Wu said that Binance Futures will launch the AIAUSDT perpetual contract on January 20, 2026, at 11:15 (UTC), with a maximum leverage of 20 times. DeAgentAI (AIA) is an artificial intelligence infrastructure project.
Wu said that, according to the official announcement, Binance will adjust the collateral ratio of certain assets in the unified account and the tiered collateral ratio of the unified account pro version on January 23, 2026, at 14:00 (UTC+8). The assets involved include LTC, SHIB, NEAR, CRV, PAXG, WLD, WIF, APT, TIA, FLOKI, SAND, USTC, TWT, CHZ, ORDI, etc.
According to DLNews, the Daegu District Court in South Korea sentenced a 41-year-old head of an illegal cryptocurrency exchange to 5 years in prison, and his 35-year-old employee received a sentence of 2 years and 8 months for laundering approximately 1 million dollars (contacted via Telegram within 3 months) for an overseas voice phishing gang using USDT; the gang impersonated law enforcement personnel or relatives to induce victims to transfer funds to accounts controlled by the exchange, with the money quickly withdrawn and converted to USDT, making it impossible for banks to freeze; the judge described the crime as "severe," and the defendants did not compensate the victims; the number of victims has not been specified.
Wu said that, according to an official announcement, OKX will delist the spot trading pairs ULTI, GEAR, VRA, DAO, CXT, RDNT, and ELON from 16:00 to 18:00 on January 27, 2026, and will delist the spot trading pairs ULTI/USDT, GEAR/USDT, VRA/USDT, DAO/USDT, CXT/USDT, RDNT/USDT, and ELON/USDT from 16:00 to 18:00 on January 30. Related trading services will be suspended starting from 16:00 on January 24, 2026, and users are advised to process related assets in advance.
Wu said that Grok's self-evaluation indicates that the new algorithm recommendation system X is still in its adolescence, but it is one of the most 'AI-native' social recommendation systems currently available. It directly learns user attention relationships and historical interactions to generate profiles using large models, subsequently discovering content from follower dynamics and the entire site, while simultaneously predicting the probabilities of multi-dimensional interactions such as likes, comments, shares, dwell time, blocking, shielding, and reporting to enhance sensitivity to negative behaviors and low-quality content; reducing manual biases and the threshold for attention relationships, as well as diversity constraints to avoid single authors flooding the screen. However, there are still issues with the risk of 'information cocoon 2.0' due to the Transformer learning too quickly and the problem of repeated content distribution.
Wu said that, according to the official announcement, Binance Alpha will launch FIGHT (FIGHT) on January 22. Eligible users can claim the airdrop using Binance Alpha Points on the Alpha Events page after trading begins, with more details to be announced later.
According to The Block, the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Professional Association (HKSFPA) opposed the proposed new regulations for virtual asset management when submitting opinions to the regulatory authorities, stating that if the current Type 9 (Asset Management) license's '10% exemption for cryptocurrency allocation' is removed, even a 1% allocation of Bitcoin would require applying for a full virtual asset management license, and the compliance costs would not match the risk exposure, which may discourage traditional asset management institutions from attempting cryptocurrency assets.
Wu said that Binance Alpha is the first platform to launch Acurast (ACU), and Alpha trading will open on January 20, 2026, at 10:00 (UTC). Users with at least 241 Binance Alpha points can claim an airdrop of 320 ACU tokens on a first-come, first-served basis. If the reward pool is not fully distributed, the points threshold will automatically decrease by 5 points every 5 minutes. Please note that claiming the airdrop will consume 15 Binance Alpha points. Users must confirm their claim on the Alpha activity page within 24 hours; otherwise, it will be considered a forfeiture of the airdrop.
Wu said that Makinafi issued a statement in response to the unusual incident of DUSD in the Curve pool this morning. It stated that the issue currently appears to only affect DUSD LP positions on Curve, with no signs indicating that other assets or deployments are affected; the underlying assets held by Machines are not impacted. As a precaution, the team has enabled safe mode for all Machines and advised DUSD Curve pool LPs to withdraw liquidity immediately.
Wu said that the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announced it will hold the "Stablecoin Sprint" offline collaborative event in London on March 4-5, 2026, inviting fintech companies, traditional banks, payment institutions, technology enterprises, stablecoin issuers, legal experts, consumer representatives, and merchants to jointly promote the regulatory framework and operational standards for stablecoins within the payment system.
