Address 0x20c2 has accumulated over $80.90 million in profit from shorting ETH as of January 29, lookonchain data show. The trader has been shorting ETH on Hyperliquid since 2024 with maximum leverage, initially 50x and now 25x. The address still holds a 30,582 ETH short position worth approximately $88.90 million.

Moonbirds ecosystem token BIRB fell more than 10% within one hour on January 29, with market capitalization sliding to $89.93 million, BlockBeats reports. Since the official airdrop claim page launched, users reported technical issues including page load failures, crashes, eligible tokens showing as zero, and non-functional password prompts, as well as a brief outage due to a traffic surge. Community members described the claim interface as low quality, noting it crashed within minutes of going live and some functions remain not fully restored.

Solana's validator count fell to 795 from a March 2023 peak of 2560, a 68% decline, Cointelegraph reported on Jan. 29. Industry participants said rising operating costs and zero-fee competition by large validators are squeezing smaller operators beyond the pruning of "zombie nodes." Operators face roughly 401 SOL per year in voting fees and up to 1.1 SOL daily for voting transactions, while the network's Nakamoto Coefficient dropped from 31 to 20, indicating stake is concentrating with fewer large validators, Cointelegraph reported.

Ethereum would trigger $1.33 billion in cumulative short-liquidation strength at major centralized exchanges if the price moves above $3,100 on Jan. 29, Coinglass data show. Conversely, a drop below $2,800 would correspond to $576 million in cumulative long-liquidation strength.

A whale linked to "Strategy counterparty" opened a $5.2M long position in silver on Jan. 29, with an entry price of $117.3474 per ounce and a liquidation price of $107.3327 per ounce, HyperInsight data show. The position currently shows an unrealized loss of about $10,000. The whale also holds a $7.8M short position in DASH with an entry around $71, while DASH trades at $57, reflecting an unrealized profit of about $2.1M.

Trader Machi Huang fully closed a BTC long position worth approximately $1.85M and redirected the capital into ETH longs on Jan. 29, adding roughly 1,200 ETH valued at around $3.1M, Hyperinsight data show. His 25x leveraged ETH long exposure increased to approximately $28.88M with an average entry of $2,977, and the position currently shows an unrealized loss of about $300,300. Huang also holds a 10x leveraged HYPE long position with a size of roughly $1.09M.

A smart money address that previously profited $14.26M trading WBTC accumulated 4,000 ETH at an average price of $2,994.26 over the past 24 hours, on-chain data show. Address 0x3c9…8f757 withdrew $11.977M worth of ETH from Kraken at this average price, with the most recent withdrawal occurring 2 hours ago. The position currently shows an unrealized loss of $141,000.

Binance Alpha set a 220-point participation threshold for its Zama (ZAMA) Prime Sale, scheduled for Jan. 29 from 16:00 to 18:00 UTC+8, BlockBeats reports. Eligible users can subscribe with up to 3 BNB during the sale window. Participants will receive a ZAMA Key (BSC) after the Pre-TGE phase, with ZAMA tokens (BSC) to be airdropped to Alpha accounts on TGE day.

pension-usdt.eth opened a 3x leveraged short position on 25,000 ETH last week at an average entry price of $2,927.33, HyperInsight data show. The position previously showed significant unrealized gains and has not been reduced. It now records an unrealized loss of $660,000.