U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on January 19 to lift tariffs on European goods, adding 10% from February and 25% in June, according to BlockBeats. European automakers slid in Monday early trading: Mercedes-Benz Group down as much as 6.7%, BMW Group down 7%, Volkswagen Group down 5.4%.

Whale address 0x94d3… closed BTC and ETH long positions worth roughly $48.6M within about 30 minutes on January 19, Coinbob data cited by BlockBeats show. On-chain data show the address offloaded more than 299.5 BTC and 7361.7 ETH, leaving contract account assets around $8.6M. Earlier the same day, the address had closed stop-loss longs on three major cryptocurrencies with realized losses exceeding $15.3M, then opened fresh BTC and ETH longs with 20x leverage reaching about $53M in size.

An on-chain whale address 0xfc66… has reduced its BTC short position by approximately $1.18M in the past hour, leaving a remaining short valued at $8.7559M with an unrealized profit of roughly $334,000, Coinbob's popular address tracker shows on January 19. The address holds total assets of $67.28M in its contract account and has redirected capital from crypto shorts into on-chain stock and gold exposures, increasing positions in tokenized assets including S&P 500, Tesla and MicroStrategy from $4M last week to $10.25M currently. The address also opened a new PAXG short worth $14.1M at an average entry of $4,532, bringing combined on-chain stock and gold-related holdings to about $24.35M. Since January 8, the address has cut high-leverage ETH, BTC and SOL shorts by around 50% in aggregate while gradually adding on-chain stocks and gold, and is currently the largest on-chain short in gold.

A whale withdrew 32,395 ETH from Binance on Jan. 19 after borrowing $45 million USDT to purchase stETH, Lookonchain data show. Address 0x81d0 withdrew 10,057 ETH from Binance and staked it on Lido, then deposited the stETH into Aave to borrow $45 million USDT. The whale used the borrowed funds to buy 13,461 stETH and redeposited it into Aave.

A trader closed a 125 BTC long position at 14:11 on January 19, realizing a loss of $404,000, Hyperinsight data show. The same address then opened a short position of 75 BTC with 10x leverage, worth about $6.95 million, at an average entry price of $92,388.7 and is currently facing an unrealized loss of $25,000. The address mainly trades BTC perpetual contracts in cross-margin mode with frequent large-sized entries and exits, and has achieved total profits of $2.93 million over its full trading history.

Binance will delist 23 spot trading pairs at 08:00 UTC on Jan. 20, according to an official announcement. The pairs include 0G/BNB, 1MBABYDOGE/FDUSD, ADX/ETH, AGLD/BTC, ALT/FDUSD, ARKM/BTC, ATOM/ETH, BTC/ZAR, ENS/BTC, ETH/ZAR, HOLO/BNB, HOLO/FDUSD, MOVR/BTC, NEWT/FDUSD, OP/ETH, ORDI/BTC, OXT/BTC, POLYX/BTC, SLP/ETH, SSV/BTC, STO/FDUSD, STORJ/BTC, and TRB/BTC.

BTC OG insider whale left positions unchanged on Jan. 19 as unrealized gains narrowed, with total PnL at $15.5M and an ETH long position worth around 720 million yuan, Coinbob data show. Strategy counterparty cut long positions for losses exceeding $15.30M, then opened 20x BTC/ETH long positions totaling $40M, Coinbob said.

Hyperliquid recorded 38 single-position liquidations exceeding $1 million each during a sharp market downturn on Jan. 19, Hyperinsight data show. The liquidations spanned major cryptocurrencies and altcoins, with the largest involving a BTC long position that resulted in a $25.83 million loss.

Centralized exchanges recorded a net outflow of 44,000 ETH over the past 24 hours, Coinglass data show. OKX led with 21,900 ETH withdrawn, followed by Binance at 17,800 ETH and Gate at 3,870.73 ETH. Kraken registered a net inflow of 2,086.23 ETH, the largest inflow among exchanges during the period.