A $101 million shark lost $1.21 million in a week, then sold 11 altcoins in two minutes
Hold91cc, an Ethereum wallet we have followed since November 8, now trades about $1.24 billion a month. Its 30-day result has turned to a $1.14 million loss.
Two Hyperliquid traders made $111.7 million in the week bitcoin fell below $70,000
DeepSea's smart money board puts SMc060 at +$57.45 million and SM6e36 at +$54.30 million over 7 days. Together they hold 60% of the top 10's gains.
Sharks' weekly loss quadrupled to $10.5 million. Yesterday's top wallet is down $1.35 million
In about 30 hours, DeepSea's 7-day table went from minus $2.56 million to minus $10.50 million for big traders. The best wallet this time made just $121,574.
A shark sold 29.17 million WLD for $8.49 million in one trade as bitcoin fell below $70,000
An Optimism wallet that DeepSea tags as a shark dumped about 0.78% of all circulating WLD overnight. Its closed trades are down $2.83 million in 30 days.
ARB fell 8% after one wallet's $3.17 million buy. Shorts now pay on 79% of its futures bets
Sharks bought $3.65 million of Arbitrum's ARB in a day and sold $9,135, DeepSea's data show. The price kept sliding, and on most futures markets traders betting on a fall now pay those betting on a rise.
A shark lost $4.03 million on 7 trades in a week, then bought $468,070 of a SpaceX token
A single BNB Chain wallet now accounts for more than half of the sharks' net loss on DeepSea's 7-day table. In the past day, the same address spent nearly half a million dollars on a SpaceX stock token on Arbitrum.
A shark lost $1.21 million on four chains in a week, then sold $1.36 million on Optimism
The wallet DeepSea calls Hold1f17 shows realized losses on all four chains it traded this week. In the last 24 hours it also made the largest sell-only move of any shark.
Two Avalanche wallets made 3,121 trades in a day, five times Monday's pace, and ended near even
DeepSea's shark table shows $4.86 million of bridged ether and bitcoin bought on Avalanche and $4.72 million sold. Almost all of it came from the same two wallets, swapping back and forth.
Bitcoin fell 8.5% in a week, XRP 20%, zcash 25%. Sharks did not dump bitcoin or ether
CoinGecko's 7-day numbers show the big coins sliding together. DeepSea's 24-hour shark table shows big wallets near flat on bridged bitcoin and ether, buying ARB and WLD and selling OP.
Sharks sold $3.64 million of OP in a day, $1.3 million more than they bought
DeepSea's 24-hour table puts Optimism's own token at the top of shark selling across every chain it tracks. OP is down 12.5% in a week on CoinGecko and 98% below its record.
75 of 102 shark wallets lost money this week. One BNB Chain wallet made $967,000
DeepSea's 7-day profit table shows big traders down $2.56 million on closed trades, winning one trade in three. A single wallet made 80% of all the gains.
One wallet bought $3.17 million of ARB in one trade, a day after its $3.29 million CHIP buy
DeepSea's 24-hour table shows Arbitrum sharks bought $3.65 million of ARB and sold $771. Most of it came from one wallet that Etherscan shows holding 135 million ARB.
Only 89 of 210 KOL wallets made money in 30 days. Top earner kurtz won 11 of 11
DeepSea's realized PnL table shows most tracked influencer wallets lost money over 30 days, yet the group is up $374,000 as a few big winners carried the total.
A Monad shark put $3.6 million into earnAUSD, a fifth of the yield token's market value
The busiest shark on Monad bought $16 million of tokens in a day, mostly dollar tokens. Its biggest one-way bet was a yield version of AUSD that CoinGecko values at $17.7 million.
Optimism sharks lost $293,000 in a week, 20 of 24 in the red, yet bought $1.41 million of WLD
DeepSea's PnL table shows a bad week for big wallets on OP Mainnet. In the last day they bought more WLD than they sold and sold more OP than they bought.
The week's top shark made $1.52 million on 3,619 trades, then sold $369,000 of BTCB
The BNB Chain wallet that bought $5.4 million of ether three days ago leads every wallet in DeepSea's 7-day profit table. At 12:34 a.m. ET it sold 5 BTCB in one trade.
One wallet bought 5% of all circulating CHIP in a single $3.29 million trade
DeepSea logged an $18.4 million Arbitrum shark wallet buying USD.AI's CHIP token as it traded 50% below its price of a month ago. Arbiscan shows the wallet now holds 100 million CHIP.
Sharks bought $36.4 million of RLUSD in a day. Over the week, whales sold $12 million net
Two wallets made 37 trades in Ripple's stablecoin in 24 hours. One of them, with $97 million on DeepSea, swaps it in blocks of up to $4.5 million.
Sharks sold $19 million of gold tokens in a day, a day after buying $8.1 million of XAUt
A handful of big wallets sold $10.5 million of PAXG and $8.5 million of Tether Gold and bought back $2.8 million. Both tokens slipped about 0.9%.
23 influencer wallets bought $555,000 of two new memecoins in a day. No priced sales
The same 23 BNB Chain KOL wallets piled into 狗狗币 and spyless within about two hours. CoinGecko does not list either token.
Smart money trader SMffa1 made $13.8 million in a week, 40% of its $34.3 million wallet
DeepSea ranks SMffa1 No. 3 on Hyperliquid this week. At 6:45 a.m. ET its live trades were in stock-price markets such as LITE, SKHY and SOXL, not crypto.
Rumor vs record: a viral post credited to Musk said Binance holds 80% of crypto. It does not
A viral post credited to Elon Musk said Binance holds about 80% of the crypto market and urged users to leave. We checked each line against CoinGecko's exchange data and DeepSea's wallet tracker. The 80% figure does not hold up.
A $93 million shark made 28,847 trades in 30 days, lost $162,000 and doubled its gold
Two days ago Hold91cc was up $26,100 on 12,787 trades. Now it has more than twice the trades, a loss, $18.77 million in Tether Gold and a $173,000 AAVE sale.
Smart money SM2b00 made $22 million on $13.29 billion of trades. Now it holds 15 shorts
SM2b00 is No. 4 on DeepSea's 7-day board at +$10.26 million. Its biggest bets are against ETH, SOL and HYPE, and CoinGecko prices show most of them in profit.
