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Odaily report: A wallet suspected to be associated with the Binance hack incident received tens of thousands of ETH through a Uniswap contract and borrowed 19,762 ETH on Aave using approximately $60 million in USDT as collateral. On-chain records do not show any vulnerabilities in Uniswap or Aave.As of 22:07 UTC, the two wallets held approximately 253,000 ETH, worth about $570 million, with no outgoing transfers recorded. Aave has paused the Ethereum mainnet V3 market, and Kamino has also paused borrowing in the SOL/BTC market; Ripple has frozen approximately $200 million in RLUSD, and more than $2 billion in USDT and USDC has been frozen by stablecoin issuers. (Decrypt)
According to on-chain statistics cited by Decrypt, at least $5.57 billion in assets have been transferred from wallets associated with Binance, involving Ethereum, Bitcoin, and TRON; if confirmed as a hack, it would become the largest cryptocurrency heist in history. Binance stated that it is still investigating.
According to Decrypt, Polymarket has switched trading to cancel-only mode and paused relay operations due to a security incident, with multiple users reporting unauthorized asset transfers. The suspected attacker's address holds approximately $2.65 million in POL.
Odaily reports: On-chain analytics firm Glassnode says long-term holders hold roughly 4 million BTC with a cost basis between $85,000 and $118,000, most of which was purchased in 2025. At Bitcoin's current price, these holdings are worth approximately $326 billion, and holders are currently facing losses.Glassnode defines long-term holders as addresses holding coins for more than 155 days, and notes that the $84,000–$85,000 range has pushed Bitcoin back four times this year; since January, Bitcoin has closed above that range on only 5 days. Glassnode says that if prices recover to the relevant cost basis range, some holders may choose to sell to break even.U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF holdings have an average cost basis of about $81,500–$82,000. Glassnode says ETF holders' average unrealized loss as of Monday was about $2.63 billion; the estimate only tracks fund flows and does not include the purchase costs of secondary-market buyers. (Decrypt)
According to Decrypt, Ledger announced at the TOKEN2049 conference in Singapore the launch of its self-custody lending feature, "Crypto Loan". Eligible users can borrow stablecoins USDC or USDT through their wallet application by using wrapped Bitcoin (cbBTC or wBTC) as collateral, without transferring funds to centralized lending platforms or selling the underlying assets.
Odaily reports: Cross-chain swap service Near Intents announced that the $3.8 million in funds stolen in a previous exploit has been fully returned, and the team has closed its investigation. Near Intents General Manager Alex Shevchenko had previously issued a 48-hour return deadline to the attacker, providing Bitcoin, BNB, Ethereum, and Solana addresses.The attacker acknowledged wrongdoing in an on-chain message, stating that all funds had been returned and urging others to report issues through the bug bounty program. The incident stemmed from a vulnerability in the interaction between its Omni deposit and withdrawal layer and the main smart contract. Near Intents had suspended services and promised full compensation to users. (Decrypt)
Odaily News: Bitcoin fell back to around $83,600 on Friday, down about 1% from the previous trading day, after briefly touching around $87,000, reaching that level for the first time in months. Market analysis suggests that the expiry of $1.56 billion in Bitcoin options on Deribit may have exacerbated short-term volatility, as market makers typically unwind their hedging positions after options expiry.Over the past 24 hours, BTC open interest and trading volume fell by 14.39% and 13.68% respectively, with long and short liquidations relatively balanced—long liquidations totaled $161.96 million and short liquidations $156.1 million—indicating that leveraged funds are readjusting. On the technical side, BTC's 50-day moving average remains above its 200-day moving average, forming a "golden cross," and the short-term trend is still viewed as relatively strong.Meanwhile, Bitcoin spot ETFs saw net inflows of $299.09 million on Friday, though this was lower than the single-day inflow levels seen earlier in the week. By contrast, XRP rose 4.37% over the past 24 hours and 15.45% over the past 7 days, currently trading at around $1.58; Solana rose 3.36% over the past 24 hours and 9.33% over the past 7 days, currently trading at around $119.84. The next macro data points the market is watching are the U.S. Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) inflation data due on September 30 and the September nonfarm payrolls report due on October 2. (Decrypt)
Odaily reports: UK independent crime-fighting charity Crimestoppers is offering a reward of up to £10,000 for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of suspects. The incident occurred on December 13, 2025, in Smith's Wood, Solihull, east of Birmingham.Three men followed a couple into their home, assaulted the husband and threatened his pregnant wife with a knife, forcing them to transfer a large amount of cryptocurrency to a wallet controlled by the attackers. A fourth participant directed the operation via video call, and the suspects also took several high-value watches. (Decrypt)
Odaily reports: Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic has launched an AI product called Pulse, which allows frontline law enforcement officers to input a wallet address or transaction hash and receive a plain-language summary of fund flows within seconds, without requiring any blockchain expertise.For further investigation, law enforcement officers can, with a single click, transfer the results — including analytical reasoning and on-scene case number records — into Elliptic's screening and forensic tracing tools, or integrate them into their own agency workflows. Elliptic states that the final judgment remains with law enforcement officers. (Decrypt)
Odaily News: On September 21, a white hat actor transferred 40.71 BTC linked to the Coldcard vulnerability in a single transaction valued at approximately $3.31 million. The transaction consolidated funds from 11 addresses and included an OP_RETURN message pointing to the Crypto Recovery Trust.Alex Thorn, head of Galaxy Research, disclosed that the broader consolidation involved a total of 52.37 BTC across multiple clusters of attacker addresses, accounting for approximately 2.8% of the funds tied to the vulnerability. A firmware flaw in Coldcard devices dating back to March 2021 resulted in insufficient mnemonic seed randomness, with the total funds involved peaking at approximately $130 million. (Decrypt)
According to Decrypt, the Ukrainian National Police and Security Service recently shut down a network of fake cryptocurrency investment platforms based in Kyiv. The group distributed fraudulent investment ads on Telegram, guiding users to connect their wallets and deposit funds, while silently falsifying trading returns in the background. When victims requested withdrawals, the platform claimed verification was required, instructing them to connect their main wallet and approve a small "test transaction," which triggered a built-in crypto drainer to transfer the assets to wallets controlled by the syndicate.
