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According to on-chain analytics platform Lookonchain (@lookonchain), a wallet linked to Cumberland withdrew 15,390 ETH from Binance on August 31, worth approximately $37.66 million.
According to on-chain analyst Willy Woo (@willywoo), approximately 5% of the global population currently holds BTC, surpassing the 4.5% who hold gold and the 4% who hold the S&P 500. Woo noted that if BTC adoption remains at 5%, it is merely a conventional financial asset; however, if it rises to 50%, it could enable a separation between currency and the state.
According to Business Insider, the federal government previously seized Anthropic shares held by FTX fraud case co-conspirators Caroline Ellison and Nishad Singh (valued at $10 million and $40 million, respectively) and sold them in 2025 to existing Anthropic investors. As Anthropic's valuation surged to $96.5 billion, the estimated value of these shares at the time of sale ranged from $250 million to $1.1 billion. However, there has been no record of the proceeds being transferred to the FTX bankruptcy liquidation account, leaving it unclear whether the funds will be used to compensate millions of FTX victims.
According to Cointelegraph, BitMEX founder Arthur Hayes (@CryptoHayes) recently expressed a bullish view on Ethereum, noting that ETH had previously suffered massive market sell-offs and was almost "forgotten," but its ratio against Bitcoin has recently rebounded significantly, which he sees as a signal of the market waking up again.
According to The Wolf Of All Streets (@scottmelker) podcast, Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino stated that Tether’s stablecoin technology enables decentralized ownership of U.S. Treasuries. Approximately 650 million users worldwide currently hold these assets indirectly, making a simultaneous collective dump highly unlikely. This fundamentally reduces the systemic risk of U.S. Treasuries being targeted in a coordinated sell-off by a single sovereign state. He also criticized traditional finance for failing to propose a similar solution over the past several decades and emphasized that concentrated U.S. Treasury holdings by adversarial nations carry significant risks.
Odaily News: According to blockchain security firm Blockaid's monitoring, More Markets (More Labs) on Flow EVM has been exploited. The attacker leveraged Ankr's liquid staking tokens and the E-Mode mechanism to drain More Markets' WFLOW lending reserves, transferring approximately 15.5 million WFLOW from the mFlowWFLOW reserve. The detected impact amount is approximately $9.3 million, and the related attack transaction cluster also includes post-exploit fund transfer operations. At present, the specific losses and the destination of the attacker's funds are still under further confirmation.
Odaily News: According to Lookonchain monitoring, a trader (9VQb...b5k) purchased 30,002 SOL at $182 one year ago, investing $5.47 million and staking the tokens, earning 1,860 SOL in staking rewards worth $190,000. Subsequently, they sold all 31,862 SOL for $3.25 million, incurring a total loss of $2.2 million.
Binance announced that due to a hack on BounceBit and the project team's decision to permanently shut down the chain, Binance will stop supporting the BounceBit (BB) mainnet. Binance has suspended deposits and withdrawals of BB on the BounceBit mainnet as of 10:00 (UTC+8) on August 20, 2026, and will reopen deposits and withdrawals via the BNB Smart Chain (BEP20) network starting at 15:00 on September 1, 2026. BB will be migrated from the original mainnet to the BNB Smart Chain at a 1:1 ratio. During the migration, spot, margin, futures, and Earn services will remain unaffected.
According to Onchain Lens monitoring, Metaplanet has transferred 1,600 BTC to two newly created wallets, valued at approximately $124.36 million.
According to Lookonchain data, Bitcoin mining company Metaplanet transferred 2,400 BTC, worth approximately $186 million, to Coinbase Prime over the past three hours. The institution had previously purchased 43,000 BTC at an average price of $96,191, totaling approximately $3.48 billion.
According to Onchain Lens, over the past 15 hours, Fireblocks Custody has again transferred 30 million USD1 to Binance. USD1 is a stablecoin backed by Trump-related projects.
According to Cointelegraph citing Bank of America data, crypto funds recorded $3.2 billion in capital inflows last week, marking the largest weekly inflow since October 2025.
Odaily News - Polymarket trader "xm39" has continued to increase positions on geopolitical conflict-related prediction events on Polymarket, placing three separate buys totaling 274,500 shares on the U.S. invading Iran before 2027, filled at probabilities of 14%, 15%, and 16%, with an investment of approximately $41,700.Currently, xm39 holds a cumulative total of 642,300 Yes shares, with a total cost of approximately $127,100 and an unrealized loss of roughly $27,600.Additionally, its associated address also added approximately 28,400 WTI short contracts against the market trend, with a trading volume of around $2.401 million. As oil prices continued to rise, the address closed out all 107,400 short contracts at 9:01 AM, with an average closing price of approximately $84.86, recording a realized loss of roughly $131,500. Just about 10 minutes later, its trading direction flipped from short to long. The address subsequently bought approximately 64,700 WTI contracts consecutively and currently holds about $5.531 million in long positions with 20x full margin, with an unrealized profit of around $18,200, a margin return rate of approximately 6.6%, and a liquidation price of about $64.88.
According to data from Trader T, Bitcoin spot ETFs posted a net inflow of $924.5 million last week, with a trading volume of $15.5 billion. Over the past two weeks, Bitcoin spot ETFs have accumulated a net inflow of $2.8 billion, following a period where capital flows were generally flat to net outflows. Specifically, BlackRock's IBIT recorded net subscriptions of $938.3 million, equivalent to approximately 11,845 BTC; Grayscale's Mini BTC Trust saw net inflows of $81.9 million, representing about 1,034 BTC; Fidelity's FBTC attracted $62 million, roughly 783 BTC; and MSBT logged net inflows of $25.3 million, amounting to approximately 319 BTC.
According to Trader T data, Ethereum spot ETFs recorded net inflows of $815.7 million last week, with trading volume reaching $4.9 billion. Among them, BlackRock's ETHA saw net subscriptions of $567 million, equivalent to approximately 229,317 ETH, marking the 10th consecutive trading day of fund inflows; BlackRock's Staked Ethereum ETF ETHB recorded net inflows of $77.3 million, equivalent to approximately 31,300 ETH, with $42.6 million flowing in on Friday. On Friday, Ethereum spot ETFs still recorded net inflows of $102.2 million, while Bitcoin spot ETFs saw net outflows.
According to Onchain Lens, Metaplanet transferred 800 BTC to Coinbase Prime, valued at approximately $62.19 million, likely for sale.
Odaily News According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, the top holder on the Monero native network has accumulated profits exceeding $3.15 million in just 23 days by betting on XMR's price increase. The position was opened on August 9, reaching a peak of 34,000 XMR, valued at approximately $16.72 million. Last night, the holder closed half of the position, banking $1.637 million in profits, and currently retains a 4x leveraged position of 16,000 XMR, with unrealized gains exceeding $1.53 million.
According to Lookonchain data, whale or institutional address 0x2Ea2 is selling 51,387 ETH, valued at approximately $125.9 million. Over the past two days, this address has deposited 40,881 ETH to exchanges, worth around $100.7 million, and currently still holds 10,506 ETH, valued at roughly $25.52 million.
According to monitoring by Onchain Lens, Wintermute transferred 5,100 BTC to Binance over the past two days, valued at approximately $399 million.
Odaily News: According to Onchain Lens monitoring, over the past 24 hours, a whale deposited 43,880 ETH into Binance, OKX, Bybit, Kraken, and Gate, worth approximately $108 million. The wallet previously received 51,390 ETH, worth approximately $126 million, from another address that had accumulated ETH from Coinbase Prime.