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Odaily reports: Bankless founder David Hoffman reposted Lighter's regulatory update on X and wrote: "Lighter season back on btw."During Lighter's Q3 investor call held last night via webcast, David Hoffman, speaking as an investor, asked: "Given that Lighter has already had extensive prior communication with the CFTC (U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission), do you expect the approval of the DCM (Designated Contract Market) and DCO (Derivatives Clearing Organization) licenses to come earlier than the CFTC's stipulated 180-day review period?"Lighter founder and CEO Vladimir Novakovski responded: "We believe that the extensive prior communication will make the whole process much smoother... The CFTC currently has a lot on its plate, so we can't give an exact timeline yet... However, the CFTC is a fast-moving team internally, so we expect the overall approval process to go relatively smoothly."Previously, David Hoffman reportedly sold all his ETH and rotated into tokens such as LIT, ZEC, and NEAR, with the rotated tokens subsequently significantly outperforming ETH.
according to on-chain analyst Ai Yi, an address withdrew 4,500 ETH from Binance 9 hours ago at a withdrawal price of $2,509.24, worth $11.29 million. This address last accumulated ETH nine months ago, when the ETH price was above $3,000.
Odaily reports: According to monitoring by on-chain analyst Ai Yi, the Kanye address (0xdeA…a1d5c) has pledged 18,500 WETH to Aave and borrowed $25.01 million in stablecoins, with a health rate of 1.51. Since September 29, this address has withdrawn 12,500 ETH worth $32.04 million from Binance through the above method, and has continued to add to its position from $2,736.47 all the way down to $2,460, bringing the average long position price of ETH down to $2,553.31. Seven hours ago, the address transferred 5 million USDC to 0x4BA…82cE2, which has frequent fund connections with the Kanye address.
Odaily reports: According to monitoring by on-chain analyst Ai Yi, a whale that has been repeatedly building long ETH positions since late September has added another 9,000 ETH, lowering the average long entry price to $2,553.31. The whale deposited 18,500.54 WETH worth $45.53 million into Aave and borrowed $25.01 million in stablecoins, with a health rate of 1.51. Since September 29, the whale has withdrawn 12,549.9 ETH worth $32.04 million from Binance through this method, adding to the position all the way from $2,736.47 down to $2,460.
Odaily reports: According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, the whale/institution that sold BTC to buy ETH sold another 246.2 BTC in the past day, worth $20.36 million, and bought 10,636 ETH. Since the 11th, this whale/institution has sold a cumulative 1,847.3 BTC over 11 days, converting to 153 million USDC, and then buying 63,731 ETH at an average purchase price of approximately $2,400.
Odaily reports: Lookonchain posted on X platform that on October 21, Bitcoin ETFs recorded a single-day net outflow of 403 BTC, approximately $33.88 million; over the past 7 days, there was a net inflow of 2,528 BTC, approximately $212 million. Ethereum ETFs recorded a single-day net outflow of 12,700 ETH, approximately $31.42 million; over the past 7 days, there was a net outflow of 155,100 ETH, approximately $384 million.
that, according to monitoring by on-chain analyst Ai Yi, the whale rotating from UBTC into ETH converted BTC into 3,038.73 ETH through three addresses in the past hour, worth $7.5 million; since October 11, the cumulative rotation has exceeded 46,100 ETH, with the amount surpassing $115 million, at an average rotation price of $2,513.11.
According to monitoring by PeckShieldAlert, the address labeled as Drift Exploiter 1 is depositing a new batch of stolen funds into Tornado Cash. To date, it has cumulatively transferred in approximately 18,800 ETH, worth around $46 million.
According to reports from Huiport, the Hong Kong Police announced on their social media account "Guardian of the Internet" that they received over 50 investment fraud cases in the past week, involving losses exceeding HK$30 million. In one instance, a retired woman in her sixties met a man claiming to want to rent a room through a property trading platform. He posed as an "investment expert" and persuaded her to invest in cryptocurrency. Following his instructions, the victim purchased Tether (USDT) at physical cryptocurrency exchange shops on 20 separate occasions and transferred the funds to a designated e-wallet specified by the scammer to buy Ethereum (ETH). After initially succeeding in withdrawing part of her funds, the victim continued to invest larger amounts. However, when attempting to withdraw funds again later, the scammer demanded payment of USDT worth approximately HK$7 million as a "tax." It was only then that the victim realized she had been scammed, ultimately suffering losses exceeding HK$4.5 million.
