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

Per FinanceWire, AKEDO—a game and content creation engine and publishing platform—closed a $5 million seed round on January 19th. The round was led by Karatage, with participation from Sfermion, Collab + Currency, MARBLEX, Seed Club, The Open Platform, TON Ventures, Gagra Ventures, Kenetic Capital, and Metalabs Ventures, among others. The funding will accelerate development of its AI-native content creation engine and Launchpad, aiming to significantly boost game and content development efficiency via a coordinated AI agent.

On January 19th, on-chain analyst Ai Auntie (@ai_9684xtpa) reported that the whale/institution which once went long on 42,452.79 ETH in a single day has now added another 11,355.06 wstETH to its position. The address 0x81D…74246 purchased wstETH on-chain at an average price of $3,932.8 over the past hour, simultaneously unwrapping it into stETH—spending a total of $44.66 million. Over the past 24 hours, it has accumulated 66,107.49 stETH, worth a combined $212 million. The address still holds 15.93 million USDT on-chain, suggesting further purchases may be on the way.

January 19th — Perpetual DEX (Perp DEX) trading volume remained low over the weekend, per DefiLlama data. Hyperliquid continues to lead the space, followed by Lighter, with minimal changes in open interest across all platforms. Key 24-hour metrics for major Perp DEXs (as of Jan 19): - Hyperliquid (https://app.hyperliquid.xyz/join/NTOD): ~$27.9B trading volume | ~$45.9B TVL | ~$96.3B open interest - Lighter (https://app.lighter.xyz/?referral=70045843): ~$22.6B trading volume | ~$10.8B TVL | ~$13.2B open interest - EdgeX: ~$21.5B trading volume | ~$4.29B TVL | ~$11.6B open interest - Aster (https://www.asterdex.com/zh-CN/referral/aboter): ~$17.4B trading volume | ~$12.5B TVL | ~$27.3B open interest - Variational: ~$16B trading volume | ~$66.18M TVL | ~$11.9B open interest - Paradex: ~$15.9B trading volume | ~$2.27B TVL | ~$6.33B open interest - Pacifica (https://app.pacifica.fi/?referral=pacbot): ~$9.66B trading volume | ~$46.52M TVL | ~$87.04M open interest Note: TVL

January 19: The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Professional Association has submitted a consultation paper on implementing the Cryptocurrency Asset Reporting Framework (CARF) and amending the Common Reporting Standard (CRS) in Hong Kong. The association backs mandatory registration for Registered Crypto Asset Service Providers (RCASP) and Reportable Financial Institutions (RFI) to align with OECD standards and preserve Hong Kong’s standing as a global financial hub. It’s proposing a simplified, streamlined registration and reporting process for “zero-reporting” entities to cut compliance costs, and recommends an administrative penalty framework over criminal liability. Additionally, the association supports a default “dual reporting” setup for CARF and CRS to reduce system complexity and reporting errors. It’s also calling for an API-based reporting interface to meet the automated compliance needs of large cryptocurrency firms.

**January 19 – Per Coinbob Popular Address Monitoring, the "Strategy Whale" address (0x94d) has ramped up BTC and ETH long positions over the past few hours, pushing its total position value to $272 million. The positions were opened just over two hours ago.** **Key position breakdown:** - 15x ETH long: ~$221M position value, avg. entry $3,213, unrealized loss ~$240k - 20x BTC long: ~$43.7M position value, avg. entry $93,000, unrealized loss ~$30k **Earlier today, the address was liquidated amid market volatility, posting losses of over $15.3M across three major cryptos. It then bottom-fished with 20x leverage to open BTC/ETH longs, with related positions briefly hitting $53M. All these longs were closed around 3 PM ET today, marking another dip-buy attempt.** **The address began accumulating assets in December 2023 with an initial account size of ~$20M, then gradually built short positions on mainstream coins like BTC/ETH. Market watchers peg it as a clear "on-chain count

On January 19, Onchain Lens monitoring shows a newly created address withdrew 25 million USDT/USDC from Binance and OKX, deposited 5 million USDC into HyperLiquid, supplied 20 million USDT to HyperLend, and borrowed 400,000 HYPE. Additionally, the whale has transferred 5 million USDC to HyperLiquid’s spot trading platform.