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According to Lookonchain monitoring, the Mixin hacker has started selling 59,854 ETH, worth $117 million, after being silent for two years.15 hours ago, the hacker sent 2,005 ETH to TornadoCash. Shortly after, 3 new wallets received 2,087 ETH (4.03M) from TornadoCash and sold it at a price of $1,933. The Mixin hacker still holds 57,849 ETH ($113.4 million) and 891 BTC ($59.7 million).

At Consensus Hong Kong 2026, where institutional-grade RWA tokenization took center stage, Ongreen emerged with dual validation: strategic investment from Dubai-based BlueRock Capital Limited and high-level discussions between CEO Eric Ng and industry leaders. BlueRock Capital Limited, a DFSA-regulated venture capital firm, will provide potential staged funding with the first tranche of up to US$1 million, as well as strategic advisory support, regional market access, and partner networks for the launch of Ongreen's Oasis Journey ecosystem across MENA. OnGreen combines green tech and Web3 infrastructure to deliver: • Desertification control & green construction – Income-generating RWAs • AI-optimised carbon verification – Proprietary AI BIM turns recurring carbon credits into liquid, yield-bearing digital assets • Unified carbon credit registry – Immutable, institution-grade, setting a new global standard • Green asset exchange – Deep liquidity for tokenised environmental assets “Oasis Journey is production-ready infrastructure—land restoration, AI-verified carbon, on-chain registry. We are turning desert into a verified asset class,” said Eric Ng, CEO of Ongreen. Sher Ali, CEO of BlueRock Capital, added: “The Middle East’s US$186 billion green transformation meets global RWA tokenization. This is impact backed by code and capital.” With pilot projects accelerating in Saudi Arabia and the UAE, Ongreen is positioned as the bridge protocol between Asia's regulatory clarity and MENA's capital deployment.

According to official news, the TRON ECO "AI Model Battle Royale" will officially launch tomorrow. This event is presented by the AINFT platform in collaboration with SUN, BitTorrent, JUST DAO, and WINkLink, with special support from the SUN ecosystem for the first season. Users can freely use top AI models such as Claude Opus 4.6, Gemini 3.0 Pro, and GPT 5.2. The four seasons will last until March 10, with a total prize pool of 2000 USDT distributed in the form of NFTs. Participants only need to use the TronLink wallet to access the AINFT platform, ask different AI models questions based on the seasonal theme, and share screenshots of quality answers to participate in the prize pool distribution and win NFT rewards, immersing themselves in the innovative practice of the integration of the TRON ecosystem and AI.

The founder of crypto market maker Wintermute, Evgeny Gaevoy, analyzed the unusual fluctuations in the 1-minute charts of Bitcoin and ETH spot markets on February 8th. He indicated that it is likely due to a market-making bot experiencing a liquidation, with losses potentially reaching tens of millions of dollars. The unusual fluctuations were caused by the bot's losses rather than any malicious intent from market makers, and Wintermute was clearly not involved.Evgeny Gaevoy further expressed skepticism regarding rumors of "large institutions facing liquidation" in the market, and even if such cases do exist, they would not have a medium to long-term impact. In contrast to the past collapses of Three Arrows Capital and FTX, where liquidation news spread quickly and there were clear signs indicating the validity of the liquidations, such as institutions seeking rescue, the current market rumors mainly come from anonymous accounts and have not been confirmed by reliable sources.The leverage in this cycle primarily comes from perpetual contracts. Trading platforms no longer take risks with user assets to invest in low-liquidity assets or extend special credit as they did in the past. The tightening of credit has resulted in institutional credit sizes being less than $2 billion, which limits the impact and makes it difficult to trigger a chain liquidation like in 2022.Previous reports indicated that on February 8th, there were unusual fluctuations in the 1-minute charts of Bitcoin and ETH spot markets, with single-minute amplitudes exceeding 1% and even 3% from 00:05 to 00:17.

