BitMine re-stakes 113,280 ETH

On Jan. 28, Farcaster founder Dan Romero took to social media to answer the question: "What’s something you couldn’t disclose before the acquisition but can share now?" His response: "I wanted to issue a token for Farcaster, but the right timing never came."

On January 28, per monitoring from HyperInsight (Telegram: @HyperInsight; link: https://t.me/HyperInsight), the address tagged "High-Frequency Shorting Pioneer" (0x3bcae) closed a 12,536.83 ETH short position at 11:41, incurring a $46,600 loss. Its current unrealized losses total $196,000. The address uses a high-frequency multi-asset strategy with strict risk controls and has accumulated total profits of $1,657,000 over its lifetime.

On January 28, The Block reported that AetheriumX—a project built on the Distributed Capital Intelligent Protocol (DCIP)—has closed an $8 million strategic funding round led by CGV, GAINS Associates, DuckDAO and Genesis Capital. The round marks the project’s official shift into a strategic phase centered on ecosystem-driven growth. The newly raised capital will primarily fuel ecosystem development and expansion, with a focus on three key areas: - Further optimizing DCIP and its strategic execution network, while expanding core modules including DeFi, GameFi, prediction markets and creator economies; - Launching and scaling an ecosystem fund to support the incubation and growth of developers, studios and community nodes; - Strategic expansion in the Asia-Pacific region—with a focus on Japan and South Korea—including community building and regional partnerships. AetheriumX aims to build a long-term sustainable Web3 ecosystem that prioritizes genuine user participation over sh

On January 28, Tether Chief Technology Officer Paolo Ardoino told Bloomberg in an interview that Tether’s role in the gold market will grow further as U.S. geopolitical rivals could launch a gold-backed alternative to the U.S. dollar. Ardoino noted Tether plans to keep reinvesting a significant portion of its profits into gold. The firm is currently purchasing 1 to 2 metric tons of gold weekly and will maintain this pace in the coming months. Tether has amassed nearly 140 metric tons of gold—stored in a Cold War-era nuclear bunker in Switzerland—making it the world’s largest known gold reserve outside central banks, ETFs, and commercial banks. With gold and other metals rallying recently, the value of Tether’s gold holdings now exceeds $23.3 billion. Ardoino added Tether is assessing market conditions and potential trading strategies to capitalize on arbitrage opportunities by actively trading its gold reserves. The company recently hired two senior gold traders from HSBC to l

January 28 — Per monitoring from HyperInsight, precious metals futures trading on Hyperliquid has surged over the past 24 hours, with contract volumes for both gold and silver ranking among the platform’s top 10. - The combined trading volume of the Gold Token PAXG contract and the Gold Mapping Contract reached $166 million in the 24-hour window, with total open interest at $223 million. - The Silver Mapping Contract (SILVER) posted a 24-hour trading volume of $1.138 billion and open interest of $156 million. - The Copper Mapping Contract (COPPER) recorded a 24-hour trading volume of $33.66 million and open interest of $94.73 million.

On January 28th, per monitoring data from HyperInsight (via its Telegram channel: https://t.me/HyperInsight), a trader opened a 40x leveraged short position of 59.43 BTC at 10:33. The average entry price was $89,230.10. As of now, the position has an unrealized profit of $10,700, while the account’s total unrealized loss stands at $1,000.