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According to market news, the enforcement team at the Chicago office of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has completely resigned. This office was once regarded as the agency's "top enforcement force," previously having 20 enforcement attorneys, and now none remain.This staff reduction comes as the CFTC seeks to significantly expand its regulatory scope into the cryptocurrency and prediction market sectors. Reports indicate that the same leadership responsible for the CFTC's staff cuts last year had actively advocated for the agency's jurisdiction to cover most of the cryptocurrency markets and sports prediction platforms. Caroline Pham, who served as the acting chair of the CFTC in 2025, pushed for a reduction of over 21% in the agency's workforce last year, and she is currently employed at the cryptocurrency company MoonPay.Former CFTC enforcement attorneys stated that this layoff is targeted, as the Chicago office has specialized experience and a key role in reaching multi-billion dollar settlements with cryptocurrency companies like FTX and Binance.

According to HyperInsight monitoring, the wave giant whale closed its ETH short position, realizing a profit of 2.21 million dollars after holding the position for nearly 11 hours.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, in the past 8 hours, smart money (0xFB7...e0A3) has made a profit of 99.22 million dollars in ETH, withdrawing 750 cbBTC from Coinbase, with a total value of 55.999 million dollars and an average withdrawal price of 74,665.8 dollars.

According to crypto analyst Yu Jin @EmberCN, in the past 15 hours, an address that previously made a profit of approximately $98.95 million through ETH swing trading has continued to increase its position, adding about 23,000 ETH.In the last 3 days, this address has accumulated purchases worth approximately $262 million in ETH and cbBTC, including 83,392 ETH (approximately $204 million, with an average price of about $2,450) and 750 cbBTC (approximately $57.78 million, with an average price of about $77,040).As of now, this address holds approximately 173,000 ETH (approximately $406 million) and 750 cbBTC (approximately $57.78 million), with an average holding price of about $2,667 for ETH and about $77,040 for cbBTC, resulting in an overall unrealized loss of approximately $55.11 million.

According to Hyperinsight monitoring, the address (0x880a...) executed a take-profit operation on its BTC short position, reducing its holdings by 29.24 BTC shorts, valued at approximately 3.0226 million USD.After this reduction, the total value of its BTC short position decreased to 18.794 million USD, with the average price slightly dropping from 81,539.3 USD to 81,254.1 USD. The current floating profit of this position is approximately 1.4409 million USD, with a return rate of 84.34%, and the liquidation price is 117,063.41 USD.This address has been engaging in high-frequency multi-currency swing trading for a long time, with an average holding period of about 20 hours. Since last October, it has accumulated nearly 10 million USD in profits with a principal of about 20 million USD.

According to market news, "smart money that made a profit of $99.22 million on ETH" has once again splurged $85.91 million to buy the dip on ETH and BTC.In the past 9 hours, 20,392 ETH were withdrawn from major exchanges, worth $47.17 million, at an average price of $2,313.35; in the past 2 hours, a first position of 500 cbBTC was established, worth $38.74 million, at an average price of $77,484.46.

According to on-chain analysts, some ETH whales are engaging in liquidation operations. The ETH swing whale nemorino.eth (0x8AeC...0E0D) has liquidated all of its WETH at an average price of $2514.85 over the past 9 hours, with an acquisition cost of 7107.08 WETH at $3045.24, resulting in a loss of over $3.769 million from this sale.Additionally, a certain whale (0x1E2a...Ed29), which previously profited $14.26 million from buying low and selling high on WBTC, has deposited a total of 3500 ETH, worth $8.42 million, to multiple exchanges over the past 6 hours, with an average deposit price of $2406.

According to HyperInsight monitoring, in the past hour, the "20 Million Band Hunter" (0x880a) has been continuously increasing its short positions in gold and XMR. Currently, it is shorting $7.23 million in gold mapping contracts GOLD with 10x leverage, with an average entry price of $5,287.54, resulting in an unrealized loss of $318,000; it is also shorting 21,399.447 XMR with 5x leverage, with an average entry price of $523.02, resulting in an unrealized profit of $1,032,000.This address belongs to an aggressive trading style and is currently the largest holder of short positions in XMR on Hyperliquid, skilled at using high leverage for short-term operations, with a total accumulated profit of $92.27 million over the entire period.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, a certain address (0xd45...FB20) that previously made a profit of 98.18 million USD from ETH trading has sold for the first time since establishing its position.Three hours ago, the address deposited 10,000 stETH into Wintermute, worth 30.12 million USD, and subsequently received 30.03 million USDC. Recently, the address has accumulated a total of 70,013 ETH, with an average cost of approximately 2,907 USD, resulting in a profit of 1.039 million USD from this sale. Currently, the address still holds 60,013 ETH, with an unrealized profit of 7.243 million USD, bringing its total ETH trading profit to 99.22 million USD.