Huobi HTX "New Year's First Lesson" series course fifth lecture (advanced course) will officially start tonight at 7 PM, featuring special guest Chloe Zheng, Senior Researcher at HTX Research, with the course theme "Surge! Seizing the Hundredfold Track in Advance".The core focus of the course revolves around three major highlights:Understanding new regulatory rules: clarifying compliance boundaries and seizing the bonus window brought by institutional entry;Identifying potential tracks: breaking down the logic of stablecoins and RWA explosions to pinpoint hundredfold targets;Mastering practical paths: teaching you to use ETF/ETP + RWA tokenization tools to low-risk ambush high-certainty opportunities.This advanced course requires completing one public class's study and answering questions to earn credits; after completing the questions, you can secure your course seat.

According to HyperInsight monitoring, the largest PEPE long position today once again went long on 6,776.62 ETH with 5x leverage, at an average entry price of $3,006.63, with an unrealized profit of $47,000.This address was previously the largest holder of kPEPE long positions on Hyperliquid, ultimately realizing a profit of $963,600, and closed an ETH long position yesterday with a loss of $223,900.

According to Hyperinsight monitoring, Strategy's counterpart opened a short position of 1,770.52 BTC (approximately 161 million USD) at 14:13 with 20x leverage, with an average entry price of 91,089 USD.This address has continuously increased its short positions in mainstream coins like BTC and ETH, and at one point, with a position size of 120 million USD, became the largest short on BTC on Hyperliquid.

Backpack CEO Armani Ferrante posted on the X platform that Backpack has officially launched its product for entering the prediction market field—Unified Prediction Portfolio, and has initiated a private test limited to invited users.This product employs a cross-margin and cross-collateral mechanism, integrating spot, spot margin, lending, perpetual contracts, prediction markets, as well as crypto and fiat assets into the same sub-account, addressing the issues of long-term fund locking and high opportunity costs in the prediction market.Ferrante stated that this is not a simple encapsulation of existing prediction market platforms, but a brand new system built natively by Backpack, supporting prediction trading, hedging, and various advanced order operations within the same margin account. The current testing phase will focus on validating the risk engine and basic functionalities, with plans to gradually expand features, market scale, and user base in the future.

As the Ugandan government cut off nationwide internet access during the presidential elections, the encrypted communication app Bitchat became one of the most downloaded apps locally. The Uganda Communications Commission confirmed that the internet shutdown took effect at 6 PM local time on Tuesday and will continue throughout the election period.Reports indicate that Bitchat relies on Bluetooth Mesh networks to enable encrypted communication without the internet, and it has simultaneously topped the download charts on both the Apple App Store and Google Play in Uganda. Meanwhile, several VPN apps also ranked high in downloads, indicating a significant increase in local demand for information access ahead of the elections.The Ugandan government stated that the internet shutdown aims to prevent the spread of false information during the elections, but opponents argue that this move could restrict the flow of election-related information. The executive director of the Uganda Communications Commission had previously stated that there would be no internet shutdown, but ultimately, the measures were implemented. As of early January, it has been disclosed that over 400,000 users in Uganda have downloaded Bitchat.This marks the third consecutive time Uganda has implemented a nationwide internet shutdown during presidential elections. Similar actions occurred during the elections in 2016 and 2021. Reports also mention that Bitchat has been widely used in various countries under conditions of internet restrictions or sudden disasters in recent years, gradually becoming an alternative communication tool in offline environments.

According to Hyperinsight monitoring, the well-known bankrupt whale James Wynn, who lost over $100 million on Hyperliquid six months ago, closed a BTC long position 15 minutes ago with a profit of $87,000, and then opened a long position on ETH, currently going long on 1637.53 ETH with 25x leverage, with an average entry price of $3252.31.In addition, James Wynn is still going long on kPEPE with 10x leverage, showing an unrealized profit of $169,000.

