The popular AI framework Virtuals Protocol will host an in-person meet-up in Hong Kong on Friday, January 17.

Hunter Biden, son of former US President Joe Biden, published a post revealing independent investigation findings into the LAPTOP token launch, stating he has hired forensics firm Groom Lake to review all transactions on the token’s launch day. He denied his team engaged in insider selling, noting founder tokens remain in the same wallet and have not moved since launch; his personal tokens are locked for six months, then will vest over two years. Citing the investigation, he said Market Maker 1 held $500,000 in startup capital but only deployed roughly $5,200 and fewer than 30,000 tokens to the liquidity pool—just 0.003% of total supply. The extremely low liquidity pushed the token’s price from $0.05 to around $317 in under two minutes, before plunging 98% within an hour. 84 seconds after the price peaked, Market Maker 1 withdrew its funds during the sell-off, draining on-chain liquidity available to absorb sales at near-current prices from $16,157 to zero. He claimed Market Maker 1 earned roughly $686,000 from its DEX position, while Market Maker 2 netted over $2.1 million from related DEX trades, and argued the market makers responsible for the launch issues should repurchase and burn the tokens. He said he takes full ultimate responsibility, will not exit the project, and plans to burn most unclaimed tokens from the initial airdrop next week—this airdrop made up 10% of the total token supply.

According to TradingBeats’ monitoring, Boomer (Twitter handle @solanadoomer1) holds approximately 2.684 billion long positions in PUMP via Hyperliquid address 0xbf73. The position is valued at around $17.32 million, with 10x leverage, an average entry price of roughly $0.00564, current unrealized profit of about $2.19 million, and a position return of approximately 145%. The address opened the current PUMP long position roughly 8 days ago and has held it continuously since. PUMP’s current price is up around 14.5% from its average entry price. As of press time, the PUMP perpetual contract price on Hyperliquid stands at $0.00645, up roughly 1.3% over the past 24 hours.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin’s monitoring, after transferring $103 million in assets early this morning, the U.S. government address moved 750.2 WBTC (valued at $62.34 million) to Coinbase Prime 15 minutes ago. Over the past 24 hours, the address has transferred a total of $165 million in assets, with 1,583.8 BTC (valued at $134 million) flowing into Coinbase Prime.

According to TradingBeats monitoring, crypto figure "Maji" (Huang Licheng) currently holds around 38,400 ETH long positions on Hyperliquid, with the position valued at approximately $98.7 million. The position uses 25x full leverage, with an average entry price of ~$2,679, resulting in an unrealized loss of roughly $4.06 million and a return of about -99%. During today’s market pullback, Maji briefly reduced his ETH long positions to around 35,700 units before increasing his long exposure again; his current holding has rebounded to ~38,400 ETH. As of now, ETH trades at ~$2,573, and the position’s estimated liquidation price is ~$2,507, roughly 2.5% below the current market price.

Injective has released a new version of its whitepaper, marking the first full rewrite since the original launch in December 2018. The initial whitepaper centered on a front-running-resistant trading protocol built on Ethereum, while the updated version positions Injective as a Layer 1 blockchain for institutional-grade finance and asset tokenization, covering the full lifecycle of tokenized assets—from issuance and trading to settlement. The whitepaper details a native real-world asset (RWA) tokenization framework that establishes role-based permissions for minting, transferring, receiving, and burning assets. Its iAssets feature leverages stablecoin margin and oracle pricing to offer derivatives tracking external assets, eliminating the need for wrapping or pre-funding. Tokenized assets are traded on a fully on-chain central limit order book (CLOB), with sealed high-frequency batch auctions executed per block to clear at a uniform price, mitigating front-running and transaction-ordering miner extractable value (MEV). Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) consensus delivers deterministic finalization, with block times averaging around 600 milliseconds. The new whitepaper also covers native Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) and WebAssembly (WASM) environments sharing a unified state, perpetual contract risk management, and AI agent finance. AI agents can interact with tokenized assets via MCP servers, strategy-constrained signatures, and x402 machine payments denominated in USDC. On-chain protocol revenue will be allocated to regular INJ community buyback programs.

US September the New York Fed’s 1-year inflation expectation comes in at 3.9%, against a consensus estimate of 3.64%, with the prior reading standing at 3.58%.