The U.S. Senate Banking Committee Advances the "Financial Transparency and Regulatory Compliance Act"

As of January 15, data from OnchainLens shows the "BTC OG Insider Whale" has incurred over $6.6 million in losses from long position funding fees, with its unrealized gains narrowing to $51 million. Current unrealized gains for the whale’s positions are: - BTC Long (5x leverage): $5.18 million - ETH Long (5x leverage): $37.55 million - SOL Long (10x leverage): $8.08 million

Per Lookonchain monitoring on January 15th, trader address 0x913c sold 2.57 million ASTER tokens 4 hours ago at $0.72 apiece, cashing out roughly $1.85 million. These tokens were purchased roughly two months ago at $1.03 each. The trader incurred a loss of approximately $797,000 on the transaction, marking a ~30% decline.

On January 15, Lighter officially announced that users can now stake its LIT token on the platform and access a range of benefits: - For every 1 LIT staked, users can deposit 10 USDC into the LLP and start earning rewards immediately. Existing LLP users get a two-week grace period (ending January 28) — after that, staking LIT will be required to keep depositing into the LLP. - The staking mechanism will better align the interests of LIT holders and LLP users, optimize the LLP’s risk-adjusted returns, and expand to other public pools down the line — advancing the democratization of on-chain hedge funds. - Transaction fees for market makers and high-frequency trading (HFT) firms will be adjusted within two weeks (with most increases), but staking LIT will unlock a discount to keep minimum fees at current levels. Retail trading will stay free. - Staking LIT will generate income, with initial returns tied to staking rights granted to advanced users. The annual percentage rate (APR

January 15 — Per alternative data, the Crypto Fear & Greed Index jumped to 61 today (up from 48 yesterday), with a weekly average of 28, pushing the crypto market back into greed territory. Note: The index ranges from 0 to 100 and comprises the following indicators: Volatility (25%), Market Volume (25%), Social Media Hype (15%), Market Surveys (15%), Bitcoin Dominance (10%), and Google Trends Analysis (10%).

**January 15 Update: Sui Network Back to Normal Operations** Sui’s official Twitter account announced at 5:24 a.m. this morning that its network is fully operational again—running smoothly with transactions back to normal. Users encountering issues should refresh their app or browser page. A full incident retrospective will be released in the coming days. Yesterday, BlockBeats reported Sui’s mainnet was experiencing network disruptions, with the Sui core team actively troubleshooting. At the time, dApps like Slush and SuiScan may have been unavailable, and transactions could have been slower or temporarily stalled.

On January 15, per EmberCN monitoring, 25 million ONDO tokens (valued at roughly $10.19 million) were transferred from Ondo’s multi-signature wallet to exchanges including Coinbase, OKX, Bybit, Gate and Kucoin six hours prior.