Dreamcash launches RWA perpetual contract market on Hyperliquid with USDT0 collateralization

January 16 — U.S.-listed crypto mining firm Riot Blockchain (RIOT) rose 7.7% in premarket trading after signing a data center leasing agreement with AMD, per Bitget market data.

On January 16, Bitcoin-focused public firm Strive completed its merger with Semler Scientific—another company with a Bitcoin treasury—boosting its BTC holdings to 12,798 coins (valued at approximately $1.22 billion) and securing its spot as the 11th-largest corporate Bitcoin holder.

**RollX (Base Perp DEX) Launches ROLL Token, Kicks Off Genesis Airdrop First Phase** RollX, the perpetual DEX protocol on Base, has rolled out its ROLL token and launched the first phase of its Genesis airdrop distribution. Claims for the airdrop went live at 19:00 on January 16, with the deadline to claim the first batch of unlocked tokens set for January 26. The Genesis airdrop totals 180 million ROLL tokens. Eligible recipients include: - Trade & LP Points holders (from S1, S2, and S3 seasons); - Contributors to campaigns like Binance Wallet, Bitlayer, and Galxe. **Vesting Rules**: - Genesis airdrops + most activity rewards: 25% unlocks at TGE, with the remaining 75% vesting linearly over the next six months; - Galxe + RollOnchain Lightning rewards: 100% unlocks at TGE.

Jan. 16 — Per Arkham data, a crypto whale withdrew 235,472 TRUMP tokens from Binance roughly 20 minutes ago, with the sum valued at around $1.27 million.

Jan. 16 — The ETHGas Foundation released details on the token distribution and vesting schedule for its governance token GWEI, with a total supply of 10 billion tokens: - **Ecosystem Allocation**: 31% → 10-year linear unlock - **Investor Allocation**: 27% → 1-year lockup (10% unlocked immediately at maturity, followed by 2-year linear unlock) - **Team Allocation**: 22% → Same vesting terms as Investors - **Community Allocation**: 10% → 4-year linear unlock - **Foundation Allocation**: 8% → Unlocked on the first day of listing - **Advisor Allocation**: 2% → Same vesting terms as Investors Additional notes: - GWEI distributed via community airdrops will be auto-staked for 30 days upon listing to ensure early contributors participate in governance. - Holders may lock GWEI for 1 week to 4 years to receive veGWEI.

January 16: On-chain analyst Ai Auntie (@ai_9684xtpa) reports that the top 2 ETH long address on Hyperliquid (0x94d…33814) holds a combined $318 million in long positions across ETH, BTC, and SOL, with $3.9 million in unrealized losses (ETH makes up 62.4% of the total). The address has placed two limit buy orders: - 786.85 BTC (valued at $74.95 million) in the $95,150–$95,381 range - 8,346.78 ETH (valued at $27.48 million) in the $3,285–$3,300 range Should the market pull back, the address is expected to decisively buy the dip and lean bullish.