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According to on-chain analytics platform Lookonchain (@lookonchain), Abraxas Capital is shorting the market, having established a short position of approximately $783 million on Hyperliquid. Meanwhile, Abraxas Capital is heavily hedging via spot purchases, withdrawing 73,872 ETH worth around $173 million from Binance over the past four days.
Odaily News According to on-chain analyst Ember Monitor, the TRUMP token team address (BDNB...mx66) transferred 3.837 million tokens to OKX yesterday, valued at $9.33 million. Since early this morning, the address has sold another 1.1 million tokens by adding unilateral liquidity, receiving 2.94 million USDC at an average selling price of $2.68.
According to monitoring by analyst Ember, "Brother Maji" scaled up his long positions during last week's one-way rally, expanding a $150,000 position to $11.15 million and successfully recouping $11 million. However, his cumulative losses from holding ETH long over the past 10 months still total $35 million, leaving him with a net loss of approximately $24 million following this recovery. Currently, Brother Maji holds $129 million worth of long positions across ETH, BTC, HYPE, PUMP, and other tokens, with an overall leverage ratio of 12x.
According to tracking by on-chain analyst Onchain Lens (@OnchainLens), Wintermute is doubling down on shorts while transferring massive funds to Binance. Wintermute has injected millions of dollars into Hyperliquid, increasing short positions from $146.19 million to $190.77 million, with a current unrealized loss of $5.85 million. Top five short positions: ETH: $53.02 million; BTC: $30.66 million; SOL: $22.62 million; HYPE: $11.43 million; XRP: $10.19 million.
Odaily News: According to HyperliquidNews monitoring, total stablecoin inflows this week have surpassed $668 million, recording the third-highest weekly figure in stablecoin inflow history. The USDC contract address 0xa0b...eb48 on the Ethereum blockchain accounts for 97.98% of the share. AQAv2 will use 90% of the income generated by these USDC inflows to buy back and burn Hyperliquid's native tokens.
: According to on-chain analyst Ember's monitoring, as HYPE broke through $80 and hit a new all-time high, an address's long position in HYPE has been held for 10 months, generating a profit of $57.18 million. The position's value has grown from the initial $53.38 million to $110 million. The long position of 1.38 million HYPE was opened last November at $38.6. During the holding period, funding fees of $4.98 million were paid.
Odaily News, SlowMist Security Team disclosed that the cross-chain bridge project Allbridge suffered an attack on August 19, 2026, with losses of approximately $190,000. Notably, this attack was not executed instantaneously—the attacker began laying the groundwork nearly a month in advance, bypassing the verification mechanism through forged cross-chain messages.According to SlowMist's analysis, on July 26, the attacker directly called Circle's MessageTransmitterV2.sendMessage function on the Polygon chain, constructing a cross-chain message disguised as CCTP-style, claiming a transfer of 1 million USDC, despite no actual USDC burn operation occurring. Subsequently, Circle generated a valid attestation for this complete message following standard procedures.Approximately 24 days later, on August 19, the attacker waited for the Base Router to receive a genuine CCTP deposit, bringing its balance to approximately 191,000 USDC, then launched the attack just 6 seconds later. Using the previously forged message and attestation, the attacker called Allbridge's receiveCctpMessage function. Due to the project's lack of critical validation, the system mistook the fraudulent cross-chain message for a genuine deposit and recorded a 1 million USDC credit.Subsequently, the attacker borrowed approximately 809,000 USDC temporarily via an Aave flash loan to match the Router's balance with the forged amount, then utilized the internal credit record to call the transfer function, ultimately moving out approximately 999,000 USDC (after deducting a 0.1% fee). After repaying the flash loan and fees, the attacker netted approximately $189,800 in profit. The root cause of this vulnerability lies in Allbridge's failure to verify the identity of the cross-chain message sender and receiver, as well as its failure to confirm whether USDC was genuinely minted or whether the balance actually increased—instead directly trusting the amount and message hash data constructed by the attacker.SlowMist emphasized that on-chain message verification does not equate to actual asset arrival. Cross-chain protocols must not only verify message authenticity but also ensure the message source is trustworthy, confirm the receiver is Circle's official TokenMessengerV2, and only record assets after confirming actual minting and balance changes. This incident once again highlights the security risks in cross-chain bridges' message verification and asset settlement processes.
Odaily News: According to Lookonchain monitoring, a whale purchased 79,216 ETH at $1,777, valued at $141 million, and bought 1,400 WBTC at $63,887, worth $89.44 million. Over the past 3 days, this whale sold 15,765 ETH at $2,281, worth $36 million, and 110 WBTC at $78,235, worth $8.6 million, realizing a total profit of $9.5 million.
According to Onchain Lens, FalconX has transferred 80,200 HYPE to Gate over the past day, valued at approximately $6.27 million, possibly preparing to sell.
