A trader spent $370 to buy WHITEWHALE and is currently sitting on over $800,000 in profit.

On January 9, per monitoring data from Onchain Lens, a cryptocurrency whale dormant for two years first deposited 2.64 million USDC into HyperLiquid, then spent $1.54 million to purchase 59,976 HYPE tokens. The whale currently holds $1.09 million in USDC and has open buy orders to continue accumulating more tokens.

On January 9, Meteora announced that the claim deadline for its MET airdrop will be January 23. Unclaimed tokens will be allocated to the circulating community reserve for future rewards.

As of January 9, LookOnChain monitoring shows two newly created wallets have wagered $23,000 on the bet: "Israel will attack Iran before January 31, 2026."

As of January 9th, DefiLlama data shows heightened trading activity across several Perpetual DEX (Perp DEX) platforms over the past 24 hours. Hyperliquid leads with a 24-hour trading volume of approximately $75.4 billion, but its open interest and Total Value Locked (TVL) have not grown proportionally—signaling cautious market sentiment. Key Perp DEX metrics (24h): - **Hyperliquid** (https://app.hyperliquid.xyz/join/NTOD): ~$75.4B volume | ~$43.3B TVL | ~$90.7B open interest - **Aster** (https://www.asterdex.com/zh-CN/referral/aboter): ~$57.5B volume | ~$12.5B TVL | ~$26.1B open interest - **Lighter** (https://app.lighter.xyz/?referral=70045843): ~$46.6B volume | ~$12.4B TVL | ~$14.2B open interest - **EdgeX**: ~$38.7B volume | ~$3.68B TVL | ~$11.1B open interest - **Variational**: ~$15.9B volume | ~$66.18M TVL | ~$10.9B open interest - **Paradex**: ~$15.7B volume | ~$1.86B TVL | ~$8.34B open interest - **Pacifica** (https://app.pacifica.fi/?referral=pacbot): ~$9.37B v

On January 9, LookOnChain monitoring data shows the whale that previously "sold 255 BTC" has accumulated a long position valued at $3.1 billion, with the following breakdown: - 1,210 BTC (~$10.95 million) - 32,474 ETH (~$10.06 million) - 503,778 SOL (~$69.9 million) - 14.26 million XRP (~$29.9 million) The whale’s total profit has now exceeded $9.4 million.

As of January 9th, the probability of Bitcoin hitting $100k in January on Polymarket currently stands at 26%. Additional probabilities include 59% for $95k, 43% for $85k, and 19% for $80k.