January 6th. Wintermute founder and CEO Evgeny Gaevoy stated that he is against insider trading in prediction markets. If insider trading is normalized, it will be beautified as a feature rather than a loophole, which would be very regrettable. He holds a very low opinion of those who engage in insider trading on platforms like Polymarket or Kalshi.In a reposted post, it was also mentioned that even if you just catch a whiff of non-public information, you should resolutely avoid trading in that market. Perhaps insider traders may escape punishment, or perhaps not, but taking this risk is not worth it. Insider traders may find themselves behind bars for insider trading on Polymarket. Knowing they can't lose but still speculating is extremely unethical, extracting profit from those in the dark.

January 6th, according to Farside data, yesterday's Solana spot ETF saw a net inflow of $16.8 million, marking the largest single-day fund inflow since its public listing, with a historical cumulative net inflow reaching $791 million.Yesterday, Bitwise's BSOL saw a net inflow of $12.5 million, while Fidelity's FSOL saw a net inflow of $2 million.

January 6, according to Hyperinsight monitoring, a whale opened a $20.53 million ETH long position at 11:25 today, and closed the position with a $37,000 profit from taking profit after 10 minutes.

January 6th, AI Asset under Giza, an AI project supported by the Ethereum Foundation, surpassed $40 million in assets under management, with a growth of over 60% last month.Giza is focused on building infrastructure for verifiable AI Agents applied in the DeFi space, enabling AI Agents to autonomously conduct market analysis, asset optimization, and trading strategies without human intervention, ensuring decision transparency and security through zero-knowledge proofs.

January 6th, Trust Wallet has released the latest update regarding the security vulnerability in version 2.68 of the browser extension, and is working with Binance to provide a fast verification method to streamline and expedite the compensation process for specific affected users. If users deposited funds from their Binance account into the compromised wallet before December 24, 2025, they can use their Binance account to confirm ownership.

January 6th, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, the whale address "0xf440...1CC4" withdrew 171,100 LINK from Binance, worth $2.36 million. Currently, the whale holds a total of 789,800 LINK, with a total value of $10.89 million.

January 6th — According to NewSIS, the Financial Services Commission of South Korea is actively considering the introduction of a "Payment Freeze" system to early-stage freeze accounts suspected of manipulating cryptocurrency prices, preventing suspects from transferring or concealing illegal gains during investigations. This measure is similar to the stock price manipulation account freeze system introduced through an amendment to the Capital Market Act in April last year.During a Financial Services Commission meeting in November last year, several commissioners expressed their support for this, suggesting that a similar mechanism should be included in the cryptocurrency second-phase bill. South Korean financial authorities pointed out that cryptocurrency assets are particularly easy to hide after being transferred to personal wallets. Currently, regulations can only prevent funds from entering or leaving trading platforms, but they can still be withdrawn to financial institutions. The new measure will help promptly prevent the hiding of illicit gains and provide assurance for subsequent recovery.

January 6th, Hyperliquid on-chain HIP3 Perp DEX Trove announced the start of its ICO, scheduled from January 8th (5:00 PM UTC) to January 11th (5:00 PM UTC), with a fundraising target of $2.5 million and a fully diluted valuation of $20 million. Priority will be given to Trove users for allocation, with a 100% unlock at TGE.

January 6, Virtuals Protocol launched a new AI agent project initiation mechanism: Pegasus, Unicorn, and Titan.Pegasus is designed for early builders and does not include a team allocation or automatic fundraising mechanism. Almost all of its token supply is allocated to the liquidity pool, with only a small portion reserved for ecosystem airdrops.Unicorn features small-scale public launches for all projects, with no pre-sale, whitelist, or capped allocations. An anti-sniper mechanism prevents bots from dominating early trading, converting initial volatility into protocol-native buybacks to enhance liquidity. The team's held tokens are only sold automatically in a transparent manner after the project gains real market traction, with the funds raised dynamically adjusted within the 2 million to 160 million FDV range.Titan is designed for teams with established reputation, scale, and funding needs. This issuance model is suitable for projects meeting high benchmark readiness, with a minimum $50 million valuation requirement for initiation. At TGE, the VIRTUAL liquidity counterpart must reach 500,000 USDC, and the issuance transaction tax is fixed at 1%.

January 6th, according to official sources, the FARM2 community (@Farm2CTO) released a 3D AI Agent product integrating Vision AI and AR technology. This product supports recognizing real objects through voice commands and generating images, cartoons, and other content. At the same time, it can use AR to anchor the creation to real space.The community stated that they are currently collaborating with Shaw to explore further transformation of object recognition into 3D models. They are also integrating this technology with Shaw's MMO project to advance the application of AI in real-world perception and spatial interaction.It is reported that FARM2, as a personal token released by ai16z founder Shaw, reached a peak market value of 4.3M, and its current market value is 150k.

