Whale Starting with 0x9311 Address Increases BTC Long Position by $6.5 Million Again, Bringing Total Position to $16 Million

January 22 — Per monitoring from HyperInsight (via its Telegram channel @HyperInsight), a whale with a wallet address starting with 0xb5a6 opened a 40x leveraged long position on BTC at 16:03 today. The position totals 73.7 BTC (equivalent to ~$6.62 million), with an unrealized profit of roughly $1,890 and a liquidation price of ~$84,000. Separately, the same whale holds a 3x leveraged long position on SKR: 9.17 million SKR (valued at ~$380,000) with an unrealized gain of ~$20,000.

On January 22, Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) spoke at the World Economic Forum’s Davos panel on “The New Age of Finance,” sharing key takes on the crypto industry’s trajectory. First, he noted Binance’s exchange platform has already outpaced last year’s total volume. For the current crypto space, CZ highlighted two mature segments: exchanges and stablecoins. Looking ahead, he flagged three promising directions: 1. **Tokenization**: Tokenizing assets could help governments solve financial challenges more efficiently, boost the financial system’s operational efficiency, and drive growth in related industries and trading markets. 2. **Payments**: While crypto payments haven’t seen wide adoption yet, a new trend is emerging: traditional payment rails (like Visa and Mastercard) are integrating crypto tech. Here’s how it works: Users pay with their cards, funds are deducted from their accounts, merchants get fiat, and background settlement/bridging happens via stablecoins and

January 22nd — Per Coinglass data, total liquidations across all networks reached $603 million over the past 24 hours, with $304 million in long positions and $299 million in short positions liquidated. Globally, 140,060 traders were liquidated in the same period. The largest single liquidation was a $40.2261 million ETH-USD position on Hyperliquid.

Ethereum dropped below $3,000 on Jan. 22, according to data from HTX, with a 24-hour price change of 0.99%.

On January 22, Binance Alpha Launches SKR.

January 22 — Per monitoring from HyperInsight (via its Telegram channel @HyperInsight), a whale opened a short position of 2,735,000 XRP with 20x leverage at 15:44, with an average entry price of $1.95. The whale is currently slightly in profit, though the account shows a total unrealized loss of $182,000.