《Financial Times》: PwC is ramping up its expansion into the cryptocurrency market

January 5th: Per OnchainLens data, a whale address dormant for 19 months has closed its 1x long LIT position, incurring a $767,403 loss on the trade. The address’s cumulative profits have since fallen from $3 million to $420,000.

On January 5, per MLM Monitor, the first batch of 262,400 HYPE tokens (valued at roughly $6.9 million) linked to Tornado Cash-associated wallet clusters has been unstaked and immediately begun being sold. BlockBeats previously reported that on January 2, an entity dormant for more than 12 months unstaked a total of 631,889 HYPE tokens (worth approximately $20.3 million) over three days using three distinct wallets. All HYPE held by this entity was purchased within three weeks following its token generation event (TGE), with funds originating from Tornado Cash. It holds over 4.36 million HYPE tokens in total, and the amount unstaked this time represents roughly 14% to 15% of its total holdings.

On January 5th, per HTX market data, BNB rebounded above $900, notching a 1.51% 24-hour gain that lifted its market cap to $123.781 billion.

On January 5, Binance announced it will list BREV on January 6, 2026, at 14:00 UTC, launching spot trading pairs for BREV/USDT, BREV/USDC, BREV/BNB and BREV/TRY—along with enabling the seed label. Deposits for BREV will open on January 5, 2026, at 12:00 UTC. BREV will initially be listed and tradable on Binance Alpha (specific timing to be announced separately); however, once spot trading goes live, BREV will no longer appear on Binance Alpha.

Binance’s HODLer Airdrop will launch Brevis (BREV) on January 5th.

**January 5th – Per Coinbob Popular Address Monitoring** Trader James Wynn (0x507)—once on the brink of bankruptcy—has locked in massive gains recently. Since the start of the month, with an initial ~$20,000 investment, he’s taken leveraged long positions on PEPE and repositioned to open a BTC long, pushing his account value to $620,000 (it peaked at $800,000 this morning and remains open). His current total position size is ~$13.95 million, with key positions: - 40x BTC Long: $11.5M position size, $150k unrealized profit (52%), avg. price $91,300, liquidation price $89,600 - 10x kPEPE Long: $2.45M position size, $450k unrealized profit (182%), avg. price $0.0055, liquidation price $0.0057 Wynn’s sub-address (0x8da) has also posted >50% gains this month, holding long positions in BTC, HYPE, and XRP. Its total position size is $7.02 million, with overall unrealized profit of $390k (154%). On January 1st, Wynn publicly predicted PEPE’s market cap would exceed $69 billion