Odaily Planet Daily reports that digital asset trading platform Gate.io has launched a "Precious Metals Zone," initially offering XAU (gold) and XAG (silver) USDT-margined perpetual contracts. These contracts support leverage up to 50x and provide 24/7 trading. The contracts opened on January 14th at 17:00 (UTC+8), and users can access the zone through the Gate.io website or app. In terms of product mechanism, Gate.io's precious metals perpetual contract index references prices from multiple comprehensive precious metals trading markets, enhancing pricing transparency and stability, providing a reliable price basis for contract trading, and balancing the pricing logic of traditional financial assets with the risk control needs of crypto market derivatives. In a market environment characterized by strong precious metal prices and the coexistence of safe-haven attributes and volatility, Gate.io introduces gold and silver into the crypto trading system in the form of standardized perpetual contracts, expanding the asset boundaries of crypto contracts and providing new tools for cross-market capital allocation and trading strategies. Gate stated that it will continue to explore more ways to encrypt traditional assets in the future, and gradually enrich the trading scenarios of diversified derivatives such as indices and commodities under the framework of compliance and risk control.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, the address pension-usdt.eth (0x0dd...a902) has completely closed out its 3x long position in ETH, realizing a profit of $4.72 million. This address has accumulated profits of approximately $27 million.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that on-chain trading platform Aster announced today that it has officially provided underlying technical support for perpetual contract trading on Binance Wallet (web version). As a professional trading capability provider, Aster provides Binance Wallet with high-performance trade matching, deep liquidity, and accurate pricing capabilities. This marks Aster's leap from the protocol side to a comprehensive on-chain trading portal, assisting CEXs in guiding users to migrate derivatives trading on-chain. From now until 17:00 (UTC+8) on January 28th, the two companies are jointly launching a two-week "On-Chain Contract Milestone Challenge." Users can enjoy the smooth trading experience of Aster through the Binance Wallet interface, and those whose personal contract trading volume reaches 5,000 USDT can share a prize pool of up to 200,000 USDT. In addition, every transaction during the event will simultaneously accumulate Aster airdrop points, allowing users to enjoy a double incentive.

According to Odaily Planet Daily, OKX market data shows that ASTER briefly surged over 5%, currently trading at 0.778 USDT, with a 24-hour increase of 10.9%. Previously, Binance Wallet officially launched perpetual contract trading functionality powered by Aster on its web version.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that Binance Wallet has announced the official launch of perpetual contract trading powered by Aster on its web version. Users can now trade leveraged perpetual contracts directly through their keyless wallets and enjoy a seamless trading experience. This new feature, powered by the perpetual contract trading platform Aster, is initially available on the BNB Smart Chain (BSC). Binance Wallet users who trade Aster perpetual contracts through the web version will participate in Aster's points system. Before January 28th, users who trade using Aster's on-chain perpetual contract service through the web version of Binance Wallet will have the opportunity to share rewards of up to 200,000 USDT. Winson Liu, Global Head of Binance Wallet, stated, “Introducing on-chain perpetual contract trading directly into Binance Wallet is an important step in providing users with more professional trading tools while ensuring they have complete control over their assets. This further demonstrates our long-term commitment to building a secure and trustworthy decentralized gateway. Our partnership with Aster enables us to deliver a smooth, transparent, and efficient trading experience, which aligns perfectly with our commitment to security and ease of use.”