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February 9 — Per data from Telegram’s HyperInsight and CoinGlass, Bitcoin’s brief spike to $72,300 early today drove roughly $93.14 million in BTC liquidations over the past 4 hours. BTC led all assets in liquidations, with 81.4% of closed positions being short positions. Hyperliquid accounted for 60% of these liquidations. Monitoring shows a whale with the address prefix 0x5dc on Hyperliquid had their BTC short positions liquidated in quick succession across 201 positions, totaling ~$14.49 million. The largest single liquidation from this whale hit $11.63 million, and the position is now fully closed. Separately, the platform saw another large liquidation topping $18 million over the same period.

On February 9th, per monitoring from HyperInsight, "Big Brother Whale" trader Huang Licheng liquidated his HYPE long position and increased his ETH long position to 4,600 coins—valued at $9.46 million—with an average entry price of $2,068.6 and a liquidation price of $2,023.5.

February 9: Spot gold has risen 1.2% to $5,029.09 per ounce, following a nearly 4% surge last Friday. Spot silver is up 4.3% to $81.10 per ounce, after a 10% gain in the previous trading session. The U.S. dollar index has dropped to its lowest level since February 4, making dollar-denominated precious metals more attractive to overseas buyers. U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Sunday that even with Kevin Warsh as Federal Reserve Chair nominee, she does not expect the Fed to shrink its balance sheet quickly. San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly noted last Friday that another rate cut may still be needed amid a weakening labor market. Investors are awaiting the January U.S. non-farm payrolls report to gain further clarity on the Fed’s monetary policy path.

On February 9th, Mechanism Capital co-founder Andrew Kang posted: “We’re in one of the most extreme asymmetric moments in history. The only sound strategy right now is to extend your time horizon and abandon short-termism entirely. Obsessing over a bubble is foolish—so is trying to time the market. Short-term volatility and corrections are inevitable, but when we’re this close to the singularity, they’re just noise. We’re on the cusp of exponential breakthroughs in AI, robotics, energy, and innovation. The future will bring billions of AI agent workers, humanoid robots, space data centers, interplanetary colonization, and drastically improved medical therapies—all fundamentally accelerating the pace and output of technological progress across fields over the next decade. Over the next 20 years, we’ll compress more technological advancement and economic growth than all of human civilization’s history combined.” We’re already on the steep part of the J-curve, but it’s hard to sp

On February 9, per LookOnChain monitoring data, a freshly created wallet acquired 47.6 million WLFI at an average price of $0.109. The wallet also holds 4.83 million USDC and may continue buying.

On February 9, Cointelegraph reports that Tether has allocated profits from its stablecoin operations to 140 investments spanning sectors including agriculture and sports, and aims to grow its workforce to 450 employees.