What truly determines returns is the way you operate at the account level, not just market fluctuations themselves.

According to the announcement from Binance, the platform is set to introduce the BREVUSDT perpetual contract on Binance Futures, with pre-market trading scheduled to commence on 2025-12-30 at 10:45 (UTC). This new offering will allow users to trade with up to 5x leverage, enhancing the range of trading options available on the platform. The underlying asset for this contract is Brevis (BREV), a smart verifiable computing platform designed to support scalable, trustless computation across blockchain, data, and AI systems. The total supply of BREV is capped at 1,000,000,000 tokens, and the settlement asset for the contract will be USDT. The mark price during the pre-market trading period will be calculated as the average of the last 10 seconds of trade prices, updated every second. A price cap of ±1% will be applied to limit price fluctuations within this range. The funding rate during this period is set at 0.005% per four-hour interval, with the possibility of adjustment based on market conditions. Once the pre-market trading concludes, the funding rate will adhere to the standard perpetual futures contract rules, with a maximum and minimum rate of +2.00% and -2.00%, respectively. Binance has outlined that the transition from pre-market to standard perpetual futures contracts will occur gradually, contingent on the availability of a stable index price from the spot market. During this transition, the mark price will shift from the pre-market calculation to the standard method, which uses the median of Price 1, Price 2, and Contract Price. The trading function will remain unaffected, and open orders and positions will not be canceled during this period. Additionally, the BREVUSDT perpetual contract will be included in Binance's New Listing Fee Promotion campaign and made available for Futures Copy Trading within 24 hours of launch.

Stablecoins, payments, what's happening with stablecoin payments? Seven observations from a firsthand perspective. (Jinse Finance, the road ahead is long and arduous.)

According to ChainCatcher, PeckShieldAlert has reported an unauthorized fund loss on Story Protocol's Unleash Protocol, amounting to approximately $3.9 million. The attacker transferred the stolen funds across chains to the Ethereum network and deposited 1337.1 ETH into the Tornado Cash protocol.

PaiDun posted on the X platform that Unleash Protocol, a project within the Story Protocol ecosystem, reported an unauthorized fund breach resulting in a loss of approximately $3.9 million. The attackers subsequently transferred the stolen funds across blockchains to Ethereum and deposited 1337.1 ETH into Tornado Cash.

On December 30, Meta announced the completion of a major acquisition, acquiring The Butterfly Effect, the company behind the AI ​​Agent product Manus, for billions of dollars.

According to PANews, reports from Macau Radio indicate that a local woman may have been deceived by a cryptocurrency investment scam. Since September, she transferred a total of 1.18 million yuan in eight transactions to a specified account. Although the platform account initially showed a profit of 7.9 million yuan, she was asked to pay a 250,000 yuan exchange rate difference when attempting to withdraw funds. On December 20, she lost contact with customer service. Additionally, an elderly man reportedly fell victim to a similar scam, losing 80,000 Hong Kong dollars.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a whale (0x540...F802) transferred $4.35 million USDC to Hyperliquid and opened a short position in LIT with 1x leverage, currently showing a floating loss of $200,000. In addition, this whale holds multiple short positions in Lighter, including XMR (10x leverage), ASTER (5x leverage), MEET (5x leverage), HYPE (3x leverage), USELESS (3x leverage), and STBL (3x leverage), currently showing a total floating profit of $1.6 million.

The $11 billion Bitcoin whale is betting hundreds of millions of dollars on the price increase of Bitcoin, Ether, and Solana, while smart money traders remain net short on leading tokens. source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/11b-bitcoin-whale-330m-eth-748m-long-top-tokens?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

Meta is purchasing Singapore-based AI startup company Manus for more than US$2 billion, marking one of the tech giants' most significant AI-focused purchases to date.

Bitcoin is almost ending the year with chaotic and frustrating price actions. It now hovers at $20,000 below where it stood when Donald Trump officially became president, a gap that is sending BTC lower on a year-to-year basis for the 3rd time. Right now, retail interest has cooled, with Google. . . source: https://99bitcoins.com/news/bitcoin-btc/eric-adams-crypto-former-nyc-mayor-will-fight-antisemitism-with-bitcoin/

Blockchain sleuth ZachXBT has linked a Canadian scammer to a fake Coinbase support operation that allegedly stole around $2 million using social engineering tactics across Telegram and social media. source: https://cryptonews.com/news/zachxbt-exposes-canadian-scammer-2m-fake-coinbase-support/

Crypto derivatives trading accelerated sharply in 2025 as traders increasingly turned to onchain perpetual futures, pushing monthly volumes past the $1 trillion mark source: https://cryptonews.com/news/onchain-perpetuals-top-1t-monthly-volume-as-crypto-traders-chase-leverage/

Vibe Coding is not revolutionary; it is essentially an efficiency tool.

Musk's reforms at DOGE resulted in 271,000 layoffs but also led to a surge in federal spending, rendering the promise of billions in savings meaningless.

Moving from M0 to M1, from engineering-driven development to infrastructure-based operation, and from a singular domestic logic to a dual design encompassing both onshore and offshore aspects.

In 2025, most altcoins underperformed Bitcoin, but XRP, Zcash, and Algorand bucked the trend and took the lead thanks to clearer regulations, rising privacy demands, and the tokenization of real-world assets.

North Korea has set a new records when it comes to crypto theft in 2025, stealing a total of billions through increasingly sophisticated cyber operations that underscore how deeply digital asset crime has become embedded in the regime’s state strategy.

A16Z, VISA, JPMorgan Chase, BlackRock, Crypto Markets, a16Z Crypto Industry 2025 Report: Taking Center Stage, Golden Finance, 2025 is the year the crypto industry takes center stage on the world stage.