A giant whale withdrew 20,000 ETH from Lido Finance and deposited it all into Binance
TheDataNerd monitoring shows that 40 minutes ago, the whale 0xbcb withdrew 20,000 ETH (worth $32.4 million) from Lido Finance and quickly deposited it all into Binance. It is worth noting that two months ago, Sun Yuchen deposited 5,000 ETH (worth $9.22 million) into Houbi through this wallet. The price of ETH then fell by 12% in the following week.
Vice President of Galaxy Digital: The most pressing issue on Ethereum is the growth of validator size
Christine Kim, Vice President of Research at Galaxy Digital, said that if interest in Ethereum staking does not slow down significantly in the coming months, the size of the Ethereum validator set could pose a problem for the blockchain.
22,343 ETH transferred from unknown wallet to Coinbase
According to data, at 00:42 today Beijing time, 22,343 ETH (valued at approximately $37,220,616) was transferred from an unknown wallet to Coinbase.
Ethereum developers: Holesky testnet has been launched
Terence.eth, an Ethereum developer, posted on X platform that the largest validator set in the history of the Holesky test network has been activated and the final outcome will be coming soon. Currently, some node operators are waiting to go online.
US Treasury adds crypto wallet linked to international crime syndicate to sanctions list
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) under the United States Department of the Treasury has included a crypto wallet allegedly linked to a major international crime syndicate in its list of Specially Designated Nationals. The US Treasury has sanctioned 10 individuals, including those associated with the Sinaloa Cartel, with Mexican national Mario Alberto Jimenez Castro being added to the list through an Ethereum wallet. <br>
Cartesi launches DApp Honeypot on Ethereum, allowing challenges to the protocol’s code security
Decentralized operating system Cartesi launched its first DApp Honeypot on the Ethereum mainnet. The design of this DApp is to allow developers and hackers to challenge the code security of the Cartesi protocol in exchange for bounty rewards.
The Honeypot DApp will be used to stress test the basic code of Cartesi on its mainnet, allowing Cartesi's technology to launch and subsequently be used for other DApps. The first person to crack the Honeypot will receive approximately 1,772,889 Cartesi tokens (about $265,000) with no additional conditions.
In the backend code of the Honeypot DApp, there is an algorithm that only allows depositors' accounts of the Cartesi Foundation to withdraw funds. Participants face the challenge of cracking the password and withdrawing funds to their own accounts.
Ethereum Co-Founder Vitalik Buterin Deposits Over $3.9 Million Worth of ETH to Centralized Exchanges in September 2023
Blockchain analysts have identified several transactions from a wallet linked to Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin in September 2023, totaling over $3.9 million. One transaction worth an estimated $632,000 was sent from Buterin's wallet to Coinbase. Buterin has reportedly deposited a total of 2,421 ETH, valued at $3.94 million, to various centralized exchanges over the past 10 days. The source of a transfer of 2,000 ETH worth $4.9 million to the address associated with Buterin's transactions is a better-known address belonging to Buterin than the middle address that has been transferring funds to exchanges.
Vitalik Buterin's Strategic Cryptocurrency Moves Amid Market Uncertainty
Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, has deposited 400 ETH (equivalent to $0.63 million) into Coinbase, sparking speculation about his intentions and strategies in the volatile cryptocurrency market. Recent transactions involving his ETH holdings have added to the intrigue surrounding his movements.
Glassnode: The Balance of Ethereum on the Trading Platform Continues To Hit a New Low in the Past Five Years
September 25th, according to Glassnode data, the balance of Ethereum on trading platforms reached 14,551,400.379, hitting a new low in nearly 5 years.
Balancer Blames Social Engineering Attack on DNS Provider for $238K Crypto Theft
Balancer, an Ethereum-based automated market maker, has suffered a frontend compromise on its website due to a social engineering attack on its DNS service provider, EuroDNS. The attack led to the theft of an estimated $238,000 in crypto. Balancer's decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) worked to recover the Balancer UI and secured the domain, but the company is exploring deprecating the .fi TLD and suggests other projects using the same top-level domain should consider moving to a more secure registrar. The attacker employed Angel Drainer phishing contracts and SlowMist and CertiK reported that the hacker may be related to Russia.
