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According to Onchain Lens monitoring, in the past day, a certain whale transferred 884.55 ETH to two new wallets, worth approximately 1.66 million dollars.Before the transfer, the whale also exchanged 493.02 ETH for 928.6 thousand USDT through CoW Protocol, worth approximately 927 thousand dollars.

According to Decrypt, the Irish government has released its first national anti-money laundering (AML) strategy, which plans to strengthen the review of digital asset transfers involving self-hosted wallets and increase due diligence requirements for crypto companies when cooperating with overseas institutions.According to the announcement from the Irish Department of Finance, this strategy implements the remaining requirements of the EU's Transfer of Funds Regulation, which will require crypto asset service providers (CASP) to perform "enhanced checks" on transfers involving private wallets, while implementing stricter customer due diligence when conducting business with overseas crypto companies.The related measures are based on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Travel Rule, which requires the inclusion of sender and receiver information in digital asset transactions to enhance the transparency of fund flows. Ireland stated that the new regulations will be advanced in parallel with the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA).MiCA establishes a unified regulatory framework for crypto asset service providers, while Ireland previously granted a 12-month transition period for its domestic crypto companies, which is shorter than the maximum 18 months allowed by the EU. The transition period is set to end at the end of December 2025, so the new requirements will directly apply to companies that have obtained formal authorization.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, in recent days, 4 wallets have collectively shorted approximately 340 million dollars' worth of Bitcoin around 64,000 dollars, specifically as follows:One address shorted 1,792 Bitcoins, valued at 114 million dollars, with an opening price of 63,999 dollars;One address shorted 1,576 Bitcoins, valued at 100 million dollars, with an opening price of 64,038 dollars;One address shorted 1,200 Bitcoins, valued at 76,450,000 dollars, with an opening price of 64,418 dollars;One address shorted 806 Bitcoins, valued at 51,350,000 dollars, with an opening price of 64,398 dollars.

The number of wallets holding at least 10,000 bitcoins has increased to 90, reaching a six-month high, indicating that large investors are accumulating again.Since July 29, wallets holding between 10 and 10,000 bitcoins have cumulatively increased their holdings by approximately $1.5 billion worth of bitcoins; influenced by security concerns and regulatory delays, the number of smaller "micro" wallets continues to decrease. Analysts from the crypto market data platform Santiment indicate that the rotation of tokens from small holders to so-called "strong hands" historically tends to precede significant price fluctuations, and the likelihood of bitcoin breaking above $70,000 has increased.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, despite recent continuous selling by institutions, some whales are still accumulating HYPE.In the past 5 days, 3 newly created wallets have withdrawn 165,400 HYPE from FalconX, worth 9.16 million dollars.

According to monitoring by PeckShield, wallets associated with Coinsbuy are suspected to have been attacked, involving the TRON and Ethereum networks, with estimated losses of approximately 7.9 million dollars.The attackers subsequently transferred part of the stolen funds through platforms such as ChangeNOW, FixedFloat, and BingX.

Santiment Intelligence stated that Bitcoin has just experienced a week of surging on-chain transaction volume. The number of new wallets on the network reached 2.27 million, marking the highest level in the past year, while the number of active wallets also reached 751,000, setting a record high in 10 months. The biggest catalyst was the chaos triggered by the Coldcard wallet incident.The security crisis forced users to move funds, create new wallets, rotate custody settings, and recheck risk exposure, which naturally led to a significant increase in wallet creation and activity. Polarizing events often elicit the strongest on-chain reactions for Bitcoin and altcoins. Fear spread rapidly, followed closely by greed, and both emotions drive more people to trade, adjust positions, and closely monitor market dynamics, reigniting demand after a market downturn.When retail investors are impacted and trading volume surges, large holders of Bitcoin often take advantage of the chaos to accumulate more aggressively, and this combination of increased usage and accumulation by large holders has historically had a positive effect on prices in the following weeks or even months.

Brian Armstrong posted on the X platform that Coinbase Dev can now create multiple types of wallets through a single API call, including self-custody, developer custody, and user custody.This feature supports multiple blockchains and various types of assets, including stablecoins, crypto assets, and tokenized real-world assets.

According to monitoring by Bubblemaps, several newly created wallets previously purchased CASCHAT worth millions of dollars, and then the token was listed on Robinhood two days later. Currently, the total paper profit of these wallets is approximately 3 million dollars.

