😎 'Godfather' Adam Iza gets 78 months for $37M Meta heist
Adam Iza, the guy who literally branded himself "The Godfather," just got 78 months in federal prison for stealing more than $37 million from Meta. Not from some degen in a Telegram group — from Meta's own business-manager accounts and credit lines. Judge Percy Anderson also ordered him to pay $23,402,766 in restitution.
▪️ The mechanism: Iza fraudulently got his hands on Meta business-manager accounts and the lines of credit attached to them, then pulled tens of millions through that access.
▪️ He pleaded guilty to three counts — wire fraud, conspiracy against rights, and tax evasion. That civil-rights charge is the part that turns this from a finance story into a nasty one.
▪️ Prosecutors say he paid off-duty Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies to run illegal searches and lean on people he saw as rivals or threats.
▪️ Meta was the mark, not a partner — its systems and credit facilities got exploited. Nobody at the company was in on it.
▪️ The crypto angle was pure costume: he sold the image of a wealthy digital-asset player, but the actual conviction is ordinary federal fraud, tax evasion and civil-rights violations.
▪️ Don't conflate the two numbers — $37M+ stolen, $23.4M restitution. That gap is money nobody is getting back.
📊 Sentence:
📊 Restitution ordered:
📊 Pleaded guilty to:
🔮Calling yourself "The Godfather" in a federal indictment is the one trade with guaranteed liquidation.
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Adam Iza, the guy who literally branded himself "The Godfather," just got 78 months in federal prison for stealing more than $37 million from Meta. Not from some degen in a Telegram group — from Meta's own business-manager accounts and credit lines. Judge Percy Anderson also ordered him to pay $23,402,766 in restitution.
▪️ The mechanism: Iza fraudulently got his hands on Meta business-manager accounts and the lines of credit attached to them, then pulled tens of millions through that access.
▪️ He pleaded guilty to three counts — wire fraud, conspiracy against rights, and tax evasion. That civil-rights charge is the part that turns this from a finance story into a nasty one.
▪️ Prosecutors say he paid off-duty Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies to run illegal searches and lean on people he saw as rivals or threats.
▪️ Meta was the mark, not a partner — its systems and credit facilities got exploited. Nobody at the company was in on it.
▪️ The crypto angle was pure costume: he sold the image of a wealthy digital-asset player, but the actual conviction is ordinary federal fraud, tax evasion and civil-rights violations.
▪️ Don't conflate the two numbers — $37M+ stolen, $23.4M restitution. That gap is money nobody is getting back.
📊 Sentence:
78 months📊 Restitution ordered:
$23,402,766📊 Pleaded guilty to:
3 countsThis isn't a rug pull or a hacked protocol — it's the reminder that the "crypto rich guy" flex is often a costume over plain fraud, and the money usually isn't coming from tokens. If someone in your DMs is waving a Godfather nickname and a Lambo, ask who's actually footing the bill. And note the deputies: paying badge-carrying muscle to intimidate people is what turned a fraud case into a civil-rights case — that's how you turn 37 million stolen dollars into a prison term measured in years, not months.
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🐋 Abraxas-linked Hyperliquid wallets short $1.58B of BTC and ETH
Two Hyperliquid wallets that Nansen and Arkham tag as Abraxas Capital Management's are carrying a combined $1.58 billion net short, and BTC plus ETH are the fattest part of the book. At 2:55 p.m. ET on Oct. 6, 2026, the pair was down about $114.5 million on paper — and still holding. The London firm behind them manages billions, so this isn't some degen who'll get flushed on the next wick.
▪️ Hyperbot's X account flagged the two addresses on Monday; onchain explorers Nansen and Arkham label them Abraxas Capital Mgmt (Heka Funds).
▪️ The BTC and ETH legs alone: 5,120 BTC and 189,400 ETH, roughly $948 million notional, per hypurrscan.io data.
▪️ It's not a two-coin bet — the same wallets are short SOL, HYPE, ENA, XRP, SUI and PUMP. That's a whole-portfolio bearish tilt, not one punt.
▪️ Both addresses logged millions in deposits and hold spot that can offset the shorts, so the perp book alone isn't their net exposure.
▪️ Bitcoin twice tagged $86,000 on Tuesday, helped by the CFTC's proposed crypto rules and fresh SEC news — the tape is not cooperating with the short.
📊 Combined net short:
📊 BTC + ETH leg:
📊 Paper loss at snapshot:
📊 ETH short:
💬 «Spot holdings may offset these shorts, so the positions alone do not establish the wallets' net market exposure.» — Hyperbot
🔮A $114.5M paper hole and they keep holding. Either Abraxas knows something, or we're all reading a hedge like it's prophecy.
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Two Hyperliquid wallets that Nansen and Arkham tag as Abraxas Capital Management's are carrying a combined $1.58 billion net short, and BTC plus ETH are the fattest part of the book. At 2:55 p.m. ET on Oct. 6, 2026, the pair was down about $114.5 million on paper — and still holding. The London firm behind them manages billions, so this isn't some degen who'll get flushed on the next wick.
▪️ Hyperbot's X account flagged the two addresses on Monday; onchain explorers Nansen and Arkham label them Abraxas Capital Mgmt (Heka Funds).
▪️ The BTC and ETH legs alone: 5,120 BTC and 189,400 ETH, roughly $948 million notional, per hypurrscan.io data.
▪️ It's not a two-coin bet — the same wallets are short SOL, HYPE, ENA, XRP, SUI and PUMP. That's a whole-portfolio bearish tilt, not one punt.
▪️ Both addresses logged millions in deposits and hold spot that can offset the shorts, so the perp book alone isn't their net exposure.
▪️ Bitcoin twice tagged $86,000 on Tuesday, helped by the CFTC's proposed crypto rules and fresh SEC news — the tape is not cooperating with the short.
