BlockTower sold 1,815 MKR through Galaxy Digital and received 653,000 EIGEN (worth $2.38 million) from the Wintermute address 10 hours ago, as monitored by on-chain analyst Yu Jin. They likely bought EIGEN with the proceeds from the sale of MKR through Wintermute, which means their cost of buying EIGEN was $3.65.

FOX Business has learned that the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) still believes that the cryptocurrency XRP is a security. This news was revealed after the cryptocurrency derivatives exchange Bitnomial filed a lawsuit on Thursday evening, accusing the top cop on Wall Street of claiming that the SEC has jurisdiction over a planned futures contract that tracks the price of XRP, the seventh-ranked digital asset by market cap. Bitnomial is regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, a sister agency of the SEC. After the SEC's lawsuit against blockchain payment company Ripple was settled, Bitnomial self-certified XRP-US dollar futures contracts in August.

Several of the largest banks on Wall Street predict that the Federal Reserve will end the process of reducing its balance sheet in April of next year, which is consistent with their expectations in July. A survey conducted by the New York Fed of so-called primary market dealers before the Fed's interest rate meeting last month showed that "most dealers said they expected the end of balance sheet reduction to depend on the assessment of reserve levels, overnight reverse repurchase agreements, or upward pressure on money market rates relative to administered rates. Some dealers said macro factors posed risks to the prospect of ending the balance sheet reduction." The Federal Reserve's current balance sheet is about $7 trillion.

Ethereum L2 network Optimism announced the opening of the fifth season airdrop application, distributing over 10 million OP tokens to 54,000 independent addresses. Users who interacted with at least 20 independent contracts on the superchain between March and September 2024 and had a contract-to-transaction ratio of 10% are eligible to receive the airdrop, with different airdrop multipliers based on their interaction history.

On October 10th, payment service provider Stripe has officially launched and supported USDC payments. Buyers can pay USDC from Ethereum, Solana, and Polygon chains, and allow US businesses to directly receive US dollars.

Chris Dixon, the founder of a16z Crypto, recently discussed his views on stablecoin regulation and the need for further clarification of regulations by the US government.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin, as reported by Jinse Finance, investment firm BlockTower sold 1,815 MKR (worth $2.48 million) via Galaxy Digital 7 hours ago. BlockTower Capital had acquired 12,502 MKR from Coinbase/FTX/Kraken and other CEXs at an average price of $1,055 between May and November 2022. They began selling MKR in December last year and have sold a total of 7,664 MKR (worth $11.62 million) over the past 10 months at an average price of $1,516, realizing a profit of $3.53 million from this sale. They currently hold 7,662 MKR (worth $10.37 million).

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, That 4483 staked ETH (worth $11.04 million) was redeemed from Ether.fi 11 hours ago and then deposited into Binance. If sold, it would result in a loss of $510,000. The individual had previously withdrawn 9002 ETH (worth $23.19 million) at an average price of $2576 over the past nine months, and the current deposit was made at a price of $2462.

US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said in a statement to overseas voters that he will terminate the collection of income tax from Americans living in other countries. This is the latest tax proposal in his 2024 election campaign. This commitment can simplify the tax obligations of American citizens living overseas. Americans living anywhere in the world must submit tax information to the US Internal Revenue Service and must pay US taxes in addition to paying taxes in their country of residence. This commitment requires congressional approval and, according to the US State Department, could potentially reduce the tax bills of approximately 9 million Americans living overseas. (Jinshi)

As monitored by Trader T, the net outflow of the US spot Bitcoin ETF was $30.56 million yesterday.

The liquidity re-pledging platform Swell has opened its airdrop inquiry. The total supply of SWELL tokens is 10 billion, of which 8.5% (850 million) will be used for the Voyage airdrop. When open for application, 700 million SWELL tokens will be distributed linearly based on the White Pearls accumulated by each Voyager. Additionally, 1.5% will be distributed to pledging users based on loyalty reward methods.

According to iChainfo monitoring, Sun Yuchen's Binance deposit address (starting with 1Fbsri) received a total of 1000 BTC ($60.7 million) in the past 24 hours. Since May of this year, a total of 5089.99 BTC ($308 million) has been transferred to this address.

According to official data from Grayscale, the AUM (assets under management) of their recently launched SUI Trust Fund, Grayscale Sui Trust, has surpassed $1 million and reached $1,018,249.74 as of September 13th, with a net asset value of $15.4 per share. Historical data shows that the AUM of the Grayscale SUI Trust Fund was less than $300,000 at the beginning of last month.

According to data disclosed by IntoTheBlock on the X platform, the locked amount of the RWA protocol has accounted for 3.69% of the total lock-up volume in DeFi, while this number was only 1.77% in July this year.

According to the market, ORDI has exceeded $35 and is now trading at $35.02, with a 24-hour decline of 1.63%. The market is volatile, so please be prepared for risk control.