A 9-Year HODL Whale Moved 85,283 ETH to Gemini

Jan 27: Per monitoring from HyperInsight (Telegram: https://t.me/HyperInsight), the "BTC OG Insider Whale" closed multiple positions in the past hour, trimming 14,000 ETH long positions total. The whale’s remaining long position stands at 192,752 ETH—roughly $560 million.

January 27 – Per HyperInsight monitoring (via its Telegram channel @HyperInsight), the "BTC OG Insider Whale" is rapidly unwinding its BTC long position on Hyperliquid. In the past 5 minutes, the whale has already unwound over 400 BTC from its original 1,000 BTC long position, leaving a remaining 572 BTC (~$50.26 million). There are also 72 BTC sell orders at $87,800 pending liquidation. At time of writing, the whale still holds 201,752 ETH (~$5.85 billion) in its ETH long position on Hyperliquid.

On January 27, Coinbase Derivatives—Coinbase’s regulated derivatives platform—launched copper and platinum futures trading, per official sources.

January 26: Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler recently uncovered a publicly accessible large-scale database. Per his findings revealed in a blog post from ExpressVPN, the database holds roughly 149 million records of usernames and passwords from personal mobile devices and computers. The credentials are linked to services including Facebook, Instagram, Netflix, and Binance—with at least 420,000 tied to Binance users. The leaked data also contains 48 million Gmail accounts, 4 million Yahoo accounts, 17 million Facebook accounts, 6.5 million Instagram accounts, 3.4 million Netflix accounts, 780,000 TikTok accounts, and more. Fowler also noted that the volume of credentials tied to government-related accounts and .gov domains is particularly worrying, creating a risk of phishing attacks where threat actors could pose as government agencies. In response, a Binance spokesperson said: “Information stealers are a known type of malware that siphon credentials when a user’s devi

On January 26, Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) officially added “Ju.com” to its list of suspicious virtual asset trading platforms. The regulator noted the entity claims to operate a virtual asset trading platform and is suspected of doing so without a license.

Jan. 26 — Crypto markets rebounded following the U.S. stock market’s open, with most major assets now back to pre-morning-dip levels, per HTX market data. Bitcoin (BTC) is up 1.25% to $88,770. Ethereum (ETH) is up 2% to $2,944. Solana (SOL) is up 1.75% to $125.