Influencer panceramic sold $351,000 of silver bets in 20 orders and went all cash
DeepSea shows 20 silver sell orders on Hyperliquid, then a wallet of $353,200 in USDC and no open bets. Ninety percent of the influencer's 30-day profit came this week.
Last week's worst crypto influencer is now No. 2 and holds a $13.4 million Zcash short
The KOL wallet mk4 was down $2.84 million for the week on November 5. DeepSea now shows +$2.24 million over seven days, but still minus $876,800 over 30.
The No. 1 smart money trader is short $474 million of crypto and up $45.7 million on paper
SMc060 retook first place on DeepSea's 7-day board with +$36.67 million. Its 19 open bets against BTC, ETH, ZEC and others are all in profit on paper.
Sharks sold $584,000 of ARB in a day, nearly 4 to 1, as the token edged up 1.1%
Four days after shark wallets bought $850,000 of Arbitrum's token, the flow reversed. One wallet also sold tokenized Circle shares in the last hour.
Unichain sharks sold $2.12 million of USD₮0, three days after sharks bought $3.74 million
The flow on Unichain's dollar token flipped. A wallet that was not among Friday's buyers did almost all the selling.
One Monad shark made 267 of 268 trades in a day. Its 30-day loss grew to $1.35 million
One wallet made almost every shark trade DeepSea tracked on Monad, cycling $7.1 million through two dollar tokens. Its losses keep growing.
Two Avalanche shark wallets made 580 small trades in bridged ETH and BTC as AVAX rose 8%
DeepSea's Avalanche shark feed looked crowded on Monday night. It was mostly two wallets swapping bridged ether and bitcoin back and forth in small pieces.
429 sharks traded LINK in a day, triple any other Ethereum token, buying $14.1 million
Chainlink's token was the most crowded shark trade on Ethereum as ether fell 5%. Uniswap's UNI drew under a third as many wallets, and they were net sellers.
Trader SMb7ae made $11.5 million in a week, and 18 of its 20 open bets are shorts
SMb7ae is No. 5 on DeepSea's 7-day Smart Money board. Its open positions on Hyperliquid bet against bitcoin, HYPE, Starknet and 15 other tokens.
80 sharks bought $8.1 million of Tether's gold token as ether fell 5%, while PAXG was sold
While ether dropped 5%, large wallets on DeepSea's live feed piled into XAUt. The rival gold token, PAXG, went the other way.
One shark put $49.7 million into Aave USDT as ether fell 5%, and holds $129 million in gold
The same shark wallet we covered on November 5 is back, buying Aave's USDT receipt in five steps. It also holds $129 million of tokenized gold, second only to its restaked ether.
A shark bought $2.46 million of staked ether on Monad. DeepSea sees $116 of liquidity
The largest single shark buy of the last day came in three trades on ether's down day. The token's pools on Monad that DeepSea tracks hold only $116, so the buy did not run through them.
A smart money trader fell from No. 1 to No. 6. Two days later it is No. 2 with $23 million
SMc060's 7-day profit on DeepSea went from $59.67 million to $9.49 million and back up to $23.24 million. The top 10 now show $129.55 million, all on Hyperliquid.
Sharks sold $12.85 million of tokens and bought $7.98 million as ether fell 4.7%
DeepSea's live feed shows big wallets were net sellers on ether's down day. A dollar token on Optimism took most of the selling, and one Monad wallet bought $2.46 million of staked ether.
A shark bought $612,100 of OP in one trade. Nine hours later its wallet held no OP
An Optimism wallet DeepSea calls Hold9675 bought 6.03 million OP on Saturday night, about 3% of the token's daily trading. Its page now shows no OP among its holdings.
A $216 million bitcoin whale shows a $291,600 weekly loss, but its moves look like loans
DeepSea counts an 82% win rate and a 7-day loss for an Ethereum wallet holding only cbBTC. Its trade list reads like a borrower moving collateral in and out of a lending market.
A shark lost $1.64 million on 5,488 trades in 30 days, then bought $155,000 of DEBIT
DeepSea's page for a shark wallet ending in 1f17 shows losses on BNB Chain, Ethereum and Optimism. On Sunday morning it kept trading: gold tokens out, small caps in.
One KOL lost $44,400 on Sunday, wiping out 82% of what 31 winning KOLs made
DeepSea's one-day board lists 58 crypto influencers with a result on November 8. Most made money, but Loopierr's single loss pulled the whole group about $20,900 into the red.
Two BNB Chain influencers made 18 of the same memecoin trades within hours. Both are up this week
DeepSea's KOL wallets for kurtz and tech bought and sold the same tokens, in the same direction and within about an hour, over two days. DeepSea counts every closed trade of theirs this week as a win.
A $100 million Ethereum shark traded $450 million in 30 days. Its profit: $26,100
Three quarters of the wallet sits in three dollar tokens. In four minutes from 12:30 a.m. ET it bought $340,000 of Ripple's RLUSD, sold $131,000 of LINK and made 18 buys of under $10 each.
A shark sold $13.4 million of bitcoin, ether and JCT in minutes. The buyer made 81,836 trades in a month
A BNB Chain wallet that DeepSea shows down $1.75 million in 30 days sold three tokens just after midnight ET and now holds $28.7 million in a dollar token. DeepSea logs the buyer of its ether and JCT as one of the most active wallets it tracks.
Rumor vs record: did hackers pay $15 to drain $2.5 billion from Binance in 20 minutes?
Headlines about the Binance hack keep spreading. We checked the most shared claims against Binance's own report, DeepSea's hack tracker and CoinGecko prices. The single-transaction part holds up. The "$15" and "20 minutes" framing misses the story.
One Mantle shark swapped ether tokens 208 times in a day. Its 30-day result: minus $2,400
The wallet traded about $314,000 between WETH and Mantle's staked ether token in 24 hours. After 2,219 closed trades in 30 days, it is slightly in the red.
