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According to Lookonchain monitoring, whales are going long on LINK and DOGE. Address 0x3109 has opened a long position of 27.38 million DOGE ($27.5 million) and 162.67 thousand LINK ($15.3 million), and has placed an order to continue buying 33.46 million DOGE ($33.1 million) and 515.12 thousand LINK ($47.3 million).Address 0x5687 has opened a long position of 10.21 million DOGE ($10.3 million) and 108.43 thousand LINK ($10.2 million), and has placed an order to continue buying 14.66 million DOGE ($14.5 million) and 336.28 thousand LINK ($30.9 million).

According to Coinglass data, in the past 24 hours, the total liquidation across the network was $191 million, with long liquidations amounting to $107 million and short liquidations totaling $84.114 million. Among them, Bitcoin long liquidations were $25.2084 million, Bitcoin short liquidations were $28.8547 million, Ethereum long liquidations were $16.9072 million, and Ethereum short liquidations were $14.4813 million.In addition, in the last 24 hours, a total of 80,072 people were liquidated globally, with the largest single liquidation occurring on Hyperliquid - BTC-USD worth $10.5213 million.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, the trader who opened a short position worth over 100 million USD in ETH yesterday has closed their position, incurring a loss of 260,000 USD, and then switched to going long on BTC, opening a long position of 175.04 BTC (13.43 million USD) with 20x leverage.

Data shows that the implied volatility of Bitcoin has dropped to 36%, reaching a nearly 8-month low, indicating that the market expects BTC to continue fluctuating in the short term. The decline in volatility itself does not represent the direction of the market, but current derivatives market data suggests that shorts may have become overly concentrated. If BTC breaks through $82,000, it could trigger a large-scale short squeeze.CoinGlass liquidation heatmap shows that a large number of BTC short positions are concentrated in the $78,000--$83,000 range. Meanwhile, BTC has failed to regain the $90,000 level for nearly 4 months, and some shorts have begun to establish stronger bearish expectations. In addition, Glassnode data shows that the 30-day options Delta Skew for BTC currently remains at 14%, indicating a significant premium for put options compared to call options, reflecting that professional traders are still more concerned about the downside risk of BTC.The current expectation for BTC to pull back to $72,000 has been partially priced in by the market, but if BTC breaks through $82,000 with increased volume, it could trigger a more intense leveraged short covering rally.

According to Coinglass data, the current position of whales on the Hyperliquid platform is $4.589 billion, with long positions of $2.263 billion, accounting for 49.31% of the total position, and short positions of $2.326 billion, accounting for 50.69%. The profit and loss for long positions is $20.9519 million, while the profit and loss for short positions is -$91.0243 million.Among them, the whale address 0x8def..ae has shorted HYPE with 5x leverage at a price of $45.3515, currently showing an unrealized profit and loss of -$25.1787 million.

According to Coinglass data, in the past 24 hours, the total liquidation across the network was $195 million, with long positions liquidated at $105 million and short positions liquidated at $90.0394 million. Among them, Bitcoin long positions were liquidated at $25.1169 million, Bitcoin short positions at $33.1087 million, Ethereum long positions at $18.9768 million, and Ethereum short positions at $16.3346 million.In addition, in the last 24 hours, a total of 78,293 people were liquidated globally, with the largest single liquidation occurring on Hyperliquid - BTC-USD worth $10.5213 million.

According to Cryptopolitan, Kenya's 2026 Finance Bill proposes a 10% consumption tax on virtual asset service providers, which is double the 5% rate for the gambling industry. The bill also requires crypto companies to pay a one-time licensing fee of 150 million Kenyan Shillings and an annual renewal fee of 2 million Kenyan Shillings before operating in Kenya, and to submit an annual report to the Kenya Revenue Authority containing user and transaction details.Analysts believe this move could force crypto trading platforms and users to relocate their business to countries that are more friendly to cryptocurrencies, undermining Kenya's significance in the African crypto market. Protests led by GenZ have resumed in places like Nairobi, protesting the increased tax burden on digital services, cryptocurrencies, mobile, and financial transactions.

The Wall Street Journal published an article pointing out that although the GENIUS Act and the CLARITY Act are promoting the compliance of stablecoins, the essence of stablecoins still belongs to "private currency," which may pose structural risks to the financial system.The article notes that stablecoins aim to combine the stability of the US dollar with the efficiency of blockchain payments, but because they operate on fragmented, privatized infrastructure, they do not possess the unity of the traditional US dollar system. Although USDT and USDC are pegged to the dollar, their prices may still deviate from 1 dollar.In addition, there is an incentive for stablecoin issuers to enhance returns by allocating high-risk, low-liquidity assets. If the value of these related assets declines, it could trigger de-pegging and concentrated redemption risks. The article cites Chainalysis data stating that stablecoins account for 84% of illegal activities in cryptocurrency, mainly involving sanctions evasion and money laundering, while real economic payment scenarios account for less than 1%.The Wall Street Journal believes that stablecoins are replaying the path of private currency experiments from the "Free Banking Era" in 19th century America, and in the future, they may need to accept stricter regulation like banks and integrate more deeply into the central bank system.

