According to Onchain Lens, one of Hyperliquid's most aggressive traders has opened a $30,043,987 XRP long with 20x leverage as part of a wider $328 million leveraged portfolio in BTC, ETH, SOL and XRP. The same whale became known for unloading hundreds of BTC in December to fund large Bitcoin and Ethereum shorts, which previously boosted profit and loss to over $8.28 million.

Dogecoin futures on BitMEX saw a sharp 4,858% jump in volume to $77.61 million, while the spot price pulled back after a strong start to 2026. DOGE traded around $0.14, posting a modest 0.31% daily gain and 8.36% rise over the week, as traders watched key resistance levels and moving averages. At the same time, House of Doge outlined 2026 expansion plans, including RWA initiatives in Japan and new payment products such as a rewards debit card and embeddable wallets.

On January 9, 2026, Evernorth and Doppler Finance announced a strategic collaboration to design and pilot institutional liquidity and treasury use cases on the XRP Ledger. The partnership seeks to enable large-scale XRP capital deployment, support institutional treasury management, and strengthen XRPL-native financial infrastructure. Both firms also plan global market initiatives aimed at expanding XRPL adoption among institutional and retail participants.

Shiba Inu (SHIB) is holding New Year gains, consolidating around $0.00000948 on Friday after a 30% weekly rise. Short‑term moving averages (10/20/50) have turned higher and MACD remains positive, but price is still below the 100- and 200‑day trend gauges. Analysts note the Fear & Greed Index near 28 and resistance clustered around $0.000010.

On 9 January 2026, Grayscale registered new Delaware trusts tied to BNB and Hyperliquid, signaling early-stage exploration of potential exchange-traded products beyond Bitcoin and Ethereum. The legal entities, set up under CSC Delaware Trust Company, do not yet place any instruments on public markets but indicate preparation for possible institutional products linked to the BNB Chain ecosystem and DeFi-focused Hyperliquid.

Pippin (PIPPIN) surged more than 46% in 24 hours, lifting its market cap back above $400 million as a supply squeeze, AI-memecoin hype, and leveraged short positioning combined to fuel one of the sharpest rallies in the Solana meme sector. While momentum has returned and a breakout above $0.50 is now in focus, concentrated whale ownership and rising derivatives risk leave the move highly volatile and vulnerable to abrupt reversals.

On January 9, 2026, XRP advocate "WrathofKahneman" said there is no AWS integration into XRPL and clarified Ripple is testing Amazon Bedrock AI off-chain. He explained the tool analyzes XRPL data and may cut log processing from days to between two and three minutes, with any protocol changes requiring validator approval.

Former Zcash developers announced the cashZ wallet on January 8, 2026, a day after the entire Electric Coin Company team resigned. Built on the Zashi codebase, the wallet is slated to launch in a few weeks with easy migration for Zashi users. The group said it remains focused on Zcash development and is not introducing a new coin.