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Hong Kong woman loses HK$7.7 million in cryptocurrency after falling for AI-powered quantitative trading scam

According to Hong Kong 01, a woman met a fraudster on Telegram who claimed to be an “investment expert.” The scammer lured her with promises of stable high returns using “quantitative trading” and “AI algorithms.” Believing the claims, the victim transferred approximately HK$7.7 million worth of USDT and ETH from her e-wallet to wallets designated by the fraudster in 17 separate transactions. When she attempted to withdraw funds, the scammer delayed and refused her requests with various excuses—only then did she realize she had been defrauded. Police warned that “high returns + low risk + low entry barrier” constitutes a 100% fraudulent “impossible triangle,” and urged the public to verify the authenticity of any investment platform before committing funds.

A newly created wallet withdrew 80,000 ETH from Binance, valued at approximately $185 million.

According to on-chain analyst Onchain Lens (@OnchainLens), a newly created wallet address (0x32E1), only four weeks old, withdrew 80,000 ETH from Binance in a single transaction, valued at approximately $184.7 million.

KelpDAO hacker still holds 75,700 ETH on the Ethereum chain, worth $175 million

Odaily News According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, the Arbitrum chain project team has frozen the 30,766 ETH ($70.97 million) that the KelpDAO hacker had placed on the Arbitrum chain. Through technical means, they transferred these 30,766 ETH from the hacker's wallet to the address 0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000da0, which is controlled by the Arbitrum chain. After the recovery of these 30,766 ETH, the hacker still holds 75,700 ETH ($175 million) on the Ethereum chain.

PeckShield: Kelp DAO Attacker Suspected of Transferring 30,765 ETH to a Special Address

According to monitoring by PeckShield, the Kelp DAO attacker transferred 30,765 ETH (approximately $70.92 million) to a special address starting with 0x00000, suspected to be a burning action.

Aave Suspends WETH Withdrawals, Triggering Discount Arbitrage; Whales Net $143 ETH in 13 Minutes

According to on-chain analyst Ember (@EmberCN), the deposit receipt aEthWETH traded at a discount following Aave’s temporary suspension of WETH withdrawals. Whale address 0x8ad withdrew 13,000 ETH (approximately $30 million) from an exchange, swapped it to acquire 13,143 aEthWETH, and then repaid its ETH loan on Aave at a 1:1 ratio—netting a profit of 143 ETH (approximately $330,000).

Yesterday, Ethereum spot ETFs saw a net inflow of $67.77 million.

According to Trader T (@thepfund), yesterday’s Ethereum spot ETFs recorded a net inflow of $67.77 million: BlackRock’s $ETHA saw an inflow of $76.05 million; BlackRock’s staking version $ETHB, an inflow of $13.19 million; and Invesco’s $QETH, an inflow of $1.16 million. Meanwhile, Grayscale’s $ETHE experienced an outflow of $17.05 million; Grayscale Mini $ETH, an outflow of $4.43 million; and Fidelity’s $FETH, an outflow of $1.16 million. All other products registered zero net inflow for the day.

Whale Forced to Sell at 1.8% Discount After Aave Paused WETH Withdrawals, Loses $720,000 Before Migrating to Spark

According to on-chain analyst Ember (@EmberCN), a whale/institution that invested $500 million in BTC and ETH in early February—buying at the bottom—retrieved 17,400 ETH from Aave by directly swapping its deposit receipt (aEthWETH) for ETH at a ~1.8% discount, resulting in a loss of 310 ETH (approximately $720,000). The ETH obtained was then redeposited into Spark.

A major whale transferred its remaining 2,000 cbBTC tokens to Coinbase, realizing a total profit of $5.37 million.

According to Yu Jin’s monitoring, the whale/institution that spent $500 million to accumulate BTC and ETH at the bottom in early February transferred its remaining 2,000 cbBTC (approximately $151 million) to Coinbase in the early hours. This address purchased 4,000 cbBTC at an average price of $73,837 in early February and has now transferred all of it to Coinbase at an average price of $75,181, realizing a profit of approximately $5.37 million.

A major whale sold 497.73 ETH and bought 3.845 billion ASTEROID tokens over the past two days.

According to on-chain analyst Onchain Lens (@OnchainLens), the address 0x2d2e…36fc sold a total of 497.73 ETH (approximately $1.14 million) over two days, and purchased 3.845 billion $ASTEROID tokens at an average price of $0.00029. It currently still holds 369.27 ETH (approximately $855,000) and may continue reducing its ETH position to increase its allocation to this token.

A whale withdrew 18,300 ETH from Binance and sold 12,000 ETH to repay an Aave loan.

According to on-chain analyst Onchain Lens (@OnchainLens), the whale address “0x8Ad” withdrew 18,300 ETH (approximately $42.18 million) from Binance; of this amount, 12,000 ETH has been sold to repay an Aave loan. The address currently holds 6,315 ETH (approximately $14.62 million), and further selling pressure is expected.

Analyst: Spark's USDC Deposit Pool TVL Currently Stands at $467 Million, Justin Sun's Funds Account for Nearly 22.5%

Odaily News According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, Justin Sun withdrew another 50 million USDC from HTX last night. This means that over the past 8 hours, he has cumulatively deposited 105 million USDC into Spark. Combined with the previously deposited 53,665 ETH, the total value amounts to a staggering $174 million. Spark's USDC deposit pool TVL currently stands at $467 million, with Justin Sun's funds alone accounting for nearly 22.5%.

