Circle minted 250 million USDC on the Solana network 6 hours ago

On January 7, crypto KOL Wimar.X (@DefiWimar) said this Friday (January 10) could be the "worst day of the year" for markets—because the U.S. Supreme Court may rule Trump-era tariffs illegal, with Polymarket putting the probability at 78% right now. That could send U.S. stocks, crypto, and bonds plunging. Wimar.X argues historical cases show an "illegal tariff ruling" would spark a massive tariff refund—he claims up to $600 billion max—but the process would take years of case-by-case litigation, so the cash flow hit won’t be immediate. Notably, community members think the refund figure in the post is overblown, and the volatility then will be viewed as a trading opportunity, not a crash. Tom Lee retweeted the post and chimed in: "This could be a contrarian signal."

On January 7th, per HTX market data, Bitcoin has fallen below $92,000, currently trading at $91,874 with a 24-hour drop of 1.79%.

As of January 7th, per **HyperInsight** monitoring (via https://t.me/HyperInsight), a whale wallet (0x49c8e) is bullish on the market—they opened a new ETH long position today. Here’s their current holdings breakdown: - **Long 50.21 BTC** (40x leverage): Entry = $91,932.4; Unrealized profit = $9,000 - **Long 1912.22 ETH** (25x leverage): Entry = $3,247.31; Unrealized loss = $35,600 - **Long 726M kPEPE** (10x leverage): Entry = $0.005735; Unrealized profit = $775,000 (Note: "kPEPE" is retained as the token symbol; leverage/entry/unrealized P&L are formatted for U.S. English clarity.)

As of January 7th, monitoring data from onchainschool.pro indicates $4.1M worth of WLFI tokens were transferred to Binance 6 hours ago. These tokens had previously been withdrawn from the WLFI strategic reserve wallet prior to being sent to the centralized exchange (CEX). The last similar fund outflow from this wallet occurred three weeks ago.

Jan. 7 (CoinDesk) — London-based digital asset hedge fund Karatage has named Shane O’Callaghan as Senior Partner and Head of Institutional Strategy. O’Callaghan previously served as Global Head of Institutional Partnerships and Digital Asset Sales at Dutch market maker IMC Trading. He also held roles at Portofino Technologies and BlockFi. Founded in 2017, Karatage specializes in investments across digital assets, crypto funds, and blockchain-related companies. Karatage CEO Marius Barnett noted the hire will enable the firm to “execute a more sophisticated strategy and scale faster.”