An early Ethereum investor has sold roughly $136 million worth of ether and staked-ether tokens over the past week, adding to the selling pressure already weighing on ETH near the $2,000 mark. A Week of Steady Selling The wallet, an early participant holding coins since the network’s first years, sold 55,000 ETH worth about $112.25 […]
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An onchain trader previously flagged by analysts at Lookonchain as the wallet behind a profitable Apecoin insider trade has expanded a Lido DAO long position to 10.26 million LDO, valued at approximately $4.58 million. Key Takeaways: The wallet linked to the APE insider trade now holds 10.26 million LDO worth $4.58 million, per Lookonchain. The […]
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Lido DAO has formally approved a $60 million operating budget for 2026 and outlined a strategy to move beyond its core liquid- staking product into yield vaults, institutional wrappers, and what the protocol calls “real-business DeFi.” Lido DAO Targets Corporate Treasuries and Tokenized Assets in Three-Year DeFi Plan The plan, detailed in the GOOSE-3 governance […]
]]>While downward pressure on the cryptocurrency market shows no sign of letting up, a notable market “whale” has made the decision to signal an otherwise bearish outlook on two major DeFi tokens—Lido (LDO) and Aave (AAVE). This particular whale, a big holder of crypto assets, has sold off in total $5.98 million worth of these two assets over the last seven hours. This action seems more pronounced when taking into consideration that the broader market is moving down right now. If a whale is starting to sell off certain assets, then it stands to reason that they might think we
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]]>The cryptocurrency community is paying close attention to a prominent whale address, 0x413, which has deposited 2.6 million LDO tokens (worth roughly $4.51 million) into Binance. The address had been inactive for over a year, with no notable transactions for months preceding this event. The sudden appearance of such a large transfer, especially as it follows a relative calm period for the wallet holder, has led to quite a bit of speculation across the community regarding the intentions behind this well-timed deposit. The whale in question is likely Wolfgang Albrecht from Staking Facilities. He first entered the LDO market on
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]]>The staked Ethereum (stETH) from Lido has experienced an unparalleled upsurge in transaction activity, with more than 1,200 large transactions captured in a mere 24 hours—an increase of 417%! Yet, this sudden uptick is not merely a “by chance” occurrence; it is happening while Lido implements a major shift in its community staking model that was previously semi-permissioned (i.e., only certain users could validate transactions and earn rewards) and is now fully permissionless. These are not your ordinary community governance changes, though. Allowing anyone to stake across Ethereum in a totally permissionless manner could change the dynamics of the Ethereum
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The new funds add to Grayscale’s expanding suite of single-asset crypto products.
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According to a recent decision from the US District Court for the Northern District of California, decentralized autonomous organizations, or DAOs, may not provide the liability protection the industry once thought. In a seminal case, a Federal Court in California ruled that, despite the governing body being a DAO, several prominent investment firms may in […]
]]>Paradigm recently moved 6.744 million $LDO (valued at $8.97 million) to Coinbase Prime, marking another significant transfer just three hours ago. These transfers, which began after $LDO’s price surge on November 7, are part of a larger selloff. Initially, Paradigm bought 70 million $LDO tokens directly from the Lido Treasury at $0.76 each. Over the past five days, they’ve transferred 43.255 million $LDO (worth $56.87 million) to Coinbase Prime, averaging a transfer price of $1.31. Paradigm’s ongoing sales appear to be keeping $LDO’s price in check since the recent increase. Paradigm 3 小时前继续将 674.4 万枚 $LDO ($8.97M) 转进 Coinbase Prime。
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Without Bitcoin staking oracles, BTC-based liquid staking tokens can be only used to provide liquidity on DEXs, according to RedStone co-founder Marcin Kaźmierczak.
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