[Binance to Launch BREV USDT Perpetual Contract Pre-Trading] Binance announces the launch of BREV USDT perpetual contract pre-trading.

Prediction markets show traders clustering around a $2 billion–$3 billion range, with odds for $4 billion and $6 billion outcomes falling steadily after October's crash. What to know : Lighter's LIT token has not yet begun open trading, but its premarket valuation is already sparking debate, with estimates ranging from $2 billion to over $3 billion. The fully diluted valuation (FDV) of LIT is a contentious topic, as it reflects potential market value based on maximum token supply, which can be misleading without considering liquidity. Premarket trading suggests a valuation above $3 billion, but prediction markets show uncertainty, with traders on Polymarket giving even odds for LIT exceeding this figure.

[Justin Sun Withdraws 5.2 Million USDC and Buys 1.66 Million LIT] On-chain analyst MLM monitoring shows that Justin Sun withdrew approximately 5.2 million USDC from a single wallet out of the roughly $200 million previously deposited into LLP and purchased approximately 1.66 million LIT tokens, currently valued at around $4.65 million. Additionally, about 1.2 million USDC remains in Justin Sun's spot account balance.

[Whale address 0x90924 closes $13.18 million BTC long position with 40x leverage] Hyperinsight monitoring shows that whale address 0x90924 closed a 40x leveraged long position of 150 BTC (approximately $13.18 million) 10 minutes ago on December 30. Currently, it is still holding a $17.53 million basket of altcoins with an average 8x leverage, including ETH, SOL, SUI, AAVE, HYPE, PUMP, XPL, and ASTER, with an overall unrealized profit of $65,000.

[Unleash Protocol Smart Contract Experiences Unauthorized Activity, User Assets Transferred] On December 30, the IPFi platform Unleash Protocol announced that its smart contract experienced unauthorized activity, resulting in the extraction and transfer of user assets. Preliminary investigations revealed that an external address gained management authority through Unleash's multi-signature governance mechanism and executed an unauthorized contract upgrade, leading to the transfer of assets such as WIP, USDC, WETH, stIP, and vIP to an external address. The related assets were transferred via third-party cross-chain infrastructure. Unleash stated that the incident stemmed from its own governance and permission framework, and the contracts and underlying infrastructure of Story Protocol were not affected. All protocol operations have currently been suspended.