BREAKING: $435 million has been liquidated from the cryptocurrency market in the past 12 hours.

January 15 — Per alternative data, the Crypto Fear & Greed Index jumped to 61 today (up from 48 yesterday), with a weekly average of 28, pushing the crypto market back into greed territory. Note: The index ranges from 0 to 100 and comprises the following indicators: Volatility (25%), Market Volume (25%), Social Media Hype (15%), Market Surveys (15%), Bitcoin Dominance (10%), and Google Trends Analysis (10%).

**January 15 Update: Sui Network Back to Normal Operations** Sui’s official Twitter account announced at 5:24 a.m. this morning that its network is fully operational again—running smoothly with transactions back to normal. Users encountering issues should refresh their app or browser page. A full incident retrospective will be released in the coming days. Yesterday, BlockBeats reported Sui’s mainnet was experiencing network disruptions, with the Sui core team actively troubleshooting. At the time, dApps like Slush and SuiScan may have been unavailable, and transactions could have been slower or temporarily stalled.

On January 15, per EmberCN monitoring, 25 million ONDO tokens (valued at roughly $10.19 million) were transferred from Ondo’s multi-signature wallet to exchanges including Coinbase, OKX, Bybit, Gate and Kucoin six hours prior.

On January 15, OnchainLens data shows a whale labeled "255 $BTC Sold" has expanded its long positions in BTC, ETH, and SOL, with total current holdings worth approximately $471 million: - 2,578.51 BTC (≈$249.88 million) - 45,124 ETH (≈$151 million) - 479,601 SOL (≈$70 million) Additionally, the whale has exited its FARTCOIN position, posting a loss of roughly $85,000. It also closed a prior long position on PUMP, resulting in a loss of about $138,000.

On January 15, per blockchain analytics firm OnchainLens, the whale wallet “pension-usdt.eth” opened a 3x-leveraged long position in Ethereum (ETH) after closing an ETH position for a $4.7 million profit. The position holds 20,000 ETH, currently valued at roughly $67 million. As of now, it has a floating profit of over $700,000, while the whale’s total cumulative profits exceed $28 million.

On Wednesday, January 15, several Federal Reserve officials publicly stressed the importance of central bank independence in setting monetary policy. Most also signaled the Fed may pause rate cuts at this month’s meeting, citing the U.S. economy’s ongoing strength, elevated inflation, and the need for continued restrictive monetary policy. In response to a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) subpoena over the Fed’s headquarters renovation and a probe into whether the project influenced policy decisions, multiple officials noted political or judicial pressure should not interfere with monetary policy choices. Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari explicitly backed Chair Jerome Powell’s stance, stating the investigation touches on monetary policy independence and the Fed will keep making data- and analysis-driven decisions even if leadership changes. Chicago Fed President Charles Evans, Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic, and New York Fed President John Williams also emphasized th