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Arkham

Arkham Intelligence is a blockchain analytics platform that tracks on-chain transactions and attributes wallet addresses to entities like exchanges and funds.

Known aliases

  • Arkham Intelligence
  • Arkham Research

Current stories

investOne report1 publisher

Onchain trackers trace nearly a fifth of Hut 8's bitcoin stack to trading venues in a week

A Hut 8-linked wallet sent 1,966 BTC, about $161 million, to exchanges and OTC desks in seven days, Bitcoin News reported. Hut 8 has not explained the moves, and onchain data cannot show whether the coins were sold.

Publishers:news.bitcoin.com

Reality

Evidence50
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+25
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence45
investConfirmed4 publishers

A wallet that received bitcoin in March 2020 sends $378M to five addresses

A bitcoin wallet that has held coins since March 2020 sent 4,582 BTC, worth $377.6 million, to five addresses, and none has moved them. CryptoQuant's Darkfost reported negative Coinbase premiums with bitcoin near $83,000, so the move invites a selling read that no on-chain sale yet confirms.

Perspective Coverage

4 publishers
Builder
Builder 7%
Operator
Operator 19%
Investor
Investor 74%

Reality

Evidence68
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+30
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence72
investConfirmed5 publishers

Robinhood puts $25 million of company capital into bitcoin, about 0.025% of its market value

Robinhood has added $25 million of bitcoin to its balance sheet, crypto chief Johann Kerbrat said, a stake worth about 0.025% of its market value. The company's larger tie to the asset runs through trading, where August crypto volume reached $17.5 billion.

Perspective Coverage

5 publishers
Builder
Builder 25%
Operator
Operator 22%
Investor
Investor 53%

Reality

Evidence60
Adoption25
Hype gap+15
Incentives60
Confidence65
investOne report1 publisher

Bitcoin ETFs took 92% of September's $2.6 billion inflow in a single week

US spot bitcoin ETFs have taken in $28 million so far this week, after one late-September week brought in $2.39 billion of the month's $2.6 billion. Tesseract's Oliver Carding sets $300 million a session as his sign of returning institutional demand, and a single day at that level would beat last week's entire intake.

Publishers:coindesk.com

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+25
Incentives55
Confidence50
investOne report1 publisher

BlackRock's IBIT takes in more than the whole US spot Bitcoin ETF category in one session

BlackRock's IBIT took in $195.6 million on a day all US spot Bitcoin ETFs together netted $102.7 million, so the other funds sold a net $92.9 million. Over 30 days its $1.57 billion is just over half the category's $2.99 billion, so its rivals are still gathering money.

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption70
Hype gap+15
Incentives35
Confidence50
investOne report1 publisher

Hunter Biden's launch post disclaims the exact promise that would make LAPTOP a security

Arkham marked $144bn of fully diluted value two minutes after LAPTOP launched and $5bn at the half hour, and with the SEC's February meme-coin statement in force, the only cops left for the buyers are fraud cops.

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption40
Hype gap+20
Incentives65
Confidence50
investOne report1 publisher

Bitwise liquidates a Dogecoin ETF that held $721,815 after ten months of brokerage access

Bitwise is closing its Dogecoin ETF in October after about ten months on NYSE Arca, and the fund's own filings show net assets of $473,547 at the end of June against $1.15 million six months earlier.

Reality

Evidence70
Adoption12
Hype gap+10
Incentives55
Confidence65
investOne report1 publisher

Arkham traces $30M of North Korean bitcoin through the exchange Washington wants inside its perimeter

Payward's Bitnomial filing answers the market-structure question the CFTC already knows how to answer. The open item is the screening of a permissionless order book, and no answer to that question exists yet.

Reality

Evidence40
Adoption45
Hype gap+45
Incentives72
Confidence45
investOne report1 publisher

Hyperliquid clears close to 30% of perp DEX volume. Machi's $12.7M week is just the receipt.

One account's 84-fold three days on Hyperliquid is a curiosity. The venue clearing close to 30% of all perp DEX volume, by its reporter's own totals, is not.

Reality

Evidence33
Adoption54
Hype gap+38
Incentives62
Confidence40
investConfirmed3 publishers

Metaplanet's 200 million yen bond debut is a plumbing test, not a raise

The BitBonds launch brought in about $1.3 million at 4.0 to 4.3 percent. What it actually built was an in-house channel selling bitcoin-treasury credit to Japanese retail and corporate buyers.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 17%
Operator
Operator 33%
Investor
Investor 50%

Reality

Evidence61
Adoption28
Hype gap+33
Incentives72
Confidence58