Huoxun Finance News, January 5th - According to CoinPost, Japan's Minister of Finance and Financial Affairs, Saki Katayama, stated at the Tokyo Stock Exchange's New Year opening ceremony that 2026 will be designated as the "Year Zero of Digital Assets," emphasizing the crucial role of commodity and stock exchanges in promoting the widespread adoption of digital and blockchain assets. She pointed out that to ensure the public truly benefits from digital assets, their adoption should be driven by exchange infrastructure. She also mentioned the trend in the US using ETFs to hedge against inflation, implying that Japan should actively promote similar developments, and stated that as Minister of Finance, she will fully support exchanges in creating an advanced digital asset trading environment.

According to Lookonchain's analysis, a trader named "beachboy4" made 53 prediction trades on Polymarket over 35 days. Despite a 51% win rate (27 wins), he ultimately lost over $2 million. His largest single profit was $936,000, and his largest single loss reached a staggering $1.58 million, averaging approximately $400,000 per trade, indicating high-risk behavior. This address repeatedly bought into the "consensus direction" at high prices ranging from 0.51 to 0.67, creating an extremely poor odds structure of "limited upside + complete downside," without using stop-loss, hedging, or early profit-taking mechanisms, resulting in most of his losing positions becoming worthless. Furthermore, this trader frequently made reckless bets on "high-confidence" events, such as popular NBA or soccer teams, in transparent and price-efficient markets. The ultimate loss was not due to bad luck, but rather a structural imbalance in his strategy. Lookonchain summarizes five practical lessons: avoid entering the market at high prices, control the risk of each trade, take profits and cut losses in a timely manner, assess the risk-reward ratio, and abandon markets where there is no advantage.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that Japanese and South Korean stock markets surged today. The Nikkei 225 index closed up 1493.32 points, or 2.97%, at 51832.80 on Monday, January 5th, led by gains in chip and heavy industry stocks. South Korea's KOSPI index closed up 147.89 points, or 3.43%, at 4457.52 on Monday, January 5th, a record closing high, again led by gains in chip and defense stocks; Samsung Electronics rose 7.47%, its largest single-day gain since March 24, 2020. (Jinshi)

According to Odaily Planet Daily, SolanaFloor stated in an article published on the X platform that by 2025, nearly $9 billion in assets will have transferred from other blockchains to Solana via cross-chain bridges. Of this, over $5 billion will originate solely from Ethereum.

According to CryptoQuant data, as reported by Odaily Planet Daily, Binance's average monthly Bitcoin inflow per transaction has increased to approximately 29.7 BTC in recent months, nearly 34 times higher than at the beginning of 2021. This reflects a significant increase in the activity of large Bitcoin holders (whales) on the platform. This metric represents the average amount of Bitcoin per inflow transaction, suggesting that institutional or large funds are accelerating their entry into the exchange.