US Stocks Close Higher, Cryptocurrency Sector sees Broad Gains

January 13: U.S. December CPI data is set for release at 21:30 tonight. The market broadly expects the inflation reading to reflect persistent price pressures while remaining below the Federal Reserve’s 2% target. Per a composite survey from Bloomberg and FactSet: - Headline CPI: +0.3% month-over-month, +2.7% year-over-year (forecast) - Core CPI (excluding volatile food/energy): +0.3% month-over-month, +2.7% year-over-year (forecast) While the Cleveland Fed’s Nowcast model projects a slightly softer core CPI (0.22% month-over-month), mainstream Wall Street consensus is that inflation has not cooled meaningfully. CME Group data indicates the market assigns a 95% probability the Fed will hold interest rates steady at its January meeting.

Jan. 13 — Per Onchain Lens monitoring, a whale has transferred 10 million USDC to Lighter and is actively hedging, even as LIT continues to decline. The whale has opened a 5x leveraged short position on LIT, spending $2.2 million to purchase 1,059,000 LIT at an average price of $2.08. Currently, the whale still holds 2,788,000 USDC and may continue accumulating LIT.

January 13th — Per monitoring from HyperInsight, Strategy’s nemesis (the former Hyperliquid whale 0x94d37, once the largest BTC short holder on the platform) has closed its SOL long position, netting a $700k profit while carrying an account unrealized loss of $35k. As Strategy continued accumulating BTC, this address opened short positions in BTC, ETH and other major coins. At one point, it held a $120M position to become Hyperliquid’s largest BTC short; it now ranks as the second-largest.

On January 13, Bitcoin topped $92,000, per HTX market data, with a 24-hour price change of -0.03%.

January 13th — Per monitoring from HyperInsight (https://t.me/HyperInsight), a crypto whale opened simultaneous long positions in PUMP and FARTCOIN at 12:11 ET. Current position breakdown: - 7.2 billion PUMP (10x leverage): Average entry = $0.002429, Floating profit = $32,500 - 4 million FARTCOIN (10x leverage): Average entry = $0.37166, Floating profit = $20,900

**Jan. 13: Sen. Cynthia Lummis Posts on X Re: Bipartisan Digital Asset Bill** Sen. Cynthia Lummis announced Wednesday (Jan. 13) on X that her team has finalized a bipartisan bill text—slated for consideration this Thursday—focused on digital assets. In her post, she urged Democratic colleagues not to backtrack on progress made, emphasizing the *Digital Asset Market Structure and Investor Protection Act* will give the industry the regulatory certainty it needs to keep innovation stateside and protect consumers. ### Notes on U.S. language habits: - Uses **Jan. 13** (abbreviated date, common in U.S. media/quick updates) - Replaces "on U.S. shores" with **stateside** (casual, widely used U.S. shorthand for "in the U.S.") - Simplifies "finalized a bipartisan bill text that will be considered on Thursday" to **slated for consideration this Thursday** (concise, matches U.S. news tone) - Keeps the bill title italicized (standard for U.S. legislative text references) - Uses **