Santiment: Bitcoin 'Whales' Still Accumulating During Downtrend

On January 21, on-chain data analytics platform Nansen announced the launch of an AI-powered integrated trading feature across its web and mobile platforms, with initial support for Solana and the Base network. This marks the company’s shift from a “pure analytics tool” to an “analytics + trade execution” offering. Built on Nansen’s dataset of over 500 million labeled wallet addresses, the feature lets users place orders directly via AI chat or the web trading terminal. All trades require user confirmation and are non-custodial. Solana transactions are powered by Jupiter liquidity, Base is supported by OKX DEX, cross-chain routing uses LI.FI, and all trades are completed through the embedded self-custodial Nansen Wallet. Nansen noted the trading feature is now available to eligible users but restricted in certain jurisdictions, including Singapore, Iran, and Russia.

Jan 21st — Per GMGN monitoring (link: https://gmgn.ai/bsc/token/i_m4TE56o8_0xf74548802f4c700315f019fde17178b392ee4444), newly listed meme coin "memes" surged shortly after its launch. The token deployed a $1 liquidity pool, qualifying it for the BNB Chain’s "$1 Trading Contest." Its current market cap stands at $23 million, with a price of roughly $0.023; it ranks top three on the contest’s market cap leaderboard and leads the 24-hour trading volume rankings. The 10-day BNB Chain "$1 Trading Contest" is now on day six. Latest rankings show the top three in market cap are meme coins EGL1, CDL, and "memes"—all with caps exceeding $20 million. The top three finishers will receive multiple incentive supports. Participation has no token creation time restrictions; required $1 trading pairs include projects on Four Meme using $1 as the base token, plus other Four Meme projects with active $1 liquidity pools. BlockBeats reminds users: Meme coin trading is highly volatile, relying hea

On January 21st, data from Coinglass shows that if Ethereum (ETH) falls below $2,900, the cumulative long liquidation strength across major centralized exchanges (CEXs) will reach $527 million. Conversely, if ETH breaks above $3,100, the cumulative short liquidation strength for major CEXs will hit $1.239 billion. **BlockBeats Note**: Liquidation charts do not show the exact number of contracts to be liquidated or their precise value. Instead, the bars on these charts reflect the relative importance of each liquidation cluster compared to adjacent clusters—i.e., "strength." This means the chart illustrates how sharply the target price will react when it hits a specific level. A taller "liquidation bar" signals a more intense price response due to a liquidity cascade at that price point.

Update, January 21: On January 20, 2026, at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bennett announced the U.S. government will halt auctions of seized digital assets and transfer all Bitcoin currently held by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Treasury to the “U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.” Under the policy, Bitcoin acquired primarily via criminal and civil asset forfeitures will be held permanently, no longer subject to regular auctions by the U.S. Marshals Service. Bennett noted the move aims to “stem the outflow of sovereign digital wealth” and frames the 200,000+ Bitcoin currently held by the U.S. as a long-term strategic reserve on the national balance sheet—intended to hedge against volatility in traditional currencies. Bennett also stressed the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve will expand in a “budget-neutral” manner via law enforcement seizures, with no taxpayer funds used for open-market purchases. The assets will be held in custody by

On January 21st, monitoring data from HyperInsight (via https://t.me/HyperInsight) shows that trader 0x26359 shorted 223,856 MEGA tokens with 1x leverage. The trader’s average entry price was $0.214, with an unrealized profit of $5,721 and a liquidation price of $0.3669. Previously, this same trader shorted MON, LIT, and FOGO, netting a total profit of $41,600.

On January 21st, HyperInsight monitoring (via its Telegram channel @HyperInsight) reported a whale closed a 321.91 BTC long position at 14:45, incurring a $25,000 loss. The whale still holds a 3x leveraged long position of 638,200 LIT tokens, with an average entry price of $1.89 and an unrealized loss of $172,600.