FIDELITY SOLD.
ARK SOLD.
GRAYSCALE SOLD.

But while others are hitting the sell button…

BLACKROCK BOUGHT $970 MILLION OF BITCOIN 💸🔥

The whales are moving. Are you paying attention?

#bitcoin #BTC #cryptomarket #blackrock #OnChain #InstitutionalBuying

Optimistic Ethereum, now primarily referred to as Optimism or OP Mainnet, is a layer-2 scaling solution for Ethereum focused on improving transaction speed and reducing costs while maintaining security through optimistic rollups.

Here's the latest based on recent activity:

Superchain Expansion: Optimism is pushing its "Superchain" vision, a network of interoperable layer-2 blockchains built on the open-source OP Stack. Recent posts highlight integrations like Unichain, with incentives starting April 15, 2025, and Soneium's growth strengthening the ecosystem.

Retro Funding: Optimism continues its Retroactive Public Goods Funding (RetroPGF), rewarding developers and projects that contribute to Ethereum’s ecosystem. A recent call for applications for the next round closes April 27, 2025, emphasizing fair rewards based on impact, not marketing. Over 2 million OP tokens were allocated this month for dev tooling and onchain builders.

Performance and Governance: The OP token governs the Optimism Collective, a decentralized system driving ecosystem growth. As of early 2025, OP’s price is around $0.65-$0.69 USD, with a market cap of about $1.14 billion. Q4 2024 saw an 11.3% increase in total value locked (TVL) to $756.1 million, though price performance remained flat, causing a dip in market cap rank.

Open-Source Commitment: Optimism is doubling down on open-sourcing its tech, with 131 GitHub repositories and contributions like the OP Stack powering chains like OP Mainnet and Base. This aligns with their mission to scale Ethereum collaboratively.

https://x.com/optimism
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🚨 Just in: Vitalik Buterin has dropped a simplified Layer 1 privacy roadmap!

The focus? Enhancing privacy without major Ethereum consensus changes. 🔒✨
Here are the 4 key areas:
1️⃣ Onchain payment privacy
2️⃣ Activity anonymization
3️⃣ RPC call privacy
4️⃣ Network anonymization

A big step toward a more private and secure Ethereum future! 🛡️

#ethereum #VitalikButerin #CryptoPrivacy #Web3

As $ETH dipped again, someone created a new wallet and accumulated 9,610 $ETH ($14.54M) ~9 hours ago.

First, they withdrew 5,000 $ETH from #Kraken , used it as collateral to borrow 7M $USDS on #Spark , then used those funds to buy another 4,610 $ETH at ~$1,518 — seemingly going long on $ETH.

https://platform.spotoncha...

DWF Labs just transferred 25M $USDC to Donald Trump’s World Liberty Financial (worldlibertyfi)!

Side note: A day ago, they received 1M #USD1 , the stablecoin launched by WLFI, for market-making purposes.

🌟 DWF Labs: https://platform.spotoncha...

🌟 World Liberty Financial: https://platform.spotoncha...

🚨BREAKING: Onchain Lens reports two major Ethereum acquisitions!

1. '7 Sibling' invests $41.78M in USDC/USDT to buy 25,092 ETH at $1,665 avg price
2. Another new wallet spends $8.13M in DAI to acquire 4,983.56 ETH at $1,631 avg price

Source - https://x.com/OnchainLens/...

What's driving these massive buys? #ethereum #defi #cryptocurrency "

Whale alert! 🐳

OnchainLens monitoring reveals a major crypto holder, commonly known as a whale, spent 1,000 ETH ($1.97 million) to buy 290,212 UNI tokens (at $6.78 each) after 3.5 months of dormancy.
Despite this huge buy, the whale still holds 1,016 ETH (~$2M). 💰

Address: 0xeb8ffc68f50e5d4b640090e6e4d540057d3a8af7

#UNI #ETH #whalealert #cryptoholder

Blockchain investigator ZachXBT has reported on his personal channel that a probe into Tornado Cash asset theft has revealed North Korean hackers used the platform to mix coins on March 11. Following this, they allegedly purchased 437.6 billion PEPE tokens, valued at approximately $3.1 million, using part of the ETH funds.

Previously, Foresight News reported, based on Lookonchain monitoring, that three wallets made significant purchases of 689.79 billion PEPE tokens, totaling around $4.3 million. The funds for these transactions were also traced back to Tornado Cash.

#theft #HACK #pepe #memecoin #northkorea #tornadocash #Blockchain #ETH

A new address has withdrawn 1,000 BTC from the Binance exchange.

On March 1st, blockchain analytics platform Onchain Lens reported that a previously unknown address withdrew 1,000 BTC, valued at roughly $84.4 million, from the Binance exchange.

https://intel.arkm.com/exp...
#binance #BTC #bitcoin

Bybit hacker launders $335 million as funds continue to move.

Onchain data shows that the hacker has moved 45,900 Ether (ETH) — worth about $113 million — in the past 24 hours, bringing the total amount laundered to more than 135,000 ETH, valued at $335 million.
#BYBIT #BybitHack #HACK #launders #cryptohacker