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BitcoinWorld On-Chain Data: Wallets Linked to a16z Deposit $24M USDC on Hyperliquid to Buy HYPE On-chain data from analyst EmberCN indicates that twelve cryptocurrency wallets, believed to be
Jin Exits, Then Returns Within Hours Prominent on-chain trader Garrett Jin (@GarrettBullish) made headlines on June 17 after abruptly exiting his entire Hyperliquid ($HYPE) position, only to
A whale wallet identified as 0x5f91 has opened a new 5x leveraged long position on Aster DEX, accumulating 3.86 million $ASTER tokens with a notional value of roughly $2.61 million. The move
@Inter_link has officially reached the 9-million-user milestone, with the ecosystem now entering its final transition phase ahead of the protocol's primary Mainnet launch. The announcement ma
YZi Labs Leads Renaiss’ First Round Renaiss, an RWA liquidity infrastructure project for real-world collectibles built on BNB Chain, has secured $1.5 million in funding, with YZi Labs leading
Crypto investors are often told that patience pays off. Hold through market cycles, trust the technology, and eventually the market will recognize value. For many Polkadot holders, however, t
Attackers have taken around $2 million from a deprecated Aztec payments product on June 17, coming just a few days after $2.19 million was lost in a separate exploit that targeted the project
On June 17, Aztec Labs was found itself in the middle of an exploit for the second time in a week. An attacker drained around $2.16 million from Aztec’s deprecated Private Rollup Bridge. In r
George Town, Cayman Islands, June 18th, 2026, Chainwire Atlas, a blockchain oracle infrastructure provider backed by CoinMarketCap, has announced live integrations with two cornerstone protoc
Circle, the company behind USD Coin (USDC), has made Stellar one of its core blockchain deployments for the world's largest regulated stablecoin. The decision comes down to three concrete fac
Aster Chain is a purpose-built Layer 1 blockchain designed for on-chain derivatives trading. Its mainnet launched in March 2026, giving the Aster perpetual exchange its own independent infras
Dogecoin is the older, more liquid, and more widely recognized of the two, but Shiba Inu has built a significantly more complex technical ecosystem. As of June 4, 2026, DOGE trades at approxi
