ChainCatcher news, according to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, a certain whale has made a profit of 18.93 million dollars through 4 rounds of WBTC trading, with all 4 rounds being profitable (win rate 100%).Five hours ago, he sold 468.7 WBTC at an average price of 99,081 dollars, which he had previously purchased on 12/6 at an average price of 97,725 dollars, making a profit of 628,000 dollars.

ChainCatcher message, Coinbase has announced that it has suspended wBTC trading. wBTC trading on Coinbase Exchange and Coinbase Prime is suspended, but users can still withdraw funds at any time.

ChainCatcher message, the whale that previously made a profit of 15.69 million dollars from two BTC swings, re-entered 11 hours ago, spending 53.65 million dollars to buy 553.3 WBTC at an average price of 96,966 dollars.

ChainCatcher message, data statistics, Bitcoin's current trading time has exceeded 123,000 hours, surpassing the trading hours of the U.S. stock market.Since August 15, 1971, when President Nixon decoupled the dollar from gold to address high inflation in the U.S. economy, and canceled the international convertibility of the dollar into gold, the trading hours of the U.S. stock market have exceeded 100,700 hours. Bitcoin, launched in 2009, has officially surpassed the U.S. stock market in trading hours, exceeding the public stock trading hours of the fully fiat currency era by nearly 25%.

ChainCatcher news, according to Satoshi_Club data, in the past six months, BTC trading volume has decreased by 30%, and the number of daily active users is lower than at any time since 2021. This decline is related to waning market interest, as Bitcoin's price remains stable.

ChainCatcher news, according to HODL15Capital, today BlackRock's IBIT trading volume reached 2.9 billion dollars, and Fidelity's FBTC trading volume reached 850 million dollars.

ChainCatcher news, the decentralized trading protocol DODO has announced that the DIP-20 proposal to "allocate 10 million DODO to incentivize BTC trading pairs on Select Chains" has been voted through on the Snapshot page.This initiative aims to leverage DODO's Pegged Asset Pool to enhance liquidity, attract significant trading volume, and generate revenue that can offset the incentives provided. Furthermore, this strategy supports DODOchain's role as a liquidity settlement layer, facilitating future BTC trading and creating more value for DODO holders.

ChainCatcher message, Binance announced that Binance leverage will delist the LINA/BTC full margin and isolated margin trading pairs on June 19, 2024, at 06:00 (UTC).

ChainCatcher news, according to the official announcement, OKX will delist the STARL/USDT, XEC/USDT, and MANA/BTC trading pairs from June 6, 16:00 to 16:30 (UTC+8).OKX will suspend STARL and XEC deposits starting from May 29, 16:00, and withdrawals will stop on August 6, 16:00. Please handle related assets before this deadline.

ChainCatcher news, Binance announced that it has decided to delist the NOT/BTC trading pair originally scheduled to go live on May 16, 2024, at 12:00 (UTC).

ChainCatcher news, according to the official announcement, Binance leverage has added Alpine F1 Team Fan Token (ALPINE), FC Barcelona Fan Token (BAR), and Manchester City Fan Token (CITY) for full margin borrowing and collateral assets, as well as more FDUSD, USDC, and BTC full margin and isolated margin trading pairs.

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, Backpack Exchange has officially launched Bitcoin trading, supporting the BTC/USDC trading pair. The trading volume generated by users on Bitcoin will also be normally counted in the second phase of the preseason.

ChainCatcher message: According to data released by Bloomberg analyst Eric Balchunas, today's GBTC trading volume has declined again, possibly indicating that the sell-off has exhausted.Bloomberg data shows that the GBTC trading volume today is $462 million, down from $762 million yesterday.

ChainCatcher news, digital asset financial services company Matrixport stated in a client-exclusive research report on January 3 that there is an opportunity to hedge a portfolio by 1.6% through put options in the next ten days. We had anticipated a strong rebound in the fourth quarter. By mid-December, we warned of price consolidation. Initially, we expected a strong start to the year, remaining optimistic about Bitcoin on January 2; however, the next day, one of our trading models turned bearish on Bitcoin for the first time since August.With the weakness in the stock market, we changed our direction, expecting that the weakness in the stock market would also affect Bitcoin. As we pointed out in the past few weeks, due to funding rates being at a high level for years, the open interest has risen significantly, increasing the likelihood of profit-taking, and Bitcoin positions have been overly expanded. We believe that the main reason the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) may reject the approval of ETFs is the lack of a large-scale monitoring sharing agreement that represents the global BTC trading market.

According to CoinDesk, on August 29, Grayscale's Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) saw its trading volume reach a new high since June 2022, with nearly 20 million shares of GBTC changing hands that day. Meanwhile, the price of GBTC rose 18% to nearly $21 on the same day.

ChainCatcher news, South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Upbit announced that it will list BLUR (Blur) and open the BTC/BLUR trading pair. Trading for this pair will begin at 19:00 local time on February 16. Deposits for BLUR will be enabled 3 hours after the announcement, and only ERC-20 deposits are supported. According to its deposit and withdrawal guidelines, BLUR is currently listed on four exchanges: Bybit, Bitget, Huobi, and OKX, allowing users to withdraw BLUR from Bybit to Upbit. It is reported that among mainstream exchanges, only Binance has not yet listed BLUR. (source link)