“ETH Leverage Whale with $44.61M Profit in Two Months” Adds Another 12,000 ETH to Long Position

According to on-chain analyst Ai Aunt (@ai 9684xtpa), following a short-term ETH price drop, an ETH leveraged whale—having accumulated $44.61 million in profits over the past two months—added another 12,000 ETH at $2,286.90, increasing its long ETH position to 30,000 ETH. Its current average entry price stands at $2,288.30, and the position has just turned back into unrealized profit.

Multiple ETH whales continue to take profits, earning $695,000

According to on-chain analyst Ai Aunt (@ai9684xtpa), an ETH leveraged whale that accumulated $44.61 million in profits over the past two months closed a long position of 4,000 ETH today afternoon, realizing a profit of $144,000. Another address, 0x6c8…d84f6, took profits again on 20,000 ETH within the past half hour, worth approximately $46.33 million, realizing a profit of $551,000. This address currently still holds 20,000 ETH, with an unrealized profit of $296,000.

Strategy has an unrealized loss of approximately $195 million, and Bitmine has an unrealized loss of approximately $6.39 billion

Odaily News According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, Strategy currently holds 815,061 BTC, with a total value of approximately $61.363 billion and an average cost of around $75,527. It has an unrealized loss of about $195 million, representing a decline of approximately 0.3%.Ethereum treasury company Bitmine currently holds 4,976,485 ETH, with a total value of approximately $11.505 billion and an average cost of around $3,596. It has an unrealized loss of about $6.39 billion, representing a decline of approximately 35.7%.

CoinShares: Digital asset investment products saw $1.4 billion in net inflows last week, the highest since January.

CoinShares’ latest weekly report shows that digital asset investment products recorded $1.4 billion in net inflows last week—the third consecutive week of net inflows and the largest single-week inflow since January—with total assets under management reaching $155 billion. Bitcoin investment products saw $1.116 billion in net inflows, bringing year-to-date net inflows to $3.1 billion; Ethereum investment products attracted $328 million in net inflows—the strongest weekly performance since January. By region, the U.S. recorded $1.5 billion in net inflows, Germany $28 million, while Switzerland saw $138 million in net outflows. Meanwhile, short-Bitcoin products attracted $1.4 million in net inflows, while XRP and Solana products experienced $56 million and $2.3 million in net outflows, respectively.

An OTC whale deposited $74.02 million worth of cbBTC into Coinbase, profiting $1.97 million

Odaily News According to monitoring by Onchain Lens, an OTC whale (0xFB7) deposited 1,000 cbBTC (worth $74.02 million) into Coinbase, realizing a profit of $1.97 million.The whale still holds 2,000 cbBTC (worth $149.6 million) and 133,200 ETH (worth $31.62 million).

A whale withdrew 10,800 ETH—worth approximately $24.91 million—from Aave following the rsETH incident.

According to on-chain analyst Ember (@EmberCN), following yesterday’s rsETH incident, a whale withdrew 10,800 ETH—worth approximately $24.91 million—from Aave in the early hours. Subsequently, this address sold all of the ETH on-chain today, receiving 24.91 million USDC at an average execution price of roughly $2,300 per ETH. Public data indicates that this batch of ETH was purchased in March at $2,081 per ETH; thus, based on the current sale price, the whale realized cumulative profits of approximately $2.41 million.

Matrixport’s affiliated wallet, dormant for a year, received 6,383 ETH from OKX, raising its holdings’ value to $41.82 million.

According to on-chain analyst Onchain Lens (@OnchainLens), a wallet associated with Matrixport—dormant for one year—has received 6,383 ETH (approximately $14.49 million) from OKX. The wallet now holds a total of 18,383 ETH, valued at approximately $41.82 million.

ETH Leverage Whale, Which Earned $44.61 Million in Two Months, Opens New 4,000 ETH Long Position with 15x Leverage

According to on-chain analyst Ai Aunt (@ai_9684xtpa), an ETH leveraged whale—having accumulated $44.61 million in profits over the past two months—opened a long position of 4,000 ETH at 15x leverage on Hyperliquid today, with an entry price of $2,264.1, valued at approximately $9.06 million. Notably, this whale had just closed a 4,000 ETH short position earlier today, realizing a profit of $123,000, before immediately flipping to go long.

Aave ETH Withdrawal Halted, Causing an OTC Whale to Incur $540,000 Loss from Discounted Token Swap; 10,000 ETH Still Stuck

According to on-chain analytics platform Lookonchain (@lookonchain), an OTC whale previously purchased 163,405 ETH (approximately $440 million) and 4,000 cbBTC (approximately $296 million). Due to the KelpDAO rsETH cross-chain bridge vulnerability, this whale was unable to withdraw ETH normally from Aave and was forced to discount-swap 7,438 aEthWETH (approximately $16.83 million) for 1,930 stETH and 5,272 ETH, incurring a loss of approximately 237 ETH (about $540,000). The whale has since withdrawn 98,032 wstETH (approximately $272 million) and 3,000 cbBTC (approximately $221.6 million) from Aave, leaving 10,000 ETH (approximately $22.8 million) still deposited in Aave.