On April 12, on-chain analyst Yu Jin reported that a whale/institution holding 59% of the circulating supply transferred the final 278 million NOM tokens to a certain CEX, causing the NOM price to drop from $0.007 to $0.004, a decline of 45%.

Gate News message, on April 11, according to on-chain analysts Yu Jin’s monitoring, within the past half hour, the whale or institution controlling NOM with 59% of the circulating supply has continued transferring 768 million NOM tokens, worth $3.73 million, to a certain CEX. From last night to today, this entity has cumulatively transferred 1.44B NOM tokens to a certain CEX, worth $7.67 million. In the past 24 hours, the NOM price has fallen 39%.

On April 10, analyst Yu Jin reported that a giant whale established a $74.47 million crude oil short position on Hyperliquid, with an unrealized gain of about $1.2 million. It consists of 399k barrels of WTI crude oil and 390k barrels of Brent crude oil.

Gate News message: On April 10, according to on-chain analyst Yu Jin monitoring, over the past roughly month and a half, a total of about 116 million ONDO (worth approximately $30.21 million) have been gradually transferred from the Ondo Finance multisig wallet to a certain CEX. The transfer pattern shows clear regularity: basically, about 20 million ONDO are transferred out of the multisig wallet to another multisig address each week, and then within a few days the funds are split into multiple transactions that are gradually sent into the exchange.

Gate News message. On April 9, according to on-chain analyst Yu Jin monitoring, the Ethereum Foundation’s current plan is to sell 5,000 ETH. So far, it has completed the sale of 3,750 ETH, worth $8.3 million, with an average selling price of $2,214.

Gate News message. On April 8, according to on-chain analyst Yu Jin’s monitoring, a DeFi whale repaid a 4.14 million DAI loan on Spark about 9 hours before an Israel-Iran ceasefire proposal was agreed upon, then retrieved 264.4 WBTC worth of collateral and transferred it to a certain CEX to sell at a price of about $67,990 per WBTC, for a total value of approximately $17.98 million. Six hours later, the Israel-Iran ceasefire proposal was agreed upon; as a result, the BTC price rose 5%, causing the whale to miss out on about $1 million in potential gains.

Gate News message, April 7, according to crypto analyst Yu Jin, a whale address transferred 300 BTC into a certain CEX about half an hour ago, worth approximately $20.6 million. That address previously, from January to March last year, bought a total of 510 BTC through a certain CEX at an average price of about $98,190, for a total cost of approximately $50.07 million. The 300 BTC transferred out this time corresponds to realized losses of approximately $8.82 million.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin’s monitoring, Spark completed its first month of token buybacks on April 6, spending 571,957 USDS to purchase 26.66 million SPK tokens at an average price of $0.0215. The buyback program is expected to run for 12 months, with an annual buyback-to-circulation rate of up to 12%.

The founder of SlowMist, Yu Xuan, disclosed that the Drift Protocol theft incident was caused by its migration to a 2-of-5 multisig scheme without a timelock, which enabled the attacker to quickly seize control of permissions and resulted in losses of over $200 million. He urged DeFi project teams to regularly review risks, and users need to pay attention to the protocol’s risk of capital loss.

Gate News message: On April 1, according to on-chain analyst Yu Jin’s monitoring, a Bitmine-controlled address received 45,000 ETH today from the digital asset custody institution BitGo, worth approximately $95.3 million. Of this batch of ETH, 25,000 ETH had previously been deposited into BitGo after being introduced by a centralized exchange; then it was combined with the remaining assets to complete this transfer.