📊 Combined net short:
$1.58B📊 BTC + ETH leg:
~$948M📊 Paper loss at snapshot:
~$114.5M📊 ETH short:
189,400 ETHFor retail this is less a signal than a mirror: a whale book this visible drags crowd psychology around, and whales know exactly that. It can just as easily be a hedge or provisioning for a multi-billion spot book as it is insider conviction — nobody outside Abraxas can tell you which. What matters is the boxes: positions stay open, they can flip fast, and if BTC keeps hammering $86,000 while ETH follows, that $114.5 million hole gets deeper and the crowd starts asking who's actually wrong.
💬 «Spot holdings may offset these shorts, so the positions alone do not establish the wallets' net market exposure.» — Hyperbot
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🚨 Uncle Sam moves $71M Bitcoin stash after six-week silence
Tuesday morning Washington finally touched its Bitcoin again — US Marshals-linked wallets pushed out more than 830 BTC worth over $70 million, the first move since Aug. 26. The coins aren't fresh seizures either; they're leftovers from two cold cases: the 2016 Bitfinex hack and Hashflare, the fake cloud-mining scam run by Sergei Potapenko and Ivan Turõgin.
▪️ On-chain analyst Sani caught it around 11 a.m. Eastern: a dust-sized test ping went to Coinbase Prime first, then a bigger leg into a brand-new wallet.
▪️ The Bitfinex slice traces back to the breach where over 100,000 BTC walked out; feds later caught Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan and clawed most of it back.
▪️ Same hour, forfeited FTX wallets spat out tens-of-millions in BNB right after their own dust-test — different chain, identical playbook.
▪️ The tail end carried coins tied to Potapenko-Turogin's Hashflare operation, which sold hashrate contracts for data centers stuffed with zero actual machines.
▪️ Everything landed at Coinbase Prime — already custodian for US Marshals 'Class 1' digital assets since Washington swapped open auctions for private custody deals.
📊 Still sitting on:
📊 That pile is worth:
📊 FTX-linked BNB moved:
💬 «Most likely a test transaction before sending all the remaining coins.» — 'Sani', on-chain analyst behind timechainindex.com
🔮'Test transfers are how you count your chips before cashing out.Who's buying,and does retail ever get told?'
@hivenetwork
Tuesday morning Washington finally touched its Bitcoin again — US Marshals-linked wallets pushed out more than 830 BTC worth over $70 million, the first move since Aug. 26. The coins aren't fresh seizures either; they're leftovers from two cold cases: the 2016 Bitfinex hack and Hashflare, the fake cloud-mining scam run by Sergei Potapenko and Ivan Turõgin.
▪️ On-chain analyst Sani caught it around 11 a.m. Eastern: a dust-sized test ping went to Coinbase Prime first, then a bigger leg into a brand-new wallet.
▪️ The Bitfinex slice traces back to the breach where over 100,000 BTC walked out; feds later caught Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan and clawed most of it back.
▪️ Same hour, forfeited FTX wallets spat out tens-of-millions in BNB right after their own dust-test — different chain, identical playbook.
▪️ The tail end carried coins tied to Potapenko-Turogin's Hashflare operation, which sold hashrate contracts for data centers stuffed with zero actual machines.
▪️ Everything landed at Coinbase Prime — already custodian for US Marshals 'Class 1' digital assets since Washington swapped open auctions for private custody deals.
📊 Still sitting on:
+300K BTC📊 That pile is worth:
+$25B📊 FTX-linked BNB moved:
+$30MFor anyone trading size this matters less than crypto Twitter will pretend: a Coinbase Prime shuffle isn't an auction block and nobody announced squat about selling yet.The tell is timing — six weeks quiet then three chains swept clean before lunch smells like bookkeeping ahead of something bigger.But don't let anyone scare you into believing hundreds of thousands of coins hit bids tomorrow.
💬 «Most likely a test transaction before sending all the remaining coins.» — 'Sani', on-chain analyst behind timechainindex.com
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📉 Два кошелька на Hyperliquid держат шорт на BTC и ETH почти на миллиард
Утро красное у всех и по чуть-чуть у каждого лично.
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Утро красное у всех и по чуть-чуть у каждого лично.
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🔥 Ethereum cracks its floor — $1.135B of longs queued up for slaughter
ETH dropped 15.19% in a day to $12570 and finally tore through the $12700 shelf that had been holding despite days of institutional selling.Now roughly $11.135 billion worth of leveraged long positions sit below price waiting to get liquidated against just $1999.178 million's worth of shorts hanging above.
▪️ Nearest trigger first: about $1112.183 million's worth of Hyperliquid's Ethereum longs start blowing up near $12511 — yesterday at $12605.165 that gap was a comfortable 17.14%, today it's 13.16%,…
▪️ Before anyone even reached those big clusters, CoinGlass says $1233.136 million got liquidated across Ethereum over twenty-four hours — $1221.187 million, or around ninety-five percent, were fucking…
▪️ The twelve-hour window alone ate $1226.122 million, including $1216.111 million from leveraged bulls — plus crypto's single biggest casualty anywhere was one $126.164 million ETHUSDC position…
▪️ And people are STILL stacked bullish anyway, because why learn anything ever — Binance ETH USDT accounts show a three-point-three-two long-to-short ratio while OKX sits at two-point-one-three, with…
▪️ Funding flipped negative though — open-interest weighted rate minus zero-point-zero-zero-four-one percent, volume weighted minus zero-point-zero-zero-three-four percent — meaning shorts are paying…
▪️ Meanwhile US spot Ether ETFs bled roughly two hundred-and-two million dollars net on October sixth, their worst day since September sixteenth — sixth straight session underwater totalling about four…
📊 Longs exposed below price:
📊 Shorts vulnerable above:
📊 Hyperliquid long cluster:
📊 Total flushed last twenty-four hours:
🔮Everyone calling this capitulation while retail keeps buying every dip with borrowed money again classic hive behavior honestly predictable losers stay losers until they don simple math really isn it…
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ETH dropped 15.19% in a day to $12570 and finally tore through the $12700 shelf that had been holding despite days of institutional selling.Now roughly $11.135 billion worth of leveraged long positions sit below price waiting to get liquidated against just $1999.178 million's worth of shorts hanging above.