An Ethereum shark was down $159,600 for the month. Two days later it's up $18,100
DeepSea's PnL table shows one wallet's 30-day result swing by $130,000 in less than a day of closed trades, while ether went nowhere for the week. It now has the best 7-day result of any Ethereum shark with a 7-day figure.
An Avalanche shark swapped $1.45 million of Aave USDC deposits for Benqi's in two trades
DeepSea logged the switch as both the second-largest net shark buy and the second-largest net shark sell of the day across all chains. The wallet's closed trades in the last 30 days: five, all winners.
CYBER jumped 53% in about a day, then gave back 20%. Sharks on Optimism bought $668,000
CoinGecko shows the small-cap CYBER token trading four times its market value in 24 hours, with South Korea's Upbit the busiest market. DeepSea's shark wallets were net buyers on Optimism over a day in which the price fell.
DeepSea's top 10 smart money traders: $256 million in weekly profit, then $110 million
The 7-day profit shown for the crash-week winners on DeepSea's boards fell by more than half in 24 hours. The top two influencers' figures halved, and sharks are still down $3.15 million on closed trades.
Sharks "sold" $16.31 million of uniBTC on Berachain. CoinGecko saw $591 of trading
DeepSea's live feed logged two wallets moving about 212 uniBTC out on Berachain in 24 hours. One of them is a DEX pool, and CoinGecko counted less than $600 of uniBTC trading worldwide in the same day.
Ruble token A7A5 still trades on Uniswap 15 months after sanctions, for about $1,500 a day
In August 2025, Treasury sanctioned A7A5's issuer along with Garantex and its successor, Grinex. FinCEN's November 6, 2026, MEXC order put new numbers on all three. Public data shows the token still trades in tiny amounts, but it cannot show the transfers between agents.
MEXC's tracked wallets shed $166 million before FinCEN's order. Then MX fell 6%
DeepSea's MEXC wallets fell from $1.08 billion to about $918 million between November 5 and early November 6, before FinCEN moved against the exchange. They have barely moved since, and the data does not show why.
What 9 on-chain analytics tools are built for, from block explorers to compliance suites
Arkham, Nansen, Chainalysis, TRM Labs, Dune, Glassnode, DefiLlama, block explorers and DeepSea all read public blockchain data, but each is built for a different job. Here is what each one does, what is free and who uses it, from each tool's own site.
The shark that took $10 million out of Aave on Arbitrum put $8.32 million back
A day after one wallet drove an $8.35 million net outflow from Aave's USDC pool, it bought back almost all of it. The 7-day net is now just minus $27,800.
One shark sold $2.59 million of LYK. The token's Arbitrum pool holds $396
DeepSea logged big shark selling in two layer 2 tokens, LayerK's LYK and Linea's LINEA. LYK's public markets were far too small to absorb what was counted.
Two sharks bought $3.74 million of USD₮0 on Unichain in a day and sold just $75,000
A day after sharks were net sellers of the dollar token on Unichain, two wallets flipped to heavy buying. One of them also bought $4 million on Optimism.
Sharks bought $3.08 million of tokenized SpaceX on Arbitrum. Its DEX pool traded $56,000
Two shark wallets kept buying rSPCX and rCRCL, tokens CoinGecko lists as tokenized SpaceX and Circle stock, even as both fell. Almost none of it went through the public pool.
Exchange wallets lost $11.45 billion in 18 hours. Mostly price, not withdrawals
DeepSea's exchange list shrank 4.7% as bitcoin fell about 6%. Binance's holdings dropped $6.84 billion, and MEXC fell 15.8%, the steepest among large exchanges.
71 of 100 shark wallets lost money on closed trades in crash week, $5.85 million in all
DeepSea's realized profit table shows large traders came out behind as bitcoin fell. Three wallets made up 63% of the loss, and one Optimism wallet won 3 of 61 trades.
Influencer slingoor turned a $686,000 week into $9.38 million as bitcoin fell
DeepSea's 7-day KOL board changed fast in the November 5 sell-off. The top two influencers now hold 91% of the profit shown in the top 100.
Bitcoin fell 6%. DeepSea's top 10 smart money traders went from $98M to $256M
In about 18 hours, the 7-day profit of DeepSea's ten best wallets more than doubled. All ten trade perps on Hyperliquid, and the leader alone added $47.9 million.
One shark sold $80.5 million of Aave-deposited USDT in an hour. Its 7-day loss: $1.87 million
The Ethereum wallet ending 4312 moved more than $280 million in a day, mostly in and out of Aave. DeepSea's PnL table shows it with the biggest 7-day realized loss it tracks.
Seized UK government wallets rank seventh on DeepSea's exchange list, at $3.95 billion
DeepSea's exchange rankings mix trading venues with seized and long-silent wallets, including $574.14 million in failed QuadrigaCX's. Bitfinex ranks second at $31.27 billion, and one Coincheck wallet holds $3.42 billion.
Two sharks ran $51.7 million through Aave's USDC pool on Arbitrum. Net $8.35 million out
DeepSea's 24-hour feed shows $30 million of Aave's USDC receipt token sold and $21.65 million bought. One wallet did most of the round trip.
Smart money is 15 to 1 long on ether, but only 2 to 1 on Zcash
DeepSea's Long / Short panel shows all seven of its biggest coins leaning long. Ether and NEAR are the most one-sided, while bitcoin carries the largest short bets.
A net 16,251 bitcoin flowed onto exchanges in a week. Binance took in the most
DeepSea's dashboard shows a net 1,387 BTC flowed into exchanges in 24 hours, with Binance up 2,479 BTC while Kraken and Bitfinex lost coins.
DeepSea's top 10 smart money traders made $98.4 million in a week, all on Hyperliquid perps
The first 41 names on DeepSea's 7-day leaderboard are Hyperliquid perpetual futures traders. The leader made $16.44 million on $208 million of assets.
Sharks bought $10.25 million of WLD on Optimism in a day while its price fell 4%
Thirteen big wallets made 240 WLD trades in 24 hours and net bought about $4.31 million. WLD itself fell 4% on CoinGecko.
Sharks sold $9.52 million of USD₮0 on Berachain in a day, $3.39 million in the last hour
One busy wallet made 260 shark trades on Berachain, where DeepSea logged 263 in Tether's cross-chain dollar token. A day earlier the 24-hour selling was about a quarter of the size.