Bitcoin News posted on the X platform that new community honeypot tests show that attackers are still prioritizing wallets that are most easily exploited due to the Coldcard Mk3 RNG vulnerability.Researcher @ColeTU injected funds into 5 affected Mk3 wallets: 1 using only the vulnerable mnemonic, 3 protected by BIP39 passphrases of 1, 2, and 3 words respectively, and another using a random account number. After 14 hours, only the unprotected wallet using just the mnemonic had its funds transferred away. According to @jamesob's real-time tripwire dashboard, currently only 2 out of 17 honeypot wallets have been emptied. The emptied wallets have been confirmed not to have added extra entropy, while all wallets protected by dice rolls, passphrases, multisig, or other complexities remain untouched.The test results indicate that attackers are currently focusing on the wallets that are easiest to brute-force rather than investing resources in strengthening targets, but affected users should still migrate their funds immediately instead of relying on temporary protections.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, two wallets that may belong to the same whale sold 729,015 UNI (3 million USD) today, exchanging for 1,578 ETH (3 million USD).

According to on-chain detective Specter, a documentary claims that a woman has stated she can no longer access 20,000 BTC, which is worth approximately $1.2 billion at current prices. If this claim is accurate, the scale of assets she still controls would drop to over $600 million.Several weeks ago, approximately $60 million in assets were transferred and distributed to multiple wallets, indicating that there are still individuals who can access at least some of the related wallets.

Analysts say that Samsung is accelerating its layout of digital asset infrastructure, planning to provide native stablecoin functionality to approximately 800 million Galaxy smartphones through Samsung Wallet, which is expected to become an important distribution channel for stablecoins like USDC. It is reported that Samsung announced at the Galaxy Unpacked 2026 event that it will integrate stablecoin-related features into future devices, including savings and payment accounts linked to fiat currencies. Currently, Samsung Wallet covers 61 countries, with nearly 19 million users in South Korea.Joseph Goh, head of the Asia-Pacific region for crypto investment bank Areta, stated that the core bottleneck for the widespread adoption of stablecoins is not liquidity, but user accessibility. "Distribution channels are the scarce asset, and Samsung has a large number of user entry points." He believes this move could propel Samsung to become a major distributor of stablecoins like USDC. This is not Samsung's first foray into the crypto space. The company launched a digital asset wallet through the Knox security module back in 2019, supporting users in storing assets like Bitcoin and Ethereum, and connecting to Ledger hardware wallets. Additionally, Samsung is strengthening its digital asset infrastructure layout. Samsung SDS CEO Lee Joon-hee previously stated that the company’s investment in Dunamu, the operator of South Korea's largest crypto exchange Upbit, is an important strategic layout for entering the digital asset infrastructure field, including stablecoins and AI payments. In May of this year, Samsung Securities, Samsung SDS, and Samsung Card agreed to acquire approximately 4% of Dunamu, Upbit's parent company, for about $408 million. Analysts believe that Samsung Wallet is responsible for providing user distribution entry points, while infrastructure layouts like Dunamu are responsible for underlying transactions and asset services, suggesting that Samsung may be building a complete ecosystem covering stablecoins, payments, and digital asset services.

According to monitoring by Onchain Lens, the two wallets of Hyperion have collectively unstaked 519,480 HYPE, approximately 28.56 million USD.Among them, one wallet unstaked 412,960 HYPE, approximately 22.70 million USD; the other wallet unstaked 106,520 HYPE, approximately 5.86 million USD.

The Coldcard hardware wallet attack has expanded to approximately $116 million, with attackers transferring 1,816 BTC from over 5,200 addresses. Galaxy Research confirmed that a fourth wave of transfers has occurred, with this wave alone transferring about 449 BTC after adjustments.Alex Thorn, head of Galaxy Research, stated that the latest activity may be "the fourth round of organized theft," with a transfer rate reaching 13.8 transactions per block, which is about 45 times the baseline level before the incident. Their analysis suggests that the related patterns indicate multiple groups may be scanning the affected key space in parallel. The root of the incident can be traced back to a 2021 firmware update for some Coldcard devices, which changed the wallet seed generation process from a hardware random source to a predictable software model. The Canadian manufacturer Coinkite recommends that users who generated wallet seeds on Coldcard devices transfer their funds to a new secure wallet as soon as possible.

According to SolanaFloor, the number of independent active trading wallets on the Solana network rose to the highest level in seven months in July, with a total of 609,000 independent wallets executing transactions that month.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a newly created wallet withdrew 100 BTC from BitMEX, worth approximately 6.34 million USD;Another wallet associated with the same person received 5.055 BTC, worth approximately 318,500 USD, totaling a withdrawal of 105.055 BTC, worth approximately 6.66 million USD.

Zhao Changpeng posted on platform X, stating that regarding the suspected vulnerability of the Coldcard wallet that led to over $38 million in Bitcoin being stolen, even hardware wallets may have vulnerabilities.Even long-established wallets may have vulnerabilities. To reduce risk, one might consider diversifying funds across several wallets, but this brings another set of risks. Nothing is 100% secure.