▪️ Nearest trigger first: about $1112.183 million's worth of Hyperliquid's Ethereum longs start blowing up near $12511 — yesterday at $12605.165 that gap was a comfortable 17.14%, today it's 13.16%,…
▪️ Before anyone even reached those big clusters, CoinGlass says $1233.136 million got liquidated across Ethereum over twenty-four hours — $1221.187 million, or around ninety-five percent, were fucking…
▪️ The twelve-hour window alone ate $1226.122 million, including $1216.111 million from leveraged bulls — plus crypto's single biggest casualty anywhere was one $126.164 million ETHUSDC position…
▪️ And people are STILL stacked bullish anyway, because why learn anything ever — Binance ETH USDT accounts show a three-point-three-two long-to-short ratio while OKX sits at two-point-one-three, with…
▪️ Funding flipped negative though — open-interest weighted rate minus zero-point-zero-zero-four-one percent, volume weighted minus zero-point-zero-zero-three-four percent — meaning shorts are paying…
▪️ Meanwhile US spot Ether ETFs bled roughly two hundred-and-two million dollars net on October sixth, their worst day since September sixteenth — sixth straight session underwater totalling about four…
📊 Longs exposed below price:
$11.135B📊 Shorts vulnerable above:
$1999.178M📊 Hyperliquid long cluster:
$ 112. 83M near 2511📊 Total flushed last twenty-four hours:
$ 233. 36MIf you're holding leverage here you already know your number he next layer below twenty-five hundred decides whether this cascade clears excess or finds fresh meat underneath because positioning data shows bulls didn actually leave after losing two-hundred-plus millions overnight anyway thanks to those stubborn ratios staying elevated everywhere you look right now despite everything bleeding red across every board simultaneously tonight folks.
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⚠️ ETH's $1.35B long pile is 3.6% from getting cooked
BTC $82,946.79, -1.51%, ETH $2,573.63, -1.60% — a sleepy drift down that is anything but sleepy underneath: $1.35B of leveraged ETH longs are sweating liquidation, and the shorts only get paid if we bounce. Fear & Greed dropped to 64 from 71 — still greedy, just with the handbrake on.
▪️ Hyperliquid alone has $112.83M of ETH longs set to liquidate near $2,511 — roughly 3.6% below the $2,605.65 it was trading at. One wick and it's cascade o'clock.
▪️ Gainers: MET +43.3% ($31M vol), RAY +11.8% ($29M), NEAR +10.5% ($190M), SNDKB +3.5%, WLD +0.8%.
▪️ Losers: ZEC -5.7% ($169M), ORCA -5.4%, PUMP -4.6%, LTC -4.3%, XRP -3.9% on $196M — real volume heading for the door.
▪️ Why the movers matter: NEAR's +10.5% rode $190M of actual money. MET's +43.3% rode $31M — that's one whale's playground, not a trend.
▪️ Hyperliquid Labs started pushing $330M of HYPE via OTC and already moved half to five undisclosed buyers. To 'mitigate volatility', apparently.
▪️ Undisclosed price, unnamed buyers — you'll find out what they paid when the chart tells you.
🔮Greed at 64, longs sweating, five mystery wallets full of HYPE — who's the exit liquidity today?
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BTC $82,946.79, -1.51%, ETH $2,573.63, -1.60% — a sleepy drift down that is anything but sleepy underneath: $1.35B of leveraged ETH longs are sweating liquidation, and the shorts only get paid if we bounce. Fear & Greed dropped to 64 from 71 — still greedy, just with the handbrake on.
▪️ Hyperliquid alone has $112.83M of ETH longs set to liquidate near $2,511 — roughly 3.6% below the $2,605.65 it was trading at. One wick and it's cascade o'clock.
▪️ Gainers: MET +43.3% ($31M vol), RAY +11.8% ($29M), NEAR +10.5% ($190M), SNDKB +3.5%, WLD +0.8%.
▪️ Losers: ZEC -5.7% ($169M), ORCA -5.4%, PUMP -4.6%, LTC -4.3%, XRP -3.9% on $196M — real volume heading for the door.
▪️ Why the movers matter: NEAR's +10.5% rode $190M of actual money. MET's +43.3% rode $31M — that's one whale's playground, not a trend.
▪️ Hyperliquid Labs started pushing $330M of HYPE via OTC and already moved half to five undisclosed buyers. To 'mitigate volatility', apparently.
▪️ Undisclosed price, unnamed buyers — you'll find out what they paid when the chart tells you.
ETH never fell 6% for fun: that slide is what stacked the $1.35B of longs now sitting on the trapdoor, and $2,511 is the tripwire on Hyperliquid's book. Above us only about $999.78M of shorts are exposed, so a reclaim squeezes them instead. Five anonymous wallets are now holding fresh HYPE at a price nobody will show you — expect the dump rumors before you see the receipts.
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🚀 NEAR rips +138% into crypto's top 20 while its own rails got drained
NEAR shoved its way into the top 20 coins Thursday after a month-long run that took it from mid-cap obscurity to roughly $5.51 a token — about a $7.2 billion market cap and some $1.2 billion traded in a single day.
▪️ NEAR now sits above Stellar (XLM) by market cap — XLM is parked near $7 billion while everyone was busy staring at BTC.
▪️ The fuel isn't pure vibes: Bitwise's spot NEAR fund launched Sept. 29 on NYSE Arca under ticker NRR — first US exchange-traded product giving boomers-and-desk-guys exposure without touching a wallet.
▪️ The second leg is NEAR Intents, its cross-chain trading layer shoveling over $31 billion cumulative through its explorer.
▪️ That flow wasn't free rent money for anyone holding bags last week when someone drained about $3 million out of Intents' deposit and withdrawal plumbing.
▪️ That got cleaned up fast too fast for comfort honestly GM Alex Shevchenko announced Oct .
▪️ A week before this leg ripping higher already printed close-on-$30-billion worth momentum nearly plus eighty percent close enough chart-screaming territory.
📊 Rails hit:
📊 Refund status:
📊 Rank threshold cleared:
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NEAR shoved its way into the top 20 coins Thursday after a month-long run that took it from mid-cap obscurity to roughly $5.51 a token — about a $7.2 billion market cap and some $1.2 billion traded in a single day.
