ChainCatcher news, according to Lookonchain monitoring, in the past two hours, three whale addresses have spent a total of 7.2 million dollars to buy 5,362 ETH.Address 0xDdb4 borrowed 3.44 million USDC from Aave, and then used this 3.44 million USDC to purchase 1,856 ETH.Address 0xf84d borrowed 1.64 million USDC from Aave, and then spent 2.34 million USDC to buy 1,259 ETH.A newly created wallet (0x69D0) withdrew 2,250 ETH (worth 4.12 million dollars) from Binance exchange.

ChainCatcher news, according to Whale Alert monitoring, at 22:42 Beijing time, USDC Treasury burned 150 million USDC on the Ethereum chain.

According to ChainCatcher news and the official announcement, Tether has released its audit report for the first quarter of 2025. As of March 31, 2025, Tether's total exposure to U.S. Treasury securities is nearly $120 billion, a record high. At the same time, Tether achieved over $1 billion in traditional investment operating profit in the first quarter, primarily due to the robust performance of its U.S. Treasury investment portfolio, while gold investments nearly offset the volatility in the cryptocurrency market.In terms of assets and liabilities, Tether's total assets are at least $149.27 billion, with total liabilities of $143.68 billion, of which $143.68 billion is related to issued digital tokens. Excess reserves reached $5.6 billion, demonstrating the company's strong risk management and liquidity position.In the first quarter, the circulating supply of USDT increased by approximately $7 billion, and the number of user wallets grew by 46 million, a quarter-over-quarter increase of 13%. Additionally, Tether has strategically invested over $2 billion through Tether Investments in long-term projects such as renewable energy, artificial intelligence, peer-to-peer communication, and data infrastructure.

ChainCatcher news, Tether CEO Paul Ardoino stated in an interview with CNBC on April 30 that Tether plans to launch a stablecoin product within this year to enter the U.S. market.Tether's flagship stablecoin USDT is currently the main "export product" of the U.S. dollar, Ardoino told CNBC.Ardoino mentioned that Tether is preparing to enter the U.S. market "as early as the end of this year or early next year," adding that the specific timing depends on the progress of U.S. lawmakers on stablecoin legislation.

ChainCatcher news, the Deribit platform will see over 2.85 billion USD in crypto options expire tomorrow at 16:00 Beijing time.Among them, the nominal value of Bitcoin (BTC) options is 2.54 billion USD, with a Put/Call ratio of 0.95 and a maximum pain price of 90,000 USD. The nominal value of Ethereum (ETH) options is 316 million USD, with a Put/Call ratio of 0.88 and a maximum pain price of 1,800 USD.

According to ChainCatcher news, data from SoSoValue shows that yesterday (Eastern Time, April 30) the total net outflow of Ethereum spot ETFs was $2.3599 million.The Ethereum spot ETF with the highest net inflow yesterday was Fidelity ETF FETH, with a net inflow of $5.7953 million for the day. Currently, FETH's historical total net inflow has reached $1.458 billion.The Ethereum spot ETF with the highest net outflow yesterday was Grayscale Ethereum Trust ETF ETHE, with a net outflow of $7.1321 million for the day. Currently, ETHE's historical total net outflow has reached $4.291 billion.As of the time of publication, the total net asset value of Ethereum spot ETFs is $6.17 billion, and the ETF net asset ratio (market value as a percentage of total Ethereum market value) is 2.85%. The historical cumulative net inflow has reached $2.481 billion.

ChainCatcher news, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, a participant in an Ethereum ICO has deposited 6,000 ETH into Kraken, worth 10.76 million dollars.

ChainCatcher message, OKX-ETH/USDT is currently at $1800.28, with a 24-hour decline of 0.41%.

ChainCatcher news, according to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, a whale that usually shorts when the price of Ethereum (ETH) reaches 1800 USD has this time shorted when the ETH price dropped to 1764.7 USD, borrowing 6000 ETH (approximately 10.58 million USD) to sell. However, the current ETH price has rebounded to 1796.11 USD, and the whale's short position is now at a loss of 186,000 USD. This investor's recent multiple shorting operations have all ended in losses.

ChainCatcher news, according to official news, Tether announced the acquisition of 70% of the shares of the South American sustainable production company Adecoagro. After the acquisition is completed, there will be significant adjustments to the Adecoagro board of directors.Tether's cooperation with Adecoagro began in September 2024, when Tether invested $100 million to acquire 9.8% of Adecoagro's shares.

