A certain contract whale has increased its Ethereum long position to 19,383.25 coins, currently yielding a profit of $654,000.

Jan. 5 – Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas noted on social media Wednesday that U.S.-listed ETFs pulled in $7.1 billion in inflows on Jan. 2, the first trading day of the year. If that pace continues, annual inflows could hit $1.8 trillion—a hyperbolic claim, per his post. Vanguard’s S&P 500 ETF (VOO) remained the top-gaining fund as usual. BlackRock’s SGOV also stayed on the top inflows list, while its Bitcoin spot ETF (IBIT) raked in $287 million, landing the 10th spot. The overall trend mirrors last year’s. Though current data is still early and noisy, market narratives often start taking shape in the first days of the new year.

On January 5, 2025, CME Group released full-year 2025, fourth-quarter 2025, and December 2025 market statistics, per official sources. Key highlights include: **Full-Year 2025** - Overall average daily cryptocurrency trading volume surged 139% to a record 278,000 contracts (nominal value: $12 billion) - Micro Ether futures: Average daily volume hit 144,000 contracts (annual record) - Micro Bitcoin futures: Average daily volume reached 75,000 contracts (annual record) - Ether futures: Average daily volume stood at 19,000 contracts (annual record) **Fourth-Quarter 2025** - Overall average daily volume hit 379,000 contracts (nominal value: $13.3 billion) — quarterly record - Micro Bitcoin futures: Average daily volume reached 89,000 contracts (quarterly record) - Micro Ether futures: Average daily volume jumped 164% year-over-year (YoY) to 201,000 contracts - Ether futures: Average daily volume grew 137% YoY to 22,000 contracts This rewrite uses American English c

As of January 5th, monitoring from HyperInsight (via https://t.me/HyperInsight) shows the following key whale position shifts between 10:00 AM and 8:00 PM ET today: ### Bullish Camp - The "BTC OG Insider Whale" transferred 34,244 ETH (valued at ~$102.82 million) from Coinbase to Binance over the past 5 days—suggesting it may currently hold leveraged trading positions on Binance. - Notable "Bankruptcy Whale" James Wynn expanded his BTC long position to $11.54 million, with a floating profit of $211,000; he also maintains a $2.59 million long position in kPEPE with 10x leverage, netting a floating profit of $591,000. - The "30 Longs Whale" opened a long position on a meme coin, with an account-wide floating profit of $124,000. ### Bearish Camp - Swing whale "pension-usdt.eth" boosted its ETH short position to $63 million, with an average entry price of $3136. - The "Lightning Reversal" whale closed a losing $11,000 BTC short position before opening a 20x-leveraged long po

On January 5th, LookOnChain monitoring data reveals that whale address 0x6b26 opened two leveraged long positions over the past two days: a 5x long position with 79,438 ZEC (valued at $39.24 million) and a 10x long position with 1.0525 billion DOGE (valued at $15.48 million). The whale currently faces an unrealized loss of $1.88 million.

On Monday, January 5, the Swiss Federal Council announced that following the U.S. military’s capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his extradition to the United States, Switzerland has frozen all assets held in Switzerland by Maduro and his inner circle. The measure took immediate effect, will remain in place for four years, and aims to prevent potential illegal asset outflows. It also supplements existing sanctions Switzerland has imposed on Venezuela since 2018. Swiss authorities noted the asset freeze does not apply to current members of the Venezuelan government, and added that if any illegally obtained funds are discovered, Switzerland will seek to repatriate them for the benefit of the Venezuelan people.

On January 5, according to market sources, Maduro and his wife have been transferred to court to appear in response to proceedings initiated by the New York Federal Court.