This week's worst crypto influencer lost $2.84 million and still bets $27.6 million on a fall
DeepSea shows the KOL wallet mk4 on Hyperliquid holding 11 short positions, led by $7.82 million against ether and $7.69 million against bitcoin, while both coins rose overnight.
Ether jumped 4.6% in two hours and bitcoin is back above $80,000. Big traders are 86% long
Most of ether's 5.5% daily gain came between 9 and 11 a.m. ET on November 4, CoinGecko's data shows. DeepSea counts $3.35 billion in long bets against $543.87 million in shorts.
177 crypto influencers made money in 30 days. Four others lost $19.8 million
DeepSea's 30-day KOL leaderboard looks like a winning month: 177 of 202 accounts are up. Then you reach the bottom, where Machi Big Brother alone shows minus $12.42 million.
The top crypto influencer of the week made $8.84 million and now sits on $25.5 million in USDC
DeepSea's KOL leaderboard puts "2 freres 2 fauves" first by a wide margin, three times the runner-up. Its latest Hyperliquid orders were in silver and copper markets, not crypto.
One Monad wallet bought $2.38 million of ether. Its closed trades lost $1.15 million in 30 days
Every shark trade DeepSea logged on Monad in the last 24 hours came from one wallet. It bought wrapped ether and sold fixed-yield dollar tokens.
Shark wallets sold $7.85 million of the USD₮0 dollar token on Optimism, a day after buying it
A day ago shark wallets were buying USD₮0 on Optimism. DeepSea's feed now shows them net sellers of almost $3 million, while OP selling kept going.
Binance's 7-day flow on DeepSea: a $1.55 billion net outflow after last week's $5.04B inflow
Last week's DeepSea report showed money pouring into Binance. Its live seven-day count now shows $4.54 billion leaving and $3.00 billion arriving.
MEXC took in a net $107.6 million in seven days, more than any other exchange
Among the exchanges DeepSea tracks, MEXC topped the seven-day inflow table while OKX, Gate, Bybit and Bitget all saw net outflows.
Robinhood's $14.9 billion ranks third on DeepSea. One cold wallet holds $11.27 billion of it
DeepSea's exchanges list puts Robinhood's labeled wallets behind only Binance and Bitfinex. A single Bitcoin cold wallet holds about three-quarters of the total.
Sharks bought $850,000 of Arbitrum's ARB in a day. Whales added $4.59 million in a week
DeepSea's data shows big wallets buying ARB on Arbitrum while $11.6 million more ARB left exchanges than arrived over seven days. Two stock tokens also drew shark money.
DeepSea tagged 2,790 new smart money wallets in a week, and not a single new bot
DeepSea's weekly report counts 2,615 wallets seen for the first time from October 26 to November 1, plus 652 new DeFi borrowers and 93 new influencer (KOL) wallets. Here is what the labels mean.
OKX logged three times Binance's transfer count last week and lost a net $241.6 million
DeepSea's exchange data shows 451,046 transfers at OKX from October 26 to November 1, with almost twice as many withdrawals as deposits. Bybit went the other way, with a net $478.2 million coming in.
Asia's local exchanges handled just 1.3% of flows as Binance took in a net $5.04 billion
South Korea led the local markets with $12.5 million net in. Upbit, HashKey, Bitkub and other home-market exchanges together handled about $538 million of deposits and withdrawals from October 26 to November 1, DeepSea's data shows.
Shark wallets sold $3.55 million of Optimism's OP in a day and bought just $486,000
DeepSea's live feed shows big wallets selling Optimism's token while still parking dollars on the chain. On Berachain, a heavy seller of USD₮0 turned buyer in the last hour.
MachiBigBrother opened $145,405 of ETH longs in 25 seconds, six hours after the last burst
DeepSea's live feed caught the crypto influencer opening six ether long positions on Hyperliquid at 6:33 a.m. ET, after nine more just past midnight.
32,175 crypto addresses are on DeepSea's risk list. Ransomware is the biggest category
DeepSea's database of scam, fraud and sanctioned addresses grew by 1,178 last week. Most new entries were hack-tainted, and Bitcoin holds more flagged addresses than Ethereum.
Whales sent out $317 million more than they took in last week. Where did it go?
DeepSea's wallet-to-wallet map shows $1.10 billion leaving whale wallets and $783 million coming back, while unlabeled wallets pushed a net $306 million into exchanges.
Two Hyperliquid wallets are up $20.7 million on open bets. The crowd is down $2.19 million
DeepSea's weekly data names the biggest paper winners on Hyperliquid, a 40x bitcoin short opened on October 31, and an ether short now 3.3% from forced closing.
Crypto influencers made $590,000 in 30 days. Sharks in DeepSea's live feed lost $10.7 million
DeepSea's 30-day realized profit table puts its live-feed KOL wallets in the green and shark wallets deep in the red. On Hyperliquid, one KOL opened a $538,000 silver short in nine minutes.
Whales put $63 million into stablecoins and sold a net $27.6 million of other tokens
DeepSea's sector data shows big wallets moving into dollars last week, while smart money kept buying. Ethereum took most of the $66 million net inflow.
Only 29 of 59 tracked BSC wallets made money last week. Smart money won, influencers lost
DeepSea's weekly data shows BSC smart money wallets finished $7,800 up while eight tracked KOLs lost $55,400. One influencer wallet had no green day in seven.
The CFTC cleared perpetual futures on US stocks. Cboe and Citadel filed legal action that day
On November 3, CFTC Chairman Michael Selig said perpetual futures on single US stocks can trade on CFTC-registered exchanges for the first time. The same day, Cboe, Citadel Securities and Healthy Markets Association took legal action to stop it.
Sharks bought $3.05 million of WLD on Optimism in a day. One Monad wallet traded $15.7 million
DeepSea's live feed shows big wallets loading up on USD₮0 and WLD on Optimism, one wallet churning $15.7 million on Monad and a single $10 million Aave USDC exit on Arbitrum.