据链上分析师 Ai 姨（@ai_9684xtpa）监测，自 3 月 11 日起建仓 80,157.67 枚 ETH 的巨鲸，4 小时前疑似抛售 75.03 枚 WBTC 和 KBTC，价值约 620 万美元。这部分代币的提出均价为 78,068.55 美元，若卖出预计获利 34.6 万美元。 链上数据显示，该巨鲸此前于 3 月 11 日至 14 日四天内累计从交易所提出 80,157.67 枚 ETH，总价值约 1.67 亿美元，平均提出价格 2,078.89 美元。目前这批 ETH 浮盈约 3,079 万美元，暂未减仓。
Odaily reports: According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi, an address withdrew 3,000 ETH from Gemini nine years ago, worth $56,400 at the time, with an entry cost as low as $18.82. The address held for years until August 2025, when it began transferring funds to exchanges in batches. Nine hours ago, it deposited the final 1,000 ETH at an average deposit price of $2,874.17. If sold, the profit would be $8.566 million, representing a 151.7x return.
Odaily reports: According to monitoring by on-chain analyst Yu Jin, an address leveraged a short position of 13,830 ETH at a price of $2,366 on the 19th, with the short position valued at $32.72 million. The address did not set a stop-loss and added to the short position yesterday when ETH pulled back to $2,387. Ultimately, all short positions were liquidated after ETH rebounded last night. Within two days, the address lost $1.11 million, with its principal dropping from $1.25 million to $140,000.
Odaily reports: According to monitoring by on-chain analyst Ember, Ethereum treasury company Bitmine deposited 159,728 ETH ($390 million) into Ethereum staking 6 hours ago. They are likely staking more than 5.227 million ETH ($12.8 billion).Currently, there are 1.33 million ETH in the Ethereum staking entry queue, with a wait time of over 23 days. The amount of ETH exiting staking is only 149,000, with a wait time of less than 4 days.
Odaily Report: According to monitoring by on-chain analyst Yu Jin, the hacker who stole $285 million in assets from Drift Protocol in early April transferred 25,710 ETH, worth $61.24 million, through Tornado 3 hours ago. In early April, the hacker exchanged the stolen assets into 131,564 ETH at an average price of $2,154, and in July transferred 24,400 ETH through Tornado; the address currently still holds 81,454 ETH, worth $194 million.
Odaily reports: According to monitoring by on-chain analyst Ai Yi, @machibigbrother has accumulated a trading volume of $1.56 billion since October 10, with realized losses of $833,000, ranking 10th on the loss leaderboard; the account received an airdrop of 437,000 PAPER tokens (405,000 tokens), yet after offsetting, the account remains down $424,000. @machibigbrother mostly opened ETH long positions on @papetrade_xyz, with leverage ranging from 50x to 1000x, mostly at 100x, and continuously posted multiple tweets praising the platform's model.
According to on-chain analyst @EmberCN, a whale that used leverage to buy the dip at $1,647 for $30 million worth of ETH in early June sold 12,468 ETH yesterday at $2,368, converting them into $29.52 million USDC and realizing a profit of approximately $8.99 million. The address subsequently transferred $20 million USDC to Hyperliquid to go long on crude oil, and currently holds open long positions in crude oil contracts worth approximately $22.4 million (including CL and BRENTOIL) while continuing to add to the position.
According to Bloomberg analyst James Seyffart (@JSeyff), BlackRock has submitted a new Bitcoin ETF application titled “iShares Bitcoin Managed Protection ETF,” with the ticker symbol PBIT. The product is a “buffered” ETF that provides downside protection, but investors must forego some upside returns. Operating as a 1940 Act fund, it uses IBIT as its underlying asset and utilizes the purchase and sale of related options to achieve predefined payoff outcomes. This marks the third Bitcoin-related ETF filing by BlackRock, whose current product lineup remains limited to Bitcoin and Ethereum, without covering other crypto assets. Seyffart also noted that firms such as Calamos and First Trust have previously launched similar buffered/defined outcome Bitcoin ETFs.
Odaily reports: Bitcoin News posted on X that Charles Schwab has opened Bitcoin and Ethereum trading to all eligible US retail clients through its existing investment platform, charging a 0.75% fee per trade with a minimum of $1 and a maximum single-trade limit of $2 million. The company is rolling out digital asset transfers between Schwab accounts and external wallets in phases, requiring users to pre-register withdrawal addresses and complete security checks. Paxos Trust Company provides custody, trade execution, and settlement infrastructure, and the related digital assets are not covered by SIPC or FDIC insurance.
According to Lookonchain monitoring, a whale holds BTC and ETH long positions worth a total of $141 million, including 1,236 BTC valued at $102.2 million and 15,928 ETH valued at $38.67 million.
According to The Block, Bitcoin spot ETFs saw a net outflow of $228.6 million last week, with BlackRock’s IBIT accounting for $165.5 million. Ethereum spot ETFs experienced even larger net outflows, totaling $320 million.