New Year's Day is approaching, and many financial markets have entered a holiday break in advance.The stock markets in Japan and South Korea are closed today; the Australian stock market closed early at 11:10 AM Beijing time; the Hong Kong stock market will close randomly between 12:08 PM and 12:10 PM; the stock markets in Germany and Italy are closed, while those in France, the UK, and Spain will close early between 8:00 PM and 9:00 PM; there is no night trading on domestic futures exchanges today; U.S. Treasury futures contracts are only traded from 3:00 PM to 3:30 AM on the 1st; the Brent crude oil futures trading on the Intercontinental Exchange will end early at 4:00 AM on the 1st. Investors are advised to pay attention. (Jin Shi)

According to Hyperinsight monitoring, "Brother Ma Ji" Huang Licheng took profit on ZEC long positions this morning, earning $2,190, and restarted a long position of 11 BTC (approximately $970,000) with 40x leverage.In addition, "Ma Ji" is still holding a long position of 5,450 ETH with 25x leverage, with an unrealized profit of $304,000.

According to official data from Binance Alpha, DeAgentAI (AIA) has completed the smart contract swap and officially resumed trading on December 15 at 16:00 (UTC+8). Market data shows that AIA surged strongly after opening, with an increase of over 160% at one point, quickly topping the Binance Alpha sector's gainers list at Top 1.Previous announcements indicated that AIA has completed a 1:1 swap of old and new tokens, with the core of this upgrade focusing on the introduction of an oracle-level verification mechanism to achieve more reliable on-chain data interaction.

The Layer 3 network of Horizen has officially launched its mainnet on Base, completing the latest phase in the evolution of this historic privacy network.Although this launch coincides with a renewed interest in "privacy coins," Horizen officially initiated its transition from Layer 1 to Layer 3 back in February of this year, after the DAO had resolved to gradually phase out the old chain.

Coinbase has reopened registration for Indian users, after having suspended the service for over two years. Indian users can now conduct crypto-to-crypto trading within the app. John O'Loghlen, Coinbase's Asia Pacific head, stated at India Blockchain Week that the company plans to launch fiat deposit channels by 2026, at which point users will be able to directly deposit and purchase crypto assets.Coinbase entered the Indian market in 2022 but suspended support for the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) just days after launch, as the UPI operator NPCI did not confirm Coinbase's local operations. Subsequently, the company ceased services for Indian users in 2023 and requested users to liquidate their accounts. O'Loghlen mentioned that the company's decision to fully exit was to restart operations within a compliant framework. This year, Coinbase has communicated with the Indian Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) and completed registration, re-listing the app in October through an "early access" program, which is now open to all users.Despite India being the second-largest internet market in the world, strict crypto regulations and tax policies pose challenges to industry development. The Indian government imposes a 30% tax rate on crypto income with no allowance for loss offsets, and a 1% tax deduction on every transaction. Coinbase expressed hope for future policy relaxations. Despite the stringent regulations, Coinbase remains optimistic about the Indian market, with its investment arm recently increasing its investment in the local exchange CoinDCX (post-money valuation of $2.45 billion) and planning to expand its team of over 500 people in India. O'Loghlen stated that Coinbase aims to be a trusted platform for users, providing a safe and convenient trading experience in the Indian market.

According to the Financial Times, the artificial intelligence startup Anthropic has hired the law firm Wilson Sonsini to prepare for one of the largest IPOs in history, which could take place as early as 2026. According to insiders, the company is negotiating a round of private financing that will value it at over $300 billion.Several sources have revealed that the company has also discussed potential IPO plans with several major investment banks. However, these discussions are still in the preliminary and informal stages, and the company has not yet come close to selecting an IPO underwriter. (Jinshi)

According to official social media news, the decentralized contract trading platform SunPerp will hold a brand upgrade launch event today at 21:00 (UTC+8), officially unveiling its new strategic vision and brand positioning. This launch event is co-hosted by SunPerp, Huobi HTX, and TRON, with the theme "Trade the Future, Own the Sun," aiming to present SunPerp's new thinking on the future of decentralized derivatives trading to global users.The lineup of this launch event is impressive: SunPerp and Huobi HTX global advisor Sun Yuchen will attend to share insights and visions on the decentralized derivatives sector, interpreting the strategic logic behind SunPerp's brand upgrade; Huobi HTX spokesperson Molly and other guests will also participate in discussions, jointly looking forward to the future landscape of decentralized contract trading; in addition, several leading media outlets such as Odaily, ChainCatcher, MetaEraHK, and TechFlow will serve as official media partners to provide coverage, bringing more industry perspectives to the launch event.