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Alpine Fox LP founder Mike Alfred posted, "Institutions are going all out to manipulate perpetual contracts and futures derivatives, trying to drive down the price of Bitcoin and intimidate investors into selling, which is one of the biggest scams in the market."BitMine Chairman Tom Lee retweeted and expressed his agreement.

Alpine Fox LP founder Mike Alfred posted, "Institutions are doing everything they can to manipulate perpetual contracts and futures derivatives, trying to drive down the price of Bitcoin and intimidate investors into selling, which is one of the biggest scams in the market." BitMine Chairman Tom Lee retweeted and expressed his agreement.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Wall Street Journal, Trump is preparing to push for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to conduct an initial public offering (IPO) in 2025, aiming to raise $30 billion, with a valuation target of $500 billion, which could become the largest IPO in history.

ChainCatcher news, the 24th "Midas List" of "Golden Investors" jointly selected by Forbes and TrueBridge has been announced. This year, the list is topped by Alfred Lin of Sequoia Capital, who continues to lead with early investments in Airbnb, DoorDash, and a $14 billion bet on OpenAI in 2021. OpenAI's valuation has reached $300 billion, and it completed a record $40 billion financing in April.Notably, among the top ten on the list, Ribbit Capital founder Micky, renowned New York venture capitalist Fred Wilson, and Andreessen Horowitz partner Chris Dixon were included due to their investments in Coinbase.It is reported that the list uses a data-driven selection method, combining actual exit results and valuation growth for a comprehensive ranking, reflecting the true performance of the world's top venture capital elites.

ChainCatcher news, the official X account of Fred Wilson, partner at the American venture capital firm USV (Union Square Ventures), has been hacked. The hacker had posted a fake MEME coin contract, which has now been deleted.

ChainCatcher news, according to market data from RootData, the First Convicted RACCON token (FRED) has increased by 105.37% in the last 24 hours, currently priced at $0.011.According to the Web3 asset data platform RootData, First Convicted RACCON is a meme coin on Solana, meaning "the first convicted raccoon."

ChainCatcher news, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, in the past 48 hours, a certain whale spent 9,422 SOL (approximately $1.79 million) and 2.53 million FRED (approximately $67,400) to buy 13.98 million UFD.Currently, the whale has an unrealized profit of $831,000.

ChainCatcher news, according to @ai_9684xtpa's monitoring, the "mysterious giant whale that invested 15,140 SOL heavily in Pnut / FRED / OPK" has initially built a position in OPK, and the token has risen by 1027% (market cap increased from 2.9 million to 32.7 million USD).Due to its small market cap, OPK has become the strongest performing token among the three built positions in the past 24 hours, and the giant whale's unrealized profit has soared to 64.13 million USD, with a principal increase of 2.48 million USD reaching 26 times, and it has not sold yet.

ChainCatcher news, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, FRED surged 2,500% in just two days. A trader spent 14.85 SOL ($2,515) to buy 35.4 million FRED, and later sold at a loss for 7.85 SOL ($1,331). Today, the value of these tokens exceeds $9.3 million.

ChainCatcher news, according to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, "the mysterious whale who spent 15,140.85 SOL heavily on Pnut, FRED, and OPK" has realized full profits on the tokens, with unrealized gains nearing 30 million dollars, and both FRED and OPK have turned from losses to profits.

According to ChainCatcher news, monitored by Lookonchain, a crypto whale has spent 13,642 SOL (approximately 2.22 million USD) in the past three days to buy Pnut, FRED, and OPK, currently facing a total loss of about 1.44 million USD, as detailed below:Purchased 14.46 million Pnut for 7,142 SOL (approximately 1.16 million USD), currently down 553,000 USD, a decline of about 48%.Purchased 69.88 million FRED for 4,500 SOL (approximately 736,000 USD), currently down 621,900 USD, a decline of about 85%.Purchased 98.76 million OPK for 2,000 SOL (approximately 326,000 USD), currently down 267,800 USD, a decline of about 82%.

ChainCatcher news, according to on-chain data analyst @ai_9684xtpa's monitoring, today a mysterious giant whale spent 9,600 SOL heavily investing in Pnut and FRED, and has started accumulating a third token, OPK, which caused the price to surge 8 times within an hour.It is reported that OPK stands for Obi PNut Kenobi, with the image derived from Musk's pinned tweet featuring a squirrel holding a lightsaber; in the past 2 hours, he spent 1,500 SOL (approximately $248,000) to buy 84.32 million OPK, with an average cost of $0.0029, currently showing a floating profit of $30,000. This address is currently ranked TOP1 in FRED holdings and TOP5 in Pnut holdings.

ChainCatcher news, according to Aggr News citing Bloomberg, Polymarket confirms that the Trump whale FREDI9999 is a French trader.

ChainCatcher news, Paradigm co-founder Fred Ehrsam announced a new startup project called Nudge on X, which is developing an ultrasonic headset to enhance human experiences. Pressing a button can change the user's brain state: falling asleep, increasing focus, breaking habits, improving mood, and more.The team currently consists of 11 engineers and scientists who have previously worked at places and projects like Vision Pro, Neuralink, SpaceX, and top university labs such as Stanford University.

ChainCatcher news, Fred Wilson, co-founder of the well-known investment firm USV, posted on X that his X account has been dormant for the past 18 months. However, during these 18 months, he has been active on Farcaster, sharing his views on technology, startups, venture capital, music, and life through the protocol. Fred also urged his X followers to shift their attention to his Farcaster account.It is reported that USV was the lead investor in X's (then Twitter) first round of financing.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, public trading data shows that Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam and ARK Invest have sold over $14 million worth of Coinbase stock (COIN) in the past 48 hours.Insider Tracker data indicates that Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam reduced his holdings by 97,836 shares of COIN stock on December 11, valued at over $13 million. Additionally, other insiders at Coinbase have sold a significant amount of COIN stock in the past three weeks.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has announced the arrest of a politician, Wilfred Bonse, who is suspected of stealing over $246,000 (200 million naira) from the cryptocurrency wallet of Patricia Technologies.Bonse assisted hackers in laundering $61,000 (50 million naira) from the stolen funds, of which $74,000 (607 million naira) was fraudulently transferred from Patricia Technology's account to his bank account via a cryptocurrency wallet. The investigation is ongoing, and the Nigeria Police Force assures that all individuals involved will be brought to justice.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, Flashbots co-founder Stephane Gosselin has collaborated with research firm Kolibrio to launch a Telegram bot named Alfred for executing token swaps on Ethereum, aimed at facilitating users in performing token exchanges and preventing transactions that generate maximum extractable value (MEV) profits from reordering.The Frontier team stated that Alfred currently has no tokens, and the current focus is on product development. It is considering various revenue models, which may include charging service fees for transactions conducted through the bot. Stephane Gosselin resigned from Flashbots last year and now serves as the CEO of Frontier Research.

ChainCatcher news, Alfred Lin, a partner at Sequoia Capital who previously led investments in FTX, issued a statement on social media expressing agreement with the swift and consistent conviction of FTX founder SBF. SBF misled and deceived many, including customers, employees, business partners, and investors, including himself and Sequoia Capital. Following the collapse of FTX, Sequoia Capital immediately reviewed its due diligence process and assessed its 18-month working relationship with SBF, stating that they had been intentionally misled and deceived by lies.He also added that over the past year, they maintained silence during the prosecution's case-building and trial period and are pleased to finally see the trial come to an end.