Crypto Markets & On-Chain Ecosystem Developments

According to City of London Police, Ajay Shinjin, 25, was sentenced on October 8 to two and a half years in prison for his role in a SIM-swap fraud that stole nearly £200,000 in cryptocurrency. Shinjin received over £44,000 of the stolen funds, which he spent on luxury holidays in Dubai, a

Tom Lee has issued a $25,000 Ethereum price prediction, implying roughly a 1000% gain from ETH's current level around $2,500. BitMine, an institutional accumulator, is approaching 4.9% of ETH supply and has stated it will stop buying once holdings reach 5%, putting a near-term cap on one prominent d

EtherVista lost approximately $18.6K due to a critical exploit in its swap function. The vulnerability, identified by blockchain security commentator @SlowMist_Team, stemmed from an integer overflow in the EtherVistaPair.swap() function that allowed an attacker to drain funds by manipulating the

According to security researcher SlowMist_Team, EtherVista suffered a loss of approximately $18.6K due to an integer overflow vulnerability in its swap function. The attacker exploited the flaw in the EtherVistaPair.swap() function to manipulate the invariant check and drain WETH and VISTA tokens th

According to Chris Kuiper, research vice president at Fidelity Digital Assets, the bear market may not have ended. He recently stated that the August rally could be either the start of a new uptrend or merely a bounce within an ongoing bear cycle, adding that "price movement alone does not confirm t

According to ChainCatcher, citing Liquid247.xyz data, Hyperliquid address 0x3ff54f...f705 currently holds 573.759 BTC short positions with a notional value of $47.4194 million as of press time, with BTC trading at $82,647.

Jack Yi, founder of LD Capital, said on Oct. 9 that Bitcoin is highly likely to fall below $79,000 in the near term. Yi wrote on social media that Bitcoin had broken below $82,000 and identified $79,000 as the next support level, adding that the correction has not ended given the pace of decline

Greece is preparing a draft law that would tax individual cryptocurrency capital gains at 10%, with a reported €500 annual exemption for gains up to that threshold. The proposal is currently in public consultation and could reach Parliament as early as November, though the text remains subject to re

According to Glassnode, approximately 6.26 million BTC, representing 31.2% of the total supply, have public keys exposed to potential quantum computing threats. Glassnode co-founder Rafael noted that this exposure has increased from 24.8% in early 2021, signaling a growing vulnerability within

According to Farside Investors data, U.S. spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs have recorded combined net outflows of $986.3 million so far in October as of October 9. Bitcoin ETF saw net outflows of $407.4 million, while Ethereum ETF experienced net outflows of $578.9 million. Ethereum ETF recorded net

According to Hong Kong police, a 60-year-old local woman lost over HK$21 million in a cryptocurrency investment scam over six months. Police reported receiving over 40 investment fraud cases in the past week, with total losses exceeding HK$36 million. In this case, the victim was initially

According to yicai, the cryptocurrency market saw over 110,000 liquidations in the past 24 hours on October 9, with Bitcoin dropping more than 3% to $83,511 and Ethereum falling nearly 5%, according to Coinglass data. The sell-off coincided with a sharp decline in precious metals, with spot gold

Trader 0x2371 opened a long position of 12,000 ETH valued at $29.88M following a recent market drop. The trader currently holds an unrealized profit of $626K on this position. 0x2371 maintains a 100% win rate across previous trades with $9.26M in total profit. Ethereum's price action has entered a v

According to Onchain Lens, a newly created wallet recently received 110,000 HYPE (approximately $9.73 million) from another wallet and immediately staked all tokens upon receipt.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi, trader @XXAntiWar opened a short position on ZEC two hours ago on October 9, holding 3,356.65 tokens with 3x leverage, worth approximately $4.11 million. The position was opened at $1,221.43 per token. Previously, the trader closed a profitable short position 14