A whale bought $7 million worth of HYPE at an average price of $34.9

On February 5, per Coinbob Popular Address Monitor (link: https://t.me/Coinbob_track_CN), the "Distinguished Whale Trader" address (0x894...) closed its entire 10x-leveraged XYZ100 (Nasdaq 100 Perpetual Contract) position at 2 PM Beijing time yesterday—right before U.S. stock pre-market trading. Prior to closing, the position reached a $21.1 million size with an average entry price of $25,443.47, and unrealized P&L once hit $580,000. The position closed at $25,291, wiping out all unrealized gains and logging an actual loss of ~$300,000. Had it not been closed, the Nasdaq’s ~1.75% drop today would’ve pushed losses above $700,000. Separately, the address also closed its 10x-leveraged COPPER (Copper Futures Perpetual Contract) position yesterday. The position was ~$18 million in size with an average entry of $5.94, netting a ~$360,000 profit. The trader’s total position size now sits at ~$4 million, with a weekly loss of $2.9 million. To hedge risk, they currently only hold long

On Feb. 5, per Onchain Lens data, the "BTC OG Insider Whale" just withdrew 80,000 ETH from Binance—valued at roughly $167.79 million.

On Feb 5, LookOnChain data shows the "DASH Largest Short" address successively closed short positions on BTC, ETH, SOL, and XRP yesterday before going long—currently holding an unrealized loss of $15.8 million. The address’s overall profit and loss (P&L) has also plummeted from a $25.5 million profit to a $15.3 million loss.

Binance announced in an official statement on February 5, 2026, that it will delist the following trading pairs and halt trading for these pairs at 4:00 PM ET on February 6, 2026: AUDIO/BTC, BB/FDUSD, BERA/FDUSD, EIGEN/BTC, FIDA/BTC, HEI/BTC, IOTX/ETH, KERNEL/FDUSD, MANTA/BTC, MTL/BTC, NEAR/FDUSD, PEOPLE/FDUSD, RENDER/FDUSD, RONIN/BTC, SAPIEN/BNB, SCR/BTC, S/ETH, S/FDUSD, SUSHI/BTC, VANA/FDUSD. ### Notes on American English adjustments: 1. **Time format**: Converted 16:00 to *4:00 PM ET* (Eastern Time, a standard American time zone for financial news). 2. **Verb choice**: Used *halt trading* (common in U.S. financial/ crypto reporting) instead of *stop trading*. 3. **Date clarity**: Added year to all dates (standard for U.S. news to avoid ambiguity). 4. **Conciseness**: Structured as a tight, scannable bulletin (common for crypto exchange announcements in the U.S.). 5. **Punctuation**: Used a line break after the lead to separate the list (improves readability for U.S. au

February 5th, Polymarket team member shampoo took to social media, saying: “Kalshi is lying through their teeth—just like when they previously accused us of ‘double-counting.’ Users can verify this for themselves: open your browser’s Network panel and check the fetch requests made from /api.” Kalshi inflated their data by $1.7 billion using a generic “Esports” category. The correct figure should be the sum of all its subcategories under that label—roughly $63 million, which is still less than 10% of our esports trading volume. What’s more, Kalshi also double-counted in the “Counter-Strike” market, listing it as both “CS:GO” and “CS2.” Total amateur hour.

**February 5: Binance Founder CZ Slams FUD, Fake Legal Letter** Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) took to social media on February 5 to push back against recent misinformation, stating: “Some FUD spreaders are now brazenly pushing rumors— even from accounts boasting 500k+ followers. I don’t know this account’s owner, nor do I recall when I blocked them, but it feels like a reasonable call. I’ve never sent that message to anyone. I’ll waste less time debunking these FUDs individually; there are more important things to focus on. Yesterday, the so-called ‘fake legal letter’ circulated briefly. I thought it was so obviously fake it didn’t warrant a response, but I still saw some self-proclaimed new media outlets share the image and publish articles about it. If people can’t tell the difference between obviously PS’d or AI-generated fake news/documents these days, they’ll likely end up broke. My apologies— that came off a bit blunt.”