Ethereum outperforms Bitcoin at $1699.45 while Solana breaks downtrend and DEX tokens including UNI lead gains, signaling hotter crypto markets.

Garrett Jin closed 50k ZEC longs for $420k profit and 580k UNI longs for $310k loss while retaining 1270 BTC position opened at $76117 now showing $16.65M unrealized loss.

Garret Jin books $405K ZEC profit and $316K UNI loss while holding 1,268.33 BTC long at $16.8M drawdown and buying 115,008 HYPE for $7.8M.

Garret Jin opens 366,423 UNI long at 2x as price holds $3.53 with EMA50 support at $2.78 and MACD golden cross intact.

Uniswap positioned for 40x tokenized assets expansion in DeFi per StanChart as UNI holds $2.69 with bullish MACD on 4h chart.

Trend Research liquidates 7.57M UNI ($24.55M) and 228.7K COMP realizing $46.98M loss with UNI at $3.02 on 4h chart.

Uniswap whale deposits 2.16M UNI ($6.61M) to Binance after $6.39M loss on tokens withdrawn for $13M one year ago.

Trend Research liquidates final 2.705M UNI ($8.71M) and 114K COMP ($2.13M) realizing $40.29M loss after buying at $9.5 and $49.3.

IOSG Ventures wallet deposits 2.7M UNI ($9.23M) and 114k COMP into Binance, locking in $39.76M combined losses after 10-month hold.

Uniswap whales spent $2.33M on 656,338 UNI in five hours while price sits at $3.57 with neutral RSI and bearish MACD on the 4h chart.

Wallet 0xb5E…Fc24e deposits 1.397M UNI worth $4.6M to three exchanges, linked to DeFiance Capital amid Kelp DAO attack; UNI price at $3.28 eyes bullish confluence.

According to @OnchainDataNerd, a crypto whale associated with address 0x44C made significant transactions on Binance within the last 24 hours. The whale deposited 4.3M USDT and subsequently withdrew 9.14M FET (approximately $2.33M) and 462K UNI (approximately $1.72M). These activities could indicate strategic trading or portfolio rebalancing by the entity.

According to @OnchainDataNerd, a newly created wallet withdrew multiple tokens worth millions of dollars from Binance, including $ENA, $AAVE, $AVAX, $ONDO, $UNI, and $PENDLE. Following the withdrawals, the assets were transferred to two separate wallets, raising questions about potential trading strategies or fund movements.

According to @OnchainDataNerd, a whale wallet, potentially linked to Monetalis, transferred 325,000 UNI (approximately $1.24 million) to Wintermute. The wallet still holds substantial assets, including 3.27 million UNI (~$12.75 million), 31,337 ETH (~$63.81 million), and 98,900 AAVE (~$11.86 million). This movement highlights significant trading activity and potential repositioning within the crypto market.

According to @thedaoofwei, BlackRock has made significant moves in the DeFi space by listing its $1.8 billion Treasury token on Uniswap, a major decentralized exchange. Additionally, the investment giant has purchased UNI governance tokens, signaling its growing interest in decentralized finance and blockchain-based governance.

According to Altcoin Daily, BlackRock has acquired Uniswap (UNI) tokens and is now offering decentralized finance (DeFi) trading services for the first time. This move signals a significant step by the asset management giant into the DeFi space, potentially boosting Uniswap's adoption and liquidity. Traders are expected to monitor the impact of this development on UNI's market activity and broader DeFi trends.

According to @lookonchain, following BlackRock's announcement to purchase UNI, trader 0x46bc swiftly opened a 10x leveraged long position on 1.21M UNI tokens, valued at $4.81M. The trader's entry price was $3.7027, and the position now shows an unrealized profit of $350.6K. This demonstrates the rapid market impact of institutional moves on cryptocurrency trading strategies.

According to @EmberCN, a long-term holder who bought at UNI listing fully exited 2.493 million UNI for about USD 10.62 million, realizing roughly USD 1.72 million profit or 19 percent after five years, source: @EmberCN. The same whale or institution previously closed 101,000 ETH at an average USD 3,313 for about USD 334 million with roughly USD 269 million profit, source: @EmberCN. The UNI position was closed about three hours before the post after being held for five years, source: @EmberCN.

According to @justinsuntron, JustLend announced a buyback and burn of 525 million JST, equal to about 5.25% of total supply and approximately $21 million, bringing cumulative burns to roughly 10.75%. Source: @justinsuntron, X, Jan 15, 2026. The post states that all protocol revenue will be used for multiple JST repurchases before Oct 1, 2025, with all purchased tokens destroyed, and that after this date each quarter’s net new revenue will be used to repurchase in the following quarter with all repurchased JST burned. Source: @justinsuntron, X, Jan 15, 2026. The comparison cited in the post notes UNI’s mechanism reportedly auto-buys and burns about one-quarter to one-sixth of V2 and V3 LP fees, implying a smaller share of protocol revenue is destroyed versus JST’s full-revenue approach. Source: @justinsuntron, X, Jan 15, 2026. The post also states AAVE targets around $50 million annually (about $4.2 million monthly) for buybacks, roughly one-third of monthly protocol revenue, and allocates the tokens to treasury or reserves rather than burning them. Source: @justinsuntron, X, Jan 15, 2026. The post characterizes JST’s buyback-and-burn intensity as the strongest among DeFi lending protocols in this comparison. Source: @justinsuntron, X, Jan 15, 2026.

According to @OnchainDataNerd, about 1 hour ago Galaxy Digital withdrew 292,000 UNI (approximately $1.83M) from Binance and transferred 492,500 UNI (approximately $3.0M) to a CoinShares-labeled address 0xB6857192d4aD431842138ea324EcE085e3364174, as shown on intel.arkm.com/explorer/address/0xB6857192d4aD431842138ea324EcE085e3364174. Source: @OnchainDataNerd; intel.arkm.com. Traders can track subsequent balance and flow changes at the referenced address and monitor UNI exchange flows on Binance to gauge venue supply dynamics around UNI liquidity. Source: @OnchainDataNerd; intel.arkm.com/explorer/address/0xB6857192d4aD431842138ea324EcE085e3364174.