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.
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SkyAI, a Nasdaq-listed Solana treasury company, sold about 1 million SOL to help fund a $201 million tender at $3 a share. Ember's estimates imply sales near $110 a coin, against a purchase cost Lookonchain puts at $194.
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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.
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Bitmine Immersion Technologies will stop buying ether at 5% of supply, a cap that leaves it about $200 million of purchases at Wednesday's price. For ether's flows, that limit matters more than Tom Lee's bull call, because one of the token's steadiest buyers is close to done.
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Hyperliquid whale rebuilds its ether long 8% above the next forced sale
One Hyperliquid whale lost 28,716 ETH, worth $69.69 million, to forced liquidation on Oct. 9, then posted 10 million USDC of fresh margin within half an hour. Its rebuilt 78,955 ETH long now liquidates about 8% below the market, Bitcoin.com News reported, at prices anyone can see.
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- Evidence50
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MARA Holdings moved 996 bitcoin worth about $81m to Galaxy Digital on October 9, a transfer the analytics firm Lookonchain flagged as a possible sale. The on-chain data cannot confirm a sale, and MARA's filings already show its treasury fell to 35,577 bitcoin from 49,951 a year earlier.
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Hunter Biden's $LAPTOP accounting says two hired market makers took about $2.87 million while draining launch liquidity. His team's 300 million tokens never moved, so a lockup check would have passed a launch whose opening pool held under 30,000 tokens.
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- Evidence55
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- Hype gap+30
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Hyperliquid Labs has finished unstaking 3.75 million HYPE, worth about $330 million, for an over-the-counter deal with an undisclosed institution. The buyer and the terms are private, so holders can judge future supply only by where the tokens sit onchain.
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US government wallets sent 833.6 BTC, worth about $71.6 million, toward Coinbase Prime on Oct. 7, roughly 0.26% of the bitcoin they still hold. The risk that the stash comes to market depends far more on the executive orders limiting sales of reserve bitcoin than on transfers this small.
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Bitcoin open interest rose from $54.2 billion to $55.3 billion in six hours after a dip to $83,560 liquidated about $550 million of crypto longs. Traders re-levered at the lows, leaving bitcoin inside a 3.4% band between its $83,850 21-day average and the $86,700 close Rekt Capital wants to see.
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Rising oil, Treasury yields and the dollar pushed bitcoin below $84,000 on Oct. 7 and forced out $403 million of leveraged crypto longs in one hour. The flush cleared only 0.27% of open interest, so most of that leverage is still in place as traders wait on the Fed's minutes.
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Bitget says attackers took over a wallet backend system and fed its authorization process spoofed data, moving out $387.5 million without stolen keys. For teams running payouts, the data an approver trusts now belongs on the same review list as the keys.
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Pump.fun's latest SOL sale cleared about $121 a coin, a quarter below its earlier average
Pump.fun sold 47,994 SOL for $5.83 million, about $121 a coin, taking its cumulative SOL sales past $848 million. At that price it needs about a third more SOL per dollar raised than at its earlier average of roughly $164.
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An attacker pumped TONIC roughly 100x in twenty minutes and borrowed against it, which is the 2022 Mango playbook run again, and the only reason most of the money stayed reachable is a validator cap of 100.
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Arkham valued Hunter Biden's Base token at three million times the pool it traded in. The sell-side flows anyone can actually count come to about $3.2m, and that is the size of the real transfer.
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Bitget says spoofed backend data drained $351.6 million from its hot and warm wallets
Bitget lost about $351.6 million from its hot and warm wallets after attackers spoofed transaction data in a backend system, the exchange said. Cold storage held and a $464 million fund covers the loss, while about 45% of the haul is native XRP that no one can freeze.
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Marathon's $98.6M September Buy Replaces About 6% of the Bitcoin It Sold in Q1
Lookonchain spotted 1,292 coins moving to Marathon through FalconX on September 15. With a 1,000-coin purchase in June, the miner has bought back 2,292 of the 20,880 it sold for $1.5 billion, at a higher price.
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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.
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- Evidence55
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One June transfer moved more Bitcoin than Bhutan's sovereign fund now has labeled
Druk Holding's labeled wallets hold 518 BTC, down from 13,000, and at the price implied by the latest transfer that remainder is worth under $40mn, which is a ceiling on any state supply pressure still to come.
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Fifteen wallets turned $18,657 into $330,000 on a borrowed Trump endorsement
The $GOLD tokens sold for about 17 times what they cost, but the number that explains the trade is the supply behind them: 82.45% sat in fifteen wallets and a developer bag, and only $330,000 found a buyer.
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- Adoption24
- Hype gap+38
- Incentives58
- Confidence44