Current mainstream CEX and DEX funding rate displays market still leaning bearish

On January 22, monitoring data from HyperInsight shows a crypto whale closed a 90.23 BTC short position at 16:43, incurring a $12,300 loss. The address currently holds no open positions and is in a wait-and-see stance. The whale’s historical trades have mostly utilized isolated margin mode—reflecting a relatively cautious risk management approach and signaling a high-risk, short-term trading style.

On January 22, Binance founder CZ spoke at the "Financial New Age" panel discussion during the World Economic Forum in Davos. He stated: "Different countries have distinct priorities, agendas, and considerations, so setting up a global regulatory body is quite challenging. Of course, we hope such an organization emerges—especially if it can establish a regulatory framework that’s relatively innovation-friendly. This would significantly simplify work for industry players." He added: "Cryptocurrencies are consistent across countries; there are no country-specific tribal systems. So there should be an optimal framework we can adopt and implement. That’s why I’m currently working hard, devoting significant time to figuring out what this framework entails and how to collaborate with various countries."

January 22 — Per monitoring from HyperInsight (via its Telegram channel @HyperInsight), a whale with a wallet address starting with 0xb5a6 opened a 40x leveraged long position on BTC at 16:03 today. The position totals 73.7 BTC (equivalent to ~$6.62 million), with an unrealized profit of roughly $1,890 and a liquidation price of ~$84,000. Separately, the same whale holds a 3x leveraged long position on SKR: 9.17 million SKR (valued at ~$380,000) with an unrealized gain of ~$20,000.

On January 22, Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) spoke at the World Economic Forum’s Davos panel on “The New Age of Finance,” sharing key takes on the crypto industry’s trajectory. First, he noted Binance’s exchange platform has already outpaced last year’s total volume. For the current crypto space, CZ highlighted two mature segments: exchanges and stablecoins. Looking ahead, he flagged three promising directions: 1. **Tokenization**: Tokenizing assets could help governments solve financial challenges more efficiently, boost the financial system’s operational efficiency, and drive growth in related industries and trading markets. 2. **Payments**: While crypto payments haven’t seen wide adoption yet, a new trend is emerging: traditional payment rails (like Visa and Mastercard) are integrating crypto tech. Here’s how it works: Users pay with their cards, funds are deducted from their accounts, merchants get fiat, and background settlement/bridging happens via stablecoins and

January 22nd — Per Coinglass data, total liquidations across all networks reached $603 million over the past 24 hours, with $304 million in long positions and $299 million in short positions liquidated. Globally, 140,060 traders were liquidated in the same period. The largest single liquidation was a $40.2261 million ETH-USD position on Hyperliquid.

Ethereum dropped below $3,000 on Jan. 22, according to data from HTX, with a 24-hour price change of 0.99%.