One Tron wallet moved $751 million of USDT through Binance in about two hours
DeepSea's list of the week's largest exchange transfers is all dollar tokens: $2.49 billion in 11 moves, led by Coinbase USDC and a single unlabeled Tron address moving USDT to and from Binance.
Whales and smart money put $3 million into ZAMA as it fell 14% in a week
ZAMA drew the heaviest combined buying in DeepSea's weekly data, with coins moving to cold storage. Two USD.AI tokens, CHIP and sUSDai, came next.
DeFi lenders supplied $12.7 billion in a week. Morpho Blue had 84% of liquidations
DeepSea's lending data for October 26 to November 1 shows deposits far ahead of withdrawals, borrowing almost exactly matched by repayments, and $12.69 million liquidated, most of it on Morpho Blue.
Whales cut $28.9 million of LBTC in a week. Smart money bought just $127,900
Lombard's bitcoin token on Ethereum was the most sold token in DeepSea's weekly data, by a wide margin. Whales also cut $6.47 million of ARB, with DeepSea flagging moves to cold storage.
PEPE and SHIB flowed into US and European exchanges as $120 million in bitcoin left
DeepSea's weekly data shows Western exchanges nearly flat overall, at minus $54.98 million. Under the surface, memecoins were deposited, bitcoin was withdrawn, Kraken lost 1,526 BTC and one $399.78 million USDC transfer left Coinbase.
448 of 617 Solana influencers lost money last week. The best one won all seven days
DeepSea's tracked crypto influencers on Solana closed the week $395,600 down. A trader called zeropnl made $82,900 with seven green days, while one smart money wallet lost $1.81 million in a single day.
Hyperliquid's big traders bet $3.78 billion on a drop. One put $126 million on HYPE rising
DeepSea's tracked traders held six dollars of shorts for every dollar of longs last week. Against that tide, one wallet opened a $126.62 million HYPE long, and a 40x bitcoin bet sat 2.4% from liquidation.
$255 million in USDT left Asian exchanges in a week. Gold tokens, USDe and RLUSD moved in
DeepSea's weekly data shows Asian exchanges losing USDT and USDT0 while tokenized gold and smaller dollar tokens arrived. In the last 24 hours, one shark wallet traded $47.8 million of RLUSD on Ethereum.
Binance took in a net 66,386 bitcoin, worth $5.2 billion, in the week it was hacked
DeepSea's data shows a net $5.04 billion flowing into Binance from October 26 to November 1, almost all of Asia's net inflow. Who sent it? The data cannot say.
$307 million in hack-linked bitcoin hit exchanges in one week. OKX got the biggest share
DeepSea counted 680 deposits of tainted funds into exchanges from October 26 to November 1, nearly all in BTC. OKX took $139.96 million in just 55 of them, including a run of near-identical $15.47 million transfers.
A fake job interview opened the door to Binance's $6.34 billion hack, its own report says
Binance's first incident report traces the October 29 theft to a staged hiring process, a poisoned coding test and a developer tool swapped for malware. Then nine minutes of hot-wallet transfers did the rest.
2026's biggest airdrops: $809 million claimed, 9 of 11 tokens below first close
On-chain data compiled by Bitquery puts 51 large EVM airdrops this year at $809.4 million and 2.02 million claiming wallets. Most claimers moved their tokens within a day, and CoinGecko prices show only Backpack and Espresso above their first daily close.
Backpack gave users 25% of BP and insiders nothing. BP is up 285% from its first close
Backpack airdropped 250 million BP to points holders and Mad Lads owners on March 23, 2026, worth about $57 million at CoinGecko's first daily close. No team or investor tokens unlocked, and the next 37.5% of supply unlocks only when the company hits growth milestones.
Jupuary 2026 never landed: 75% of JUP votes shelved a 700 million JUP airdrop
Jupiter's yearly airdrop was due to start with 200 million JUP in early 2026. Stakers voted on February 22 to park all 700 million tokens in a locked community wallet instead. No new vote has been called since, and JUP now trades about 41% above its close that day.
Polymarket has no POLY token. So why is it still pursuing a POLY trademark?
Polymarket's help center says it has announced no airdrop and no token launch, and that all rewards are paid in pUSD. Meanwhile a February application to trademark "POLY" for crypto token services is still alive, with a reply filed on November 2.
What is a rug pull? How crypto exit scams work and 6 warning signs to check
A rug pull is when a project's own insiders take buyers' money and walk away, by draining the pool, printing tokens through a backdoor or dumping their supply. Most of the warning signs are public on-chain before you buy.
What is TON? Telegram's blockchain explained, and why Toncoin is now Gram
TON (The Open Network) is a proof-of-stake blockchain wired into Telegram, with a wallet built into the messenger. Its coin, long called Toncoin, now trades as Gram (GRAM), and that rename is the first thing a new user can trip over.
What is Bitcoin? How it works, why only 21 million exist and the risks
Bitcoin is a digital currency that moves directly between users on a public network, with no bank or company in the middle. Miners secure it with computing power, its supply is capped at 21 million coins, and BTC traded near $77,323 as of November 2, 2026.
What is staking? How proof-of-stake rewards work and how you can lose money
Staking means locking tokens to help run a proof-of-stake blockchain, in return for rewards paid in that token. The stake is collateral: validators that go offline lose a little, and on Ethereum those that break the rules can be slashed.
What is Chainlink? How DeFi gets its prices, plus CCIP and LINK staking
Smart contracts cannot see the outside world, so lending apps rely on oracles like Chainlink to tell them what ether is worth. Chainlink also moves tokens between chains through CCIP, and LINK pays and backs the node operators who do the work.
What is Ethereum? How the global computer works, what ETH does and the risks
Ethereum is a public blockchain that runs programs called smart contracts, and ether (ETH) is the coin that pays for using it and secures it through staking. It launched in July 2015, switched from mining to proof of stake on September 15, 2022, and ETH traded near $2,267 as of November 2, 2026.
What is the XRP Ledger? How XRP works with no mining, and what Ripple holds
The XRP Ledger has run since 2012 and settles a new ledger every 4 to 6 seconds without mining. XRP is its coin, Ripple is a company that does not own it but reported holding 37.66 billion XRP at midyear, and RLUSD is Ripple's stablecoin on it.
