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The cryptocurrency market has welcomed a strong reversal after experiencing significant fluctuations earlier. After bottoming out around $62,900, BTC has shown strong recovery momentum today, breaking through the $68,000 mark. As the price stabilizes, market trading volume has increased, showing characteristics of a rebound with volume expansion. According to derivatives data from the Gate platform, the current total open interest for BTC perpetual contracts is about $29 billion, with a long-short ratio of approximately 56% to 44%, indicating a relative advantage for long positions.Against the backdrop of deepening institutional trends, the demands for platform liquidity depth, execution efficiency, and risk control capabilities continue to rise. As one of the important platforms for institutional capital, Gate's asset scale has doubled over the past year, maintaining a trading volume among the top three in the industry, and has connected cross-exchange and third-party custodial over-the-counter trading (OES) through "SuperLink." During the current tug-of-war around $65,000, API trading for high-frequency and quantitative strategies remains active, and market volatility continues to test the platform's liquidity support and high-concurrency execution capabilities.

According to quiverquant data, financial giant Jane Street increased its holdings by 7,105,206 shares of IBIT in Q4 last year, valued at $276 million. The company currently holds 20,315,780 shares of IBIT, valued at $790 million.There were previous community rumors that Jane Street was allegedly suppressing Bitcoin prices through high-frequency trading at 10 AM Eastern Time every morning. Additionally, BlackRock and Morgan Stanley increased their holdings by over 2.37 million shares of IBIT in Q4 last year.

According to HyperInsight monitoring, the "High-Frequency Shorting Pioneer" (0x3bcae) closed 68.95 BTC short positions 2 hours ago, incurring a loss of $14,000, and currently holds a total unrealized loss of $15,000 in short positions.This address employs a high-frequency multi-variety strategy, prefers overnight positions, and has strict risk control.

According to Hyperinsight monitoring, the high-frequency trading whale (0x93115) entered at 14:08 with 25x leverage to long 3,477.95 ETH (approximately 10.96 million USD), with an average entry price of 3,165.38 USD, currently facing an unrealized loss of 43,000 USD.

According to data from blockchain security company PeckShield, losses from cryptocurrency hacks in December 2025 amounted to approximately $76 million, a significant decrease of 60% compared to $194.3 million in November, marking the largest monthly decline in 2025. Despite the reduction in losses, around 26 major attack incidents still occurred that month.The largest single incident involved $50 million mistakenly transferred to a malicious address, while a multi-signature wallet lost $27.3 million due to private key leakage. Other major attacks included a loss of $22 million for babursol, $8.5 million stolen from the Trust Wallet browser extension, and losses of approximately $3.9 million each for Unleash Protocol and Flow.

According to a report by Cointelegraph, the Web3 security platform Scam Sniffer has reported that cryptocurrency phishing attacks related to wallet drainers saw a significant decline in 2025, with total losses dropping to $83.85 million, an 83% decrease from nearly $494 million in 2024. Despite the substantial reduction in losses, the report warns that phishing activities have not disappeared; attackers have shifted to low-value, high-frequency strategies, with losses closely tied to market cycles, increasing during periods of active on-chain activity and decreasing when the market cools down.The third quarter of 2025 coincided with Ethereum (ETH)'s strongest annual rally, with phishing losses reaching $310 million, accounting for nearly 29% of the total annual losses. The report noted, "When the market is active, the overall activity level of users increases, and the proportion of victimized users also rises— the probability of phishing occurrences is positively correlated with user activity levels." Monthly loss amounts varied from $20.4 million in the calmest month of December to $121.7 million in the most active month of August.

According to official news, starting from January 2, 2026, at 20:00, if the absolute value of the funding rate for the USDⓈ-M perpetual contract settles every hour for 16 consecutive periods is less than or equal to 0.025%, then from the 17th period onwards, the funding rate settlement frequency for that contract will revert from every hour to every four hours. Binance contracts will complete the adjustment within approximately 15 minutes after the conditions are met. The payment times for the funding rate settled every four hours are at 8:00, 12:00, 16:00, 20:00, 0:00, and 4:00 daily. API users can query relevant information through the GET /fapi/v1/fundingInfo interface.

