to withdraw USD directly via bank transfer (SWIFT)

January 17 — Binance has announced the delisting of USDT-based perpetual contracts for BID, DMC, ZRC, and TANSSI, per market data. Following the announcement: - TANSSI surged 39% in the short term, with its current price still up 21% from pre-announcement levels. - ZRC plummeted over 13% shortly after, and now trades 9.5% lower than when the news broke. - DMC and BID only saw minor price fluctuations.

January 17 — Official sources confirm that Binance will delist the BIDUSDT, DMCUSDT, ZRCUSDT, and TANSSIUSDT perpetual contract trading pairs at 17:00 Beijing time on January 21, 2026. Positions in these pairs will be automatically closed and settled prior to the delisting taking effect.

On January 17, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange announced that Hong Kong-listed Convoy Global plans to enter the Web3 space strategically. The firm intends to offer software development services for blockchain exchanges and projects, while preparing to launch a proprietary trading platform. With compliance as a core goal, it will explore digital asset trading platforms, wallets, and associated technologies. Convoy Global’s core business currently focuses on biometric recognition and security software services. It will rebrand to Convoy Global by December 2025, with a current market capitalization of roughly HK$123 million.

On January 17, per Coinglass data, after nearly two days of retracement in the crypto market, current funding rates for major centralized (CEX) and decentralized (DEX) exchanges are slightly leaning bearish. Bearish sentiment toward altcoins is even more pronounced, with specific rates for top mainstream coins shown in the attached chart. **BlockBeats Note**: Funding rate is a fee set by crypto exchanges to keep contract prices aligned with underlying asset values—typically applied to perpetual contracts. It’s a mechanism for fund transfers between long and short traders; the exchange itself does not collect this fee. Its purpose is to adjust the cost or profit for traders holding contracts, ensuring contract prices stay close to the underlying asset’s price. ### Funding Rate Interpretation - 0.01% = baseline rate - >0.01% = generally bullish market sentiment - <0.005% = generally bearish market sentiment

On January 17, per Onchain Lens data, whale address 0xf35 has fully closed its highly leveraged 2x XMR long position, incurring a loss of $896,020.

On January 17, Vivek Raman—CEO of Etherealize, an Ethereum ecosystem and institutional analytics firm—told Coindesk in an interview: “Ethereum’s market value could reprice from the hundreds of billions of dollars range to the trillion-dollar level. At its core, Ethereum is infrastructure—what we call ‘civilizational-grade infrastructure.’ The value of this kind of infrastructure is in the tens of trillions of dollars, which is why I think a $15,000 price tag is reasonable. And I believe this shift will happen fairly quickly.”