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Amid cooling risk appetite, US stocks and crypto-related stocks weakened in tandem, with MSTR, COIN, and others experiencing the largest intraday declines (the extent of the decline varied depending on the timeframe and accounting method).
(BlockBeats | PANews)
3. Precious metals experienced sharp fluctuations at high levels: Gold briefly fell below $5,200, and silver saw a maximum pullback of approximately 8%–9%.
Spot gold quickly retreated from around $5,500 and fell below $5,200 per ounce, briefly approaching $5,100 during the session; silver saw a maximum intraday drop of approximately 8%–9%. Meanwhile, some observers cautioned against the risk of a reversal after a period of "unstable surge" in gold prices.
(PANews | BlockBeats)
4. Options expiration is approaching: The concentrated settlement volume this week is approximately US$9.5-9.8 billion, with implied volatility (IV) at a low level.
Deribit data shows that over $9.5 billion in options will expire (with the biggest hurdle for BTC at $90,000 and for ETH at $3,100); other institutions say that with the first "monthly expiry" of 2026 approaching and implied volatility continuing to decline, key price levels may amplify volatility.
(PANews | GreeksLive)
5. On-chain token structure: Glassnode indicates that LTH's "actual reduction" over the past 30 days may be underestimated by net indicators.
Glassnode claims that LTH has net sold approximately 144,000 BTC in the past 30 days, but the actual reduction in "cumulative reduction" may exceed 370,000 BTC. This is because some BTC have matured from short-term to long-term holding, which can distort the net indicator.
(Foresight News)
━━ Project Updates ━━
1. Unchained: The Ethereum Foundation and Vitalik reportedly plan to establish a $220 million "Security and Audit Fund".
The report states that the funds are related to TheDAO and are intended for Ethereum security and auditing; currently, the information is mainly based on media disclosures, and details and implementation paths are yet to be confirmed.
(Unchained | Odaily)
2. Optimism: OP holders approve the buyback program, and 50% of protocol revenue is redirected to OTC swaps.
Once governance is approved, 50% of the revenue from the Optimism protocol will be used for buybacks/related arrangements via OTC swaps.
(The Block)
3. Talos, an institutional-grade crypto trading infrastructure, has raised $45 million in expanded funding, valuing the company at approximately $1.5 billion. New strategic investors include Robinhood, Sony Innovation Fund, IMC, and QCP. The company stated that its institutional clients manage a total of approximately $21 trillion in assets.
(CoinDesk | The Block)
4. The Bitcoin ZK Rollup project Citrea launched its mainnet with BTC-collateralized DeFi lending, structured products, and the native USD stablecoin ctUSD (issued by MoonPay and pegged to cash and short-term US Treasury bonds), emphasizing native issuance to reduce bridging risk.
(BlockBeats)
5. Coinbase integrates Jupiter, a DEX aggregator within the Solana ecosystem.
After Coinbase integrates Jupiter, users can directly trade Solana native assets through a self-custodied wallet on the Coinbase platform, aggregating liquidity on-chain and completing settlement.
(PANews)
━━ Other ━━
1. On-chain and leverage risks: Hyperliquid's "ETH super short" has accumulated profits of over $80.9 million and still holds a large short position. Address 0x20c2 is accused of short ETH on Hyperliquid and accumulating profits of over $80.9 million. It currently still holds a short position of approximately 30,582 ETH (previously 50x, currently approximately 25x).
(BlockBeats | PANews)
2. Trend Research increased its defensive position: It withdrew 36.39 million USDT and deposited them into Aave as margin. During the ETH price decline, Trend Research withdrew 36.39 million USDT from Binance and deposited them into Aave in batches. Its ETH holdings were about 650,000 to 660,000 ETH, and the unrealized loss was about 179 million to 215 million USD depending on the statistical time.
(PANews | Foresight News)
3. Exchange Announcement: Binance will remove and suspend 20 spot trading pairs and related trading bot services, including 0G/FDUSD, ARPA/BTC, AXS/ETH, NEAR/BNB, SEI/BNB, SOMI/FDUSD, etc. (subject to the official announcement time). This will not affect the trading of the relevant tokens on other trading pairs.
(PANews | Foresight News)
4. DeFi Anomalies: Venus Protocol token XVS experienced a 24-hour flash crash of approximately 40%, triggering liquidation of whale revolving loans.
XVS fell from around $5.3 to around $3.1, with an intraday low of around $2.97; on-chain data showed that a whale revolving loan position had approximately 287,000 XVS liquidated.
(PANews | Foresight News)