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Ondo Finance announced on platform X that its total locked value (TVL) of tokenized stocks has surpassed $1.5 billion and continues to show a growth trend. In its Ondo Global Markets, the five most actively traded assets currently include: Circle tokenized assets, S&P 500 ETF, Micron Technology, NVIDIA, and the tokenized version of BlackRock iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT).Data shows that these five asset classes account for approximately 25% of the tokenized stock sector, reflecting that the market is rapidly concentrating towards a "U.S. stocks + ETFs + crypto assets" mixed structure, and continuously expanding the on-chain mapping scale of the traditional U.S. stock market.

Cardano whales currently hold nearly 67% of the total supply of ADA, the highest concentration since 2020.

According to monitoring by Hyperinsight, in the past half hour, three major long BTC addresses on Hyperliquid simultaneously executed liquidations, creating a total of 776 BTC sell orders, worth approximately 62 million USD, with an average liquidation price around 79,880 USD, indicating that the positions were close to breakeven.It is reported that the funding sources of the three addresses can all be traced back to on-chain transfers from the HitBTC trading platform, and the on-chain transfer records are highly synchronized with trading activities, suspected to belong to the same whale.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, manipulators withdrew 1,369,000 $SIREN from the Binance Alpha wallet in the past 6 hours, worth 2.45 million dollars, with the current chip concentration exceeding 93%.

Metaplanet CEO Simon Gerovich posted on the X platform, stating that the benefits of productivity booms are almost entirely flowing to the owners of computation and capital, rather than to workers or governments. He said, "Every company holding cash or bonds is extracting from a system where the tax base is disappearing, and the system's response will be to print money. This trend is accelerating."Simon Gerovich further emphasized that AI agents do not have bank accounts or brand loyalty, and when machines optimize the financial system, they will bypass traditional banking systems and payment networks, opting to use digital assets for transactions. When it comes to storing value, AI will not park in money market funds but will hold digital capital—especially Bitcoin. As the AI economy expands, digital assets may become the primary means of value storage in the machine age.

According to on-chain analyst Murphy (@Murphychen888), the concentration of chips within a 5% range of the BTC spot price has reached 13.3%, exceeding the warning line. Data shows that when this indicator exceeds 13%, the price of Bitcoin may experience significant volatility, especially when the indicator rises above 15%, entering a high-risk zone.

On-chain data analyst Murphy stated, "The concentration of BTC chips is an effective observation for a potential 'volatility' warning indicator. When the concentration of chips rises above 13% within a 5% range of the current spot price, it enters the alert zone, and above 15% is considered a high-risk zone; the more concentrated the chips, the greater the probability and magnitude of the resulting volatility.A high concentration of chips only warns of volatility, not direction. Currently, the concentration of BTC chips is at 11%, which is on the higher side of medium, and has not yet entered the alert zone above 13%. Therefore, the probability of triggering significant volatility at this time is not high, at least from the perspective of chip structure, it does not meet the conditions for forming a 'chain reaction.'Next, the market will also focus on the CPI data to be released on the evening of the 18th at 21:30, as well as the interest rate decision from the Bank of Japan on the 19th. My personal judgment is that as long as it is not significantly beyond expectations, the impact on the market should remain within the range of 'slight fluctuations,' and will not be as drastic as on August 5th of last year (with a chip concentration of 15% before August 5, 2024)."

ChainCatcher message, according to Deribit data, the strike price with the highest concentration for Ethereum call options expiring on December 26 is $6000. Additionally, the Ethereum options market also reflects an optimistic sentiment, with an overall put-to-call ratio of 0.39.Sean McNulty, Head of Derivatives Trading for the Asia-Pacific region at FalconX Ltd's digital asset prime brokerage, stated that the inflow of funds into Ethereum shows a strong shift in positive sentiment compared to Bitcoin. This shift is attributed to the massive influx of capital into spot exchange-traded funds, the increasing adoption of corporate digital asset treasury management, and the broader support from the stablecoin market.

