Spot Gold Surges Over 5%, Poised for Largest Single-Day Gain Since November 2008

On February 3, CoinDesk reported that Billiton Diamond and Ctrl Alt have completed a $280 million diamond tokenization initiative in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), leveraging Ripple’s custody services and the XRP Ledger.

February 3: Coinglass data shows total BTC inflows to centralized exchanges (CEXs) hit 3,219.35 BTC over the past 24 hours. Top CEXs by inflow volume: - Bitfinex: 8,675.89 BTC - Gemini: 3,818.28 BTC - Bitstamp: 682.21 BTC Binance led BTC outflows during the period, with 5,815.38 BTC exiting the platform.

On February 3rd, data from Coinbob Top Address Monitor (accessible via Telegram at https://t.me/Coinbob_track_CN) shows the "Ultimate Short" address has closed a portion of its BTC short position in the past 6 hours, realizing roughly $2.32 million in profit. The closed position size totaled around $5.46 million. Since November, this address has executed 5 similar profit-taking trades at local lows—without fully covering its short positions—and has set take-profit orders near $76,200. Its BTC short position has shrunk by ~$120 million from a peak of $136 million. Currently, the whale still holds an ~$8.6 million BTC short position with an unrealized profit of $3.65 million (an 850% gain), at an average entry price of $11,150. Since establishing this round of BTC shorts on May 9th, the address has done multiple swing trades, with recent strategies clearly shifting toward continuous position reduction and profit locking. It has also realized ~$10 million in funding fee settlements.

On February 3, Bitcoin fell below $78,000, posting a 0.87% 24-hour gain, per HTX market data.

**February 3 Update** Per HyperInsight’s monitoring, the "ZEC Largest Short" address (0xd475...) executed a flurry of moves on its ETH long position over ~30 minutes — including opening new positions, unwinding, and rolling — ramping its position from zero to roughly $2.12 million. First, it opened a 442.42 ETH long position (~$1.03 million) at 15:47. Between 16:01 and 16:33, it completed 5 consecutive unwinds and rolls, adding 780 ETH total. After multiple increases, the position’s total value hit $2.1216 million, with an average entry price of ~$2,320.96. The position is currently slightly profitable with floating gains. This address is well-known for its massive ZEC short position: it began shorting ZEC at $184, once facing a $21 million floating loss before turning profitable.

On Feb 3, OnchainLens monitoring showed a newly created wallet tied to jacobzhao.eth withdrew 63,678 ETH from Binance—valued at roughly $14.73 million. Wallet address: 0xD50Cb3E9b89d0aFcA0c69D8329ca26fc6e892d80