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

January 20: Trump made remarks on EU tariffs, saying he would "impose a 200% tariff on French wine and champagne" and that he discussed Greenland during the Davos meeting. Subsequently, per HTX market data, Bitcoin briefly fell below $92,000; according to Bitget market figures, gold climbed to a record high of $4,691.6 per ounce, edging toward the $4,700 mark.

**January 20 Update** Per data from Coinbob Popular Address Tracker (Telegram: https://t.me/Coinbob_track_CN), the whale labeled “Heavy Precious Metals Position” (address: 0x271) has opened a new 5x leveraged long position in SILVER (Silver Mapping Contract). The latest position holds 10,000 coins (~$940,000) with an entry price of $91.3, currently holding an unrealized profit of ~$26,000 (12%). Fifteen days prior, the whale closed its original 20,000 SILVER long position (~$1.88 million, entry $79.6) amid a short-term silver price pullback, locking in ~$194,000 in profits. As of now, the address maintains a concentrated precious metals long position, with total gold and silver contract holdings valued at ~$5.64 million. Key holdings breakdown: - **PAXG (On-chain Gold) Long**: ~$3.05 million, entry $4,429 → Unrealized profit ~$170,000 (58%) - **GOLD (Gold Mapping Contract) Long**: ~$1.64 million, entry $4,509 → Unrealized profit ~$64,000 (30%) - **SILVER (Silver Mappin

On January 20, per HyperInsight monitoring, a crypto whale shorted 56.68 BTC with 40x leverage at 12:54 (average entry price: $92,045.30) — the position is currently slightly profitable. Historical order data shows the trader primarily focused on BTC, while also dabbling in tokens like SOL, WLD, ETH, and TRUMP. Their trading direction was mostly long but has recently shifted to short.

January 20th: Bitcoin dipped below $92,000, per HTX market data, with a 24-hour drop of 0.72%.

January 20th — In the Starknet ecosystem, perpetual contract DEX Paradex announced temporary maintenance yesterday. However, the protocol failed to go live as expected after maintenance wrapped up, sparking community rumors of a major vulnerability. This led to liquidations for some users’ perpetual contracts due to abnormally high funding rates. Around 3:00 PM UTC, Paradex issued an official statement attributing the outage to database maintenance and migration issues. These issues caused anomalies like BTC prices plummeting to zero, triggering a wave of liquidations. The team said it would roll back the chain state to block 1604710 (UTC 04:27:54) — the last known valid state — to restore pre-maintenance conditions. Paradex’s official website finally resumed operations at 8:13 PM UTC yesterday. The crypto community reacted with widespread skepticism and criticism over the rollback, questioning the “reliability” of on-chain DEXs — especially the security and true decentralizat

On January 20th, monitoring by Hyperinsight (via https://t.me/HyperInsight) shows the largest on-chain gold bear trader is currently shorting 2,989.3 PAXG tokens (roughly $14.02 million) with 5x leverage. The trader’s average entry price is $4,533 per token, with an unrealized loss of $477,000 per token. Additionally, the same address holds highly leveraged short positions on BTC and a basket of altcoins, posting a total unrealized profit of $1.245 million across its account.