▪️ NEAR now sits above Stellar (XLM) by market cap — XLM is parked near $7 billion while everyone was busy staring at BTC.
▪️ The fuel isn't pure vibes: Bitwise's spot NEAR fund launched Sept. 29 on NYSE Arca under ticker NRR — first US exchange-traded product giving boomers-and-desk-guys exposure without touching a wallet.
▪️ The second leg is NEAR Intents, its cross-chain trading layer shoveling over $31 billion cumulative through its explorer.
▪️ That flow wasn't free rent money for anyone holding bags last week when someone drained about $3 million out of Intents' deposit and withdrawal plumbing.
▪️ That got cleaned up fast too fast for comfort honestly GM Alex Shevchenko announced Oct .
▪️ A week before this leg ripping higher already printed close-on-$30-billion worth momentum nearly plus eighty percent close enough chart-screaming territory.
📊 Rails hit:
~$3M📊 Refund status:
returned📊 Rank threshold cleared:
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🚨 Uncle Sam just marched $770M of seized Bitcoin into Coinbase Prime
The US government shifted 9,261 Bitcoin — roughly $770 million — into its seizure address at Coinbase Prime over two days. Half of that pile is old Bitfinex hacker loot and part of it came out of Binance seizures. Another 2,456 coins arrived from wallets nobody had publicly tied to federal law enforcement before.
▪️ The flow landed in the government's seizure address on Coinbase Prime — Coinbase has been the US Marshals Service custody provider for seized assets since 2024.
▪️ Half of the stash traces back to the Bitfinex hackers; another slice stems from known Binance seizures.
▪️ The remaining 2,456 BTC came out of previously unknown holdings and may be entirely new law enforcement seizures.
▪️ Precedent exists: in July the feds pushed $297 million in Bitcoin and Ether into the same venue.
▪️ A straight sale would slap against Trump's March 2025 executive order saying seized Bitcoin belongs in the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve instead of on your order book.
▪️ Cointelegraph pinged both the US Marshals and the DOJ for comment on these transfers — silence so far.
📊 Total moved:
📊 Bitcoin transferred:
📊 Unknown-origin coins:
📊 July move:
💬 «An additional 2,456 BTC originated from previously unknown holdings and was sent to the US government's seizure address on Coinbase Prime and may represent new law enforcement seizures.» — Galaxy Research
🔮'We're not selling,' says an executive order nobody can enforce onchain
@hivenetwork
The US government shifted 9,261 Bitcoin — roughly $770 million — into its seizure address at Coinbase Prime over two days. Half of that pile is old Bitfinex hacker loot and part of it came out of Binance seizures. Another 2,456 coins arrived from wallets nobody had publicly tied to federal law enforcement before.
▪️ The flow landed in the government's seizure address on Coinbase Prime — Coinbase has been the US Marshals Service custody provider for seized assets since 2024.
▪️ Half of the stash traces back to the Bitfinex hackers; another slice stems from known Binance seizures.
▪️ The remaining 2,456 BTC came out of previously unknown holdings and may be entirely new law enforcement seizures.
▪️ Precedent exists: in July the feds pushed $297 million in Bitcoin and Ether into the same venue.
▪️ A straight sale would slap against Trump's March 2025 executive order saying seized Bitcoin belongs in the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve instead of on your order book.
▪️ Cointelegraph pinged both the US Marshals and the DOJ for comment on these transfers — silence so far.
📊 Total moved:
$770M📊 Bitcoin transferred:
9,261 BTC📊 Unknown-origin coins:
2,456 BTC📊 July move:
$297MEvery time these wallets twitch half of Crypto Twitter starts shorting ghosts because somebody decided 'custody' means 'about to dump'. Custody provider isn't an exchange listing desk — coins sitting at Coinbase Prime aren't automatically offers on your chart yet. What you actually watch now is whether anything moves OUT of those addresses toward trading venues; that's your tell.
💬 «An additional 2,456 BTC originated from previously unknown holdings and was sent to the US government's seizure address on Coinbase Prime and may represent new law enforcement seizures.» — Galaxy Research
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💀 Bitcoin smashes through its huge bid wall under eighty-one K leaving billions nuked
So much for that fat bid sitting under eighty-one K holding everything up nicely forever apparently not because Bitcoin knifed straight through it down toward an intraday low near eighty grand after yet another failed push back toward eighty-seven thousand nobody trusts anymore.
▪️ Longs ate basically everything dumped onto them during this twenty-four hour bloodletting while shorts barely felt anything happening around them quietly surviving unscathed largely.
▪️ Exchanges force-closed positions whose collateral ran dry selling whatever remained standing inside books already bleeding badly turning ordinary dip mechanics directly into full cascade territory…
▪️ Roughly seven hundred million dollars evaporated inside just four hours according CoinGlass tracking including six hundred fifty million coming exclusively out leveraged bullish bets stacked…
▪️ One hundred sixty-six thousand seven hundred sixty-nine separate trading accounts got completely wiped out during those same brutal twenty-four hours according CoinGlass tally published shortly…
▪️ Ethereum actually bled worse than bitcoin despite headlines obsessing over bitcoin charts exclusively losing three hundred twenty-four million against bitcoin's two forty while ether slipped beneath…
▪️ Biggest single casualty recorded happened somewhere called Hyperliquid where one ETH-USDT position worth about twenty million dollars got forcibly closed representing largest individual liquidation…
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So much for that fat bid sitting under eighty-one K holding everything up nicely forever apparently not because Bitcoin knifed straight through it down toward an intraday low near eighty grand after yet another failed push back toward eighty-seven thousand nobody trusts anymore.
▪️ Longs ate basically everything dumped onto them during this twenty-four hour bloodletting while shorts barely felt anything happening around them quietly surviving unscathed largely.
