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On January 13, Uniswap founder Hayden Adams commented on the NYC Coin incident involving former New York City Mayor Eric Adams, slamming celebrities and politicians for exploiting blockchain to carry out fraudulent schemes. Adams noted that celebrities have viable, legitimate ways to profit from blockchain technology—such as issuing tokens while maintaining liquidity, delivering real value to holders, and ensuring project transparency. He emphasized blockchain is “an unprecedentedly powerful tool for collaboration, monetization and value distribution” used by millions globally—but celebrities often leverage it for short-sighted fraud. Adams argued that running blockchain projects honestly would let celebrities earn more, safeguard their reputations, and steer clear of legal trouble.

January 13: U.S. December CPI data is set for release at 21:30 tonight. The market broadly expects the inflation reading to reflect persistent price pressures while remaining below the Federal Reserve’s 2% target. Per a composite survey from Bloomberg and FactSet: - Headline CPI: +0.3% month-over-month, +2.7% year-over-year (forecast) - Core CPI (excluding volatile food/energy): +0.3% month-over-month, +2.7% year-over-year (forecast) While the Cleveland Fed’s Nowcast model projects a slightly softer core CPI (0.22% month-over-month), mainstream Wall Street consensus is that inflation has not cooled meaningfully. CME Group data indicates the market assigns a 95% probability the Fed will hold interest rates steady at its January meeting.

Jan. 13 — Per Onchain Lens monitoring, a whale has transferred 10 million USDC to Lighter and is actively hedging, even as LIT continues to decline. The whale has opened a 5x leveraged short position on LIT, spending $2.2 million to purchase 1,059,000 LIT at an average price of $2.08. Currently, the whale still holds 2,788,000 USDC and may continue accumulating LIT.

January 13th — Per monitoring from HyperInsight, Strategy’s nemesis (the former Hyperliquid whale 0x94d37, once the largest BTC short holder on the platform) has closed its SOL long position, netting a $700k profit while carrying an account unrealized loss of $35k. As Strategy continued accumulating BTC, this address opened short positions in BTC, ETH and other major coins. At one point, it held a $120M position to become Hyperliquid’s largest BTC short; it now ranks as the second-largest.

On January 13, Bitcoin topped $92,000, per HTX market data, with a 24-hour price change of -0.03%.