According to an official announcement, Gate will launch spot trading for small shareholders (Small Shareholders) on January 14th at 15:00 (UTC+8). At 15:10 (UTC+8), it will also launch live trading of Small Shareholder (Small Shareholder) perpetual contracts (USDT settlement), supporting leverage from 1-20x, and will simultaneously launch on Gate Perp DEX. Gate will also add unified account lending and isolated margin trading pairs for Small Shareholders (Small Shareholders) on January 14th at 15:10 (UTC+8), and simultaneously launch Small Shareholder savings account management, flexible collateralized lending, and fixed-term collateralized lending functions. The Small Shareholder (Small Shareholder) instant exchange function will be launched one hour after spot trading begins.

According to Odaily Planet Daily, Vitalik Buterin published an article on the X platform stating that the vision of Web3 in 2014 was to build a permissionless decentralized application ecosystem. Although this vision has been obscured by various "meta" and "narratives," its core technologies are becoming increasingly powerful. Ethereum has now implemented Proof-of-Stake (PoS) and is scaling; ZK-EVM and PeerDAS are effectively realizing the "sharding" vision. The data layer protocol Whisper has evolved into Waku and provides support for applications like Status. IPFS performs exceptionally well in decentralized file retrieval. Vitalik believes that all the prerequisites for the original vision of Web3 are now in place, and it's time to build decentralization. He cites Fileverse as an example, calling it a model of correct practice, as the application utilizes Ethereum and Gnosis Chain to handle names and accounts. He concludes by stating that a decentralized revival is imminent.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that news of a possible snap election in Japan continues to fuel speculation, pushing Japanese stocks to record highs for the second consecutive day. The Nikkei 225 index closed up 1.48% at 54,341.23 points, marking its first close above 54,000 points. Meanwhile, the yen and bonds continued to decline, with the USD/JPY exchange rate hovering above the 159 level, currently up 0.14%. (Jinshi)

According to data from Santiment, as reported by Odaily Planet Daily, the number of new Ethereum wallets created hit a record high last week. An average of approximately 327,000 new wallets were created daily over the past week, with a single-day record exceeding 393,000. The total number of non-empty Ethereum wallets also reached a record high of 172.9 million. Analysts believe this surge was driven by multiple factors: the Fusaka upgrade implemented last December optimized on-chain data processing and reduced Layer 2 network backhaul costs, resulting in smoother interactions and lower fees; market sentiment shifted from negative to neutral/positive since mid-December, attracting more retail users; increased interest in DeFi and NFT applications at the end of the year; and a surge in stablecoin payment and settlement activities on Ethereum, also creating real financial demand. Furthermore, Nansen data shows that more than half of the Ethereum supply is currently staked, with the ETH2 Beacon Deposit contract holding over 77 million ETH, and Binance and Coinbase holding approximately 4 million and 2.3 million ETH on behalf of users, respectively.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a whale (0x395...5500) withdrew 12,000 ETH from Binance, worth $39.98 million. Currently, this whale holds 80,980 ETH, worth $269 million.