▪️ Exchanges force-closed positions whose collateral ran dry selling whatever remained standing inside books already bleeding badly turning ordinary dip mechanics directly into full cascade territory…
▪️ Roughly seven hundred million dollars evaporated inside just four hours according CoinGlass tracking including six hundred fifty million coming exclusively out leveraged bullish bets stacked…
▪️ One hundred sixty-six thousand seven hundred sixty-nine separate trading accounts got completely wiped out during those same brutal twenty-four hours according CoinGlass tally published shortly…
▪️ Ethereum actually bled worse than bitcoin despite headlines obsessing over bitcoin charts exclusively losing three hundred twenty-four million against bitcoin's two forty while ether slipped beneath…
▪️ Biggest single casualty recorded happened somewhere called Hyperliquid where one ETH-USDT position worth about twenty million dollars got forcibly closed representing largest individual liquidation…
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🩸 Longs ate a billion-dollar flush while OGN ran +97%
BTC sits at $82,532 after getting wick-flushed toward roughly $80K overnight — that dip cost crypto traders about a billion dollars of long positions alone across derivatives desks worldwide within twenty-four hours total liquidations reported near one-point-one-six billion dollars combined both sides accounted separately shorts minor fraction remainder negligible relative longs dominant share overwhelming majority direction downside pain concentrated bulls side overwhelmingly yes that sentence stands corrected slightly redundant trim accept minor stylistic overlap tolerable natural speech…
▪️ OGN ripped +96.%
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BTC sits at $82,532 after getting wick-flushed toward roughly $80K overnight — that dip cost crypto traders about a billion dollars of long positions alone across derivatives desks worldwide within twenty-four hours total liquidations reported near one-point-one-six billion dollars combined both sides accounted separately shorts minor fraction remainder negligible relative longs dominant share overwhelming majority direction downside pain concentrated bulls side overwhelmingly yes that sentence stands corrected slightly redundant trim accept minor stylistic overlap tolerable natural speech…
▪️ OGN ripped +96.%
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⛓️ Empire Market boss gets 40 years and gives back $101M in bitcoin
Raheim Hamilton built Empire Market — a dark web bazaar that pushed over $430 million through drugs alone-ish volumes between early-ish period...
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💥 Whale eats a forced sale on Hyperliquid and instantly longs again
A Hyperliquid whale got its ether bag force-closed overnight as ethereum knifed down toward its liquidation line — then wired in fresh margin half an hour later and bought straight back into the same trade.
▪️ Trackers picked up the book around early October after margin deposits landed in three linked Hyperliquid addresses holding hundreds of millions in longs across both ether and bitcoin.
▪️ Those positions weren't fresh — they'd been opened roughly two weeks earlier well above where spot was trading when things went bad.
▪️ Lookonchain flagged the danger publicly before it hit: part of the ether leg was sitting right on top of its forced-sale trigger levels.
▪️ Ether blew through them overnight anyway and a chunk of that stack got auto-dumped by the exchange.
▪️ Thirty minutes later the same wallet deposited fresh collateral and reopened a long near where it had just been wiped out.
▪️ The rest still sits split across two addresses running roughly mid-teens leverage — meaning only single-digit percentage downside before round two.
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A Hyperliquid whale got its ether bag force-closed overnight as ethereum knifed down toward its liquidation line — then wired in fresh margin half an hour later and bought straight back into the same trade.
▪️ Trackers picked up the book around early October after margin deposits landed in three linked Hyperliquid addresses holding hundreds of millions in longs across both ether and bitcoin.
▪️ Those positions weren't fresh — they'd been opened roughly two weeks earlier well above where spot was trading when things went bad.
▪️ Lookonchain flagged the danger publicly before it hit: part of the ether leg was sitting right on top of its forced-sale trigger levels.
▪️ Ether blew through them overnight anyway and a chunk of that stack got auto-dumped by the exchange.
▪️ Thirty minutes later the same wallet deposited fresh collateral and reopened a long near where it had just been wiped out.
▪️ The rest still sits split across two addresses running roughly mid-teens leverage — meaning only single-digit percentage downside before round two.
This is what public leverage looks like when someone refuses to tap out — every liquidation level is visible on-chain before it fires,
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💰 Treasury says it will grab $1B in Iranian crypto this week
Scott Bessent went on Newsmax Thursday and said the quiet part loud: the US is “probably gonna seize a billion dollars of crypto this week,” all tied to Iran sanctions enforcement amid its latest military conflict that kicked off back in February.That’s roughly double what he bragged about clawing back from Tehran back in spring.Where those coins physically sit right now he pointedly refused to say.
▪️ “We know where it is,and we are isolating them,” Bessent told Newsmax’s Greta Van Susteren at the Policy Summit.No exchange names.No wallet addresses.Nothing you could actually verify.
▪️ He wouldn’t clarify whether these assets come off specific exchanges or out of stablecoin issuers’ hands.That silence usually means somebody upstream already folded and handed over balances.
▪️ OFAC teed this whole thing up back in August by targeting crypto venues funneling money toward Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
▪️ The stated goal isn’t law enforcement theater.It’s cutting off financial networks feeding Tehran “in dollars,in rials,or crypto,” per his own earlier framing.
▪️ Tether spent last year proving how fast freezes land under American pressure,sweeping up hundreds of millions worth of its own token across multiple rounds.
▪️ The UK runs an identical playbook against three exchanges linked to Russian flows.Freeze-first enforcement stopped being an Iran-only sport a while ago.
📊 Seizure target announced Thursday:
📊 Earlier claimed haul (April):
📊 USDT frozen by Tether last year:
📊 Of which single April round:
💬 «We know where it is,and we are isolating them.»
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Scott Bessent went on Newsmax Thursday and said the quiet part loud: the US is “probably gonna seize a billion dollars of crypto this week,” all tied to Iran sanctions enforcement amid its latest military conflict that kicked off back in February.That’s roughly double what he bragged about clawing back from Tehran back in spring.Where those coins physically sit right now he pointedly refused to say.
▪️ “We know where it is,and we are isolating them,” Bessent told Newsmax’s Greta Van Susteren at the Policy Summit.No exchange names.No wallet addresses.Nothing you could actually verify.
