PeckShieldAlert reports the BlueMove hacker bridged 115K USDC from Ethereum to Hyperliquid and purchased 188.25 XMR at $608.43 after the July 2026 exploit that drained 710670 SUI from BlueMove DEX pools on Sui and Aptos.

Lookonchain reports a fresh wallet deposited 4M USDC on Hyperliquid and opened a 5x long position on 3,000 XMR valued at $1.77M.

@ai_9684xtpa reports a trader who cleared 36,000 XMR on October 20 for $344.1 million profit but missed an extra $477k after Monero jumped 12% to a three-month high two days later.

XMR whale books $3.15 million total profit after 23 days, peaking at 34,000 XMR long with 4x leverage still open on 16,000 coins.

Monero at $118.7 as hackers abuse macOS screen sharing to mine XMR, with bearish EMA50 resistance at $123.34 and MACD death cross on 4h chart.

XMR sees address 0x615…d69d5 build 36k token long at $395.88 entry, now 24% of total OI with targets at $475-$516.

XMR whale deposits 3.56M USDC on Hyperliquid for 4x long on 36,000 XMR targeting $475-$516 while price sits at $118.7 with bearish EMA structure.

New 0x615…d69d5 wallet deposits 2M USDC on Hyperliquid, opens 10,962.78 XMR 4x long worth $4.18M at $383.23 as second-largest position while adding limit buys.

A new wallet deposited $1.868M USDC to snag 4,638 XMR at $403 on HyperLiquid, then transferred holdings amid bearish XMR price trends.

According to PeckShieldAlert, the attacker who exploited $24 million worth of aEthUSDC from @sillytuna has conducted several transactions to obscure the trail. The perpetrator swapped approximately $2 million worth of DAI and ETH for 6,174.4 XMR, now held on Hyperliquid. Additionally, around $6.5 million in USDC and USDT was deposited into centralized exchanges like OKX, MEXC, and Bitkan, while 375 ETH was laundered via TornadoCash.

According to @lookonchain, Sillytuna faced a violent extortion resulting in the theft of $23.6M in aEthUSDC. The attacker has converted the majority of the stolen funds into $20.34M DAI. A smaller portion is being bridged to Arbitrum and deposited into Hyperliquid for purchasing XMR. This incident highlights critical risks in DeFi protocols and emphasizes the importance of securing digital assets.

According to @OnchainDataNerd, a significant whale recently closed short positions on HYPE and XMR. Despite incurring a loss on shorting HYPE, the trader managed to offset 65% of the loss through funding fees. This activity could signal shifting sentiment or market positioning in these assets, offering potential trading insights.

According to Santiment, the top privacy coin projects by development activity are DASH, NYM, HOPR, Monero (XMR), Decred (DCR), Firo (FIRO), Zcash (ZEC), Verge (XVG), Conceal (CCX), and Dusk (DUSK), based on filtered GitHub repository activity, source: Santiment. Santiment reports upward positioning for XMR, FIRO, and CCX; downward for ZEC and DUSK; and unchanged for DASH, NYM, HOPR, DCR, and XVG since the last update, source: Santiment. The ranking applies Santiment’s methodology for filtering notable GitHub activity from project repositories and is presented as useful for crypto trading signals, source: Santiment. Traders can track Santiment’s dedicated privacy project watchlist to analyze leaders by development activity alongside other metrics, source: Santiment.

According to @phantom, six new perpetual futures markets—Monero (XMR), Copper (COPPER), Axie Infinity (AXS), Dash (DASH), Alibaba (BABA), and Rivian (RIVN)—are live for trading with up to 20x leverage.

According to @EmberCN, address 0xD83...Fd7 increased short exposure to HYPE in the past half hour. According to @EmberCN, the trader started by shorting ETH last Friday and used rolling unrealized profits to expand shorts into other assets. According to @EmberCN, the account now holds short positions in BTC, ETH, HYPE, and XMR with total notional around USD 261 million. According to @EmberCN, the trader scaled initial capital from roughly USD 3 million to about USD 11 million through this rolling strategy.