Token unlocks November 2 to 8: $1.05 billion due, led by HYPE, and Kite's float jumps 27%
Five scheduled unlocks this week add up to about $1.05 billion at November 2 prices, according to CoinGecko's calendars. Hyperliquid's HYPE is almost 80% of the dollar total, but Kite's KITE release is the biggest relative to what already trades.
What is BNB Chain? Three chains, 21 block makers and 0.45-second blocks
BNB Chain is three blockchains that all run on BNB: BNB Smart Chain (BSC) for apps, the cheaper layer 2 opBNB and the storage network Greenfield. Its speed comes from a small club: just 21 validators make BSC's blocks at any one time.
BNB just burned $1.2 billion of itself. Why is 100 million still years away?
The 37th quarterly auto-burn destroyed 1,646,196 BNB on October 19, the most coins of any burn this year. Supply is now 131.5 million BNB, still 31.5 million above the long-term target.
Zcash NU7 makes blocks 3x faster around November 5. Old nodes will split off
Zcash's NU7 hard fork activates at block 3,543,405, expected around November 5, 2026. It cuts block time from 75 to 25 seconds without changing supply, sends 60% of fees to a reserve and invalidates version 4 transactions. Nodes that do not upgrade split off.
How stolen crypto is traced and frozen, and why thieves dump stablecoins fast
Every blockchain transfer is public, so investigators can follow stolen funds hop by hop. Money can be stopped in two places: stablecoin issuers like Tether and Circle can freeze tokens on-chain, and exchanges can lock accounts when stolen funds arrive.
Stablecoins explained: USDT vs. USDC, the two coins that hold 87% of the market
Stablecoins are tokens built to stay worth $1, backed by reserves such as cash and short-term US government debt. As of November 2, 2026, Tether's USDT ($178.48 billion) and Circle's USDC ($70.68 billion) made up about 87% of a $285.89 billion market, per rwa.xyz.
What is Sui? The object-based blockchain that says it settles in 390 ms
Sui is a layer-1 blockchain from Mysten Labs, founded by former Meta engineers, that launched in May 2023. It stores everything as objects with clear owners, runs smart contracts in Move and, by Sui's own figure, settles transactions in roughly 390 milliseconds. SUI has a 10 billion total supply.
Copy trading explained: how it works, what lead traders take and why results differ
Copy trading lets you automatically mirror another trader's positions on an exchange, in return for a share of any profit. Your results can differ from theirs because of order size, slippage and timing, and regulators warn it can encourage herd behavior and frequent trading.
Seed phrase and hardware wallet safety: the words that guard your crypto
Your seed phrase is the master key to your wallet: anyone who sees it can take everything, and if you lose it, nobody can restore it. A hardware wallet keeps keys offline, but only if the phrase stays offline too and the device is genuine.
What is DeepSea (desea.io)? The onchain app that labels wallets and tracks flows
DeepSea (desea.io) is a web app that labels crypto wallets and tracks what smart money, influencers, whales, exchanges and hackers do onchain. It is run by DeepTek Ltd, and its own terms say the data is information only, not financial advice.
Stellar votes on Bell November 3: wallets must learn a new "W" address
Stellar's Protocol 30 upgrade, Bell, faces a testnet validator vote on November 3 and a mainnet vote on November 23, 2026. It adds a new "W" address, post-quantum signature checks for smart contracts and millisecond ledger timing, and Stellar says apps must update their SDKs.
What are exchange tokens? BNB keeps burning, OKB froze its supply at 21M
Exchange tokens are coins tied to a crypto exchange that give holders perks on the platform and pay gas on the exchange's own blockchain. BNB shrinks through quarterly burns toward 100 million; OKB's supply was fixed at 21 million in 2025. Both stay tied to one company.
FDV vs market cap: how to read a token's supply, with HYPE's 4x gap as a guide
Market cap is price times the tokens circulating today. Fully diluted valuation (FDV) is price times the whole supply, including locked tokens. The gap between them shows how much supply is still to come.
How to check and revoke token approvals before an old one drains your wallet
Look up your wallet address in an approval checker such as Etherscan's Token Approvals page or Revoke.cash, find spenders you no longer use or do not recognize, and revoke them. Each revoke is an on-chain transaction, so it costs a small network fee.
CEX vs DEX explained: who holds your crypto, and what can go wrong
A centralized exchange (CEX) is a company that holds your coins and matches orders in an order book; a decentralized exchange (DEX) is blockchain software that lets you swap from your own wallet against a pool of tokens. The real trade-off is custody: convenience and support on one side, control and responsibility on the other.
One address, two exchange hacks: DeepSea traces where this fall's stolen crypto went
DeepSea says funds from the Bitget and Binance thefts landed at the same address. Its tracker also shows how little of the loot has reached exchanges, and how much is simply sitting still.
Crypto options expiry and max pain explained: what happens at 3 a.m. ET
Crypto options on Deribit, a major options exchange, expire at 3 a.m. ET (4 a.m. ET during daylight saving time) and settle in cash against a 30-minute average of an index price. Max pain is the strike price at which the most option value would expire worthless, a number traders watch but one that does not control the price.
Token unlocks explained: cliffs, vesting and why unlocked does not mean sold
A token unlock is when tokens locked at launch, usually for the team, investors or a treasury, become free to move. Unlocks add to circulating supply and dilute holders, but an unlocked token is not a sold one: Hyperliquid insiders claimed far less HYPE than they could.
What is a wallet drainer? How one signature can empty your crypto wallet
A wallet drainer is a scam kit that tricks you into signing an approval or permit that lets the attacker move your tokens. Your seed phrase never leaves your hands: your own signature does the damage, sometimes days later.
Bitcoin dominance and crypto market cap explained: why sites say 58% or 60%
Total crypto market cap adds up the market value of every tracked coin, and bitcoin dominance is bitcoin's share of it. As of November 2, 2026, the total was about $2.6 trillion to $2.7 trillion and bitcoin's share about 58% to 60%, depending on the data site.