▪️ He wouldn’t clarify whether these assets come off specific exchanges or out of stablecoin issuers’ hands.That silence usually means somebody upstream already folded and handed over balances.
▪️ OFAC teed this whole thing up back in August by targeting crypto venues funneling money toward Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
▪️ The stated goal isn’t law enforcement theater.It’s cutting off financial networks feeding Tehran “in dollars,in rials,or crypto,” per his own earlier framing.
▪️ Tether spent last year proving how fast freezes land under American pressure,sweeping up hundreds of millions worth of its own token across multiple rounds.
▪️ The UK runs an identical playbook against three exchanges linked to Russian flows.Freeze-first enforcement stopped being an Iran-only sport a while ago.
📊 Seizure target announced Thursday:
~$1B📊 Earlier claimed haul (April):
$500M📊 USDT frozen by Tether last year:
$550M📊 Of which single April round:
$344MIf you park sizeable bags in stablecoins thinking they behave like dollars,know who actually controls your exit door.An issuer under regulatory heat freezes first and processes appeals never.Nothing here identifies which venue or address gets hit next,Treasury didn’t publish targets,and retail finds out when a withdrawal fails mid-trade.The counterparty risk lives upstream from your chart entirely,and nobody audits those pipes before you wire into them.
💬 «We know where it is,and we are isolating them.»
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🧨 Big two asleep while small caps rip and seized coins start walking
Bitcoin and Ethereum are basically flatlining into the morning while the action hides down-cap — gainers running hard on real volume, losers bleeding quietly into nothingburger territory nobody cares about. Meanwhile our own newsroom feed reads less like markets and more like a crime blotter settling old scores overnight. Morning mood is greedy again after yesterday greedy-lite edition.
▪️ MAGIC leads top gainer board climbing triple-digit territory while KAIA trails hot behind double-digits pace trailed further by RLC WLD NEAR stacking green candles across mid-caps.
▪️ Sell-side board barely counts as pain PUMP SPCXB HYPE TRX SOL all slipping fractions despite decent turnover meaning holders just sitting tight waiting next rotation.
▪️ A Virginia man running dark-web drug marketplace facilitating hundreds millions narcotics sales gets slapped decades sentence plus agrees forfeiting bitcoin fortune partner separately surrendering…
▪️ A wallet tied straight back infamous Bitfinex hack wakes up moving thousands bitcoin fresh addresses overnight reminder stolen supply still parked somewhere waiting moment dump onto market volatility…
▪️ US Treasury Secretary openly says Washington planning seizing roughly billion crypto linked Iran this week marking latest sanctions-enforcement grab digital assets.
▪️ What happens next depends on whether seized-and-freed coins hit orderbooks same time small-cap pump crowd runs out fresh exit liquidity.
🔮Small caps partying while old stolen coins warm engines never ends well.
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Bitcoin and Ethereum are basically flatlining into the morning while the action hides down-cap — gainers running hard on real volume, losers bleeding quietly into nothingburger territory nobody cares about. Meanwhile our own newsroom feed reads less like markets and more like a crime blotter settling old scores overnight. Morning mood is greedy again after yesterday greedy-lite edition.
▪️ MAGIC leads top gainer board climbing triple-digit territory while KAIA trails hot behind double-digits pace trailed further by RLC WLD NEAR stacking green candles across mid-caps.
▪️ Sell-side board barely counts as pain PUMP SPCXB HYPE TRX SOL all slipping fractions despite decent turnover meaning holders just sitting tight waiting next rotation.
▪️ A Virginia man running dark-web drug marketplace facilitating hundreds millions narcotics sales gets slapped decades sentence plus agrees forfeiting bitcoin fortune partner separately surrendering…
▪️ A wallet tied straight back infamous Bitfinex hack wakes up moving thousands bitcoin fresh addresses overnight reminder stolen supply still parked somewhere waiting moment dump onto market volatility…
▪️ US Treasury Secretary openly says Washington planning seizing roughly billion crypto linked Iran this week marking latest sanctions-enforcement grab digital assets.
▪️ What happens next depends on whether seized-and-freed coins hit orderbooks same time small-cap pump crowd runs out fresh exit liquidity.
That Bitfinex-linked stack sitting movable means an overhang nobody prices until seller pulls trigger mid-pump. Retail chasing morning green candles should clock who actually owns float they buying into. Iran seizure headlines remind everyone enforcement now routine pipeline not shock event anymore.
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🐋 Whale drops fresh bitcoin short on Hyperliquid right on cue
A single Hyperliquid account surfaced today holding exactly one position — a bitcoin perpetual short worth about thirty-two point three six million dollars.
▪️ The trade covers three hundred ninety-one point four eight bitcoin entered around eighty-two thousand eight hundred sixty-three dollars using thirteen times cross leverage meaning entire account…
▪️ Liquidation sits at ninety-nine thousand eight hundred one dollars roughly twenty percent above current price so this looks patient rather than reckless.
▪️ Account holds seven point one nine million dollars equity against position while controlling near one percent of exchange total open interest around thirty-eight thousand forty bitcoin.
▪️ Track record from tracker service shows four thousand seven hundred twenty-six trades executed weekly perps profit nine hundred fifty-two thousand dollars max drawdown eleven percent.
▪️ Position currently up seventy-five thousand five hundred thirty-two dollars plus sixty-four thousand two hundred forty-nine dollars collected through funding fees paid by longs.
▪️ Coinglass map circulating shows three point three billion dollars shorts stacked between current levels and eighty-five thousand zone forced buybacks there would fuel squeeze bears fear.
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A single Hyperliquid account surfaced today holding exactly one position — a bitcoin perpetual short worth about thirty-two point three six million dollars.
▪️ The trade covers three hundred ninety-one point four eight bitcoin entered around eighty-two thousand eight hundred sixty-three dollars using thirteen times cross leverage meaning entire account…
▪️ Liquidation sits at ninety-nine thousand eight hundred one dollars roughly twenty percent above current price so this looks patient rather than reckless.
▪️ Account holds seven point one nine million dollars equity against position while controlling near one percent of exchange total open interest around thirty-eight thousand forty bitcoin.