According to market news, a whale who previously made a profit of $98.18 million in Ethereum swing trading increased their holdings by 20,000 ETH (approximately $56.13 million) through Wintermute 12 hours ago, with an average purchase price of about $2,806.58. This whale has accumulated a total of 70,013 ETH since January 21, with an average cost of about $2,907.69.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, the whale (0x3c9E) has sold 5,500 ETH at a price of $2,912 in the past 3 days, worth $16.02 million. This address had previously bought 2,000 ETH at a price of $2,984 five days ago, worth $5.97 million.

According to Hyperinsight monitoring, the wave giant "pension-usdt.eth" shorted 25,000 ETH with 3x leverage last night, with an average entry price of $2927.33, currently facing an unrealized loss of $2.002 million.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi (@ai_9684xtpa), smart money that profited $98.18 million from ETH has received 10,000 ETH (approximately $28.96 million) from Wintermute again near the bottom of the ETH decline, suspected to be through OTC purchases.Since yesterday, he has increased his position by 30,000 ETH (approximately $88.37 million), with an average cost of about $2,945.7, realizing a floating profit of $973,000.

According to HyperInsight monitoring, a certain wave PEPE trader went long on 215,513,963 kPEPE at 15:38 with 10x leverage, with an average opening price of $0.0051, currently experiencing a slight unrealized loss.This address previously closed all three wave PEPE trades in profit, totaling a profit of $54,000.

Cosmos ecosystem stablecoin protocol Noble announced the launch of an EVM-based Layer 1, Noble EVM, which is expected to go live on March 18. The new Noble EVM will be specifically designed for stablecoin applications.Noble is not the only Cosmos ecosystem project undergoing transformation in recent months; for example, Sei plans to fully transition to an EVM-only chain in the upcoming upgrade, abandoning its CosmWasm and Cosmos native assets.

According to Coinbob's popular address monitoring, the "Strategy Opponent" whale address (0x94d) has been continuously increasing its long positions in BTC and ETH over the past few hours, with a total holding size rising to 272 million USD. This position was opened two hours ago.The specific position information is as follows: 15x ETH long position: holding size approximately 221 million USD, average price 3213 USD, unrealized loss 240,000 USD; 20x BTC long position: holding size approximately 43.7 million USD, average price 9.3 USD, unrealized loss 30,000 USD; this address previously closed long positions in the three major cryptocurrencies due to market fluctuations, incurring losses exceeding 15.3 million USD. Subsequently, it bottom-fished and opened long positions in BTC and ETH with 20x leverage, with related positions once reaching 53 million USD.All of these long positions were closed around 3 PM today, marking its re-entry for bottom fishing. This address began building its position in December last year, with an initial account size of approximately 20 million USD, and gradually increased short positions in mainstream cryptocurrencies like BTC and ETH. Due to its operational direction being contrary to the publicly traded company MicroStrategy, which continues to purchase BTC, this address is viewed by the market as a clear "on-chain opponent." Recently, it has frequently reversed large positions to go long, with holding sizes reaching over 100 million USD.

According to Coinbob's popular address monitoring, in the past 2 hours, "pension-usdt.eth" completely closed its ETH long position, recording a profit of about $740,000, and then shifted to opening a long position in BTC with 3x leverage, currently holding a position size of $69 million, with an average price of $95,600, and continues to increase its position as of the time of writing.Based on its holding tendencies over the past few months, this scale may still exceed $80 million. Additionally, monitoring shows that this whale's strategy mainly involves operating BTC and ETH with low leverage and short cycles (average holding period of about 23 hours), accumulating profits of over $21 million since October. Recently, this address has been continuously transferring its substantial profits accumulated on Hyperliquid to interest-bearing markets. Currently, its total lending amount on AAVE has reached approximately $26.71 million.

According to monitoring by HyperInsight, the address marked as "20 Million Band Hunter" (0x880a) executed a take-profit operation on its PEPE short position, reducing its holdings by 144 million PEPE short contracts, valued at approximately $1.2169 million.After this partial take-profit, its PEPE short position still holds about $3.4299 million. The current floating profit of this position is approximately $360,600, with a return rate of 105.14%. The average holding price and the current coin price are both around $0.01, with a liquidation price of $0.051.This address is known for its high-frequency, multi-currency swing trading style, with an average holding time of about 20 hours. Since last October, it has accumulated nearly $100 million in profits with an initial capital of about $20 million.

Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi posted on the X platform, stating that it is crucial to distinguish between participation and abandonment. Arjun Sethi and several related individuals are still actively involved, as they believe the right direction is to address the outstanding issues and refine the bill, rather than abandon the progress made over the years by both parties.