Over the past two days, whales and institutional investors have accumulated an impressive amount of Ethereum — 218,750 ETH worth about $943,000,000.

Bitmine acquired 69,603 ETH (around $300 million) from BitGo and Galaxy Digital. In addition, five new crypto wallets were funded with another 102,455 ETH (about $441.6 million) via FalconX.

David Bailey: The only reason Bitcoin is still below $150,000 is ancient whales. A moonshot awaits us as soon as the market wipes them out (absorbs their selling).

David Bailey is the CEO of BTC Inc. (Bitcoin Magazine) and founder of Nakamoto Inc. In 2024, he became an unofficial advisor to Donald Trump on cryptocurrency and blockchain policy, playing a notable role in shaping the president’s pro-Bitcoin agenda.

Performance of different crypto market sectors since the beginning of 2025 (Binance)

Michael Saylor, the head of MicroStrategy, was included in Bloomberg’s official list of the world’s 500 richest people.

A new bill has been introduced in the U.S. Congress requiring the Treasury Department to study the creation of a strategic BTC reserve and other cryptocurrencies.

Over the past week, corporates added 6,218 BTC to their balances — during the same period, 3,150 BTC were mined.

Strategy already holds 3% of the total BTC supply on its balance sheet.

Coinbase stated that the era of easy money in crypto is over:

▪️ In its new report, Coinbase notes that the market has significantly matured.
▪️ For corporations, the days of easy profits simply by adding BTC to their balance sheets are becoming a thing of the past.
▪️ Copying the strategy of companies like MicroStrategy no longer guarantees high returns.
▪️ Coinbase warns that the market is starting to become oversaturated with companies using cryptocurrency in their treasury policies.

Analysts have discovered a new virus, ModStealer, which is almost undetectable by antivirus software and steals data from browser-based crypto wallets:

▪️ The malware spreads through fake job ads and disguises itself as a background service.
▪️ It works on Windows, Linux, and macOS, targeting browser extensions for crypto wallets, as well as system data and certificates.
▪️ Stolen information is sent to remote command-and-control servers.
▪️ On macOS, the virus persists by registering as a “helper” and launches on every reboot.

ModStealer poses a direct threat to crypto users — private keys, seed phrases, and exchange API keys can be stolen, leading to asset losses.

The Altseason Index has crossed the threshold for the first time since December 2024.

▪️The canonical Altcoin Season Index by Blockchain Center has reached 78 — the highest level since December 2024.

▪️According to the service’s methodology, this marks the beginning of the so-called altcoin season — a period when most major cryptocurrencies outperform Bitcoin in returns.

▪️The index is calculated based on the performance of the 50 largest coins over the past 90 days (excluding stablecoins and synthetic tokens like WBTC and stETH). If 75% or more of them outperform Bitcoin, it signals an altseason. That threshold has now been exceeded.

▪️Other major platforms also confirm growing interest in altcoins. According to CoinMarketCap, its own index has reached 67 — the highest in at least three months, compared to 29 in August.

▪️ёTop gainers over the past 90 days include PENGU, CRO, IP, ENA, MNT, SEI, LINK, WLD, and ETH.

Altcoin market cap (TOTAL2 index) exceeds $1.63 trillion. Bitcoin’s market cap stands at $2.27 trillion. Bitcoin has also set a new high since late August, trading above $114,000.

Tether is launching a U.S. stablecoin — USAT, compliant with local regulations.

Bo Hines, former Executive Director of the Trump administration’s Digital Asset Advisory Council, has been appointed to lead it.

Ethereum Foundation is forming a dAI team led by developer Davide Crapis — it will focus on developing standards for interaction between AI agents on the Ethereum network (in particular, ERC-8004, which will be presented in November at Devconnect in Buenos Aires).

The immediate goal is to make Ethereum the main platform for the AI agent economy, and in the long term — to build a decentralized AI infrastructure that will not depend on the monopoly of large corporations.

Sei and Etherscan have introduced Seiscan – the official blockchain explorer for the Sei network.

Michael Saylor predicts the emergence of thousands upon thousands of companies buying BTC for their balance sheets — just as there are now thousands of insurance firms, banks, and funds.

Durov boasted about the price growth of certain Telegram NFT gifts over the past 30 days.

The White House stated that they expect the crypto market structure bill to be passed by the end of this year.

Long-term holders are actively selling BTC: the volume of profits realized by them is nearing historical records, which have typically coincided with major market tops — Glassnode data.