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According to official news, OKX will officially launch stock perpetual contracts on the web, App, and API for certain supported countries/regions on February 25, 2026, at 15:00 (Beijing time). The underlying assets include Robinhood (HOOD), Tesla (TSLA), and Strategy (MSTR), with a maximum leverage of 5 times.

According to EmberCN monitoring, as ETH briefly dropped to around $1,950, the largest ETH long position on Hyperliquid has added 5,000 ETH.The 105,000 ETH long positions opened at an average price between $2,029 and $2,060 are now facing an unrealized loss of $10.43 million, valued at $205 million.

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Vitalik Buterin proposed the main patterns for the future of on-chain mechanism design: mechanisms similar to prediction markets that maximize openness and accountability (anyone can buy and sell, good decisions make money, bad decisions lose money), suitable for being a "decentralized execution layer"; decentralized, diversified, non-tokenized preference settings (anonymous voting, preferably MACI to prevent collusion), maximizing intrinsic motivation space, avoiding token holders from monopolizing control. Prediction markets are the best primitive for achieving "decentralized governance."

According to Hyperinsight monitoring, the largest short address for ZEC (0xd475) has partially taken profits on its ETH short position, temporarily reducing its short position by 967.68 ETH, worth approximately 3.11 million dollars.After the reduction, the size of the ETH short position remains as high as 53.55 million dollars, with current floating profits of about 18.43 million dollars. This address is known for establishing large short positions on ZEC, having started shorting ZEC at 184 dollars and turning a loss of 21 million dollars into a profit.

According to market news, over 9.5 billion dollars in cryptocurrency options will expire at Beijing time. Among them, the notional value of Bitcoin options reaches 8.27 billion dollars, with a Put/Call ratio of 0.54 and a maximum pain price of 90,000 dollars; the notional value of Ethereum options is 1.27 billion dollars, with a Put/Call ratio of 0.74 and a maximum pain price of 3,100 dollars.Currently, the Bitcoin price is hovering around 90,000 dollars, with an increased demand for downside protection in the market, indicating a cautious attitude among traders, but overall positions still lean towards bullish. Previous reports suggested that cryptocurrency options trading activities have kept the Bitcoin price suppressed around 90,000 dollars.

According to the official announcement, Bitget has supported U-based perpetual contracts for XAU (gold), XAG (silver), and others with a leverage limit of up to 100 times. Users can visit the official Bitget platform to refer to the updated specific positions, leverage, and maintenance margin rates, and allocate their positions reasonably based on their own risk.

According to HyperInsight monitoring, as the HYPE price rebounds to $32, most of the major long positions on-chain have realized significant profits. However, the "suspected insider of HYPE listing" whale remains deeply trapped. This address heavily went long before HYPE was listed on Robinhood, raising suspicions in the community that it may possess insider information. Its average opening price reached $38.67, and today's unrealized loss has narrowed from about $16 million (-265%) yesterday to about $8.7 million (-95%) today, making it the largest long position on-chain for HYPE, with a position size of approximately $44.8 million.It is noteworthy that since its position fell below the cost price and incurred significant unrealized losses, this address has not made any adjustments or reductions to its position, continuing to hold the position. Previously, its unrealized loss peaked at $26 million and was once close to a liquidation price near $20.

According to Hyperinsight monitoring, the 'ZEC largest short' address (0xd475) executed partial profit-taking on its ETH short position, temporarily reducing its short position by 1,055.93 ETH, worth approximately 3.02 million dollars.After the reduction, the size of the ETH short position remains as high as 118.7 million dollars, with current floating profits of about 11.04 million dollars. This address is known for establishing large short positions on ZEC, having started shorting ZEC at 184 dollars, turning a loss of 21 million dollars into a profit.

ZachXBT stated that Ledger has been breached multiple times, resulting in the leakage of customer privacy data and triggering targeted thefts, causing "millions of dollars" in losses; it also pointed out issues with existing products (such as battery failures in the Ledger Nano X), questioning Ledger's plan to go public in the U.S. to "maximize extraction" after announcing a fee for clear signing.

