📈 CryptoRank: Perp volumes more than tripled in 2025

The sector shifted from a near-monopolistic setup dominated by Hyperliquid into a highly competitive field.

Mainly driven by liquidity rotation from memecoins, perps volume hit an ATH of $1.8T in October, retracing to $864M at the EOY.

Now, Lighter, Aster, and Hyperliquid is the leading trio with quite similar volumes. Meanwhile, past leaders, like Jupiter, dYdX, and GMX are currently behind in this race. #LIT #ASTER #HYPE

🕵 Trader pension-usdt.eth closed 20,100 $ETH ($62.34M) short for a profit of $395K and then flipped long, opening a 3× long on 20,000 $ETH ($62M).

His total profits have now exceeded $22.38M. link

🗽👀 #HYPE #ETF Grayscale has registered ( 57692) a HYPE ETF in Delaware.

🇺🇸🇻🇪 Trump: The US is taking billions and billions of dollars worth of oil from Venezuela. It could be trillions of dollars. #macro

📈 Bank of America upgraded Coinbase to "Buy," citing the company's desire to move beyond cryptocurrencies and into stock trading and prediction markets. coindesk

🤔 #BTC Katie Wood claims that the US government may soon start "buying" BTC for the national reserve. theblock

🔍 SharpLink Gaming застейкали #ETH на сумму $170 млн в сети Linea. decrypt

According to Artemis Analytics Inc, the total volume of stablecoin transactions grew by 72% to $33 trillion in 2025. The leader was #USDC, which accounted for $18.3 trillion, while #USDT recorded $13.3 trillion. bloomberg

🔍🐳 Whale transactions: 1. pension-usdt.eth closed a short position on 20,100 #ETH ($62.34 million) with a profit of $395,000, and then opened a 3x long position on 20,000 #ETH ($62 million). His total profit is now $62.34 million with a profit of $395,000.ETH ($62.34 million) with a profit of $395,000, then opened a 3x long position on 20,000 #ETH ($62 million). His total profit now exceeds $22.38 million; 2. A trader who previously earned $2.07 million on #GOAT created a new wallet "captainbigballs" on Polymarket and spent $10,500 on a bet that the Iranian regime would fall by January 31.

📉 #BTC #ETH #ETF Yesterday, the total net outflow of spot BTC ETFs amounted to ~$398.8 million. The total net outflow of spot ETH ETFs amounted to ~$159.2 million.

🔮 #BTC VanEck analysts predict that by 2050, #BTC could reach $2.9 million, become the settlement currency for international and domestic trade, and begin to replenish central bank reserves. cointelegraph

🇰🇷🕹 #ETF South Korea stated in its Economic Growth Strategy for 2026 that it plans to allow spot ETFs for digital assets, including spot ETFs for #BTC, this year, while the Financial Services Commission (FSC) is accelerating the second phase of developing legislation on digital assets. The government cited active spot trading of BTC ETFs in markets such as the US and Hong Kong as a key benchmark. news1

🔍 Metalpha withdrew 6,000 ETH ($18.67 million) from Kraken.

📊 Friday options expiration at ~$2.22 billion: – Nominal value of #BTC options: $1.84 billion – Put/call ratio: 1.05 – Max pain point: $90,000

– Nominal value of #ETH options: $384 million - Put/call ratio: 0.89 - Max pain point: $3,100.

🤑😱 #BTC Fear and Greed Index is 27 - Fear.

🆕 #ZAMA Binance Futures Will Launch USDⓈ-Margined ZAMAUSDT Perpetual Contract Pre-Market Trading (2026-01-09)

🤑😱 #BTC Fear and Greed Index is 27 - Fear.

🧯 #AEVO Aevo: In accordance with AGP-3, we burned 69 million $AEVO from circulation (6.9% of the total supply) to signal a new beginning and demonstrate our commitment to preserving the value of the tokens.

🔍🐳 Kit opened large longs worth $310 million: 1,210 #BTC ($109.5 million), 32,474 #ETH ($100.6 million), 503,778 #SOL ($69.9 million), 14.26 million #XRP ($29.9 million). His total profit has now exceeded $9.4 million.

🇬🇧👀 The UK's FCA will open the crypto licensing gateway in September 2026, ahead of a new regime taking effect in October 2027. Existing AML or payments registrations will not carry over and must be re-approved. Firms that miss approval deadlines will be placed in a transitional regime, limited to existing services with restrictions on new offerings. #regulation

🔮 Two newly created wallets, named Goldbless and Getthegoop, have spent $23K betting on "Israel strikes Iran by January 31, 2026". link link