Crypto Market Fear Subsides Significantly, Today's Fear and Greed Index at 45

On January 4th, per LookOnChain monitoring, Ethereum OG whale 0x4553 swapped 7,828 ETH for 269 WBTC over the past two hours, with the transaction valued at roughly $24.6 million.

On Jan 4, per Onchain Lens monitoring, a new crypto address withdrew 250,159 LINK tokens from Binance, valued at roughly $3.34 million.

On January 4, monitoring from HyperInsight (via Telegram: @HyperInsight) indicates that Binance whale address **pension-usdt.eth** opened a short position on ETH in under 5 minutes. Currently, the address holds a short position of 247.78 ETH with 3x leverage—equivalent to roughly $778,000—at an average entry price of $3,142.76. To date, the address has completed approximately 70 transactions, with a total profit of $21.84 million.

January 4th — Perpetual DEX (Perp DEX) trading volumes were relatively sluggish over the weekend, per DefiLlama data. Hyperliquid topped the list with roughly $30 billion in volume, while its open interest rose ~10% week-over-week; meanwhile, Variational and Paradex volumes continued climbing, now holding 4th and 5th positions, respectively. Below are key 24-hour metrics for select Perp DEXs: - Hyperliquid: ~$30.9B 24h volume | ~$41.8B TVL | $77.7B open interest [Link: https://app.hyperliquid.xyz/join/NTOD] - Lighter: ~$28.7B 24h volume | ~$12.7B TVL | $14B open interest - Aster: ~$25B 24h volume | ~$12.4B TVL | $26B open interest [Link: https://www.asterdex.com/zh-CN/referral/aboter] - Variational: ~$15.3B 24h volume | ~$66.18M TVL | $7.79B open interest - Paradex: ~$14.7B 24h volume | ~$1.7B TVL | $7.99B open interest - EdgeX: ~$13.9B 24h volume | ~$3.59B TVL | $8.03B open interest - Pacifica: ~$6.68B 24h volume | ~$42.89M TVL | $73.88M open interest [Lin

On January 4, on-chain analyst Ai Auntie (@ai_9684xtpa) reported that a whale—who has held ETH for four years before shifting to WBTC—swapped another 4,013 ETH for 138.04 WBTC in the past 5 minutes. The transaction is valued at $12.59 million, with the whale’s average WBTC entry price at $91,117.55. Since yesterday, the same whale has sold a total of 18,159.4 WETH and swapped it for 631.78 WBTC, totaling $56.8 million in combined value.

On January 4, per Ashes Monitoring: James Wynn—a prominent "bankrupt whale" who lost over $100 million on Hyperliquid six months ago—began going long on PEPE on December 27 with an initial $10,000 principal. He has been adding to his position using realized profits, and is now up $480,000. Following substantial gains on his PEPE position, Wynn opened a new 40x-leveraged long position on BTC 2 hours prior, with a position size of $5.06 million.