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Binance, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, has published its annual review report for the year 2025. According to the report, the platform’s total trading volume across all products reached $34 trillion in 2025. Spot market trading volume exceeded $7.1 trillion, while Binance’s cumulative total trading volume since its inception was recorded at $145 trillion. The report added that the Binance ecosystem experienced a significant expansion in product diversity and user engagement. The number of tokens listed on the spot market increased to 490, and the number of spot trading pairs rose to 1,889. In the futures market, coverage…

Markets are now betting in a high likelihood of no reduction in January 2026. According to CME FedWatch, odds are to be over 75%. Traders easily changed expectations. This reversal was after a change in the Federal Reserve policy by December. Fed has already provided a reduction of 25 basis points. Authorities are giving out warning signals. Tone is very sensitive in markets. Policy Caution The data of inflation remains a problem in policymaking. There is an uneven price pressure among sectors. Services inflation remains adhesive. Volatility in the energy becomes an uncertainty. In such circumstances, policymakers like indulging in…

The South Korean cryptocurrency market has seen remarkable activity over the past 24 hours. When data from Upbit and Bithumb, the country’s two largest cryptocurrency exchanges, are analyzed together, it is evident that trading volumes have increased sharply in a short period, particularly in certain altcoins. This surge in volume, concentrated in the Korean won, indicates strong interest from South Korean investors in specific projects, highlighting the emergence of local momentum independent of global markets. Tokens like XRP, Hyperlane, and DeepBook stood out, ranking highly on both exchanges. Here are the altcoins with the highest trading volume on South Korea’s…

Tokenized Treasury funds pushed closer to the $9 billion mark this week, rising 0.94% over the past seven days as onchain demand for yield-bearing government debt continues to hold firm. Tokenized Treasury Market Inches Higher as Issuers Jockey for Share Data compiled from the tokenized Treasury sector, according to rwa.xyz stats, shows total value climbing to roughly $8.99 billion, supported by a modest increase in weekly yields, with the average seven-day annual percentage yield (APY) sitting at 3.71%. The market now spans 60 active products and more than 57,600 holders, which highlights how quickly blockchain-based access to U.S. government debt…

Crypto-powered prediction market platform Polymarket has partnered with Parcl (a data company that tracks daily home values) to let Americans gamble on whether housing prices in major U.S. cities will go up or down. The two companies will work together to let users put money on what they think will happen to median prices in cities like Miami and Los Angeles for starters. These markets will close on February 1, using Parcl’s daily price index to determine winners. But according to Polymarket, there will be new housing prediction markets every month, so people can keep trading based on fresh data.Right…

Hold onto your digital wallets, Europe. The cryptocurrency landscape is witnessing a seismic shift, and the numbers are staggering. According to recent data, the total euro stablecoin supply has exploded by a massive 168% since the start of the year. This isn’t just incremental growth; it’s a clear signal that European investors and users are embracing digital euros with unprecedented enthusiasm. Let’s dive into what this surge means and why it matters for the future of finance. What’s Behind the Euro Stablecoin Supply Boom? The figures are compelling. The circulating supply of euro-pegged stablecoins ballooned from €158 million to over…

Key Highlights: One of the X users raised a complaint on X about OKX freezing their four accounts. Star Xu said compliance rules override social media pressure. The user accepted fault and apologized to the exchange. On January 11, 2026, an X user named captain0bunny posted a tweet that triggered a huge amount of hate and anger online. According to the user and his tweet, he claimed that 40,000 USDT held in USDG had been frozen across four OKX accounts, and called the funds, “life-saving money” that he urgently needed. The user also posted that he had been a loyal…

If there’s been one crypto executive who has been singularly fixated, from day one, on bringing the entire global financial system onchain, it’s Sergey Nazarov, the co-founder of the decentralized oracle network Chainlink. This feature is a part of CoinDesk’s Most Influential 2025 list. Since Chainlink Labs was established in 2017, distinct from the Chainlink protocol, Nazarov has consistently expanded the network’s scope from “just an oracle” for decentralized finance (DeFi), to a broad suite of tools meant to power virtually every corner of on-chain finance — from tokenization to cross-chain connectivity to enterprise-grade data infrastructure. “Chainlink enabled over $27 trillion…

Checkmate Ecosystem, a community-owned and strategic blockchain Web3 games platform like Anichess, has unveiled its strategic partnership with Team Secret, a famous esports organization, and its significant integration into Web3 gaming and decentralized ecosystem. The main purpose of this partnership is to build an infrastructure in which $CHECK is used as a token for Web3 games. Esports x $CHECKTeam Secret competes at the highest level across multiple top titles for over 12 years.They’re joining the Checkmate Ecosystem.$CHECK, the Strategy Token, will be used as a payment and participation token→ membership NFTs→ tokenized rewards→… https://t.co/qW9Z7hU65a — Checkmate Ecosystem (@CheckmateFDN) January 12,…

The spot crypto trading surged by 9% YoY while perpetual futures increased by 29%. Binance remains the dominant player in spot and perpetual crypto trading in 2025. The institutional adoption of crypto catalyzed by regulatory clarity will likely drive trading volume higher in 2026. Cryptocurrency exchanges registered a healthy growth in trading volume in 2025 compared to the prior year. According to a report from CryptoQuant, crypto exchanges, led by Binance and Bybit, registered a combined trading volume of more than $79 trillion in 2025. Binance Perpetual Trading Fuels Growth in Crypto Volume in 2025 According to a report from…