BNB breaks through the $700 mark

BlockBeats News: On January 15th, community sales platform BuidlPad announced in a post regarding Solayer pre-sales that it will reopen KYC services from now until 11:59 pm (UTC) on January 15th, 2025. At the same time, strict anti witch attack policies will be implemented to ensure the fairness and integrity of token sales. The updated subscription mechanism is as follows: ·Allocation method: The number of LAYER tokens that each participant can purchase will be determined based on the ratio of their subscription amount to the total subscription pool of all eligible participants· Cancel the upper limit: The previously set hard limit for the total subscription amount will be removed. If the total subscription amount exceeds 10.5 million US dollars, the final allocation amount for all participants will be proportionally reduced, and the remaining funds will be refunded· Confirmation: Participants can view their final allocation amount on the page before 10:00 AM (UTC) on January 20, 2025. The excess subscription funds will be refunded to eligible participants.

The liquidation chart shows that in the past 24 hours, the BTC contract market has experienced both long and short positions, with a concentrated liquidation price of $95509, and a total of over $2.16 million orders have been liquidated at this point. At present, BTC has shown a twilight star pattern in the 45 minute custom cycle, and the main force has opened short by $12.25 million and shipped $9.97 million at the $97500 level. In the short term, BTC may face some adjustment pressure, and it is cautious to chase after the rise. It is recommended to break through the pressure level before considering it. The lower support can be noted by paying attention to the EMA24 and EMA52 moving averages. The data is for reference only and does not constitute any investment advice!

On January 15th, according to DappRadar's recently released "2024 Dapp Industry Report," NFT trading volume in 2024 decreased by 19% compared to 2023 to $13.7 billion, while sales decreased by 18% to just under 50 million, "making 2024 one of the worst performing years since 2020 DappRadar added that there has been significant volatility in the NFT market, with trading volume increasing by 4% compared to the first quarter of 2023, reaching $5.3 billion. However, the momentum was short-lived as trading volume dropped to $1.5 billion in the third quarter and rebounded to $2.6 billion in the fourth quarter. In addition, NFTs had their best year ever in 2022, when they entered the mainstream for the first time with a trading volume of $57.2 billion and 121.7 million transactions.

BlockBeats News: On January 15th, Web3 Infrastructure Startale Group announced the establishment of a new investment department, Startale Ventures, which will primarily invest in Sony's L2 network Soneium and Astar ecosystem projects. In addition to providing funding, comprehensive support will also be provided, including marketing, business development, and strategic planning, and the ability to leverage cloud infrastructure such as RPC nodes and account abstraction provided by Startale cloud services to improve Web3 development efficiency.

According to BlockBeats, on January 15th, an employee of a Russian diamond mining company was sentenced to prison for "providing economic assistance to Ukrainian terrorist organizations" by sending cryptocurrency. The man is a male resident of Yakut Milninsky District (Sakha Republic, Russian Far East). He was arrested by the Sakha Republic branch of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB). The FSB stated that the man had "repeatedly used cryptocurrency to transfer funds to Ukrainian militants," and the organization used these funds to "conduct reconnaissance and subversive activities against the security of the Russian Federation.