Odaily News: Digital asset infrastructure company BitGo has announced the completion of its acquisition of NYDIG's institutional trading business. The transaction employs a two-step merger structure, with total consideration of approximately $42.5 million, including $7 million in cash and approximately $35.5 million in BitGo stock.The business brings approximately 30 NYDIG employees and institutional client relationships into BitGo, offering derivatives, structured products, financing, and capital markets solutions to asset management firms, hedge funds, corporations, and family offices.The transaction also includes performance-based incentive provisions, including a $10 million cash payment tied to a revenue milestone, up to $5 million in cash and additional shares tied to a second milestone, as well as retention incentives for transferred employees.NYDIG will focus on power generation, Bitcoin mining, and high-performance computing data center operations, with the company disclosing a development pipeline exceeding 3 gigawatts. BitGo recently completed its IPO on the New York Stock Exchange, with a post-issuance valuation of approximately $2 billion, and launched the USDS token. (Decrypt)
Odaily News reported that Galaxy Research tracking found that 6 bitcoin wallets, dormant since 2011, 2012, and 2014, transferred a total of 553.59 BTC between August 16 and 26, valued at $40.15 million at the time of transfer. Two of the wallets carry the "Salomon Client Dusted" tag linked to a New York lawsuit involving Noah Doe.One of the transfers involved 40 BTC from a wallet dormant since May 28, 2012, with the funds moved on August 26 to German crypto custodian bank Boerse Stuttgart Digital. Calculated at a cost of approximately $5, the funds appreciated by roughly 1,535,911%.The remaining transfers included 212 BTC, 150 BTC, and 132.31 BTC, originating from wallets inactive since 2012, 2014, and 2011, respectively. The Noah Doe lawsuit seeks to declare 39,069 dormant bitcoin addresses in New York State as lost property. Additionally, several long-term holding addresses moved funds following the July Coldcard hardware wallet vulnerability incident. (Decrypt)
Odaily News - U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Michael Selig stated that if the Clarity Act continues to be stalled by Democratic obstruction, the CFTC will leverage its existing authority to begin establishing a regulatory framework for crypto assets and has directed staff to expedite formal rule proposals.Selig has instructed staff to study incorporating digital asset market structure into CFTC rules, with both existing CFTC registrants and currently unregistered crypto exchanges potentially falling under regulatory scope. Rules tailored to digital assets may permit leverage and margin trading.On Thursday, Bitcoin ETFs saw net inflows of $606 million, marking the highest single-day figure since May 1; Ethereum ETFs recorded net inflows of $219 million, the highest since September 2025. Over the past 24 hours, short liquidations in the crypto market exceeded $1.2 billion, approaching $5 billion over the past two days. (Decrypt)
Odaily News, Cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes has discovered that multiple fake cryptocurrency anti-money laundering (AML) detection websites are impersonating legitimate services such as AMLBot, tricking users into connecting their wallets and authorizing transactions. Legitimate AML checks only require a wallet's public address—there is no need to connect a wallet, approve permissions, or sign transactions.These websites simulate the service process through fake progress prompts and detection results. One of the sites even asks users to deposit a small amount of funds to pay so-called detection fees, after which it displays a "clean, low-risk" result regardless of whether a real check was completed. Connecting a wallet does not directly lead to asset theft, but it does expose the address and asset information, making it easier for scammers to craft transactions for users to approve.Malwarebytes noted that similar scams use the same design and process, only changing the names and logos. Users who have approved suspicious token permissions should revoke those permissions; users who have entered their mnemonic phrases or private keys should treat their wallets as compromised and transfer assets to a new wallet. (Decrypt)