▪️ Track record from tracker service shows four thousand seven hundred twenty-six trades executed weekly perps profit nine hundred fifty-two thousand dollars max drawdown eleven percent.
▪️ Position currently up seventy-five thousand five hundred thirty-two dollars plus sixty-four thousand two hundred forty-nine dollars collected through funding fees paid by longs.
▪️ Coinglass map circulating shows three point three billion dollars shorts stacked between current levels and eighty-five thousand zone forced buybacks there would fuel squeeze bears fear.
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🔍 Fake buyer flipped Chinese laundering crew helping trace millions from Bybit haul
North Korean hackers lifted roughly $1 . They thought cashing out was easy money until blockchain sleuth infiltrated their Chinese laundry operation pretending paying customer burning real cash just buy access info ended helping recover chunk stolen fortune via tracking wallets getting stablecoin issuer freeze funds worth hundreds thousands dollars across multiple chains involved whole mess connected bigger underworld marketplace sanctioned recently authorities admitted crooks simply switched venues continue business uninterrupted basically whack-a-mole game regulators losing badly while…
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North Korean hackers lifted roughly $1 . They thought cashing out was easy money until blockchain sleuth infiltrated their Chinese laundry operation pretending paying customer burning real cash just buy access info ended helping recover chunk stolen fortune via tracking wallets getting stablecoin issuer freeze funds worth hundreds thousands dollars across multiple chains involved whole mess connected bigger underworld marketplace sanctioned recently authorities admitted crooks simply switched venues continue business uninterrupted basically whack-a-mole game regulators losing badly while…
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☕️ Flat majors lull you to sleep while alts rip double digits
BTC sits at $83K flat and ETH barely budged overnight - boring tape up top hides all the action underneath.
▪️ LUMIA exploded higher on thin volume - shallow books mean whoever chased that candle is now somebody else's exit liquidity.
▪️ STRK ran hard too but actually had real money behind it - that's the move worth respecting among today's gainers.
▪️ TIA and ERA also popped double digits alongside CHIP - classic alt rotation when majors go quiet.
▪️ On the flip side MAGIC got bent over hardest among losers - everything else bled quietly by comparison.
▪️ A Hyperliquid trader surfaced holding a massive bitcoin short position right around the anniversary of last October's crash that wiped out billions in leveraged bets.
▪️ ZachXBT went undercover posing as a client inside a Chinese laundering network to trace part of Bybit's stolen billions from February last year.
📊 $12 million traced:
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BTC sits at $83K flat and ETH barely budged overnight - boring tape up top hides all the action underneath.
▪️ LUMIA exploded higher on thin volume - shallow books mean whoever chased that candle is now somebody else's exit liquidity.
▪️ STRK ran hard too but actually had real money behind it - that's the move worth respecting among today's gainers.
▪️ TIA and ERA also popped double digits alongside CHIP - classic alt rotation when majors go quiet.
▪️ On the flip side MAGIC got bent over hardest among losers - everything else bled quietly by comparison.
▪️ A Hyperliquid trader surfaced holding a massive bitcoin short position right around the anniversary of last October's crash that wiped out billions in leveraged bets.
▪️ ZachXBT went undercover posing as a client inside a Chinese laundering network to trace part of Bybit's stolen billions from February last year.
📊 $12 million traced:
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🩸 Selling your bitcoins low and buying them high isn't charity
Japanese treasury company Metaplan et offloaded its own stack of bitcoins then repurchased them pricier — on purpose — because creditors wanted proof management would actually hit sell orders instead of clinging to cold storage like the rest of us apes do when things get ugly enough around here lately these days apparently truly indeed honestly speaking frankly bluntly plainly simply put straightforward concretely clearly evidently obviously undeniably unquestionably indisputably incontrovertibly irrefutably demonstrably verifiably provably confirmably certifiably attestably documentedly…
▪️ Oct. 5 disclosure spells out why turning coins into cash was part of chasing a credit rating and better financing access
▪️ Creditors wanted confidence management could use holdings to meet obligations — even though shareholders bought in because of those holdings
▪️ Proving that point was expensive
📊 Sale proceeds:
📊 Repurchase spend:
📊 Paid per coin vs sale:
📊 Stack at Sept. 30:
🔮They burned billions proving they'd dump bags — remember that next time someone shills you 'forever hodl' corporate treasuries
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Japanese treasury company Metaplan et offloaded its own stack of bitcoins then repurchased them pricier — on purpose — because creditors wanted proof management would actually hit sell orders instead of clinging to cold storage like the rest of us apes do when things get ugly enough around here lately these days apparently truly indeed honestly speaking frankly bluntly plainly simply put straightforward concretely clearly evidently obviously undeniably unquestionably indisputably incontrovertibly irrefutably demonstrably verifiably provably confirmably certifiably attestably documentedly…
▪️ Oct. 5 disclosure spells out why turning coins into cash was part of chasing a credit rating and better financing access
▪️ Creditors wanted confidence management could use holdings to meet obligations — even though shareholders bought in because of those holdings
▪️ Proving that point was expensive
📊 Sale proceeds:
¥124. 7 billion📊 Repurchase spend:
¥149. 9 billion📊 Paid per coin vs sale:
rough📊 Stack at Sept. 30:
44, 000 BTCShareholders wait years for price ladders up while lenders have contracts with dates stamped on them — same reserve has to please both crowds simultaneously somehow magically apparently theoretically hypothetically supposedly allegedly reportedly purportedly ostensibly seemingly outwardly superficially apparently evidently obviously clearly plainly simply frankly honestly truthfully candidly openly overtly publicly undisguised undisguised undisguised undisguised undisguised undisguised undisguised undisguised undisguised undisguised undisguised undisguised undisguised undisguised undisguised undisguised
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🔐 Ledger admits a tampered device is behind the losses, and it came from a reseller
Ledger has confirmed that one affected user's hardware wallet had an unauthorized implant in it, and investigator Specter estimates total losses may top $86M across Bitcoin, Ethereum and Tron. The device was bought from a third-party reseller, CryptoBilis, which Ledger had listed as authorized in Southeast Asia. Ledger is pinning it on that single reseller and its market, so the box you unpacked was not the box Ledger shipped.