Binance Launchpool and HODLer Airdrops explained: how BNB holders earn new tokens
Launchpool pays a new token hour by hour to people who lock BNB or stablecoins; HODLer Airdrops pay one after the fact to people who held BNB in Simple Earn during a past window. Both depend on your share of a pool, and both carry price risk.
How crypto exchange hacks happen: the weak spot is rarely the key itself
Most exchange hacks start in hot wallets, the online wallets that pay out withdrawals. Attackers rarely break the cryptography. They get into the systems and people that approve transactions, then rush to swap stablecoins before issuers can freeze them.
Binance took in 18,435 BTC in two weeks while $6.81 billion in stablecoins walked out
DeepSea's data shows about $1.5 billion in bitcoin flowing into Binance in early October, just as billions in USDT left. Kraken saw the opposite, and the price fell anyway.
Doppler's XDP is trending again, with daily volume 95% below launch week. What is it?
Doppler Finance's XDP token sat fourth on DeepSea's 24-hour trending list late on November 1 (ET), a month after launch. CoinGecko shows it hit a record low on October 30, and DeepSea finds the top 10 wallets hold 95% of supply.
How crypto liquidations work: why a 10% move can wipe out a 10x trade
A liquidation is when an exchange force-closes a leveraged trade because losses have eaten through the trader's collateral. It protects the exchange and other traders from debts the trader cannot pay.
What is Solana? Alpenglow explained, from 12.8-second finality to a 150 ms goal
Alpenglow is Solana's new consensus protocol. Its first part, Votor, went live on mainnet on October 21, 2026, replacing TowerBFT and cutting the time for a transaction to become final from about 12.8 seconds to a target of about 150 milliseconds.
Perpetual futures funding rates explained: how 0.05% can cost 55% a year
A funding rate is a small payment that traders of perpetual futures make to each other to keep the contract's price close to the real market price. When it is positive, longs pay shorts. When it is negative, shorts pay longs.
What is Sky Protocol and USDS? The former MakerDAO and its 3.80% savings rate
Sky is the protocol formerly known as MakerDAO. It issues USDS, a dollar stablecoin, and sUSDS, a savings token that earned the Sky Savings Rate of 3.80% shown on Sky.money on November 2, 2026, a rate set by vote and not guaranteed.
How crypto airdrops work, and how to spot the scams that copy them
An airdrop is a free drop of tokens to wallets, usually as a reward for early users. Real airdrops never ask for your seed phrase. Most scams instead trick you into signing a transaction on a fake claim site.
What is proof of reserves? What it proves about exchanges, and what it misses
Proof of reserves is a public check that an exchange holds at least as much crypto as its customers have deposited. Merkle trees or zero-knowledge proofs let you confirm your balance was counted, but it is a one-day snapshot, not proof the company is solvent.
Asian exchanges lost $11.95 billion in three weeks, most of it USDT leaving Binance
DeepSea's data shows a steady stablecoin exodus from Asian exchanges starting September 28, weeks before Binance was hacked. Western exchanges barely moved, while smaller dollar tokens began to swing.
12,562 sells, 10,480 buys: what Asia's crypto influencers really did in early October
DeepSea's Asian KOL reports show influencer wallets selling more than they bought, a handful of traders taking most of the profit, and a quiet mid-October week on Solana. For followers, that is a warning.
A 100/100 token with bundlers among its top holders: how to read DeepSea's risk flags
DeepSea checks every tracked token for holder concentration, thin liquidity, team selling and bundled supply. After October's run of drains and fake apps, here is what those signals mean, with real examples, and why one score is never the whole story.
Ether ETFs lost a record $1.61 billion in October, wiping out all of 2026's inflows
US spot ether funds had their worst month since launch, beating November 2025's record outflow. October erased August and September's gains and left the funds slightly negative for the year, while ETH slid to about $2,270.
Sui promised Hashi in October with $500 million pledged. Its own page still says testnet
Hashi is Sui's plan to let native bitcoin back loans on Sui. The Sui Foundation said mainnet would go live in October. On November 2, the official Hashi page still read "Now on Sui Testnet".
What is Hyperliquid? How the $188B-a-month onchain perps exchange works
Hyperliquid is a blockchain built for trading. Its HyperCore engine runs perpetual futures and spot order books fully onchain, and DefiLlama showed $188.1 billion of perp volume in the 30 days to November 2, 2026.
What is Ethena USDe? How the hedged synthetic dollar works and what can break it
USDe is Ethena's synthetic dollar. It is backed by crypto and stablecoins, with the crypto's price risk canceled out by short futures, and its staked version, sUSDe, earns from that trade until funding rates turn against it.
Whales sold $22.8 million of UNI while it rose 7%, and bought LINK and ARB
Big wallets used the late October bounce to sell, not buy. DeepSea's 7-day data shows whales net selling RLUSD, UNI and PEPE and making only small purchases of LINK and ARB, as bitcoin closed below $78,000 on October 29.
Hyperliquid's big traders flipped from 4.2x long to net short, then swung back to 86% long
In mid-October, traders tracked by DeepSea dumped their bullish bets and piled into ETH and BTC shorts worth more than $200 million apiece. Two weeks later they were leaning long again, even as prices kept sliding.
Beyond Binance: 19 more crypto hacks in October's last 11 days, about $24.6 million lost
Binance's $6.3 billion breach dominated October, but SlowMist logged 19 other attacks from October 21 to 31, close to two a day. They range from a $7.45 million multisig mistake to supply chain and DNS attacks.
What is Uniswap? How the $5.75B DEX works, from AMM pools to v4 hooks
Uniswap is a decentralized exchange where people swap tokens against pools of liquidity instead of an order book. DefiLlama counted about $5.75 billion locked in it on November 2, 2026, and its newest version, v4, lets developers attach custom code called hooks to each pool.
Asian exchanges lost $2.2 billion in one week, and $2.12 billion of it left Binance
DeepSea's report for October 12 to 18 shows stablecoins, mostly USDT on Tron, pouring out of Binance while bitcoin flowed in. The same week, hack-linked funds flooded exchange deposit addresses and a few big Hyperliquid traders turned short.