According to HyperInsight monitoring, the whale (0x94d37) closed a BTC long position 3 hours ago, realizing a profit of $711,000. It is currently still the largest holder of DASH short positions on Hyperliquid, shorting 112,150.15 DASH with 5x leverage, at an average entry price of $74.93, with an unrealized profit of $1.147 million.In addition, this address is still long on ETH and SOL, with an unrealized profit of $1.258 million.

Tomorrow at 16:00 (UTC+8), the Deribit platform will have over 2.1 billion USD in cryptocurrency options expiring, including: BTC options with a notional value of 1.81 billion USD, a Put Call Ratio of 0.74, and a maximum pain point of 92,000 USD; ETH options with a notional value of 337 million USD, a Put Call Ratio of 0.88, and a maximum pain point of 3,250 USD.

According to HyperInsight monitoring, the largest PEPE long position today once again went long on 6,776.62 ETH with 5x leverage, at an average entry price of $3,006.63, with an unrealized profit of $47,000.This address was previously the largest holder of kPEPE long positions on Hyperliquid, ultimately realizing a profit of $963,600, and closed an ETH long position yesterday with a loss of $223,900.

According to official news, Gate Alpha officially launched the "Peak Trading Competition" event on January 20, open for trading in all cryptocurrencies in the Alpha zone. Users can participate by signing up and trading to share a prize pool of up to $100,000 USDT. The event uses a total trading volume mechanism to unlock the prize pool, where the more participants and transaction volume, the more rewards can be unlocked, with a maximum individual leaderboard reward of $10,000 USDT. Additionally, all participating users can receive rewards, earning $100 in trading experience tokens for every $1,000 USDT traded, with a maximum of $500 in trading experience tokens.The top 4 cryptocurrencies by percentage increase on Gate Alpha today are: ELIZA TOWN (896.52%), BRIDGE (598.63%), GOLEM (455.37%), and TYLER (407.85%).Gate Alpha now supports popular public chains such as SOL, ETH, Gate Layer, BNB Chain, Base, SUI, ARB, World Chain, AVAX, Polygon, LINEA, ZK, OP, and Berachain, and enables seamless trading of tokens across all chains through the contract address search function, facilitating cross-chain trading and allowing users to access all on-chain tokens with one click.

According to official news, the proposal to reduce the maximum supply of PancakeSwap's native token CAKE has been approved with 100% of the votes.It is reported that the proposal suggests adjusting the maximum supply of CAKE from 450 million to 400 million, leaving a buffer of approximately 50 million between the current circulating supply (about 350 million) and the new maximum supply (400 million).

X official creator account @XCreators announced that X has reached a new high in creator earnings distribution by the end of 2025 since the launch of the profit-sharing program, and it will increase incentives for original writing content. The official stated that 2026 is designated as the "Year of Creators," and the platform will focus on investing in long-form content such as articles, and plans to launch a more detailed Creator Studio earnings overview panel.The announcement shows that X will award an additional $1 million bonus to the most outstanding original articles in the next earnings reward cycle. Participating articles must be original content, with a minimum word count of 1,000 words, and the main evaluation criterion will be the exposure on the homepage timeline, limited to U.S. users. Articles that violate platform policies, contain hate speech, fraud, or manipulative content are not eligible to participate. The publication window for eligible articles is from January 16 to January 28.

Greeks.live macro researcher Adam released options data. Today, 20,000 BTC options are expiring, with a Put Call Ratio of 1.39, a max pain point of $92,000, and a notional value of $2.3 billion. 120,000 ETH options are expiring, with a Put Call Ratio of 1.04, a max pain point of $3,200, and a notional value of $430 million.

Bitget has launched a limited-time high-interest financial management activity for USDT, which is now open for subscription. During the event, users can go to the "Simple Earn" section to subscribe for USDT and enjoy a 5% APR, with a personal subscription limit of 500,000 USDT. The subscription period is from January 16, 18:00 to January 30, 18:00 (UTC+8).In addition, users who successfully subscribe and have a net deposit amount of USDT greater than 10,000 will also receive a 10% USDT financial management interest coupon, with a personal interest cap of 50,000 USDT. The interest coupon airdrop participation deadline is January 28, 18:00 (UTC+8).