A certain whale from a specific trading group front-ran 20,000 ETH precisely 12 hours ago, now holding over 70,000 ETH in total

**January 26 — Silver spot prices surged past $110 per ounce on Wednesday, pushing the commodity’s total market capitalization to $6.149 trillion. That marks a 257% year-over-year jump, lifting silver to the world’s second-largest mainstream asset by market cap.** **Meanwhile, Bitcoin fell 14%, with its market cap now at $1.754 trillion — making silver’s value 3.5x that of Bitcoin.** **Notably, Bitcoin held a market cap lead over silver just six months ago. On September 1, 2023, as Bitcoin declined, silver overtook it with Bitcoin’s market cap then at roughly $2.183 trillion.** **Some analysts warn the rally in silver and other precious metals is driven by short squeezes. They note capital could flow into Bitcoin and Ethereum once a reversal takes hold.**

Update: On January 26, onchainschool.pro monitoring reports $2.1M worth of OWL tokens transferred from the team wallet to three distinct wallets in the past two hours. One of those wallets has begun distributing the tokens: over $900K in OWL sent to 10 new wallets.

ARK Invest purchased a total of approximately $21.5 million worth of stocks across Coinbase (COIN), Circle Internet (CRCL), and Bullish (BLSH) last Friday (January 26), marking its first simultaneous acquisition of the three firms since mid-December 2023. The transaction broke down as follows: ~129,400 shares of Circle (valued at ~$9.2 million), ~42,200 shares of Coinbase (~$9.15 million), and ~88,500 shares of Bullish (~$3.17 million), per CoinDesk.

As of January 26, data from BitcoinTreasuries.NET reveals that Japan’s fifth-largest bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Group—with $633 billion in assets under management—holds 606,629 shares of MicroStrategy (MSTR), valued at roughly $96.6 million.

On January 26th, data from the Coinbob Popular Address Monitor (link: https://t.me/Coinbob_track_CN) shows that over the past 7 hours, the "Silver Iron Head Air Force" whale address (0x61c...) has once again expanded its short position in 20x leveraged xyz:SILVER (Silver Mapping Contract). Following this additional leverage, the address’s total short position now stands at $35.5 million, with an average entry price of roughly $93.17. It currently faces a floating loss of around $5.1 million (85%), and its liquidation price is set at $125. In recent days, the address has deposited approximately $6.6 million into Hyperliquid, primarily to lower the average cost of its xyz:SILVER short position. Over the past few days, it has added more than $15 million to its position in total, making it one of the largest on-chain silver shorts.

On January 26, real-world asset (RWA) tokenization platform OpenEden announced a partnership with FalconX to launch PRISM—a tokenized multi-strategy yield investment portfolio built to deliver stable returns with low correlation to cryptocurrency prices. The product will fully launch in February 2026, and its presale is now open.