Odaily Star Planet Daily News reports that according to OKX, ETH has broken through 1600 USDT and is currently trading at 1611 USDT, with a 24-hour increase of 3.2%.

Coinbase (COIN) stated in a research report on Friday that the Ethereum blockchain validator queue has been cleared for the first time since Shanghai was upgraded in May, indicating that investor demand for ETH staking is becoming stable. The report stated that as validator entries peaked in recent months, staking yields have dropped from over 5% to 3.5%. Activity on the Ethereum mainnet remained stable in the third quarter, while total transaction volume increased. Coinbase stated that if basic activity and transaction fees on the network remain consistent, staking yields are expected to remain stable due to a slowdown in validator growth.

On October 16, according to PeckShield monitoring, the attacker address of Uranium Finance bridged 10,000 BUSD from BNB Chain to Ethereum through Stargate. The attacker's address on BNB Chain currently holds 13.4 million BUSD and 22,000 BNB (worth about 4.7 million US dollars). One hour later, the attacker's address bridged 3.11 million BUSD to Ethereum through LI.FI and Stargate. The attacker address of UraniumFinance on the Ethereum network has received 1,946.06 ETH (about 3.02 million US dollars) and USDT and USDC worth about 25,500 US dollars.

According to Spot On Chain monitoring, Whale Address 0x88e deposited the remaining 4,404 ETH in its wallet into Binance 10 minutes ago. On June 23, 2020, the whale address accumulated 11,904 ETH from Bitfinex at an average price of only $243.1 ($2.894 million). In the past 3 days, the whale has deposited all 11,904 ETH ($18.58 million) into Binance. Expected profit is $15.8 million (+542%).

According to PeckShield monitoring, the address of the attacker identified as EraLend has transferred 281 ETH to the new address 0xf888...ac02.

rollbot.eth (the address related to the deployment of the RLB program) exchanged 123.89 ETH for 1.426 million RLB (worth $193,000) at an average price of $0.135 per RLB in the past 24 hours. The latest purchase was made 40 minutes ago, during which time the RLB price has increased by more than 10%. Currently, rollbot.eth holds 14.26 million RLB (worth $2.04 million) in its address and 13.6 million RLB (worth $1.95 million) in the liquidity pool.

October 15 Morning Highlights

Data shows that the total staking amount of ETH 2.0 has reached 30,511,982, worth approximately $47.269 billion at current market prices. In addition, the total number of ETH 2.0 staking addresses has exceeded 1.004 million, reaching 1,003,962.

L2BEAT data shows that the total locked amount on the Ethereum Layer2 is currently 10.385 billion US dollars, a decrease of 3.89% in the past 7 days. The highest locked amount is for the scaling solution Arbitrum One, which is about 5.705 billion US dollars, accounting for 54.94%, followed by Optimism, with a locked amount of 2.578 billion US dollars, accounting for 24.82%.

According to on-chain transaction records, the address starting with 0xa524 sold CryptoPunk #6704 for 400 ETH (approximately $620,000) to the address starting with 0x04cb today. It is reported that CryptoPunk #6704 is a relatively rare "Zombie Punk" NFT in the series, with only 88 in the entire collection.

On October 12th, Ethereum developers gathered on Zoom for a conference call. The meeting was hosted by Tim Beiko, the protocol support lead at the Ethereum Foundation, and developers discussed and coordinated changes to the Ethereum execution layer (EL).

Cryptocurrency payment service provider BitPay has announced in an article posted on X that it will facilitate the use of cryptocurrency for the movie. Fans can visit the AMC website or use the mobile app and choose BitPay at checkout. Taylor Swift fans can now purchase tickets for the movie "Taylor Swift: The Time Traveler" using various cryptocurrencies, including BTC, ETH, DOGE, and SHIB. The movie premiered in theaters worldwide today, with presales reaching $100 million.

According to Ultrasound data, as of now, the Ethereum network has destroyed a total of 3,636,068.58 ETH. Among them, OpenSea destroyed 230,050.69 ETH, ETHtransfers destroyed 304,628.56 ETH, and UniswapV2 destroyed 208,696.93 ETH. Note: After the Ethereum London upgrade introduced EIP-1559, the Ethereum network will dynamically adjust the BaseFee of each transaction based on transaction demand and block size, and this part of the fee will be directly burned and destroyed.

According to Perps Watcher data, Frog Nation's former CFO 0xsifu (sifu.eth) has gradually closed his previous ETH short positions and switched to long positions three days ago. 0xsifu has been buying ETH at an average price of $1,562.27 with 5.19x leverage on Kwenta for the past three days, with a position size of about $20.9 million. Currently, he has realized a profit of $470,000 and an unrealized loss of $123,000.

On October 14th, derivative software developer IPOR Labs launched version 2 of the IPOR protocol on the Ethereum mainnet, with new features including custom APR with zap, stETH pool, extended term structure, and upgraded spread model. As previously reported by Jinse Finance, IPOR Labs completed a $5.55 million financing round last April, led by Arrington Capital.

According to data from IntoTheBlock, the network fee income of the Ethereum blockchain has dropped to its lowest level since April 2020, a 90% decrease from its peak in May of this year.

Crypto analyst Jason Pizzino has issued a warning to altcoin investors, stating that the severity of a correction for altcoins will depend on how far Bitcoin dips. Pizzino predicts that if Bitcoin breaks down to $26,000 or even $24,900, it will have dire consequences on altcoins. However, if Bitcoin breaks the 50% level at $26,700, altcoins will continue to struggle and experience worse declines. Pizzino believes that a decline in altcoins will prompt traders to transfer some of their alt investments to BTC, which will help prop it up and lessen its downtrend.

According to Ultra Sound Money data, the amount of ETH staked has increased by 50% since its launch, growing from 18 million ETH to 27 million ETH within six months.

On October 13th, Fuel, the modular execution layer for Ethereum, announced the opening of the Beta-4 testnet and the native bridge between Ethereum and Sepolia. The Fuel native bridge enables asset transfers between L1 and L2 and utilizes message portals to process token standards such as ERC-20 and ERC-721. On L2, tokens have dedicated contracts for message processing and minting on Fuel. Any assets deposited into Fuel may take up to 6 hours to withdraw back to Ethereum. The Fuel native bridge is still in the testing phase.

As of October 13th, the data for the current cycle options showed that 24,000 BTC options are about to expire, with a put-to-call ratio of 1.23 and a maximum pain point of $27,000, with a nominal value of $640 million. 190,000 ETH options are about to expire, with a put-to-call ratio of 0.71, a maximum pain point of $1,600, and a nominal value of $290 million.