ChainCatcher news, according to Lookonchain monitoring, today 10 U.S. Bitcoin ETFs had a net inflow of 1,366 BTC, with BlackRock inflowing 2,273 BTC, currently holding 601,209 BTC, worth $56.11 billion;9 Ethereum ETFs had a net inflow of 14,140 ETH, with Fidelity inflowing 13,988 ETH, currently holding 416,732 ETH, worth nearly $730 million.

ChainCatcher message, according to Arkham monitoring, Grayscale transferred 3,909 ETH to Coinbase Prime, with a total value of 6.95 million dollars.

ChainCatcher message, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin announced his focus areas for 2025: 1. Ethereum development, including single-slot finality in the L1 long-term roadmap, long-term virtual machine, statelessness, security, as well as full-stack security, open source, and privacy protection; 2. Decentralization acceleration at the macro level, involving communication tools, social aspects, governance mechanism design, cryptography, infrastructure, etc.

ChainCatcher news, according to @ai_9684xtpa, an old address from the 2015 ICO holding 76,000 ETH deposited 3,000 ETH (about $5.39 million) to Kraken five minutes ago, with a cost of only $0.31. This address has liquidated all ETH in two transactions over the past two weeks, and this is expected to be another selling action.

ChainCatcher news, according to ai_9684xtpa monitoring, "the whale that sold 76,000 ETH during the 2015 ICO" has sold 3,000 ETH (5.39 million USD) again after two weeks, with a cost as low as 0.31 USD. This OG deposited 3,000 ETH to Kraken five minutes ago, likely for selling, and the ETH received by this address has been fully liquidated in two transactions.

ChainCatcher message, OKX-ETH/USDT is currently at $1800.19, with a 24-hour decline of 1.47%.

According to ChainCatcher news and SoSoValue data, yesterday (Eastern Time, April 29) the total net inflow of Ethereum spot ETFs was $18.4008 million.The Ethereum spot ETF with the highest net inflow yesterday was Fidelity ETF FETH, with a net inflow of $25.5219 million for the day. Currently, FETH's historical total net inflow has reached $1.452 billion.The Ethereum spot ETF with the highest net outflow yesterday was Grayscale Ethereum Trust ETF ETHE, with a net outflow of $7.1211 million for the day. Currently, ETHE's historical total net outflow has reached $4.284 billion.As of the time of writing, the total net asset value of Ethereum spot ETFs is $6.304 billion, and the ETF net asset ratio (the market value as a percentage of Ethereum's total market value) is 2.89%. The historical cumulative net inflow has reached $2.484 billion.

ChainCatcher news indicates that, according to SoSoValue data, the encrypted market sector has generally experienced a slight pullback. Bitcoin (BTC) is fluctuating narrowly around $94,000, down 0.21% in the last 24 hours, while ETH remains relatively strong, up 0.02% in the last 24 hours, maintaining around $1,800.In addition, the NFT and RWA sectors, which saw significant gains yesterday, are experiencing pullbacks today. The NFT sector is down 4.43%, with Pudgy Penguins (PENGU) and Moca Coin (MOCA) dropping 7.10% and 13.58%, respectively. The RWA sector is down 2.84%, but Plume (PLUME) and Creditcoin (CTC) are rising against the trend, up 4.49% and 5.41%, respectively.In other sectors, the CeFi sector is down 0.60% in the last 24 hours, with LEO Token (LEO) remaining relatively strong, up 0.35%. The Layer1 sector is down 1.31%, and the DeFi sector is down 2.25%, although Curve DAO (CRV) is up 2.02%. The PayFi sector is down 2.38%, with Monero (XMR) peaking at 2.89% during the day. The Layer2 sector is down 2.52%, and the Meme sector is down 2.77%.Meanwhile, the cryptocurrency sector indices reflecting historical market trends show that the ssiNFT, ssiRWA, and ssiDeFi indices are down 4.21%, 3.57%, and 2.93% in the last 24 hours, respectively, but the ssiNFT index has a weekly return rate of 17.66%.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, the number of independent addresses in the Ethereum Layer 2 ecosystem has reached 13.6 million, a record high, with a growth of 74% in 7 days. The dominance of Layer 2 has reached 6.69 times, with weekly transaction volume exceeding 832,000.