Gate.io Launches INIT Perpetual Contract Pre-trading

On January 5th, GMGN market data shows that The Official 67 Coin — a meme coin in the Solana ecosystem — has surged more than 22.7% over the past 24 hours, with a market cap exceeding $20 million and a 24-hour trading volume of $2.407 million. BlockBeats cautions users that meme coins often lack practical use cases, face extreme price volatility, and should be approached with caution when considering investment.

January 5: Per Onchain Lens data, a crypto whale opened new long positions totaling $32.62 million, with a floating profit of over $3.4 million. Currently, the whale holds 17 positions across assets including BTC, STBL, IP, HYPE, XPL, MON, PUMP, TRUMP, GRIFFAIN, VVV, HMSTR, FARTCOIN, HEMI, MAVIA, LIT, STABLE, and AIXBT.

On January 5, on-chain data analyst @Andrey_10gwei uncovered an insider trader on Polymarket who netted over $400,000 by correctly betting on the capture of Maduro—with the trader’s funds suspected to be tied to World Liberty Finance (WLFI) co-founder Steven Charles Witkoff. Chain analysis shows one wallet funding the insider’s Polymarket account received 252.39 SOL from Coinbase at 23:53 UTC on January 1. Roughly 23 hours earlier, at 00:48 UTC that same day, a wallet labeled STVLU.SOL sent 252.91 SOL to Coinbase—a 99% match between the two sums. The STVLU.SOL wallet is linked to the StCharles.SOL domain (an abbreviation of Steven Charles Witkoff’s name), with its initial funds coming from a wallet associated with the Solhundred.sol domain. That Solhundred.sol wallet conducted an $11 million transaction with another wallet labeled StevenCharles.sol—suspected to be tied to Witkoff. Additionally, within 3-4 hours of the insider withdrawing their Polymarket profits to Coinbase, $

On January 5, Binance founder CZ said: “People often ask me where I think the next big opportunity lies. My answer? Look at where I spend my time.” Yet many ignore this and blindly chase “10x get-rich-quick” opportunities—with a failure rate as high as 99.99999%.

On January 5, per HTX market data, Ethereum rebounded above $3,200, posting a 1.8% 24-hour gain.

Bitcoin topped $93,000 on January 5, per HTX market data, posting a 24-hour gain of 2.13%.