2 Giant Whale Bought 8.514 Million RLB 8 Hours Ago
According to Spot On Chain monitoring, whales 0x6f9 and 0x09d (possibly the same person) bought a total of 8.514 million RLB (approximately $1.27 million) and 818.9 ETH at an average price of $0.15 eight hours ago, causing a 9% price increase. It is worth noting that the whales previously earned $163,000 (+15.1%) by trading 11.856 million RLB. Current holdings: 8.514 million RLB ($1.36 million).
ether.fi Plans to Launch the Mainnet on November 6th and Will Focus on Integration With DeFi Protocols
October 19th, DeFi protocol Ether.Fi plans to launch its mainnet on November 6th. Users can register to join the whitelist in advance, and early eETH stakers will receive loyalty points. Once the re-staking service is launched, they can receive higher staking rewards.
In addition, the official stated that they plan to focus on integrating with other DeFi protocols.
Hope.money: Hackers Did Not Profit From This Attack. Each Protocol Exists Independently
The distributed stablecoin project Hope.money announced that the HopeLend protocol was hacked yesterday, but the hacker did not profit from this attack.
Modular blockchain Astria launches shared sequencer Astria Dusknet
October 19th, Astria, a modular blockchain, launched a shared sequencer called Astria Dusknet, which allows users to deploy Rollups to a remote shared sequencer network without permission. Developers only need to run their Rollup nodes and configure them to use the remote shared sequencer network.
The L2/bridging and infrastructure space is the fastest growing space year-to-date, with daily user activity up 149.28%
According to a 2023 Ethereum user trend report released by Nansen, the fastest-growing areas since the beginning of the year (YTD) are Layer2, bridging, and infrastructure, with a daily user activity growth of 149.28%. The DeFi field comes in second with a growth of 52%, indicating that users prefer scalability and DeFi solutions. The report shows that although most sectors have seen overall growth, the NFT and gaming sectors have seen a significant decline of 61.4% since the beginning of 2023. DeFi trading pairs make up the majority of new users' first actions on the chain, accounting for an average of 63% of first actions compared to Scaling and NFT entities, indicating that DeFi is still the primary entry point for new users in the ecosystem.
Origin’s Snapshot Proposal to Buy Back OGV on the Open Market by Using 50% of OETH Fees
Origin Protocol, a DeFi project, announced that the community has passed a snapshot proposal to use 50% of OETH fees to buy back OGV on the open market. The proposal suggests that the remaining protocol fees will continue to be used to accumulate flywheel tokens held by the DAO, such as CVX.
Spark Protocol TVL Exceeds $500 Million
According to DefiLlama data, MakerDAO's lending protocol Spark Protocol TVL has surpassed $500 million, reaching $504 million.
Uniswap Has Charged Over $11,000 in Front-End Transaction Fees, and All Tokens Will Be Exchanged for USDC
On October 18th, according to on-chain data, Uniswap activated the switch for collecting frontend trading fees about 10 hours ago. The total fees collected so far are approximately $11,511.44.
Yearn core developer banteg reported that Uniswap will exchange all tokens extracted every 10 minutes for UDSC and store them at address 0x6460D14DbAeb27AEfec8eBeF85dB35DefA31c3b9.
The Address Associated With the Israeli Project Orbs Team Deposited 81.8 Million ORBS Into OKX and Is Suspected of Selling ORBS
According to Lookonchain monitoring, the Israeli blockchain IaaS platform OrbsNetwork team seems to have sold ORBS tokens after the token price increased. Two wallets that received ORBS from the team deposited a total of 81.8 million ORBS tokens (approximately $4.25 million) into OKX in the past 16 hours.
An address starting with 0xC13A received 134 million ORBS tokens (approximately $7 million) from Orbs team and founding partner wallets, and deposited 61.8 million ORBS tokens (approximately $3.2 million) into OKX.
Spark Protocol TVL Breaks $500 Million
According to DefiLlama data, on October 18th, the lending protocol Spark Protocol, owned by MakerDAO, surpassed $500 million in TVL, reaching $504 million. Previously reported on August 7th that MakerDAO had passed and implemented proposals to increase the debt ceiling of Spark Protocol.