Odaily News - CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost stated on the X platform that the altcoin market has recently shown clear signs of recovery, with market structure undergoing changes, and "Altseason" may have entered its early stages. Data shows that from August 19 to 22, the total market cap of altcoins increased by approximately $215 billion, surging over 24% in just 3 days, pushing the total altcoin market cap back above $1 trillion.Darkfost pointed out that mid- and small-cap altcoins have performed the strongest in this rally. Due to their lower circulating market caps, these assets are more sensitive to capital inflows, while also carrying higher two-way volatility risks.Data from the Binance platform further reinforces the signals of an altcoin market recovery. Since last November, approximately 80% to 85% of altcoins have remained below the 200-day moving average (200-DMA), but currently 56% of Binance-listed altcoins have climbed back above this key technical indicator, suggesting the market may be entering a new cyclical phase.Darkfost believes this trend reversal is linked to a series of positive cryptocurrency signals recently released by Trump. On August 19, Trump stated that the U.S. would "massively purchase Bitcoin" and urged Congress to push through the CLARITY Act, while claiming his administration had ended previous unfriendly policies toward the crypto industry. These remarks boosted market sentiment, and against a backdrop of low trading volume and reduced selling pressure, substantial capital began flowing into the altcoin market, driving gains across multiple sectors simultaneously.Darkfost noted that from a historical perspective, the current broad-based altcoin rally is typically viewed as an important signal of the early stage of altseason. However, he also cautioned that the market has entered overbought territory in the short term, and investors should be wary of periodic pullbacks. If the overall upward momentum continues, new investment opportunities may still emerge down the road.
Odaily News According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, a whale who has been cyclically leveraging long positions on ETH and BTC has taken profits on another $7.24 million worth of ETH. The whale deposited 3,000 ETH into Binance 4 hours ago, with an average withdrawal price of $1,776.83 and an average deposit price of $2,413.4. If sold, this would yield a profit of $1.91 million. Since August 19, the whale has deposited a total of 13,887.15 ETH into exchanges, with cumulative profits reaching $6.727 million.
Odaily News Crypto analyst Ali posted on social platform X, stating that the end phases of Bitcoin’s two historical bear markets both exhibited a key characteristic—a sudden, powerful weekly reversal pattern. These “massive bullish candles” often catch the majority of market participants off guard and may serve as a signal for the start of a new bull market. Such moves are typically driven by “short squeezes.” As Bitcoin’s price rises, bearish traders continue to add short positions, but as the rally accelerates, these shorts are forced to cover, further fueling the upward momentum.Historical data shows that in 2019, near the end of Bitcoin’s bear market, a single week saw a 31.98% surge, followed by the onset of a new upward cycle. In January 2023, amid extremely pessimistic market sentiment following the FTX collapse, Bitcoin posted a 24.90% weekly gain, reversing prior bearish expectations.A similar pattern may now be unfolding in the current market. Although many investors, based on the “four-year cycle theory,” anticipated a market bottom in October, Bitcoin has recently rallied from $62,700 to $79,500, a one-week gain of 26.81%. If historical patterns hold, this robust weekly reversal could indicate that Bitcoin (BTC) has already entered the early stages of a new upward cycle.
Odaily News According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, as BTC fell below $76,000, the BTC short position held by the "Set 10 Big Goals First" trader has turned profitable again. Currently, they hold 1,830.724 BTC short positions, with a position value of approximately $139 million and an average opening price of $76,397.56, yielding floating profits of about $800,000.Additionally, they also hold 12,756.739 ETH short positions, with a position value of approximately $30.25 million and an average opening price of $2,371.57. At present, this position is facing floating losses of around $30,000.
Odaily News: According to Onchain Lens monitoring, Wintermute transferred 129,500 SOL to Binance, worth approximately $12.42 million, along with 169.5 BTC worth approximately $13.11 million, likely for sale. Additionally, 407.47 BTC was transferred through an intermediate wallet before being moved to Coinbase, valued at approximately $31.36 million.
According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a whale opened long positions of 1,000 BTC and 10,000 ETH on Hyperliquid approximately 47 days ago. The combined value of both positions currently stands at about $101.35 million, with cumulative unrealized profits of approximately $21.4 million. Of these, the BTC long position holds unrealized profits of about $14.8 million, while the ETH long position holds unrealized profits of about $6.58 million.
Currently, this address still holds approximately 65,000 ETH, worth around $159 million, and 1,000 WBTC, valued at approximately $77.18 million.
Odaily News - The Kobeissi Letter posted on X stating that the Nasdaq 100 ETF (QQQ) has recorded net inflows of $10.9 billion so far in August, more than double the $4.9 billion seen in all of July and surpassing the monthly record of $9.2 billion set in March 2022, potentially marking the highest monthly net inflow in history.Meanwhile, the Semiconductor ETF (SMH) has seen net outflows of $2.8 billion so far in August, potentially on track for the largest monthly outflow on record; the Software ETF (IGV) recorded approximately $610 million in net outflows over the same period, potentially marking a third consecutive month of net outflows. Capital is rotating from the semiconductor and software sectors into broader tech stocks.
Odaily News: According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, an address that had been dormant for 8 months has been awakened. 40 minutes ago, it made a single purchase of 2,447.49 ETH through Tokenlon, spending 5.044 million USDT, at a cost of $2,447.49 per ETH. The address had previously taken profit on ETH at approximately $3,016 about 9 months ago.
According to Lookonchain, the TRUMP team transferred another 2.62 million TRUMP tokens worth approximately $6.21 million about one hour ago, which were subsequently deposited into OKX.
According to Lookonchain data, whale address 3NVeXm deposited 2,555 BTC worth approximately $197 million to Binance about 13 hours ago.