Binance announced that due to significant market volatility and to provide users with a better trading experience, the USDC-based perpetual contracts for BTC, ETH, BNB, SOL, and XRP, originally scheduled to launch on January 3, 2024 at 20:30 (GMT+8), will be postponed and launched on January 4, 2024 at 20:30 (GMT+8).

Binance customer service support team released an announcement stating that they are aware that a few users have encountered issues when accessing the Binance platform. The team is currently handling these issues and in most cases, the problems should have already been resolved.

Binance-BNB/USDT is currently trading at $297.90, with a 24-hour decrease of 5.39%.

BNB has broken through 330 USDT and is currently trading at 332.9 USDT, with a 24-hour increase of 4.13%.

Binance has announced its 43rd Launchpool project Xai (XAI), a game blockchain built on Arbitrum. Users will be able to stake BNB, FDUSD, and TUSD in different pools to mine XAI tokens for four days starting on January 5, 2024. Binance will list XAI on January 9, 2024, and open multiple trading pairs.

Binance will remove the following spot trading pairs and suspend trading: ANT/BNB, DAR/EUR, HIGH/BNB, HOOK/BNB, LOKA/BNB, RPL/BTC, and XTZ/TRY starting at 11:00 on January 5, 2024 (UTC+8). Binance will also remove trading robot services (if applicable) for the above spot trading pairs at the same time. It is strongly recommended that users close and/or cancel relevant spot trading robots before the trading robot services for the above trading pairs are stopped to avoid potential losses.

On January 3rd, it was reported that in the absence of Zhao Changpeng, He Yi became the largest shareholder within Binance, with broad control over its marketing and investment departments. Sources familiar with the board recruitment process stated that He Yi exercised her influence in the election of Binance's new independent majority shareholder board. Insiders familiar with the exchange's financial situation stated that she holds at least 10% of the shares in Binance's Cayman Islands holding company. According to sources familiar with the negotiation situation, during early settlement discussions, the Justice Department had hoped that He Yi would also leave, but it is unclear why this ultimately did not happen. A spokesperson for Binance did not comment on He Yi's role in the case, but stated that the company has acknowledged past mistakes and made improvements. The spokesperson stated that He Yi supported this change.

Binance has announced the addition of new borrowable assets and trading pairs on cross and isolated margin. The exchange plans to expand margin trading for popular cryptocurrencies such as Solana, BNB, NFPrompt, and SEI. The new margin pairs are available for immediate trading. Binance has also added NFPrompt and Enzyme as new borrowable assets on cross and isolated margin, and is expanding USDC support on the platform with new pairs such as BNB/USDC. The exchange has also updated its Coin-Margined Futures Liquidity Provider Program.

Binance Futures has updated the leverage and margin tiers for its USDT-margined perpetual contracts and coin-margined perpetual contracts, as shown in the table below.

Binance CEO Richard Teng announced in the 2023 annual summary that the number of registered Binance users increased by 30% to a total of 170 million.Binance's investigation team processed over 53,000 law enforcement requests in 2023 (an increase of 3,000 compared to the previous year) and invested $213 million in compliance plans, a 35% increase from last year's $158 million. Binance also continues to invest in leading KYC suppliers and product solutions.

Binance has burned 5.57 billion Terra Luna Classic (LUNC) tokens in its 17th batch of the LUNC burn mechanism, bringing the total number of tokens burned to over 49 billion. The burn caused LUNC and USTC prices to rise by over 7%. Binance has burned 49.17 billion Terra Classic tokens from trading fees on LUNC spot and margin trading pairs, contributing to the community burning nearly 92.5 billion LUNC tokens. Traders should be aware of a possible pullback in prices due to potential profit booking in the next few days.

On December 31st, according to the Snapshot governance page, the GMX community initiated a proposal to create a BNB market on GMX V2 (Arbitrum), with the aim of determining whether to establish a BNB market in the deployment of GMX V2 on the Arbitrum Mainnet. The vote will end on January 3, 2024.

Binance stated in its official tweet that in 2023, users searched for Binance a total of 60 million times (5 million times per month), making it the most searched cryptocurrency exchange.

BNB Chain has released its 2023 annual report, stating that the number of daily active users exceeded 1 million in the past year, with a significant increase. The second-layer expansion solution opBNB and the blockchain storage platform Greenfield have both been launched on the mainnet. On December 17th, opBNB set a new record for daily transaction volume with over 23 million transactions. In addition, BNB Chain provides a monthly reward of up to $160,000 for projects with high total lock-up amounts on opBNB, as well as a monthly BNB token incentive worth $200,000 for projects ranking in the top ten in terms of daily active users. In the latest roadmap, BNB Chain plans to increase the transaction speed of opBNB by more than double and reduce Gas fees by 10 times.

Binance has stated on social platform X that the display issue with the BTC/USDT contract has been resolved.

Binance posted on X platform stating that the BTC/USDT perpetual contract K-line chart price displayed incorrectly, but trading is not affected and the team is working to resolve the issue as soon as possible. User funds are safe. Earlier reports suggested that the BTC/USDT perpetual contract K-line chart on the Binance platform appeared to have a malfunction, showing a price of 425547 USDT.

The K-line interface of the perpetual contract BTC/USDT trading pair on Binance appears to have a malfunction, with the price showing around 425,648 USDT.

Binance released its 2023 year-end report, stating that it gained over 40 million new users, a 30% increase. By the end of 2023, Binance had 170 million registered users, offering 431 asset trading pairs covering 1785 markets. The number of people using Binance Pay or Card increased by 54%, with over 3500 new Pay merchants and partners globally accepting cryptocurrency for goods and services.Additionally, Binance continued to invest in its compliance technology, processes, and talent, with expenses reaching $213 million in 2023, a 35% increase from the previous year. By the end of this year, Binance held licenses, registrations, and authorizations in 18 jurisdictions worldwide, more than ever before.

According to CoinGecko data on December 28th, BNB's total market value has surpassed SOL (approximately 45.19 billion US dollars) with about 51.28 billion US dollars, returning to the fourth place in the cryptocurrency market value rankings. On December 22nd, SOL's market value had once surpassed BNB.

According to OKX market information on December 28th, BNB broke through $330 and is now priced at $333.4, with a 24-hour increase of 9.45%.