An and BIG DON posted rapid market-cap spikes on Jan. 15 amid BNB Chain's USD1 trading contest, with An briefly surpassing $30M and now at $45.2M at about $0.045 with a 24-hour gain of about 16%, while BIG DON opened and quickly climbed to $39.9M at about $0.0398, GMGN data show. In USD1 pools on BNB Chain, GMGN observed concentrated buying via batch wallets, noting that An started two days before the event announcement and its top-100 holders account for 11.1%, while many on-chain meme coins typically see the top-100 exceed 50%. GMGN said BIG DON saw more than 90 suspected linked addresses buy within roughly 10 minutes, with additional concentrated purchases during a minor pullback at 6:05, 7:05 and 11:00 this morning; on-chain data show a wallet used CiaoSwap (a batch distribution tool) before concentrated buying, with related addresses including 0xD8b54De07e0eaDc00B760B352AeA59A13d385cbc and 0x6eFFa72a258907399d8DCe258232001A3FA609b9. BlockBeats reports the activity has drawn significant capital as the community expects the winning project could list on top exchanges, an analyst on X alleged the operators behind the two meme coins may be associated with the earlier WLFI project, and BlockBeats cautioned that meme coins are highly volatile, sentiment-driven and have no practical value or use cases.

Binance Alpha will list Owlto Finance (OWL) with trading starting Jan. 15 at 18:00 UTC+8, BlockBeats reports. Users holding at least 241 Alpha points can claim 667 OWL tokens on a first-come, first-served basis. If unclaimed, the threshold will drop by 5 points every five minutes.

U.S. spot Ethereum ETFs recorded net inflows of $175.1 million on Jan. 14, Farside Investors data show. BlackRock's ETHA led with $81.6 million, followed by Grayscale Mini ETH at $43.5 million and Grayscale ETHE at $32.4 million. Bitwise ETHW added $8 million, Fidelity FETH $5.9 million, and VanEck ETHV $3.7 million.

On Jan. 15, PUMP fell about 8.4% to $0.00264 and FARTCOIN dropped over 13% to $0.373, with a wave of liquidations mainly tied to address 0xbaa, HyperInsight and CoinGlass data show. About 99% of liquidation orders for both tokens on Hyperliquid in the past hour were long positions, representing 97.6% and 95.5% of each coin's total network liquidation volume. The address holds the on-chain second-largest long position in PUMP and the largest in FARTCOIN; its PUMP longs saw two large liquidations within half an hour totaling $14.32 million with about $470,000 in losses, with the next liquidation level near $0.00218. Its FARTCOIN longs were liquidated by about $11.16 million, with the next liquidation price around $0.348, and the account's total positions have shrunk to about $5.86 million.

U.S. Solana spot ETFs recorded $23.6 million in net inflows on Jan. 14, according to Farside Investors. Bitwise’s BSOL led with $20.9 million, while Fidelity’s FSOL added $1.7 million. The inflows signal sustained investor demand for Solana-focused investment products in the U.S. market.

Whale address pension-usdt.eth opened a 3x leveraged ETH long position holding 20,000 ETH valued at approximately $67 million on Jan. 15, OnchainLens data show. The address closed a previous ETH position with $4.7 million in profit before opening the new position, which now shows unrealized gains exceeding $700,000. Cumulative total profit has surpassed $28 million.

Solana Mobile announced on Jan. 15 that its SKR airdrop eligibility checker is live, enabling qualified users and developers to verify status through the Publishing Portal ahead of claiming. The program will distribute nearly 2 billion SKR to the community, with approximately 1.82 billion SKR allocated to 100,908 users and 141 million SKR allocated to 188 developers, the company said. SKR claiming opens at 02:00 UTC on Jan. 21, after which users can stake SKR to Guardians via the Seed Vault Wallet to receive rewards or choose to stake through the web interface. Solana Mobile also reminded participants to prepare a small amount of SOL to pay on-chain claiming fees and confirmed that Season 2 has officially started, with ecosystem incentives continuing.

On Jan. 15, Bitmine staked an additional 154,304 Ethereum, worth about $519.8 million, according to OnchainLens. The move lifts Bitmine’s total ETH holdings to 1,685,088 ETH—roughly $5.65 billion—following more than 340,000 ETH staked in the prior two days, BlockBeats reported, reinforcing its position as a major ETH staking participant.