According to @lookonchain, address 0xD835 deposited 3M USDC on Hyperliquid and used maximum leverage to short 18,261 ETH worth about $60.32M and 1,845 XMR worth about $1.27M, with the ETH liquidation price at $3,380 (source: @lookonchain). According to @lookonchain, the ETH short now has over $1.83M in unrealized profit (source: @lookonchain). According to @lookonchain, the trader has now opened a new 40x long on 323 BTC with about $30M notional (source: @lookonchain).

According to @lookonchain, a victim lost over $282M in LTC and BTC in a hardware-wallet social engineering scam, and the attacker converted part of the funds into XMR, triggering a sharp XMR price spike; source: https://twitter.com/lookonchain/status/2012355506120344030, https://x.com/zachxbt/status/2012212936735912351. The attacker used THORChain to swap 818 BTC (about $78M) into 19,631 ETH (about $64.5M), 3.15M XRP (about $6.5M), and 77,285 LTC (about $5.8M); source: https://twitter.com/lookonchain/status/2012355506120344030, https://thorchain.net/address/bc1qpsmh26ja0fzzf286zulmt9eywujc2pggj40wzm, https://thorchain.net/address/bc1qgkjems88jyk8hasj9ncspxz093nepdn00vaq0y. Trading-wise, on-chain flows show concentrated activity across XMR, ETH, XRP, and LTC executed through THORChain, with the XMR price spike explicitly cited alongside the swap paths and amounts; source: https://twitter.com/lookonchain/status/2012355506120344030, https://x.com/zachxbt/status/2012212936735912351, https://thorchain.net/address/bc1qpsmh26ja0fzzf286zulmt9eywujc2pggj40wzm, https://thorchain.net/address/bc1qgkjems88jyk8hasj9ncspxz093nepdn00vaq0y.

According to Onchain Lens, a whale deposited $2.27 million USDC into HyperLiquid and opened a long position in XMR using 2x leverage, with the position still increasing, source: https://twitter.com/OnchainLens/status/2011781832409563638. Based on 2x leverage against $2.27 million collateral, the setup supports up to roughly $4.54 million in XMR long notional on HyperLiquid, source: https://twitter.com/OnchainLens/status/2011781832409563638. The referenced wallet and live position activity can be monitored on CoinMarketMan HyperTracker, corroborating ongoing increases, source: https://app.coinmarketman.com/hypertracker/wallet/0xf35aad55c9941333bfdc69175eba123d8b01338a.

According to @santimentfeed, @alieniswonder called Monero (XMR) upside just before the privacy coin surged to a new all-time high. Source: Santiment on X, Jan 13, 2026. According to @santimentfeed, the Sanitizer KOL Tracker showcases both the best and worst market predictions across social media, with the highlighted XMR call showing a 49.65% gain so far as displayed on the linked leaderboard. Source: Santiment on X, Jan 13, 2026; Source: KOLs Tracker on X; Source: sanitize.page/leaderboard. According to @santimentfeed, traders can reference the leaderboard-tracked performance alongside the confirmed ATH breakout to gauge the reliability of KOL-driven entries and exits in XMR during heightened social-momentum flows. Source: Santiment on X, Jan 13, 2026; Source: sanitize.page/leaderboard.

According to @CryptoKing4Ever, Monero (XMR) hit a new all-time high of 672 dollars, shared on X on Jan 13, 2026, source: @CryptoKing4Ever on X, Jan 13, 2026. The post characterizes the move as privacy season, indicating bullish sentiment toward privacy coins, source: @CryptoKing4Ever on X, Jan 13, 2026. The update does not include exchange or timeframe details, making 672 dollars the reference price cited by the author, source: @CryptoKing4Ever on X, Jan 13, 2026.