January 6th, according to on-chain analyst Ai Auntie (@ai_9684xtpa), a new address '0xaBA...D926F' received 5 million UNI from the UNI Timelock contract 10 hours ago, worth $29.05 million. The tokens have not been transferred or sold at the moment.

January 6th, according to Coinbob Popular Address Monitor, influenced by the market recovery, the "BTC OG Insider Whale" has realized gains of $20 million. Whales holding small coins have adjusted their short positions, and the "Shanzhai Air Force Leader" has increased its LIT short position to $14.1 million. Specific information is as follows:"BTC OG Insider Whale": The total floating profit of the account has expanded to $20.3 million. Its main holding is an ETH long position, which has turned losses into gains, with a floating profit of $14.4 million (9%), an average price of $3147, and a position size of approximately $650 million. It also holds BTC long and SOL long positions, both in floating profits. The current total account position size is approximately $815 million, now ranking first in long positions for ETH, BTC, and SOL on Hyperliquid."CZ Opponent's Position": The account has turned losses into gains, with a total floating profit of $4.75 million. The current ETH long position has a floating profit of approximately $1.48 million, with a position size of about $183 million and an average price of $3190. In addition, it also holds an XRP long position with a position size of about $91.76 million, a floating profit of $2.78 million. It is now the largest long position in XRP and the second largest long position in ETH on Hyperliquid, with a weekly profit of $35.39 million."ZEC Largest Short": Closed the MON short position this morning, with the current position size at approximately $9.66 million, an average price of $0.028, and a floating profit of $1.67 million. In addition, its ETH short position has narrowed its floating profit, with a weekly loss of $15 million. Its current total short position holding is about $182 million, now the largest short position for ETH, ZEC, and MON on the platform."Shanzhai Air Force Leader": Once again increased the LIT short position, with the current LIT position size reaching $14.1 million, an average price of $2.70, and a floating loss of $1.66 million. In addition, the address has continued to increase the PUMP short position today, with the current total position size reaching $45.6 million, an increase of over $20 million from 7 days ago. This address is currently the largest short position for LIT on the Hyperliquid platform."pension-usdt.eth": Opened a 3x leveraged ETH short position with a floating loss of $1.57 million, the current position size has reached $64.3 million, an average price of $3136, and a liquidation price of $4545.

January 6th, according to OnchainLens monitoring, with the rebound of Ethereum surpassing $3200, the $64 million Ethereum short position of the whale "pension-usdt.eth" is currently at a $1.6 million unrealized loss, with an opening price of $3,136.55 and a liquidation price of $4,546.

January 6th, the Solana ecosystem staking protocol Jito announced the launch of the IBRL Explorer block browser, providing visibility into the internal structure of Solana blocks, revealing common issues such as "packing delay" (concentrating transactions at the end of a slot) and "slot time gaming" (extending slot duration beyond the default value). The IBRL Explorer introduces an "IBRL Score" to measure validator performance based on slot time, vote packing, and non-vote packing metrics.

January 6th, Ethereum founder Vitalik published a post reiterating Ethereum's purpose, "The creation of Ethereum was not meant to make finance more efficient or applications more convenient, but to give people freedom." This is an important and controversial statement from the "Trust Minimized Manifesto," which deserves a reexamination for a better understanding of its meaning. Words like "efficient" and "convenient" imply improving the average case scenario in a situation that is already quite good. Efficiency refers to having the world's best engineers put their souls into reducing latency from 473 milliseconds to 368 milliseconds or increasing the yield from 4.5% APY to 5.3% APY. Convenience means enabling people to click once instead of three times, reducing registration time from 1 minute to 20 seconds. These things may be done well. But we must understand that we can never outplay Silicon Valley's corporate players in this game.Therefore, the primary underlying game that Ethereum plays must be a different game. This game is about resilience. Resilience is not about comparing 4.5% APY to 5.3% APY, but about minimizing the risk of you facing -100% APY. Resilience is if you become politically unpopular and get deplatformed, or your app developer goes bankrupt or disappears, or Cloudflare goes down, or there is an internet-scale war, your 2000-millisecond latency still stays at 2000 milliseconds. Resilience is a world where anyone, anywhere can access the network and be a first-class participant.Resilience is sovereignty, it is sovereignty in the sense of "digital sovereignty" or "food sovereignty"—actively reducing vulnerability to external dependencies that can be arbitrarily stripped away at any time, which is the game Ethereum is suited to win. Ethereum must first and foremost be decentralized, permissionless, and resilient in the block space—and then make it rich.