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According to on-chain analyst Specter (@SpecterAnalyst), the North Korean hacking group TraderTraitor began laundering stolen funds from KelpDAO at approximately 3 a.m. Beijing time today—just three hours after the Arbitrum Council froze 30.7 ETH (approximately $71 million). The attackers split the remaining funds across three wallets, holding roughly 25,000 ETH (~$57.6 million), 25,700 ETH (~$59.2 million), and 25,000 ETH (~$57.9 million), respectively. The third wallet immediately initiated laundering operations and now holds only about 3,800 ETH (~$8 million). The majority of the funds were bridged to the Bitcoin network via THORChain, with approximately 99% flowing through this protocol. As a result, THORChain’s daily trading volume surged to $211 million—more than ten times its 30-day average—and generated roughly $189,000 in fees. During this laundering process, the illicit proceeds were also commingled with funds stolen in the BTC Turk (2025) and Bybit (2025) hacks. To date, approximately 442 BTC (~$33 million) linked to these incidents have been traced on the Bitcoin network, and over 400 addresses have been utilized throughout the entire laundering operation.
According to on-chain analyst Onchain Lens (@OnchainLens), Bitmine has staked another 61,232 ETH, valued at $142 million. To date, Bitmine has staked a total of 3,395,869 ETH, valued at $7.9 billion, and may continue staking going forward.
According to on-chain analytics platform Lookonchain (@lookonchain), a newly created wallet withdrew 35,000 ETH—worth approximately $80.7 million—from Binance within the past two hours and subsequently transferred the funds to BitGo.
Odaily News According to monitoring by crypto analyst Ai Yi @ai_9684xtpa, the KelpDAO attacker has transferred 50,700 ETH to 2 new addresses, valued at approximately $118 million.
According to on-chain analytics platform Lookonchain (@lookonchain), Tether minted an additional 2 billion USDT on Ethereum over the past three days.
According to on-chain analyst Onchain Lens (@OnchainLens), Tether minted 1 billion USDT on Ethereum 8 minutes ago.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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%.
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.
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.
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%.