If Bitcoin breaks through $86,000, the mainstream CEX aggregate short liquidation intensity will reach 9.12 billion

February 14: Per HyperInsight monitoring, the "Long-Term BTC Short" whale (address 0x5d2f4) has canceled its $55,125 "buy the dip" limit order for BTC on Hyperliquid. The whale still intends to buy 50 BTC if BTC drops to $53,525 and 100 BTC if it falls to $50,525. Notably, this whale previously opened a 20x leveraged short position of 499.91 BTC at $111,499.3. It has now fully closed the position, realizing a total profit of $61.41 million throughout the entire cycle.

On February 14, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin took to Twitter (X) to voice concerns about the current state of prediction markets. “Lately, I’ve been worried about where prediction markets stand today,” he wrote. “While trading volumes are high enough for meaningful bets—with some even making this a full-time gig, and the space supplementing news to an extent—the overreliance on short-term crypto prices, sports/entertainment, and other dopamine-fueled activities lacks long-term value. This often pushes platforms to chase low-quality traffic, leading to commercial corruption.” To escape this dilemma, the space could pivot to a new use case: generalized hedging. By framing prediction markets as risk management tools, users could hedge against future uncertainties—like swings in corporate or personal spending—boosting long-term utility. Unlike the current model that relies on “dumb money” investors, this approach is more sustainable and can draw in high-quality capital. Loo

February 14: Per Onchain Len monitoring, the BTC OG Insider Whale has just deposited 5,000 BTC (valued at approximately $384.82 million) to Binance.

On February 14, per Farside monitoring data, the U.S. Solana spot ETF posted a cumulative net inflow of $12.6 million this week.

On February 14, Three Arrows Capital co-founder Zhu Su said in a post that cryptocurrencies could significantly outperform the Magnificent Seven (Mag7) stocks over the next few years.