According to on-chain analyst Onchain Lens (@OnchainLens), a whale that sold HYPE after 8 months of silence has opened a 2x long position of 2,839 ETH and a 2x short position of 94,101 HYPE, with a total value of approximately $11.75 million.

Babylon Labs has initiated a temperature check proposal in the Aave community, proposing to integrate native Bitcoin as collateral on Aave V4 through the Babylon Trustless Bitcoin Vaults protocol.This solution does not require wrapping, cross-chain bridges, or custodians. Users will lock Bitcoin in Taproot UTXOs, and redemptions will be controlled by on-chain rules (such as loan repayments), settling directly to Bitcoin UTXOs. The proposal deploys two Aave V4 Spokes: Babylon Core Lending Spoke (lending) and BTC Vault Swap Spoke (post-liquidation settlement).Collateral exists in the form of vaultBTC, a transfer-restricted ERC-20 token that can only be transferred between fixed whitelisted addresses. In the liquidation process, liquidators can immediately settle with WBTC, and subsequent Bitcoin redemptions will be completed by arbitrageurs.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, the whale 0x7be1 is going long on NEAR. In the past 10 hours, it has opened a long position of 2.34 million NEAR (6.45 million USD) with 10x leverage, and has placed an order to continue adding 813,000 NEAR (2 million USD) at 2.46 USD.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, the "1011 Insider Whale" agent Garrett Jin has increased his HYPE holdings to 184,182 coins, worth $11 million. He still holds a 5x BTC long position and a 3x ZEC short position, with an unrealized loss of over $1.7 million.

According to Coinglass data, in the past 24 hours, the total liquidation across the network was $179 million, with long positions liquidated at $79.4121 million and short positions liquidated at $99.4679 million. Among them, Bitcoin long positions were liquidated at $7.2174 million, Bitcoin short positions at $38.6528 million, Ethereum long positions at $19.8078 million, and Ethereum short positions at $18.5425 million.In addition, in the last 24 hours, a total of 71,540 people were liquidated globally, with the largest single liquidation occurring in Hyperliquid - BTC-USD worth $10.5213 million.

According to Coinglass data, in the past 24 hours, the total liquidation across the network was $162 million, with long positions liquidated at $71.5824 million and short positions liquidated at $90.5318 million. Among them, Bitcoin long positions were liquidated at $6.832 million, Bitcoin short positions at $39.0202 million, Ethereum long positions at $18.8623 million, and Ethereum short positions at $15.8113 million.In addition, in the last 24 hours, a total of 68,112 people were liquidated globally, with the largest single liquidation occurring in Hyperliquid - BTC-USD worth $10.5213 million.

According to official news, YZi Labs announced the launch of the recruitment platform YZi Talent, integrating open positions in Web3, AI, and biotechnology from its portfolio.The first batch of positions includes Backend Chief Engineer at predict.fun, Frontend Staff Engineer, and Founding Business Leader at AgriDynamics Robotics, with more companies set to join in succession.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a giant whale deposited 17.566 million ENA (approximately 1.78 million USD) into Wintermute, while that address had previously withdrawn the same batch of ENA from Wintermute and Binance, with a cost of about 5.38 million USD. This operation resulted in a total loss of approximately 3.6 million USD.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, the whale address starting with 0xeb17a deposited 5,637 ETH into OKX, worth approximately 11.92 million USD.

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, the $ESPORTS token experienced a flash crash with a decline of 92%, suspected to be related to DWF Labs.Five days ago, the address 0x7Ef...C10dD deposited 19.9 million ESPORTS (worth 13.9 million USD) to a Kraken address associated with DWF, and the upstream funds of that address are the token deployment address, which is also one of the addresses that contributed to this flash crash, having frequently sold tokens on-chain.

According to Coinglass data, in the past 24 hours, the total liquidation across the network was $228 million, with long positions liquidated at $143 million and short positions liquidated at $85.6257 million. Among them, Bitcoin long positions were liquidated at $35.6446 million, Bitcoin short positions at $32.7468 million, Ethereum long positions at $50.7607 million, and Ethereum short positions at $10.7184 million.In addition, in the last 24 hours, a total of 66,707 people were liquidated globally, with the largest single liquidation occurring on Binance - BTCUSDT worth $11.8157 million.

According to Coinglass data, the current whale holdings on the Hyperliquid platform amount to $4.721 billion, with long positions at $2.32 billion, accounting for 49.15% of the total holdings, and short positions at $2.4 billion, accounting for 50.85%. The profit and loss for long positions is $74.4952 million, while for short positions it is -$15 million.Among them, the whale address 0x8def..ae has shorted HYPE with 5x leverage at a price of $45.3515, currently realizing a profit and loss of -$31.6604 million.