USDC Circulating Supply Decreased by Approximately 1.3 Billion Tokens in One Week

On January 25th, crypto analytics firm Santiment posted on X that major Bitcoin whales are ramping up accumulation at a notable clip. Addresses holding 1,000+ BTC have added 104,340 BTC in recent days—an increase of 1.5%. Additionally, the count of large transactions ($1M+) has surged to a two-month high.

January 25 — Per popular address tracker Coinbob (via https://t.me/Coinbob_track_CN), the top Bitcoin short position holder on the Hyperliquid platform—dubbed “Air Force Commander”—added 105.53 BTC to its short position in the past 20 minutes. As of now, the address holds a total short position of $246 million, with the following breakdown: - Bitcoin (40x leverage): Short position = $1.229 billion; Unrealized profit = $232.6 million - Ethereum (25x leverage): Short position = $99.76 million; Unrealized profit = $2.887 million - Solana (20x leverage): Short position = $9.98 million; Unrealized profit = $10.77 thousand - HYPE (10x leverage): Short position = $8.72 million; Unrealized loss = $49.58 thousand - KPEPE (10x leverage): Short position = $4.9 million; Unrealized loss = $4.79 thousand

January 25th — Per LookOnChain monitoring data, whale wallet 0xeA00 has swapped 120 BTC (valued at roughly $10.68 million) for 3,623 ETH over the past two days.

On January 25th, per monitoring data from Farside Investors, U.S. Ethereum spot ETFs posted a net outflow of $600.7 million this week. The breakdown is as follows: - BlackRock ETHA: -$431.5 million - Fidelity FETH: -$78 million - Bitwise ETHW: -$46.3 million - VanEck ETHV: -$9.9 million - Grayscale ETHE: -$52.8 million - Grayscale Ethereum Trust: +$17.8 million This aligns with U.S. financial news conventions—concise, clear breakdowns, and standard terminology for ETF flows.

On January 25, LookOnChain monitoring data shows that trader 7fFCzx has fully liquidated his 15.94 million PENGUIN tokens, netting a profit of over $1.7 million. Despite trading over 1,000 distinct meme tokens with a win rate below 15%, seizing the PENGUIN opportunity alone has flipped his P&L—turning a $1.3 million loss into a $433,600 profit.

January 25: Per HyperInsight monitoring, the trader with the largest long position in on-chain gold token PAXG (address 0xfd652) is currently holding 727.25 PAXG with 5x leverage. The position has an average entry price of $4,126.2 and an unrealized profit of $702k (+94.95%). This address operates in a typical proprietary trading style: all trades are executed via full-margin mode, with no use of isolated margin functionality.