「Strategy Opposition Trade」 Increased Short Position on DASH, Single-Coin Unrealized Gain of $860,000

On January 22, Binance announced a delay to the launch of Sentient (SENT) spot trading, rescheduling it to 13:00 UTC on January 22, 2026.

On January 22, Laser Digital—a digital asset firm backed by Nomura Securities—launched a Bitcoin diversified income fund. The fund targets excess returns for Bitcoin long-term holders through strategies like pseudo-arbitrage, market-neutral arbitrage, lending, and options trading. Bitcoin rewards from the fund are natively tokenized via KAIO (formerly Libre Capital), with Komainu providing custody services. This new offering is an upgrade to Laser Digital’s 2023 Bitcoin Adoption Fund. It is only open to accredited investors in specific non-U.S. jurisdictions, requiring a minimum subscription of $250,000 or its BTC equivalent.

January 22, 2025: North Korean hackers—linked to the theft of over $2 billion from the cryptocurrency market in 2025—have resurfaced. A hacking group called PurpleBravo launched a large-scale fake recruitment drive targeting more than 3,100 internet addresses tied to firms in artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency, and financial services. Posing as recruiters or developers, the attackers directed job candidates to complete technical interview tasks—including code reviews, repository cloning, or coding exercises—leading to malicious code executing on corporate devices. To date, 20 organizations across South Asia, North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Central America have been confirmed as victims. Researchers discovered the group used forged Ukrainian identities to obfuscate their activity, while deploying two remote access trojans: PylangGhost and GolangGhost, which stole browser credentials. They also weaponized Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) to implant backdoors

Tomorrow (January 22) at 16:00 UTC+8, Deribit will see over $21 billion in cryptocurrency options expire, including: - Bitcoin (BTC) options: $18.1 billion notional value, put-call ratio 0.74, max pain $92,000 - Ethereum (ETH) options: $337 million notional value, put-call ratio 0.88, max pain $3,250

On January 22, OKX announced it will officially convert its SENT/USDT pre-market trading contract to a standard perpetual contract with up to 50x leverage from 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM UTC+8 that day.

Binance Wallet announced on January 22 the launch of three new AI-powered features to enable smarter on-chain discovery. Here’s a breakdown of each: ### Social Sentiment Analysis This feature analyzes social data to help users identify which tokens are trending in the community. It ranks tokens across all chains supported by Binance Wallet’s web version—including BSC, SOL, and BASE—using social post views and engagement metrics, delivering timely, accurate insights. ### Trending Topics This tool analyzes meme activity and high-engagement tweets to spotlight emerging crypto topics. It helps users gauge if specific topics in the space are likely to gain traction. Topics are displayed as AI-generated cards, each including all relevant tokens on BSC or SOL. ### AI Assistant This feature offers concise AI-powered summaries of key information for any token on BSC, SOL, or BASE. It combines narrative recognition, sentiment analysis from X (formerly Twitter), narrative scoring,