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According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin (@EmberCN), an address belonging to the initial team/investors of MakerDAO sold all 1,050 MKR, which had been held for nearly 10 years, 20 minutes ago, exchanging it for 1.316 million USDC before transferring it to Kraken exchange. This address originally received the aforementioned MKR in April 2016 and had not moved any of it for 10 years, except for a migration operation during the token upgrade in 2018.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, the U.S. government has transferred assets worth $349,000 from seized FTX/Alameda funds, including MKR, COMP, GRT, ENJ, MDT.

According to Arkham data, at 15:27, 12,000 MKR (worth approximately $16.8 million) was transferred from Coinbase to an anonymous address (starting with 0x1ad8...).

According to Arkham data, at 00:30, 6989.38 MKR (worth approximately $9.7554 million) was transferred from an anonymous address (starting with 0x032d...) to Coinbase.

According to Arkham data, at 02:13, 2,600 MKR (worth approximately $3.49 million) was transferred from Wintermute to an anonymous address (starting with 0xC4de...).

According to official news, Coinbase will support the migration of Maker tokens from MKR to SKY from January 12 to 14, 2026, with a conversion ratio of 1 MKR : 23,520 SKY. During this period, MKR trading and transfers will be suspended.If users do not wish to have their tokens automatically exchanged, they need to transfer their MKR to a self-custody wallet before January 12.

According to Arkham data, at 06:08, 2,097.08 MKR (worth approximately $2.19 million) was transferred from an anonymous address (starting with 0x2e68...) to Coinbase Prime.

ChainCatcher message, Sky (formerly Maker) posted on social media that the penalty for the delay in the exchange of SKY & MKR tokens has been activated. As of today, all upgrades from MKR to SKY will incur a 1% penalty.According to the regulations of Sky Atlas, this penalty will increase by 1 percentage point every three months.

ChainCatcher news, Balaner posted on platform X that the migration deadline for MKR tokens to SKY tokens is September 18, which means that current MKR token holders only have five days to migrate, or they may face penalties.Because if governance approval is obtained, overdue migrations starting from September 22 will incur a loss of 1% of SKY tokens (increasing each quarter), which means that for each MKR token held, one could lose 240 SKY tokens.

ChainCatcher message, OKX has completed the replacement of MKR tokens. Users can check the new asset SKY in "Asset Management > My Assets > Fund Account". SKY will open for early orders on September 11, 2025, at 18:00, spot trading for SKY/USDT will start at 19:00, and withdrawals will be available at 20:00.

ChainCatcher message, according to Ember monitoring, 25,562 MKR (approximately 42.6 million USD) has been transferred from 10 Anchorage custody addresses to a certain institutional business platform address, which may flow to CEX.This batch of MKR was held in January 2024 at an average price of 2,073 USD, and the current transfer price is 1,667 USD, resulting in an unrealized loss of 10.38 million USD.

ChainCatcher news, according to Lookonchain monitoring, two whale addresses have accumulated 22,753 MKR through FalconX. Among them, wallet 0xb2c7 received 14,000 MKR (24.25 million USD) from FalconX 6 hours ago. Wallet 0xc230 has received 8,753 MKR (15.37 million USD) from FalconX in the past 2 months.

ChainCatcher news, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, 5 hours ago, a newly created wallet received 14,000 MKR (worth approximately $24.74 million) from FalconX.

According to ChainCatcher news, monitored by Onchain Lens, a certain whale (0x6df...ac72) spent 2.3 million USDC to buy 153,975 UNI (unit price $9.74), 276.78 MKR (unit price $1806), and 4.85 million SPK (unit price $0.062), and then added this portion of funds to liquidity.

ChainCatcher news, according to @ai_9684xtpa's monitoring, the address 0xc23...4D649 has increased its MKR holdings again after a month, with the current holding value exceeding 10.34 million dollars.5 hours ago, he withdrew 2,979 MKR (approximately 5.22 million dollars) from FalconX again. Over the past 2 months, he has accumulated a total of 8,753 MKR, with an average withdrawal price of 1,948 dollars, currently facing an unrealized loss of 1.421 million dollars.

ChainCatcher message, according to SoSoValue data, the encrypted market has seen a general rise across various sectors, with a 24-hour increase generally reaching about 2% to 6%. Among them, the RWA sector has led the gains for two consecutive days, with a further increase of 6.03% in the last 24 hours. Within this sector, Maker (MKR), Sky (SKY), and Ondo Finance (ONDO) rose by 7.71%, 8.01%, and 8.85%, respectively. Additionally, Bitcoin (BTC) increased by 1.51%, breaking through $111,000. However, Ethereum (ETH) remains weak, declining by 0.65% in the last 24 hours, fluctuating narrowly around $4,300.Meanwhile, MAG7.ssi rose by 2.65%, DEFI.ssi rose by 4.25%, and MEME.ssi rose by 1.15%.Other standout sectors include: the NFT sector, which rose by 4.01% in the last 24 hours, with Pudgy Penguins (PENGU) increasing by 8.49%; the AI sector rose by 3.07%, with Virtuals Protocol (VIRTUAL) increasing by 5.14%.In other sectors, the PayFi sector rose by 2.56%, with Bitcoin Cash (BCH) increasing by 4.78%; the Layer2 sector rose by 2.34%, with Merlin Chain (MERL) increasing by 29.92%; the DeFi sector rose by 2.00%, but World Liberty Financial (WLFI) fell by 3.70%; the Layer1 sector rose by 2.28%, with Solana (SOL) increasing by 5.61%; the Meme sector rose by 1.98%, with Pump.fun (PUMP) increasing by 9.61%; the CeFi sector rose by 0.80%, with Bitget token (BGB) increasing by 11.53%. On the news front, BGB upgraded to the Morph public chain token, with a one-time destruction of 220 million tokens.The cryptocurrency sector indices reflecting historical market trends show that the ssiRWA, ssiNFT, and ssiAI indices rose by 5.45%, 5.38%, and 3.39%, respectively.

ChainCatcher message, according to the official MKR plan and OKX arrangements, MKR will be swapped for SKY at a ratio of 1:24,000. Today at 17:00, OKX will stop lending MKR, and from September 3rd 16:00 to 18:00, leveraged trading of MKR/USDT will be suspended; on September 4th at 16:00, the MKR/USDT perpetual contract will be delisted.On September 8th from 10:00 to 11:00, OKX will delist MKR-related spot trading pairs and suspend services such as flash swaps, and at 12:00, MKR deposits, withdrawals, and transfers will be closed; on that day at 13:00, a snapshot of MKR accounts will be taken (positions < 0.0001 will not be counted), and from September 8th 13:00 to September 10th 18:00 (UTC+8), the swap will be completed, with MKR being converted to SKY for distribution. The trading time for SKY will be announced separately.

ChainCatcher news, according to Ember monitoring, a certain whale/institution has continuously accumulated 5,774 MKR (approximately 11.84 million USD) through FalconX in the past 13 days, with an average price of 2,051 USD.