February 5th, according to Coinbob Popular Address Monitor data, at 1 am today, during a continuous drop in ETH price, the DeFi whale "pension-usdt.eth" closed all of its 30,000 ETH short positions. The position, with a previous size of about $64 million, was closed at an average price of around $2,134, resulting in a profit of $3.44 million in the past 24 hours.This whale often employs a low-leverage, short-term (average holding period of about 30 hours) heavy trading strategy mainly focused on BTC and ETH. Since October last year, the cumulative profit has exceeded $23 million. The address has recently been consistently transferring its accumulated substantial profits on Hyperliquid to the yield market. Currently, its total lending on AAVE has reached around $22 million.

February 5th. According to Coinbob Popular Address Monitor, due to the recent 24-hour price drop of BTC and ETH and a minor rebound in HYPE, the "Hyperliquid early contributor Loracle" has currently realized a floating profit from the approximately $56 million BTC and ETH hedge short position opened yesterday. The floating profit of its HYPE long position has also expanded in sync, reaching an overall profit of $15.3 million. The main position information is as follows:HYPE (5x Long): Position size of approximately $50.3 million, average price $24.37, floating profit of approximately $14.4 million (+142%).ETH (20x Short): Position size of approximately $31.5 million, average price around $2201, floating profit of approximately $650,000 (+40%).BTC (20x Short): Position size of approximately $26.6 million, average price around $74,480, floating profit of approximately $670,000 (+49%).This address is currently the largest long position in on-chain HYPE and also the whale with the top 2 short positions in BTC and ETH. The total account position size is $117 million, with a profit of approximately $3.6 million in the last 24 hours.Loracle (X: loraclexyz) originally named Laurent Zeimes. He is active in the Hyperliquid ecosystem, considered one of the early contributors and the founder of Hypurrfun. Recently active in the Hyperliquid contract market.

February 5th, Onchain Lens monitoring found that a newly created wallet withdrew 15,333 ZEC (worth $4 million) from Binance 4 hours ago and split the funds into 2 different wallets.

February 5th, according to Tether's released Q4 report, USDT set multiple new highs in the fourth quarter of 2025:· Market cap reached $187.3 billion· Achieved over 30 million user growth for the eighth consecutive quarter· The number of on-chain wallets holding USDT saw the largest single-quarter increase· Monthly active on-chain users reached an all-time high· On-chain transfer count and value both hit a record highUSDT's market cap grew by $12.4 billion in the fourth quarter of 2025, reaching $187.3 billion. It increased by 4.9% month-on-month in October, then the growth rate slowed down due to the impact of the October 10th clearing storm.Tether's total reserves increased by $11.7 billion in the fourth quarter, reaching $192.9 billion, achieving $6.3 billion in net assets (assets greater than liabilities). Total reserves include 96,184 Bitcoins (an increase of 9,850 in the fourth quarter) and 127.5 metric tons of gold (an increase of 21.9 metric tons in the fourth quarter).In the fourth quarter of 2025, the estimated total number of USDT users grew by 35.2 million, reaching 534.5 million, marking the eighth consecutive quarter of user growth exceeding 30 million.

February 5th, according to on-chain data analyst Ember's monitoring, a whale address completed a full liquidation 4 hours ago.The address liquidated the entire position in 4 days, selling 96,585 ETH (approximately $2.14 billion) and 334,000 SOL (approximately $31.51 million), resulting in a staggering loss of $141 million.The ETH was purchased at an average price of $3,363 in July last year and sold at an average price of $2,222 these days, resulting in a $110 million loss. The SOL was bought at an average price of $186 in October last year and sold at an average price of $94 these days, resulting in a $30.78 million loss. After clearing the liquidation and repaying the debt, the address only has $58.34 million USDC left.

February 5th, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, as the market fell, a whale address holding a 25x leveraged ETH short position has realized a profit of $17.05 million and made a $6.83 million profit from the funding rate. The entry price for this address was $3,116.

February 5th, IG Group has completed the acquisition of the cryptocurrency exchange Independent Reserve. The transaction was approved by the Monetary Authority of Singapore. According to Foresight News, IG Group had previously acquired a majority stake in Independent Reserve for $72 million in September last year. IG initially acquired 70% of Independent Reserve's shares and had the option to purchase the remaining 30% based on future performance. The transaction is still subject to regulatory approval and is expected to be completed in early 2026, with a total value of 178 million Australian dollars (117.6 million US dollars).

February 5th, according to on-chain analyst Ai Auntie (@ai_9684xtpa) monitoring, the "ETH Whales Profit $99.22 Million Smart Money Address" has accumulated another 2500 cbBTC in the past 8 hours, worth $182 million.Since February 2nd, the address has withdrawn a total of 4000 cbBTC from Coinbase, with an average withdrawal price of $74,003.9, currently unrealized loss of $2.995 million; however, the address has not increased its ETH holdings again in the past 2 days.

February 5th, U.S. President Trump stated that if Kevin Warsh had expressed a willingness to raise interest rates, he would not have chosen Warsh as his nominee for Federal Reserve Chair.“If he came in and said, ‘I want to raise rates,’ he wouldn’t have this job, absolutely he wouldn’t,” Trump said in an interview with NBC News on Wednesday.He stated that there is “no question” that the Fed will cut rates because “our rates are too high,” but now “we are a rich country again.” When asked if Warsh understood that Trump wanted him to lower the benchmark interest rate, the president responded, “I think he understands, but I think he wanted to do anyway.”Furthermore, Trump is currently trying to legally dismiss Fed Governor Lael Brainard for alleged involvement in mortgage fraud, a case currently being reviewed by the Supreme Court. Treasury Secretary Mnuchin stated in a House Financial Services Committee hearing that he believes the Fed is an independent institution, but the president has the right to intervene in Fed decisions.

February 5th, according to on-chain data analyst Yujin Monitoring, starting from the afternoon of February 1st, Trend Research has cumulatively liquidated 188,500 ETH at an average stop-loss price of $2,263 in nearly four days, repaying $385 million USDT to reduce leverage.Currently, the liquidation prices of its multiple ETH leverage positions have dropped to the $1,576 to $1,682 range, mainly concentrated around $1,640.Current Position: 463,000 ETH (approximately $998 million), average cost price $3,180Loss: $647 million (Realized loss $173 million, Unrealized loss $474 million)Leveraged Borrowing: $625 million