U.S. spot XRP exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have taken in $121.4 million in September on a five-session inflow streak, even as their net assets slide with XRP stuck under $1.50. The $121.4 Million Figure Broken Down The funds sat flat on Monday, Sept. 21, then took in roughly $20 million, $18 million, $14.9 million and $22.6 […]
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Paul Atkins told CNBC that “even though the CLARITY Act failed in Congress,” the agency is “proceeding to provide clarity” on how to raise money onchain. What Did Atkins Actually Say? Atkins sat down with CNBC’s Squawk Box in a wide-ranging Sept. 29 interview covering the initial public offering […]
Onchain trackers have recently caught Michael Saylor’s Strategy moving 3,568 BTC, worth about $297 million, in nine hours, but Arkham analysts revealed not a single coin was sold. What Does the Data Actually Show? The alert came from prominent blockchain sleuth Lookonchain, listing 12 outbound transfers over nine hours, ranging from 137.643 BTC to 452.122 […]
Bitcoin closed the week at $84,467, its highest weekly finish in eight months, and then gave back 1.5% before most of the U.S. woke up on Monday. The Numbers The week starting Sept. 21 saw BTC open at $81,178 and close at $84,467. No weekly close has been higher since the last week of January, […]
Elon Musk’s Grok placed 59.5% of all AI agent trading volume on Coinbase in the week leading up to Sept. 21, nearly 40 times ChatGPT’s meager 1.5% share. The Scoreboard Coinbase doesn’t usually publish which chatbots its customers trade through, but this week it made a seeming exception. The exchange’s developer account shared a chart […]
A wallet tied to Bitget’s $387.5 million hacker pulled about $1.23 million in ether out of Binance, two days before the exchange reopens bitcoin withdrawals on Monday. The Refuel, Step by Step The attacker who drained Bitget on Sept. 24 is still moving money, and some of it came via a rival exchange. Blockchain sleuth […]
A wallet holding 4,500 BTC since August 2019 moved every coin early Friday, shifting roughly $378 million onchain for a network fee of about $1.10. The Transfer Nobody Saw Coming Earlier today, a Bitcoin address that had not sent a coin since April 2022 emptied its balance in a single transaction. The holder moved 4,499 […]
Tron has now settled more than $30 trillion in lifetime transfers, yet TRX trades at $0.34, almost exactly the $0.3383 it fetched a year ago. The Milestone Justin Sun Keeps Posting The network’s foundation, Tron DAO, announced yesterday that $30 trillion had been settled on Tron, adding that the chain had grown to more than […]
Grayscale says its Zcash exchange-traded fund (ETF) has passed $1 billion in assets one month after listing, but its flow data shows ZEC’s price did most of the work. The Milestone, in One Tweet “$1B in AUM,” Grayscale posted late Thursday, referring to its ZCSH offering as “the world’s first Zcash fund.” And while the […]
FTX’s bankruptcy estate moved 27,372 ETH worth about $75.32 million to market maker Wintermute on Tuesday, routed through six separate wallets. Decoding the Movements Arriving in a big bunch, the FTX and Alameda Research liquidation team transferred 27,372 ETH, worth roughly $75.32 million, to Wintermute across six wallets, according to onchain analyst EmberCN. Other trackers […]
Strategy says MSTR added $31.6 billion, or 80%, in market value over three months, yet the Class A share price rose about 54% over the same stretch. The Numbers Strategy posted a chart on X on Monday night with a one-line caption: Last 3 months for MSTR: +$32B (+80%). The graphic put the company’s market […]
A wallet linked to an Ethereum initial coin offering (ICO) participant swapped $23.7 million in stablecoins for 8,492.8 ETH on Sept. 21, six months after selling ETH near $2,010. Four Orders in Eight Minutes The trade surfaced through onchain analyst ai_9684xtpa, who described the buyer as an ICO-era whale re-entering the market after half a […]
Bitcoin’s price broke $85,200 earlier today for the first time in over eight months, yet the Coinbase Premium Index, the market’s favorite gauge of U.S. spot demand, slid back below zero. The Number That Didn’t Move BTC has climbed about 6% over the past day and printed an intraday high of $85,248 just as $260+ […]
Two ether whales have committed a combined $106.4 million to ETH over five days, and the second-largest crypto asset just traded above $2,700 for the first time since Jan. 31. The Rotation That Hasn’t Stopped Over the past five days, a whale sold 1,107 BTC worth $86.76 million on Hyperliquid, bought 34,422 ETH worth $86.5 […]
The computer that guided Apollo astronauts to the moon once ran Bitcoin’s mining math, and a viral clip of the stunt is lighting up crypto timelines again this week. The Clip That Came Back Crypto media outlets circulated the story again earlier today, explaining that computer scientist Ken Shirriff was able to program an Apollo […]
A wallet linked to BIT, the firm formerly known as Matrixport, dropped another 1,000 BTC worth $81.06 million into Binance on Saturday, its second large deposit to the exchange this week. The Wallet in Question The address, which begins with ‘bc1qsz,’ sent the coins to Binance early Saturday, tracker Lookonchain reported. Other outlets carried and […]
Binance traders now hold more XRP in futures contracts than they did before the Senate sank the CLARITY Act on Sept. 15, even with XRP still about 65% below its all-time high. The Number That Came Back Open interest, i.e. the total amount of futures contracts still open, is the cleanest read on how much […]
A small team of researchers chained three bugs with Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 and ended up inside OpenAI’s private code repository. The whole job took under 72 hours, and OpenAI paid $6,500 for it. The Chain, Link by Link A vulnerable ‘libheif’ library inside Discourse, the forum software, allowed remote code execution (RCE) on the […]
The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde personally intervened to keep Binance out of the European Union. Three months after the bid collapsed, the world’s largest exchange is still locked out of the bloc. The Announcement That Never Shipped By late May, Binance’s paperwork was effectively done, so much […]
A trader sold 866 bitcoin and bought 26,924 ether on Sept. 15, hours before the U.S. Senate blocked the CLARITY Act, resulting in bitcoin’s price falling under $75,000 shortly afterward. The Trade Onchain analytics firm Lookonchain flagged the wallet, labeled 0x4553, and the accounting turned out to be unusually clean, with the whale swapping 512 […]