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The U.S. Department of the Treasury has sanctioned a Russian exploit brokerage network accused of purchasing stolen U.S. government cyber tools with crypto and reselling them to unauthorized buyers, marking the first use of new authorities under the Protecting American Intellectual Property Act. In an announcement Tuesday, the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control designated Russian national, Sergey Sergeyevich Zelenyuk, and his company, Operation Zero, along with several associates and affiliated firms. The action blocks any property or interests in property of the designated parties that fall under U.S. jurisdiction and bars U.S. persons from transacting with them. Treasury alleges…
Key takeaways:ETH futures liquidations reached $224 million after a 9% price drop, while the network’s onchain activity fell to a 12-month low.ETH’s high correlation with Bitcoin and massive outflows from exchange-traded funds suggest further downside risk for Ether price.Ether (ETH) plunged to $1,800 on Tuesday, wiping out $224 million in leveraged bullish positions over 48 hours. This 14% price slide over the last 10 days has left top traders defensive. Options and futures data, sluggish onchain activity, and steady outflows from Ether spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs) all point to a shaky floor at $1,800. ETH options put-to-call volume premium at…
Bitcoin’s recent 5% flash crash has pushed the crypto fear index to a record low, triggering over $438 million in long position liquidations across Bitcoin and altcoins. The sharp decline saw Bitcoin fall below $64,000, prompting analysts to reassess price predictions and market sentiment. This volatility has reignited discussions about market stability and the potential for further corrections in the near term.Meanwhile, institutional interest in crypto continues to evolve, with Coinbase’s USDC ($1.00 · Live) revenue projected to potentially increase sevenfold as payment adoption grows, according to Bloomberg. This development highlights the growing mainstream acceptance of stablecoins and their role…
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Crypto isn’t just building faster payments rails. It may be building the financial system for non-humans.As AI agents grow more autonomous, developers are already giving them crypto wallets, allowing software to hold assets, pay for services, trade tokens and even hire other agents. The technical pieces are falling into place. The legal ones are not.At a recent panel at NEARCON 2026, Electric Capital’s Avichal Garg framed the moment as historically significant.“What happens if there’s not a human behind it at all?” Garg asked. “It’s some piece of code that owns a wallet, executing code to make…
Disclosure: This article does not represent investment advice. The content and materials featured on this page are for educational purposes only. Ethereum’s top holders double in size when tokens and stablecoins are included in on-chain valuations. Summary Aggregating ETH with tokens shows top holders control $426 billion, over 2x higher than ETH-only rankings reveal. Including ERC-20s shifts power view, with smart contracts holding nearly 40% of top Ethereum balances. New PPI metric flags self-minted DeFi exposure, warning of fragility if selling pressure triggers unwind risks. Ethereum’s balance sheet looks nothing like what it looked like a couple of years ago.…
The Ethereum price is hovering near a critical long-term zone as whales reshuffle billions of dollars in holdings, adding fresh uncertainty to an already fragile market. While price action remains weak in the short term, analysts say the asset has returned to a historical accumulation range. Related Reading Recent on-chain activity shows a surge in whale transfers, liquidations, and strategic repositioning, all unfolding as Ethereum (ETH) struggles to defend support near the $1,800 level, a price area many traders now view as decisive for the next market direction. XRP’s price trends to the downside on the daily chart. Source: XRPUSD…
A rare and remarkable event in the Bitcoin mining world occurred recently when an independent miner validated an entire Bitcoin block — earning the full block subsidy of 3.125 BTC — after spending only about $75 on rented computing power. The feat was confirmed by mining firm Braiins on social media and reflected on‑chain data. According to Braiins, the miner successfully mined Bitcoin block 938092 — earning the full 3.125 BTC subsidy, worth roughly $200,000 at current prices — after renting about 1 petahash per second (PH/s) of hashpower via an on‑demand service. The total rental cost was reported as roughly 119,000 satoshis…
The Ethereum Foundation has begun staking part of its treasury, turning one of Ethereum’s most influential entities into a direct economic participant in network consensus.According to a Tuesday post on X, the foundation deposited 2,016 Ether (ETH) and plans to stake about 70,000 in total, with all rewards flowing back into its treasury to fund protocol research and development, ecosystem development and grants.In its announcement, the foundation stressed that new validators were being operated using open-source infrastructure, Dirk and Vouch, originally developed by Attestant and now part of Bitwise’s institutional staking stack. Dirk acts as a distributed signer, while Vouch serves…
Ether (ETH) whale activity on a major exchange has slowed since the start of 2026, with roughly 2 million ETH traded in large-sized transactions over the past 45 days. ETH is currently in the midst of its worst weekly losing streak since 2022, with exchange flow trends and futures market liquidation data impacting investor expectations for Ether’s short and long-term price direction in the broader market.Ether whale order size hints at fading participationCryptoQuant data shows that the average ETH whale sell orders on Binance have fallen to around 1,350 ETH in recent weeks, down from roughly 2,250 ETH in early…
Tom Lee, founder of Fundstrat and Chairman of ether (ETH ($1,854.39 · Live)) treasury company Bitmine Immersion Technologies, has lost more on ETH using other people’s money than the $8 billion worth of losses suffered by FTX customers. With 4,422,659 ETH purchased at an average $3,850 apiece, Lee’s company raised capital to buy the asset at over $2,000 more per coin than today’s price. As a result, he’s lost $8.8 billion of his company’s assets. Tom Lee’s loss on ETH with other people’s money is now bigger than the losses incurred by users in the FTX collapse— Sisyphus (@0xSisyphus) February…