Trader AguilaTrades has a mere 33% win rate in Bitcoin (BTC) trades over the past week, incurring losses of $547,000.

Beating AI News Flash: AI data company Mercor announced it has closed a $750 million Series D funding round, valuing the firm at $20 billion, doubling its valuation from October last year. Investors include Nvidia, Salesforce, Zoom, Benchmark, and General Catalyst, among others. Mercor founder Brendan Foody said that as enterprises begin evaluating and training their own AI models, the company grew its annual revenue run rate from $1 million to $3 billion in just 27 months. Mercor primarily recruits professionals such as doctors, lawyers, and programmers to design tasks, evaluate AI responses, and generate training data. Previously, it mainly served model developers including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google; 91% of its total revenue in the first half of this year still came from such clients. Now, Mercor is expanding its business to large enterprises. It designs AI tests aligned with enterprises' actual workflows, and leverages technology from its prior acquisition of Deeptune to simulate hundreds of enterprise software tools, enabling AI agents to practice repeatedly in near-real-world environments.

A senior U.S. government official said U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent has been relocated to a military base after Iran’s threats against his life reached an unprecedented level. The official added that the threats prompted Bessent and his family to make the move. The Treasury Department confirmed the development, stating that Bessent “will not be intimidated by threats from the Iranian regime” and will continue to lead efforts to financially isolate Iran through sanctions and trade restrictions. (FOX)

AguilaTrades(@AguilaTrades) is a total gambler! Over the past week, he made 18 $BTC trades with just a 33% win rate, losing a total of $547K. Now he's opened another 40x long on 340.45 $BTC ($25.16M), with a liquidation price of $73,009.

Recently, multiple storage industry insiders disclosed that several leading players have verbally informed channel partners of their intention to raise prices for enterprise-grade semiconductor dies. Formal price hike notices have not yet been released, but channel-side prices have already begun adjusting. Multiple distributors have confirmed the price hike signals. An SK Hynix distributor said, "Prices are rising every day." He observed that second-hand drive buyback prices have been climbing, driving overall quotes upward. The price adjustment mechanism works as: provincial-level distributors adjust prices weekly, then pass the changes down to lower-tier agents, "We follow suit." However, a Samsung distributor noted that this round of price hikes is not universal across all categories: increases are mainly concentrated in the DRAM contract market and enterprise-grade SSD original factory and channel segments, not a broad rise in consumer-grade NAND. "The bulk of demand comes from compute power centers; grassroots-level demand is actually mediocre." As the price hikes are first concentrated in the DRAM contract and enterprise-grade SSD segments, when prices spread from original factories, the first parties affected are not end consumers, but midstream manufacturing enterprises and module makers. These firms are the first to absorb the original factories' price increases, and their different positions in the industrial chain lead to significantly varying perceptions and pressures. (Blue Whale News)

According to GMGN monitoring, an address labeled "PikachusPlace" on the platform previously traded STONKBANKERS on the Robinhood chain, with a total buy-in cost of around $932. After liquidating its position, it netted approximately $14,900, a return of roughly 1603%. Yesterday morning, after the token MONTRA launched on the Elysium chain’s token launch platform, the address purchased about 28.5178 million MONTRA tokens at an average price of ~$0.0001304 (corresponding to a market capitalization of ~$130,400). The transaction value was around $3,719, plus related buy-in fees of approximately $14,700, bringing total investment to ~$18,400. The address then liquidated all holdings via 29 sell transactions, with the entire process from entry to exit taking only about 20 minutes. After deducting sell fees, it recovered roughly $84,700, netting around $66,200, a return of ~360%. Currently, MONTRA has a market cap of ~$6.66 million, making it the largest token by market cap on the Elysium chain. If the address had held all its initial MONTRA purchases to date, its profit would have reached $173,200, a return of ~940%. BlockBeats Note: Meme coin trading is extremely volatile, heavily dependent on market sentiment and conceptual hype, with no intrinsic value or practical use cases. Investors should exercise caution.

Bitcoin Runes trading and liquidity platform radFi announced it will gradually cease operations, as its team can no longer allocate sufficient resources to sustain the platform’s long-term development. Effective immediately, the platform has imposed limits on liquidity pool-related transactions and operations: a maximum of 0.01 BTC per transaction, and a daily total BTC outflow cap of 0.05 BTC. Runes trading and liquidity withdrawal functions will be discontinued starting January 11, 2027, with only transaction wallet withdrawals remaining active; the platform’s application will be shut down on February 11. Moving forward, NDE Strategy will operate an independent website for users to continue withdrawing BTC and Runes from their transaction wallets.