GENIUS Act explained: what the US stablecoin law requires and who enforces it
The GENIUS Act is the US federal law for payment stablecoins. It requires full reserves, quick redemption and no interest for simply holding a token, and it takes effect on January 18, 2027, under the OCC's final rule.
What is Aave? How the $10.9B DeFi lending protocol works and what can go wrong
Aave is a set of smart contracts where people supply crypto to earn interest and borrow against collateral, with no bank in the middle. As of November 2, 2026, DefiLlama counted about $10.9 billion locked in it, most of it on Ethereum.
Smart money net bought $1.09 million of Concrete as it slid 17%. Its top sale: AUSD
DeepSea's seven-day flow data to November 2 shows tracked smart money wallets building a position in Concrete (CT) while its price fell, and pulling $3.77 million out of the AUSD stablecoin. Selling signals outnumbered buying ones.
Pump.fun added Monad and TON and is pushing perps. So why is PUMP down 25% since October 12?
The Solana memecoin app now lets users trade Monad and TON tokens from one USDC balance and is pushing leveraged perps. Its PUMP token kept sliding, and daily revenue fell about 35% in 11 days.
Aave V3.8 vote: 381,439 AAVE for, zero against, a new lock on 15 networks
Aave Labs wants a reentrancy guard on every active Aave V3 market, built so flash loans and liquidations still work. AAVE holders backed it with zero AAVE against in a Snapshot vote that closed October 31; audits come before the final onchain step.
OKX's 48th reserve report shows $29.4 billion, up 27% in three months, with BTC at 110%
OKX marked four years of monthly proof-of-reserves reports on October 30. Its primary assets rose from $23.1 billion in July to $29.4 billion, and every listed coin is backed at least 1:1. Here is what the report proves and what it leaves out.
Binance lost a record $6.3 billion. Who froze $2.7 billion of it?
Attackers emptied Binance's hot wallets on October 29 in the biggest crypto theft on record. Stablecoin issuers froze about $2.7 billion, the FBI blames North Korea, and Binance says users will not pay.
One year in the High Court: HTX settles with the FCA and promises to stop UK ads
HTX, formerly Huobi, has given court-backed undertakings not to unlawfully promote its crypto services to UK consumers, the UK regulator says. The case began in October 2025 and ended with a confidential settlement, no admission of wrongdoing and no announced fine.
BNB Chain's Jenner hard fork walls off 5% of every block for payments. Who gets in?
Jenner went live on the BSC testnet on October 28, 2026. It reserves block space for payments, adds a native token standard with freeze and seizure powers, and gives smart contracts millisecond time. Mainnet has no date yet.
RLUSD's big week: a federal trust bank on Monday, an A2 Moody's rating on Tuesday
Ripple's $2.5 billion stablecoin won final OCC approval for a national trust bank to hold its reserves, then got an investment-grade A2 rating from Moody's a day later. It still trails PayPal's PYUSD.
Circle earned $1.4 billion and kept about 7 cents per dollar. Where did the rest go?
Circle says 59% of its first-half 2026 revenue went to the exchanges and apps that distribute USDC. A September filing shows how one of those deals, with Binance, works.
Hong Kong's SFC calls it a world first: tokenized money market funds now trade 24/7
The SFC let two ChinaAMC tokenized funds trade around the clock on a licensed crypto platform. A week later the HKMA moved its own tokenized settlement rail to 24/7 and said regulated stablecoins are next.
No interest, par redemption, stress tests: Singapore drafts its stablecoin law
MAS wants to ban interest on MAS-regulated stablecoins and recognize a few foreign ones. Seven weeks later, the central banks of Malaysia and Thailand joined its BLOOM project for cross-border digital money.
Native bitcoin as Aave collateral? Babylon's plan starts with a 300 BTC cap
Babylon Labs wants Aave V4 to accept bitcoin that never leaves the Bitcoin chain, with no wrapper or custodian. Aave Labs says the integration works and LlamaRisk has set a 300 BTC starting cap, but a Snapshot vote is still to come.
Bitcoin ETFs lost $636 million in one day as chip stocks sank 6.7% and oil jumped
A tech sell-off and a 7% oil spike on October 22 erased most of a $1.07 billion, three-day inflow streak into US spot bitcoin funds. It was their worst day since late June, and it tipped October into the red.
A spy chip in the box: $86.96 million drained from Ledgers sold by one reseller
Ledger says an implant hidden inside devices sold by Southeast Asian reseller CryptoBilis read the 24-word recovery phrase off the screen and sent it out over a mobile network. DeepSea puts the losses at $86.96 million. Ledger has confirmed no total.
Ethena's fee switch got zero votes against. So why have ENA buybacks not started?
ENA holders approved revenue-funded buybacks without a single vote against, but buybacks only start once USDe supply reaches $7.5 billion. On November 2 it was about $4.5 billion.
Korea's crypto exchanges lost a third of their market in six months. Profits fell 78%
Official KoFIU data for the first half of 2026 shows market value, trading and won deposits all collapsing, with a 69% peak-to-trough drop that was worse than the stock market's. Exchange profits took the biggest hit.
$771 million stolen in September, and two hacks were 92% of it
September 2026 was the worst month of the year for crypto hacks until October, CertiK's data show. Bitget and the Liquid Network caused almost all of it, and a returned bitcoin haul cut the real loss to about $488 million.
Bitget lost $388 million with no keys stolen. How did fake withdrawals get through?
Attackers used an unpatched flaw in a third-party security tool, took real staff logins and wrote fake withdrawal orders into Bitget's wallet servers. Bitget says its Protection Fund covers the loss and user balances were not touched.
Optimism rewired fault proofs on 4 chains to prepare for interop. Just 0.13% voted no
Upgrade 20 moved OP Mainnet, Ink, Soneium and Unichain to a new dispute game format on September 24, 2026. Interop is still switched off, but the proof system it needs is now in place. Users had nothing to do; some developers and operators did.
12.7 million XRP drained from D'CENT app wallets. Why updating the app will not save you
Since mid-September, thousands of software wallets made with D'CENT's mobile app have been emptied in waves. The Korean wallet maker says users must move everything to a brand-new recovery phrase, and it is keeping the cause private.