ChainCatcher news, according to Arkham monitoring, the Mt.Gox cold wallet address received 5.813 BTC, approximately 367,000 USD, from an anonymous address (bc1qjgd2nqfc5ktrvsmcttk83ugenj97zvqt2tfrg3p38e47hvnszzvqxgsa9r) 21 minutes ago.Currently, there are still 44,899 bitcoins remaining in that address, approximately 2.84 billion USD.

ChainCatcher news, after the arrest of the founder of Samourai Wallet, an anonymous team forked the project and named it the Ashigaru open-source project. The Ashigaru team shared their vision, stating: "Anyone should be able to transact peacefully, voluntarily, and privately on the internet without being tracked, monitored, or censored."The project is described as a self-hosted, open-source, and secure Bitcoin wallet. Ashigaru was established months after the U.S. Department of Justice filed charges against the founder of Samourai Wallet, aiming to continue the protection of privacy.Previous news, on April 25, 2024, the co-founder of the crypto mixing service Samourai Wallet was arrested. Prosecutors stated that they are suspected of laundering $100 million from Silk Road and other illegal markets.

ChainCatcher news, according to Bitcoin.com, Edward Snowden emphasized the pitfalls of political allegiance and the privacy issues surrounding Bitcoin in his keynote speech at the Bitcoin 2024 conference. He urged individuals to participate in voting but warned against blindly following political ideologies. Snowden also raised significant concerns about Bitcoin's privacy issues.He pointed out that Bitcoin transactions are not anonymous and can be traced back to individuals, posing risks to personal privacy. Despite the common misconception that Bitcoin transfers provide complete anonymity, Snowden clarified that most transactions can be linked through various entry and exit points, such as regulated exchanges. This linkage makes it possible to trace transaction histories, which could reveal sensitive information about users' lives and relationships.

ChainCatcher news, according to Bitcoin Magazine, Julien Assange received 8 bitcoins worth $500,000 in anonymous donations to pay off debts.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, during 332 transactions, an anonymous wallet address spent approximately 1.5 BTC (about $66,000) through the Ordinals protocol to write 8.93 MB of encrypted binary data onto the Bitcoin blockchain.Among them, the most expensive transaction had a single fee of several thousand dollars, while most transaction fees were close to $200. Since the data is encrypted, the specific information conveyed by this data cannot currently be deciphered.

According to ChainCatcher news, Whale Alert monitored that around 2:05 AM Beijing time on December 27, 71,224,271 DOGE tokens were transferred from an anonymous wallet starting with "DF8jRK" to the commission-free trading platform Robinhood, valued at approximately $6.392 million.In addition, on-chain data monitoring has found an increase in large DOGE transfer transactions recently, including a transfer of 367 million DOGE tokens from an unknown wallet a few hours ago, valued at approximately $33.63 million; previously, nearly 1 billion DOGE (valued at approximately $9.12 million) was transferred out of Binance, another 112 million DOGE (valued at approximately $10.44 million) left Robinhood, and over 64 million DOGE (valued at approximately $5.87 million) were transferred to Coinbase.

ChainCatcher message, anonymous developer "KP" previously discovered a vulnerability in Compound and reported it, while also providing a code repository that includes an attack proof-of-concept simulation. After the vulnerability was fixed, "KP" submitted a request to the Compound DAO for a reward of $125,000. The Compound DAO initiated proposal 202 to provide a bug bounty for the recently fixed protocol vulnerability, but the proposal did not reach the quorum and failed to pass.The Compound DAO subsequently reduced the bounty payment amount to $100,000 in COMP and initiated a new proposal 203, which has now reached quorum and passed with approximately 93% support.

ChainCatcher news, Polygon Labs developer relations engineer Jarrod Watts stated that the Blast contract is an upgradeable contract controlled by a 3/5 multi-signature, with all 5 addresses being anonymous new addresses. Blast has the potential to execute code upgrades and immediately steal funds through multi-signature, although many other Layer 2 solutions, including Arbitrum, currently have the same capability. However, the current Blast is not Layer 2, but merely a smart contract that accepts user funds and invests them in protocols like Lido. There is no testnet, no transactions, no bridges, no rollups, and no transaction data sent to Ethereum. If the 3/5 multi-signature controlling the contract does not "do the right thing" in the future, users will not be able to withdraw the money deposited in the Blast contract at any time.Yuxian, the founder of Slow Mist, commented that the Blast contract is indeed an upgradeable contract as Jarrod Watts mentioned, controlled by a 3/5 multi-signature (the identities of the 5 individuals are unknown) and without a time lock. If they want to run away, they can either upgrade to a malicious logic contract or set a malicious mainnetBridge with enableTransition. Currently, apart from the contract deployed on Ethereum, Blast's other activities are centralized Web2 project spin-offs, but there are several well-known institutions backing it. Users tend to trust projects that have institutional endorsements.