According to CoinDesk, Swedish investment company Hilbert Group (HILB), focused on connecting traditional assets and digital assets, has acquired high-frequency trading platform Enigma Nordic for $32 million.This acquisition will help Hilbert provide systematic cryptocurrency products to institutional investors and plans to integrate Enigma's platform into its hedge fund products. The announcement stated that Enigma's proprietary platform employs data-driven market-neutral strategies to fully exploit real-time price inefficiencies in the global digital asset market.The company's quantitative strategies have generated exceptional risk-adjusted returns, with a Sharpe ratio exceeding 3—this performance metric is extremely rare in globally scalable market-neutral digital asset strategies. As of 2025, Enigma's trading volume has exceeded 50 billion Swedish kronor (approximately $5.4 billion).

According to Bitcoin News, Canaan Inc. announced the signing of a 4.5MW contract in Japan to deploy Avalon water-cooled Bitcoin mining machines for real-time grid load balancing and energy optimization.The facility, led by a large regional utility, will use Canaan's smart control chips to dynamically adjust voltage, frequency, and hashrate to stabilize the grid and enhance efficiency, with an expected operational date by the end of 2025.

ChainCatcher news, according to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, the high-profile ETH swapping BTC ancient whale has started to reduce its holdings in small amounts and at a high frequency. The holding before the reduction was 4,394.73 BTC. Meanwhile, the market has also rebounded, with BTC breaking through 112,500 USD.

ChainCatcher news, cryptocurrency fund Maximum Frequency Ventures announced that it has completed a $50,000,000 financing. Currently, Aptos Labs co-founder Shaikh revealed that he and three former colleagues participated, but declined to disclose the specific amount. In addition, the fund's limited partners also include family offices from the United States, East Asia, and Southeast Asia.

ChainCatcher news, the panoramic exchange Bitget announced the integration of the open-source autonomous market-making and arbitrage bot provider Hummingbot, creating a more efficient and professional trading path for high-frequency traders. The core of this collaboration lies in the fact that the Hummingbot platform has added the officially supported bitget_perpetual connector, allowing traders to deploy market-making, arbitrage, and derivatives trading strategies directly on the Bitget platform, enjoying professional-level stability and transparent pricing without the need to build an underlying technical architecture, significantly lowering the operational threshold for high-frequency trading.Regarding this collaboration, Michael Feng, co-founder and board member of the Hummingbot Foundation, stated: "Open-source algorithmic trading is a key pillar in driving the maturity of the crypto ecosystem. The partnership with Bitget not only provides our community with high-quality trading infrastructure support but will also continuously enhance market liquidity and trading execution standards through our collaboration, injecting momentum into the standardized development of the entire industry."

ChainCatcher message, OKX plans to adjust the funding fee settlement frequency of the BIOUSDT perpetual contract on August 27, 2025. The funding fee settlement frequency before the adjustment is every 4 hours, and after the adjustment, it will be every 2 hours.

ChianCatcher news, according to the official announcement, Binance will resume the funding rate settlement frequency for the MYX/USDT and OMNI/USDT perpetual contracts on August 11, 2025, at 20:00 (UTC+8), adjusting it to once every four hours. The maximum funding rate after the adjustment will remain in the range of +2.00%/-2.00%.This adjustment will take effect starting from 20:00 on August 11, and subsequent settlements will occur daily at 00:00, 04:00, 08:00, and other times.

ChainCatcher news, according to the official announcement, Binance will resume the funding rate settlement frequency for the MYXUSDT and OMNIUSDT perpetual contracts to every four hours starting from August 11, 2025, at 20:00 (UTC+8).The adjusted maximum funding rate will remain in the range of +2.00%/-2.00%. This adjustment will take effect from 20:00 on August 11, and subsequent settlements will occur daily at 00:00, 04:00, 08:00, and other times.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, SatoshiLabs founder Alena Vranova warned that there is an increasing number of wrench attacks, personal

ChainCatcher news, according to the official announcement, Binance contracts will restore the funding rate settlement frequency for the following U-based perpetual contracts on July 22, 2025, at 20:00 (UTC+8). The funding rate settlement frequency will be adjusted to once every four hours:XTZUSDTBROCCOLIF3BUSDTMYXUSDTMUSDTERAUSDT

ChainCatcher news, according to the official announcement, Binance Futures will resume the funding rate settlement frequency for the following U-margined perpetual contracts on July 19, 2025, at 00:00 (UTC+8). The funding rate settlement frequency will be adjusted to once every four hours:RVNUSDT, MASKUSDT, LPTUSDT, AXLUSDT, VOXELUSDT, LAYERUSDT, VICUSDT, FUNUSDT, WCTUSDT, HYPERUSDT, SIGNUSDT, SOPHUSDT, LAUSDT, SAHARAUSDT, FLMUSDT, NEWTUSDT, HUSDT.