A trader known as the "BTC OG insider whale" holds long positions worth $910M and has paid over $7.5M in funding fees, HyperInsight data show. The whale's unrealized profit stands at $44.9M, down from a peak of $60M on Jan. 18. The positions include $741M in ETH longs with $35.14M unrealized profit, $95.12M in BTC longs with $3.61M, and $72.73M in SOL longs with $6.14M.

Machi Big Brother Jeffery Huang's address added approximately $246,000 in ZEC longs over three hours on Jan. 18, lowering his average cost from $415 to $411.29, with a current floating loss of $48,100 on the position, Hyperinsight data cited by BlockBeats show. He partially took profits on HYPE and ETH long contracts and continues to hold longs in ETH, ZEC and HYPE, with total positions valued near $45 million. His ETH longs are worth $34.87 million with $862,000 floating profit, HYPE longs at $8.43 million with $130,000 floating profit, and cumulative floating profit over the past week has exceeded $2.538 million.

Funding rates across major centralized and decentralized exchanges turned bearish on Jan. 17 following a two-day market pullback, Coinglass data show. Altcoins exhibited a stronger bearish tilt, with perpetual contract funding rates falling below the 0.005% threshold that signals bearish sentiment (compared to the 0.01% benchmark and above-0.01% bullish level).

Binance now supports USD withdrawals via bank transfer (SWIFT), with transfers taking 0-5 business days, platform information showed on Jan. 17. The service is provided by BPay; BPay Global is a Binance Bahrain payments subsidiary established in April 2025 with a CBB PSP license.

U.S. spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds recorded a combined net outflow of $394.7M on January 17, Farside Investors data show. BlackRock's IBIT saw a $15.1M net inflow, while Fidelity's FBTC lost $205.2M, Bitwise's BITB recorded $90.4M in outflows, ARK's ARKB saw $69.4M in outflows and Grayscale's GBTC registered a $44.8M net outflow. U.S. spot Ethereum ETFs posted a net inflow of $4.7M the same day, with BlackRock's ETHA gaining $14.9M and Grayscale's ETHE losing $10.2M.

The second-largest ETH long address on Hyperliquid, "Strategy 对手盘", added $127 million in long positions 10 hours ago, Hyperinsight data show. The address increased its ETH longs by 9,890 tokens and BTC longs by 1,018.97 tokens on the platform. Total positions are now valued at $449 million, with an unrealized loss of $3.42 million.

A large crypto holder lost more than $282 million worth of Bitcoin and Litecoin from a hardware wallet on Jan. 10, 2026 around 11 p.m. UTC after falling victim to a social engineering scam, ZachXBT reports. The attacker converted the stolen BTC and LTC into Monero via multiple instant exchange services, triggering a rapid XMR price increase, while part of the Bitcoin was bridged through Thorchain to the Ethereum, Ripple and Litecoin networks. Social engineering scams exploit human psychology and trust to trick victims into surrendering sensitive information or assets, rather than targeting technical vulnerabilities directly.

Anchorage Digital, the first federally chartered digital asset bank in the United States, is pursuing a funding round of $200M to $400M while evaluating a possible public listing next year, Bloomberg reports citing people familiar with the matter on January 17. The company is still determining its valuation as it prepares for a potential initial public offering, one unnamed source said. Anchorage Digital Bank NA's federal charter allows it to issue stablecoins in the United States under the GENIUS Act that took effect in July, and the firm said in September it planned to work with El Salvador-based Tether Holdings SA to launch the USAT token for the U.S. market. Anchorage previously completed a $350M round led by KKR in late 2021 with participation from Goldman Sachs, GIC and Apollo credit funds, which valued the company at over $3B.