BTC traded at $83,193, down 0.42% over 24 hours, while ETH stood at $2,496.40, down 0.62%. Gold was at $4,166.00 and silver at $58.790; the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 fell 0.02% and 0.31%, respectively, while WTI and Brent rose 0.61% and 0.14%.
1. Whale Sells 1,074 BTC and Buys 36,159 ETH Over 3 Days
Per Lookonchain monitoring, a whale sold a total of 1,074.36 BTC over the past three days while buying 36,159 ETH, steadily rotating its bitcoin position into ethereum.
Assets to watch: BTC, ETH
2. Bitcoin treasury firm Strive plans $500M preferred stock offering
Per CoinDesk, bitcoin treasury firm Strive plans to issue a new perpetual preferred stock, SATS, offering 5 million shares at $100 each to raise $500 million, with proceeds to be used for purposes including buying more bitcoin.
Assets to watch: BTC
3. Standard Chartered launches crypto trading service in the UAE
Standard Chartered announced a crypto trading service for high-net-worth clients, licensed by the UAE's Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority, opening initially to professional investors in the UAE to buy and sell bitcoin and ethereum directly through existing accounts.
Assets to watch: BTC, ETH
4. Whale sells another 100K HYPE for $8.17M
Per Lookonchain monitoring, a whale that bought 257,928 HYPE at $3.50 each two years ago sold another 100,276 HYPE about six hours ago for about $8.17 million to realize part of its profit.
Assets to watch: HYPE
5. PancakeSwap proposes raising LP fee share to 88%
Per The Defiant, PancakeSwap's core team Kitchen proposed a governance plan called The Flip to raise the share of trading fees allocated to liquidity providers in v3 and Infinity pools to 88%, and to cut CAKE's daily effective emissions from 22,500 to 7,000, a reduction of about 69%.
Assets to watch: CAKE
6. Starknet launches Shadow Accounts feature
Starknet announced Shadow Accounts, a feature that lets users interact with public DeFi protocols through a separate address they control while keeping its link to their main wallet private.
Assets to watch: STRK
7. Leopold holdings slide further, SNDK down 19%
Per PANews, several heavy positions held by Leopold Aschenbrenner fell further from October highs, with SNDK down 19%, CRWV down 13%, NBIS down 11% and SHAZ down 30%.
Assets to watch: CRWV, NBIS, SHAZ, SNDK
8. OpenAI in talks to acquire software security firm Trail of Bits
Per The Information, OpenAI is in early acquisition talks with Trail of Bits, a software security firm, with the potential deal size not yet disclosed.
Assets to watch: OPENAI
Market snapshot
BTC: $83,193 (24h -0.42%) | ETH: $2,496.40 (24h -0.62%)
Gold: $4,166.00 (-0.27%) | Silver: $58.790 (-1.23%)
WTI: $94.71 (+0.61%) | Brent: $105.84 (+0.14%)
S&P 500: 7,805.45 (-0.02%) | Nasdaq 100: 30,569.48 (-0.31%)
1. Whale Sells 1,074 BTC and Buys 36,159 ETH Over 3 Days
Per Lookonchain monitoring, a whale sold a total of 1,074.36 BTC over the past three days while buying 36,159 ETH, steadily rotating its bitcoin position into ethereum.
Assets to watch: BTC, ETH
2. Bitcoin treasury firm Strive plans $500M preferred stock offering
Per CoinDesk, bitcoin treasury firm Strive plans to issue a new perpetual preferred stock, SATS, offering 5 million shares at $100 each to raise $500 million, with proceeds to be used for purposes including buying more bitcoin.
Assets to watch: BTC
3. Standard Chartered launches crypto trading service in the UAE
Standard Chartered announced a crypto trading service for high-net-worth clients, licensed by the UAE's Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority, opening initially to professional investors in the UAE to buy and sell bitcoin and ethereum directly through existing accounts.
Assets to watch: BTC, ETH
4. Whale sells another 100K HYPE for $8.17M
Per Lookonchain monitoring, a whale that bought 257,928 HYPE at $3.50 each two years ago sold another 100,276 HYPE about six hours ago for about $8.17 million to realize part of its profit.
Assets to watch: HYPE
5. PancakeSwap proposes raising LP fee share to 88%
Per The Defiant, PancakeSwap's core team Kitchen proposed a governance plan called The Flip to raise the share of trading fees allocated to liquidity providers in v3 and Infinity pools to 88%, and to cut CAKE's daily effective emissions from 22,500 to 7,000, a reduction of about 69%.
Assets to watch: CAKE
6. Starknet launches Shadow Accounts feature
Starknet announced Shadow Accounts, a feature that lets users interact with public DeFi protocols through a separate address they control while keeping its link to their main wallet private.
Assets to watch: STRK
7. Leopold holdings slide further, SNDK down 19%
Per PANews, several heavy positions held by Leopold Aschenbrenner fell further from October highs, with SNDK down 19%, CRWV down 13%, NBIS down 11% and SHAZ down 30%.
Assets to watch: CRWV, NBIS, SHAZ, SNDK
8. OpenAI in talks to acquire software security firm Trail of Bits
Per The Information, OpenAI is in early acquisition talks with Trail of Bits, a software security firm, with the potential deal size not yet disclosed.
Assets to watch: OPENAI
Market snapshot
BTC: $83,193 (24h -0.42%) | ETH: $2,496.40 (24h -0.62%)
Gold: $4,166.00 (-0.27%) | Silver: $58.790 (-1.23%)
WTI: $94.71 (+0.61%) | Brent: $105.84 (+0.14%)
S&P 500: 7,805.45 (-0.02%) | Nasdaq 100: 30,569.48 (-0.31%)