If Bitcoin drops below $90,000, mainstream CEX long liquidation intensity will reach $1.07 billion

**January 9 Update: Solana Meme Coin BlackWhale Surges 462% Amid KuCoin Alpha Listing Buzz** Per GMGN monitoring data, Solana-based meme coin BlackWhale has spiked sharply today, posting a 24-hour surge of 462%. It hit a peak of $0.008 at one point, with its current price sitting at ~$0.0066 and market cap at $6.6 million—ranking third among meme coins by trading volume. Community chatter frames BlackWhale as a “sibling narrative” meme coin to WhiteWhale, a follow-on beta play. The rally may be fueled by its recent listing on KuCoin Alpha. The project lead (X: Blaaackguy) noted that after consistently accumulating the token, he has held the top holding position for some time. Monitoring shows the current top address (CXnxR) holds ~4.66% of total supply, having bought 46 million tokens at an average $0.0003. Its unrealized profit now stands at ~$187,000 (a 913% gain). Per the community-released roadmap, BlackWhale plans weekly token buybacks/burns, community airdrops, and ex

January 9th. Andy Hall, a16z crypto research affiliate and Stanford political economist, said prediction markets have now gone mainstream. By 2026, they’ll be deeply integrated with crypto and AI — growing more expansive, broad, and smart — posing new challenges for builders to tackle. First up: more contracts will launch this year. That means participants won’t just access real-time prediction odds for major elections or geopolitical events; they’ll also cover niche outcomes and complex interconnected events. As these new contracts unlock more information and integrate into the news ecosystem (already underway), they’ll spark key societal questions: How to balance the value of this information? How to optimize designs to boost transparency, auditability, and other priorities? Cryptography is laying the groundwork here. To handle the surge in contract volume, the market needs a new “truth consensus” mechanism to resolve contract disputes.