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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
$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.
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.
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.
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.
What is a bitcoin ETF? How spot funds hold coins and what daily flows mean
A spot bitcoin ETF is a fund that holds real bitcoin and trades on a stock exchange like a share. Big brokers create and redeem its shares in blocks, and the daily flow numbers measure exactly those creations and redemptions.
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.
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.