An unknown Hyperliquid dealer has surpassed James Wynn, turning into the buying and selling platform’s largest shedding whale, with greater than $40 million in losses inside a month, in line with blockchain knowledge.
Lookonchain revealed that the dealer made high-leverage trades, with practically $40 million loss on Hyperliquid (HYPE), after promoting about 900,000 tokens earlier than the asset rebounded.
The whale later misplaced one other $35 million on an Ether (ETH) place. After that, he pivoted to a brief place after which misplaced one other $614,000. His Bitcoin (BTC) place can be underwater, with unrealized losses of practically $2 million.
In the final month alone, Hyperdash knowledge reveals that the whale’s pockets has already misplaced $39.5 million. Despite this, the whale nonetheless has a $152 million place with practically 29x leverage.
Kinto plunges 81% as ETH L2 set to wind down months after hack
The native token of the decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Kinto Network dropped over 80% after information that its Ethereum layer-2 blockchain is shutting down in September.
Kinto mentioned worsening market situations have pressured the undertaking to close down. The protocol mentioned they’ve operated with out salaries since July, and because it couldn’t undergo with its final financing try, they’ve made the choice to close down.
The choice to close down follows a $1.6 million hack ensuing from a vulnerability within the ERC-1967 Proxy commonplace.
While the undertaking blamed the failure on the hack and rising monetary pressures, a neighborhood member pointed to the undertaking’s excessive annual proportion yield choices on stablecoins, even after the hack. The undertaking beforehand provided a 130% annual yield on stablecoins, one of many highest in DeFi.
SwissBorg hacked for $41 million SOL after third-party API compromise
Exchange platform SwissBorg misplaced practically $41 million in an exploit due to a vulnerability within the API of its staking companion Kilin.
The undertaking mentioned about 193,000 Solana tokens, value $41 million, have been stolen from its Earn program. Despite this, the undertaking mentioned its app and different Earn merchandise weren’t impacted.
The firm additionally mentioned that it stays in good monetary well being regardless of struggling tens of millions in losses. It mentioned each day operations have been unaffected, and customers who misplaced funds might be contacted straight by the platform.
SwissBorg CEO Cyrus Fazel assured customers that whereas it’s a giant sum of money, it doesn’t put the platform in danger.
Ethereum L2 MegaETH introduces a yield-bearing stablecoin to fund protocol
Ethereum layer-2 protocol MegaETH, a undertaking backed by Vitalik Buterin, introduced the launch of a yield-bearing stablecoin that might differentiate its enterprise mannequin from conventional layer-2s.
The protocol mentioned it’s growing the USDm stablecoin in partnership with Ethena, a protocol with over $13 billion in complete worth locked (TVL). The token will launch on Ethena’s infrastructure, which channels reserves into BUIDL, BlackRock’s tokenized US Treasury invoice fund.
Yield from the stablecoin’s reserves might be used to offset sequencer charges, that are the prices a layer-2 has to pay when publishing batches of transactions on the Ethereum mainnet.
MegaETH co-founder Shuyao Kong mentioned the stablecoin would decrease customers’ charges and permit for extra expressive design for functions.
Bubblemaps alleges the biggest Sybil assault in crypto historical past on MYX airdrop
Blockchain analytics agency Bubblemaps claimed that it had recognized the biggest Sybil assault in crypto historical past, pointing to 100 funded wallets that claimed $170 million in MYX tokens from a current airdrop.
In a collection of X posts, the analytics agency confirmed that the wallets acquired related BNB quantities from OKX inside minutes of one another, nearly a month after the airdrop. Bubblemaps mentioned that whereas MYX hit a $17 billion totally diluted valuation, they noticed one thing uncommon.
Bubblemaps claimed that the wallets had no prior exercise and claimed their airdrop at practically the identical time. “It’s arduous to imagine this was random,” Bubblemaps mentioned, suggesting this could possibly be the “largest airdrop Sybil of all time.”
A Sybil assault is a safety risk in decentralized networks the place one attacker creates and controls a number of faux identities to realize affect over the system.
DeFi market overview
According to knowledge from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView, a lot of the 100 largest cryptocurrencies by market capitalization ended the week within the inexperienced.
MYX Finance (MYX) had a 1,100% seven-day achieve, turning into the week’s largest gainer. The token is adopted by Worldcoin (WLD), which recorded over 90% in good points final week.
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