ChainCatcher news, according to statistics from the Web3 asset data platform RootData, the crypto primary financing market completed a total financing amount of $7.75 billion in the first half of 2025, an increase of 40.17% year-on-year and 77.75% quarter-on-quarter. In March alone, $2.895 billion was raised, with Binance completing $2 billion in financing. If we exclude the impact of this financing, the average monthly financing amount in the first half of the year remained around $950 million, with an average financing amount of $12.419 million and a median of $5.425 million.In terms of the number of financing events, there were a total of 463 financing events in the first half of the year, averaging 77 events per month, a decrease of 49.72% year-on-year and 26.27% quarter-on-quarter. In the financing track, CeFi led with $2.719 billion, surpassing the previously popular infrastructure track ($1.87 billion).It is noteworthy that merger and acquisition events reached 66, an increase of 60.9% compared to the 41 events in the second half of 2024. Additionally, crypto-related publicly listed companies like Circle and Sol Strategies raised a total of $2.233 billion. Both types of financing data set historical records.The most active institutions in the first half of the year were Coinbase Ventures, a16z, and Amber Group, each participating more than 20 times. Following them were institutions such as Animoca Brands, GSR, Selini Capital, 1kx, and Mirana Ventures. The most active angel investors were Raj Gokal, Sam Kazemian, and Balaji Srinivasan.Overall, the financing amount in the crypto primary financing market significantly increased in the first half of 2025, but the number of events continued to decline compared to previous years, showing characteristics such as the concentration of large financings, increased M&A activities, and changes in track preferences, while more funds began to shift towards the more liquid secondary stock market.

ChainCatcher news, Binance officially launched two brand new features: "Locked Address" and "Holding Concentration Indicator." This is the first time such token information features have been introduced by a mainstream exchange, reflecting Binance's ongoing commitment to enhancing platform transparency and strengthening user education. After obtaining more information related to token economic models, users can further optimize their trading decisions. The related transparency features also help project teams improve their openness and accountability, thereby interacting more effectively with the community and promoting the healthy development of the crypto industry.Binance co-founder He Yi stated, "We have always adhered to a user-centric approach, continuously promoting the enhancement of market transparency. The Locked Address and Holding Concentration Indicator features are our response to the community's demand for higher transparency and better tools, helping users better understand the tokens they are trading. We also hope that through these efforts, we can enhance the integrity of the entire market and guide the industry towards a healthier and more sustainable direction."

ChainCatcher message, Glassnode posted on social media, "During the period from the end of December 2024 to February 2025, there has been strong accumulation in the $96,000 to $98,000 range. While some addresses within these price ranges are reallocating their BTC, this supply cluster remains very dense------if we return to this level again, it could become a strong resistance level."

ChainCatcher news, according to News.bitcoin, the growth of crypto developers is slowing down in 2024, but the long-term trend remains strong. While new developers are entering the crypto space, the total number of developers working in the industry in 2024 has slightly decreased compared to the previous year. Asia has replaced North America as the region with the highest concentration of crypto developers, with India gradually becoming a key player in this space. Additionally, the number of senior crypto developers (those with two years or more of experience) has significantly increased, indicating that the ecosystem is maturing.

ChainCatcher news, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin recently responded to concerns raised by Ethereum core developer Péter Szilágyi regarding network decentralization and validation mechanisms.In response to how validators can obtain 32MB of blob transaction data every 12 seconds, Buterin proposed two possible strategies: each validator is responsible for building only 1/16 of the block, or validators only perform DAS checks without needing to fully download the data.Regarding the issue of Verkle tree design not deleting storage slots, Buterin stated that the impact of deleting storage slots is currently quite small. He denied claims about abandoning the transaction pool, emphasizing that this is an outdated idea that does not align with the current direction of Ethereum research.Buterin acknowledged that validation does not require an execution layer (EL), but stressed that this does not mean making it difficult for most people to run an EL. He pointed out that using SNARKs technology could enable more users to achieve full validation.Buterin emphasized that the key goal for validators is to avoid power concentration, especially in terms of consensus rule validation, fork choice, and transaction inclusion. He believes that during periods of only witnessing, there is no need to re-execute the EVM cycle.

ChainCatcher message, dForce founder Mindao stated that the issues exposed by the recent attack on the Curve protocol have been further amplified. The founder has collateralized nearly 50% of the circulating supply for real estate and other leverage, and it is now evident that there is insufficient liquidity to reduce leverage. The greatest negative impact on Curve is not the hacking incident, but rather these actions by the founder, the extremely high concentration of governance tokens, and various obvious operations, which can easily be defined as security tokens and market manipulation.

According to ChainCatcher news and data analysis from the data platform KingData, the global popularity of the decentralized social protocol Nostr (including Damus, etc.) is mainly concentrated in China, with a concentration rate as high as 80%. In addition, the number of high-quality daily active users has significantly declined, with a peak of 87,400 daily active users on February 2, and 36,000 yesterday (February 9, a decrease of 58.9% from the peak), and 29,000 today (February 10, a decrease of 66.8% from the peak). The daily active users of high-quality accounts have dropped to 4,000, returning to the state during the outbreak, with a decline of -85% from the peak. (Source link)