FTX/Alameda unstaked 195,669 SOL worth $27.98 million on Jan. 13, Onchain Lens data show. The unstaking occurred approximately seven hours prior to the report.

AlphaTON Capital Corp, the TON token treasury company, signed a $46 million computing infrastructure agreement on Jan. 13 to expand its deployment on Cocoon AI, a decentralized AI network built on Telegram, The Block reports. The deal will add 576 NVIDIA B300 chips, scheduled for delivery in February, and marks AlphaTON's first large-scale confidential computing deployment. The transaction comprises $4 million in cash, $32.7 million in non-recourse debt financing, and $9.3 million in equity paid in installments.

Binance Wallet announced details of FOGO's Pre-TGE public sale on Jan. 12, adopting an oversubscription model with a deposit cap of 6 BNB per user and proportional allocation based on total BNB contributed. After the subscription period, users can claim a Key representing their allocation on BNB Smart Chain via the sale page in Binance Wallet, with excess BNB refunded automatically at claim. FOGO tokens will be airdropped to Binance Alpha accounts at 12:00 UTC on Jan. 15, where Alpha limit orders can be used for trading, Binance Wallet said.

Standard Chartered now targets Ethereum at $7,500 by end-2026, down from a previous $12,000 forecast, while raising longer-term projections to $15,000 for 2027, $22,000 for 2028, $30,000 for end-2029 and $40,000 for end-2030, according to its digital asset report on Jan. 12. The bank said rising adoption of blockchain and on-chain products is strengthening Ethereum's drivers relative to Bitcoin and expects the ETH/BTC rate to gradually return toward the 0.08 level seen in 2021, supported by structural advantages across stablecoins, real-world assets and decentralized finance. Standard Chartered added that planned Layer 1 throughput increases—including measures adopted via the Fusaka upgrade in December 2024—are viewed as critical because historically higher throughput often correlates with higher market capitalization, and a more favorable regulatory backdrop, specifically a US Clarity Act that could pass in the first quarter, could further improve the outlook. The bank said that if the act is approved and combined with resilient US equities, Bitcoin could set an all-time high in the first half, a scenario that would support Ethereum's longer-term upside even as near-term ETH targets were reduced amid broader market weakness.

Coinglass data on January 12 show aggregated long liquidation strength of $1.001B clustered below $3,000 and short liquidation strength of $638M above $3,300 for Ethereum on major centralized exchanges. BlockBeats reports the heatmap bars represent relative liquidation cluster importance rather than exact contract counts or notional values, illustrating how strongly price might react at those levels due to liquidity waves.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin wrote on Jan. 12 that the network must eventually pass a "Walkaway Test," meaning it can continue running securely and in a decentralized way over the long term even without ongoing core development or maintenance, BlockBeats reports. He outlined Ethereum's mission as providing trustless infrastructure for applications in finance, governance and other sectors, where deployed applications behave more like tools than services and remain usable even if original developers stop maintaining them. To reach this stage, Vitalik listed several key goals including full quantum resistance with century-level cryptographic security, sustainably scalable architecture via ZK-EVM verification and PeerDAS data sampling, a state architecture that can operate for decades using partial statelessness and state expiry, a universal account model with full account abstraction, a gas pricing model resistant to DoS while reflecting execution and ZK proving costs, a PoS economic design that keeps Ethereum decentralized while supporting ETH as a trustless collateral asset, and block construction mechanisms that resist centralization and censorship. He added these "hard engineering" items should be systematically completed in the coming years so most innovation can move to client-level optimization and parameter changes at the protocol layer, concluding with the phrase "Ethereum goes hard. This is the gwei."

A whale address (0x93115) opened a 25x leveraged long position in 3,477.95 ETH at an average entry price of $3,165.38 on Jan. 12 at 14:08, with a notional size of approximately $10.96 million, Hyperinsight data show as cited by BlockBeats. The address, labeled as engaging in high-frequency trading, is currently showing an unrealized loss of $43,000.

A trader previously known as the largest PEPE bull closed PEPE long positions on January 12, realizing a loss of $314,500, Hyperinsight data show. The trader has since opened a 4x leveraged long position on 5,618.97 ETH valued at approximately $17.75 million, with an average entry price of $3,097.29 and an unrealized profit of $330,000.