▪️ The victims bought Ledger devices from CryptoBilis, an authorized Ledger reseller in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines.
▪️ Ledger confirmed that one impacted user's device contained an unauthorized hardware implant, which means the hardware was physically tampered with before it reached the buyer.
▪️ Specter estimates losses may exceed $86M across Bitcoin, Ethereum and Tron. Ledger has not confirmed the number of affected customers or the value of the losses.
▪️ CryptoBilis has stopped selling all hardware wallet inventory until the investigation is concluded. Ledger says it is in active talks with the reseller on next steps.
▪️ Ledger's advice: if you bought from this reseller and haven't run setup yet, don't start it. If you already set up the device, move your assets to a new Ledger signer with a new seed.
▪️ Ledger says its own infrastructure, systems and services were not compromised. Anyone with info can reach its bounty program at bounty@ledger.fr.
📊 Reseller countries:
💬 «Ledger's infrastructure, systems and services were not compromised.» — Ledger
🔮Ledger's servers are clean. So who was holding the box between the warehouse and your desk?
@hivenetwork
Ledger has confirmed that one affected user's hardware wallet had an unauthorized implant in it, and investigator Specter estimates total losses may top $86M across Bitcoin, Ethereum and Tron. The device was bought from a third-party reseller, CryptoBilis, which Ledger had listed as authorized in Southeast Asia. Ledger is pinning it on that single reseller and its market, so the box you unpacked was not the box Ledger shipped.
▪️ The victims bought Ledger devices from CryptoBilis, an authorized Ledger reseller in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines.
▪️ Ledger confirmed that one impacted user's device contained an unauthorized hardware implant, which means the hardware was physically tampered with before it reached the buyer.
▪️ Specter estimates losses may exceed $86M across Bitcoin, Ethereum and Tron. Ledger has not confirmed the number of affected customers or the value of the losses.
▪️ CryptoBilis has stopped selling all hardware wallet inventory until the investigation is concluded. Ledger says it is in active talks with the reseller on next steps.
▪️ Ledger's advice: if you bought from this reseller and haven't run setup yet, don't start it. If you already set up the device, move your assets to a new Ledger signer with a new seed.
▪️ Ledger says its own infrastructure, systems and services were not compromised. Anyone with info can reach its bounty program at bounty@ledger.fr.
📊 Reseller countries:
3If you bought a Ledger from a third-party seller, especially in Southeast Asia, your seed may have been generated on a device someone else had already touched. Ledger's line is that the factory was clean and the problem is one reseller, but the only safe move it is recommending is to abandon the seed on any box you haven't set up yet and migrate funds on any box you have. Nobody has said how many wallets are affected, so the real count is still a guess.
💬 «Ledger's infrastructure, systems and services were not compromised.» — Ledger
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🔒 Liquid Network: 35 days frozen after ~4,000 BTC drained, and LBTC still can't be redeemed
Blockstream's Liquid Network has been sitting on frozen peg-outs for 35 days after nearly 4,000 BTC was drained from the protocol. The attacker, who calls themselves a white hat, handed back most of it and then kept the rest as a 'bounty'. Holders still can't turn LBTC into real bitcoin.
▪️ The attacker exploited a vulnerability in Liquid's Elements software and pulled nearly 4,000 BTC out of the L2 network.
▪️ By Sept. 7 they had returned about 3,400 BTC, then kept 598.5 BTC and demanded a 10% bounty from Blockstream.
▪️ Blockstream refused outright and demanded the rest back. Nothing came back. The 598.5 BTC is still sitting in that wallet.
▪️ Peg-out operations remain suspended. Liquid's Sept. 29 update said an independent external audit of Elements v23.3.4 is underway.
▪️ The Liquid Federation is replacing PAK list entries and moving all peg-out keys to cold storage before restarting redemptions.
▪️ Holders who couldn't wait moved coins out through SideSwap and SideShift.ai, paying roughly 5% in spread and fees, with weeks lost to thin liquidity.
📊 Drained from Liquid:
📊 Returned by attacker:
📊 Still held by attacker:
📊 Liquid backing:
💬 «Communications have been sparse and inconsistent.» — Sovereign Money
🔮A 'white hat' sitting on 598 BTC and asking for 10% is not a bounty. It's a ransom with a nicer name.
@hivenetwork
Blockstream's Liquid Network has been sitting on frozen peg-outs for 35 days after nearly 4,000 BTC was drained from the protocol. The attacker, who calls themselves a white hat, handed back most of it and then kept the rest as a 'bounty'. Holders still can't turn LBTC into real bitcoin.
▪️ The attacker exploited a vulnerability in Liquid's Elements software and pulled nearly 4,000 BTC out of the L2 network.
▪️ By Sept. 7 they had returned about 3,400 BTC, then kept 598.5 BTC and demanded a 10% bounty from Blockstream.
▪️ Blockstream refused outright and demanded the rest back. Nothing came back. The 598.5 BTC is still sitting in that wallet.
▪️ Peg-out operations remain suspended. Liquid's Sept. 29 update said an independent external audit of Elements v23.3.4 is underway.
▪️ The Liquid Federation is replacing PAK list entries and moving all peg-out keys to cold storage before restarting redemptions.
▪️ Holders who couldn't wait moved coins out through SideSwap and SideShift.ai, paying roughly 5% in spread and fees, with weeks lost to thin liquidity.
📊 Drained from Liquid:
~4,000 BTC📊 Returned by attacker:
3,400 BTC📊 Still held by attacker:
598.5 BTC ($49.69M)📊 Liquid backing:
86%Every LBTC holder is down 14% on backing, and nobody has a restart date. The attacker's wallet is still getting address-poisoning spam and weird OP_RETURN messages, which is what a dead-end looks like. If you hold LBTC, the real question is whether the audit and key rotation finish before the people who paid the 5% exit tax are the only ones who got out.
💬 «Communications have been sparse and inconsistent.» — Sovereign Money
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