According to Bitget TradFi market data, the gold price briefly reached 4701.30 USD / ounce, continuing to set a new historical high, with an increase of 9.04% over the past month and an increase of approximately 67.8% over the past year.
Security researcher Andrey Sergeenkov stated that the recent activity on the Ethereum network has reached an all-time high, partly due to "address poisoning" style spam attacks. Data shows that since January, the number of new Ethereum addresses and transaction volumes have surged, but research indicates that after the Fusaka upgrade, Gas fees have dropped by over 60%, making large-scale low-cost attacks more attractive. Their analysis found that 67% of new addresses had their first transaction amount below 1 dollar, with approximately 3.8 million addresses receiving "dust" stablecoins as their first transaction. (Cointelegraph)
According to Wu's report, PeckShieldAlert monitored that the MakinaFi platform was attacked, with hackers stealing approximately 1,299 ETH, worth about 4.13 million USD. Some transactions were processed in advance by an MEV builder address (0xa6c2…). The stolen funds are currently dispersed and stored in two addresses: 0xbed2…dE25 (approximately 3.3 million USD) and 0x573d…910e (approximately 880,000 USD).
Wu said that the Georgia Department of Banking and Finance (DBF) has issued a cease and desist order to Virtual Assets LLC (operating under the name Crypto Dispensers). The regulatory agency stated that the company engaged in virtual asset-related money transmission activities in Georgia without obtaining a money transmission license and does not meet exemption criteria, allegedly violating state laws.
Wu said that, according to a report by ABS-CBN, the police in Pasig City, Philippines successfully rescued a kidnapped Chinese man from an apartment on January 16 and arrested two Chinese suspects at the scene. The operation was initiated after the victim's friend received a distress message and called the police, stating that the victim was being guarded by four Chinese individuals with knives and had been forced to transfer a large amount of money through cryptocurrency. Although the victim had been coerced into transferring approximately 400,000 US dollars in cryptocurrency and paying an additional 14,000 US dollars, the suspects continued to demand more money and threatened to sell his organs or sell him to other countries if payment was not made.
Wu said that, according to Herald Economy, South Korean financial authorities are advancing the relaxation of digital asset regulation, planning to abolish the existing "1 exchange-1 bank" practice within the year and researching measures to allow digital asset derivatives and to open up corporate accounts for trading, in order to enhance market competition and liquidity and prevent trading from shrinking. The "1 exchange-1 bank" practice was formed in South Korea under real-name and anti-money laundering regulations, requiring each virtual asset exchange to be bound to only one bank as a channel for fiat currency deposits and withdrawals.
Wu said that according to monitoring by @ai_9684xtpa, Trend Research borrowed 10 million USDT from Aave about 5 minutes ago, and subsequently deposited it to Binance, suspected to be used for continuing to increase the position in ETH. Trend Research currently holds 626,778.65 ETH, valued at approximately 1.94 billion dollars, with an average cost of about 3,105.5 dollars, and an unrealized profit of about 53.52 million dollars.
According to CoinPost, Norwegian listed company K33 has recently launched a cryptocurrency collateralized lending service, allowing users to use BTC and ETH as collateral to obtain loans, with funds disbursed in stablecoins such as USDC. This product is currently only available to a select group of qualified clients. K33 also stated that it will incorporate the Bitcoin held by the company into its business operations to expand the monetization applications of digital assets.
Wu said that, according to BlockSec monitoring, the SynapLogic contract was attacked by hackers, resulting in a loss of approximately $186,000. This contract is used to proportionally distribute native token revenue shares, but it did not verify whether the total allocation exceeded the actual payment amount (msg.value). The attacker set a specific collection address, causing the number of native tokens allocated to be greater than the actual payment amount, allowing them to not only obtain newly minted SYP but also extract native tokens for arbitrage.
Wu said that the Hong Kong SAR government plans to announce the 2026/2027 fiscal budget on February 25, covering topics such as virtual assets and investor protection. The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Professionals Association stated that Hong Kong has completed the preliminary regulatory infrastructure in the field of virtual assets, and the next phase should shift towards commercial application implementation: accelerating RWA product approval, introducing international liquidity, facilitating RWA secondary market liquidity, and enhancing staff training, promoting Hong Kong from a "regulatory clarity" to a "liquid abundance, widespread application" global virtual asset center, and aligning with the national "14th Five-Year" financial openness and digital economy strategy.