September 29th, the data for the current cycle options showed that 118,000 BTC options are about to expire, with a put-to-call ratio of 0.58 and a maximum pain point of $26,500, with a nominal value of $3.2 billion. Additionally, 1.11 million ETH options are about to expire, with a put-to-call ratio of 0.46 and a maximum pain point of $1,650, with a nominal value of $1.8 billion.

Terence.eth, an Ethereum developer, posted on X platform that the largest validator set in the history of the Holesky test network has been activated and the final outcome will be coming soon. Currently, some node operators are waiting to go online.

The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) under the United States Department of the Treasury has included a crypto wallet allegedly linked to a major international crime syndicate in its list of Specially Designated Nationals. The US Treasury has sanctioned 10 individuals, including those associated with the Sinaloa Cartel, with Mexican national Mario Alberto Jimenez Castro being added to the list through an Ethereum wallet. <br>

Decentralized operating system Cartesi launched its first DApp Honeypot on the Ethereum mainnet. The design of this DApp is to allow developers and hackers to challenge the code security of the Cartesi protocol in exchange for bounty rewards. The Honeypot DApp will be used to stress test the basic code of Cartesi on its mainnet, allowing Cartesi's technology to launch and subsequently be used for other DApps. The first person to crack the Honeypot will receive approximately 1,772,889 Cartesi tokens (about $265,000) with no additional conditions. In the backend code of the Honeypot DApp, there is an algorithm that only allows depositors' accounts of the Cartesi Foundation to withdraw funds. Participants face the challenge of cracking the password and withdrawing funds to their own accounts.

As monitored by on-chain analyst Yu Jin, a whale sold 3,999 ETH for 5.04 million DAI, 560,000 USDT, and 720,000 USDC (6.32 million USD) via Uniswap four hours ago, with an average selling price of 1,582 USD. The whale currently holds 2,970 ETH (4.72 million USD).

Blockchain analysts have identified several transactions from a wallet linked to Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin in September 2023, totaling over $3.9 million. One transaction worth an estimated $632,000 was sent from Buterin's wallet to Coinbase. Buterin has reportedly deposited a total of 2,421 ETH, valued at $3.94 million, to various centralized exchanges over the past 10 days. The source of a transfer of 2,000 ETH worth $4.9 million to the address associated with Buterin's transactions is a better-known address belonging to Buterin than the middle address that has been transferring funds to exchanges.

On September 25th, according to pictures released by PeckShieldAlert, the assets lost in the Mixin Network vulnerability exploitation included nearly $100 million worth of ETH, DAI, and BTC, with each exceeding $23 million. The total value is around $140 million.

Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, has deposited 400 ETH (equivalent to $0.63 million) into Coinbase, sparking speculation about his intentions and strategies in the volatile cryptocurrency market. Recent transactions involving his ETH holdings have added to the intrigue surrounding his movements.

September 25th, according to Glassnode data, the balance of Ethereum on trading platforms reached 14,551,400.379, hitting a new low in nearly 5 years.

According to Scopescan monitoring, Stake.com's wallet address transferred 12,500 ETH (worth about $20.3 million) to Binance one hour ago. Previously, on September 18th, the Stake.com wallet address transferred 10,000 ETH ($16.3 million) to Binance.

Whale Alert has detected the transfer of 16,500 ETH from an unknown wallet to OKX, worth $26,778,575.

Balancer, an Ethereum-based automated market maker, has suffered a frontend compromise on its website due to a social engineering attack on its DNS service provider, EuroDNS. The attack led to the theft of an estimated $238,000 in crypto. Balancer's decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) worked to recover the Balancer UI and secured the domain, but the company is exploring deprecating the .fi TLD and suggests other projects using the same top-level domain should consider moving to a more secure registrar. The attacker employed Angel Drainer phishing contracts and SlowMist and CertiK reported that the hacker may be related to Russia.

As monitored by on-chain analyst Yu Jin, two hours ago, a whale bought 768 MKR with 606 ETH ($1 million). This whale has bought a total of 1261 MKR with 992 ETH ($1.62 million) in two days, at an average price of $1291.

Bitcoin's price surged past resistance at $27,000 on Monday, boosting sentiment for most cryptocurrencies. Ethereum also saw gains, reaching above $1,600 but stalling at $1,650. Other altcoins such as XRP, Cardano, and Toncoin also performed well, with gains ranging from 2.5% to 4.5%. The total market capitalization increased by 1.4% to $1.1 trillion, indicating a bullish trend. However, if Bitcoin fails to break through the $27,000 resistance, it may revisit the next major support area at $25,000.

Raoul Pal, a former Goldman Sachs executive, has named Solana (SOL) as one of his top altcoin picks and believes it could be the most promising project outside of Ethereum (ETH). Pal praises Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko for his thought leadership and ability to build bridges within the crypto space.

The price of ETH has seen gains at the start of the week, bouncing back from selling pressure over the weekend and trading at $1,630. Despite negative market pressure since June, ETH has sustained support above $1,530. If the support area from $1,600 to $1,630 holds, Ethereum may consolidate with an upper limit of $1,700 before the next breakout targeting highs above $2,000.

Major cryptocurrencies saw positive performance on Monday, September 18, with investors regaining confidence in digital currencies. Bitcoin's price rose 0.15% to $26,585.27 over the last 24 hours, while Ethereum's price remained flat at $1,629.15. XRP's price increased by 0.11% to $0.4973, and Litecoin's price added 1.06% to trade at $64.63.

Ethereum executed the beacon chain merge on September 15th, 2022, and today marks the one-year anniversary of the merge. According to on-chain data provider Ultrasound.money, the Ethereum supply has decreased by 299,722.81 ETH since the merge, keeping Ethereum in a state of deflation. In addition, the amount of ETH burned since the merge has reached 981,698.48, worth approximately $1,655,780,441.

Lido's collateral ratio reached 32.26%, with a net inflow of 2.596 million ETH since the upgrade in Shanghai. In addition, the total amount of ETH collateral is 26.77 million, which is 22.27% of the supply.

Metis plans to become Ethereum's first decentralized L2 this year, allowing its community to take control of critical centralized components of the network.Metis co-founder Elena Sinelnikova said that by authorizing community control of the decentralized sequencer pool, Metis aims to demonstrate the advantages of maintaining L2 scalability while reducing centralization risks.