ChainCatcher news, the Fantom Foundation published an article on its official website stating that an anonymous security expert discovered a security risk in the Fantom Foundation wallet and immediately contacted the Fantom Foundation. In recognition of his contribution, the Fantom Foundation awarded the expert a bonus of $1.7 million. This is equivalent to 1% of the potential loss caused by the vulnerability ($170 million). It is reported that this security risk is related to the wallet theft incident on October 17.

ChainCatcher news, the Ethereum ecosystem anonymous account protocol Nocturne Labs has completed a $6 million seed round financing, led by Bain Capital Crypto and Polychain Capital, with participation from Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, Bankless Ventures, Hack VC, Robot Ventures, and others.It is reported that Nocturne was established in the United States last year and is building a protocol aimed at allowing users to conduct anonymous transactions within the Ethereum ecosystem, with a launch expected on the Ethereum mainnet next month.

ChainCatcher message, on-chain data shows that the DeFi project Kannagi Finance on zkSync Era received an anonymous communication about 3 hours ago. The specific content is as follows:"Hello, Kannagi project leader. Regarding your rug event, we are communicating with you on behalf of a domestic victim group of $600,000.The funds you rug pulled are the life savings of many people, destroying many families. The related domestic victims have organized a strong and united community.We have collected evidence from many KOLs and well-known platforms promoting this project, as well as relevant individuals to assist in the investigation, and have sorted out your past operations on multiple projects and the operational traces and paths of all associated wallets.We have also contacted security companies both domestically and internationally to intervene and track; we have reached out to relevant centralized exchanges, as well as the auditing company for your project and related on-chain platforms that are fully cooperating with the investigation.Currently, we have compiled all the case materials and have grasped your obvious operational trace vulnerabilities. Our community members will report to the police across the country, and this will become a collective case handled by multiple departments in various locations nationwide.We give you 48 hours to contact us to discuss the return of the illegally obtained funds, otherwise, once law enforcement takes over, there will be no turning back. If there is no response after the deadline, we will also establish a reward pool of 20% of the involved funds to reward whistleblowers who provide clues to capture you or recover all funds.Are you really sure that all the operations you have conducted over the years have no vulnerabilities?"Previously, on July 29, the DeFi project Kannagi Finance on zkSync Era experienced a rug pull, and its official Twitter account has been deactivated.

ChainCatcher news, according to CertiK Alert monitoring, the attacker of Cream Finance (address starting with 0x70747) has sent approximately 230 ETH (about $397,000) to an address starting with 0xdeCE. This address still holds 3000 ETH (about $5.3 million) and over $6 million in other assets. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, according to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, an anonymous whale address has withdrawn 27,000 ETH (approximately 46.52 million USD) from Binance in the past 48 hours. After being created on June 16, this address received 10,000 ETH (approximately 17.23 million USD) from an on-chain marked address "Oasis app: WSTETH-A Vault 30119". In total, this address has received 37,000 ETH (approximately 63.75 million USD) within three days. (source link)

According to ChainCatcher's message, on-chain data analyst Yu Jin monitored that an anonymous whale redeemed 2,015,332 APE (approximately 4.45 million USD) from the staking contract through two addresses and transferred it to Binance. This whale had staked 1,685,052 APE (approximately 9 million USD) from Binance to the two addresses in mid-February, with an average cost price possibly around 5.34 USD.As of the time of writing, APE is reported at 2.2323 USD. If there are no hedging activities, this whale may incur a loss of about 50% (approximately 4.55 million USD). (Source link)

ChainCatcher message, Etherscan data shows that the anonymous address starting with 0xcb9d and the anonymous address starting with 0xE6E8 transferred 19,366 ETH and 19,459 ETH respectively to the on-chain address labeled "Coinbase 10" at 13:55, totaling 38,825 ETH, approximately 69.29 million USD. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, according to Whale Alert monitoring data, at 14:06:23 Beijing time, an anonymous address starting with 0x1C11 transferred 55,000 ETH to an anonymous address starting with 0x7d61, worth approximately 102 million USD. (Source link)

ChainCatcher message, Etherscan data shows that an anonymous address starting with 0xC159 has just transferred 19,093 ETH to an on-chain address marked as "Coinbase 10," worth 34.98 million dollars. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, according to Watchers monitoring, an anonymous wallet address starting with 0xad deposited 999,999 MATIC to Binance, worth $1,007,998. (source link)