Odaily News: Edward Zimbardi, a 59-year-old Georgia resident, appeared in U.S. federal court facing 12 counts of wire fraud, 12 counts of money laundering, and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering. Fiji authorities handed him over to U.S. custody on August 14, in coordination with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the U.S. State Department.Prosecutors allege that Zimbardi operated a project called "The Crypto Program" from June 2022 to August 2023, luring participants with promises of a fixed 25% monthly return on advertising packages, requiring them to transfer cryptocurrency into wallets he secretly controlled. The government claims that thousands of individuals collectively transferred over $165 million into these wallets. Prosecutors stated that Zimbardi did not purchase advertising but instead funneled more than $34 million into high-risk forex trading, using funds from new investors to pay earlier ones. His personal spending totaled at least $10 million, including purchasing property for his son, buying luxury cars, and making alimony payments.The U.S. Department of Justice stated that after the project collapsed in August 2023, Zimbardi left the country and settled in Fiji in July 2025 upon learning of the FBI investigation. The FBI is urging affected investors to come forward with information. (Decrypt)
Odaily News: After a firmware vulnerability in Coldcard hardware wallets was exploited, approximately 2,100 Bitcoin were stolen, with losses nearing $130 million. On-chain data shows that in the days surrounding the incident, wallets held by long-term holders transferred out approximately 233,000 Bitcoin, valued at around $15 billion. Casa CEO Nick Neuman stated that some of the transferred funds came from Coldcard users migrating to multi-signature wallets, with Ledger and Trezor users also taking similar measures after the event. During the same period, approximately 22,000 Bitcoin were transferred into exchanges. Coinkite has advised users who generated seed phrases using firmware versions 4.0.1 through 4.1.9 to treat their wallets as compromised and immediately migrate to new seed phrases. These versions cover the period from March 2021 to July 2026. (Decrypt)
Odaily News: Gurinder Singh Josan, Co-Chair of the UK Parliamentary Crypto and Digital Assets All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG), along with Lord Vaizey of Didcot, has written to the CEOs of all major UK banks, demanding clarification on how they treat crypto and digital asset businesses. The letter raises six questions covering banks' current policies, whether they provide services to crypto businesses, related transaction restrictions and the factors determining them, and asks whether practices will be adjusted once the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) regulatory regime takes effect. The group noted that many crypto businesses struggle to open bank accounts in the UK, with some banks also restricting related payments. The letter stems from a parliamentary inquiry into banking service access launched on July 21, with written submissions open until August 31. A January survey by the UK Cryptoasset Business Council estimated that banks block or delay around 40% of transactions to crypto exchanges. HSBC, NatWest, Monzo, and Nationwide cap monthly transfers to crypto exchanges at between £5,000 and £10,000, while Starling and Chase UK prohibit such transfers altogether. UK Treasury Economic Secretary Lucy Rigby stated that the government does not want FCA-licensed firms to face banking restrictions solely because of their industry; the FCA completed related rules in June, with the regime becoming mandatory in October 2027. (Decrypt)
Bitcoin was priced at approximately $63,020 on Friday, down 1.7% on the day and 50% lower than the record high of $126,080 set in October. Bitcoin failed to hold above $65,000 on Wednesday, dropping to an intraday low of $62,640, breaking through the $64,500 Put Wall associated with this week's option expiry. Glassnode数据显示，over 65% of Bitcoin flowing into exchanges comes from long-term holders selling at a loss. The firm noted that this reading aligns with early bear market phases, during which this group dominated the sell-side until selling pressure gradually exhausted. Tim Sun, Senior Researcher at Hashkey, stated that the global equity pullback and accelerated deleveraging of semiconductor and AI-related assets have dampened market risk appetite and reduced institutional exposure to Bitcoin. He pointed out that the derivatives market does not show crowded leverage, with selling pressure concentrated in the spot market. After a net outflow of $425 million on Monday, U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs saw a net inflow of $181 million on Tuesday and $108 million on Wednesday. Related funds have attracted cumulative inflows of approximately $51 billion since their launch in 2024. (Decrypt)
Odaily News According to on-chain tracking platform Arkham, the US government on Monday transferred a total of $288.33 million in seized BTC and ETH to Coinbase Prime, including approximately 3,800 BTC valued at $235 million and around 30,000 ETH valued at $53 million. The assets originated from criminal cases involving Brian Krewson, BTC-e, and Ryan Farace. Tim Sun, Senior Researcher at HashKey, stated that Coinbase Prime serves as the custodian for the US government, and it remains unconfirmed whether these transfers are preparation for sale or merely for the consolidation and custody of seized assets. Arkham tracking shows that the US government wallet still holds $20.6 billion in crypto assets, including 324,552 BTC. (Decrypt)