ChainCatcher news, according to Coindesk, the crypto investment firm Sol Strategies (HODL), led by former Valkyrie Investment Company CEO and co-founder Leah Wald, has acquired four validator nodes for nearly $18 million in cash and stock.The Toronto-based company, formerly known as Cypherpunk Holdings, plans to acquire these validator nodes from Cogent Crypto. Cogent Crypto is a high-performance validator node operator operating within the Solana ecosystem. According to a statement released on Thursday, the total value of the investment is close to $18 million, divided into three phases: $1 million in cash and approximately $1 million in company stock will be paid upon completion of the transaction, with the remainder to be distributed in stock over three years, Sol Strategies stated.The company will acquire validator nodes for Solana (SOL), Sui (SUI), Monad (MONAD), and ARCH (ARCH) networks from Cogent Crypto, with most of the funds focused on SOL.

ChainCatcher news, according to Jinshi reports, Meta Platforms (META.O) has been fined nearly 800 million euros for violating EU antitrust rules. Meta plans to appeal the EU fine.

According to ChainCatcher news, on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa monitored that a giant whale built a position of 20.2 trillion PEPE tokens at an average price of $0.000001313 ten months ago. In the past hour, they deposited 500 billion tokens (worth $11.17 million) to Coinbase, and if sold, they would profit $10.52 million.The remaining portion still has an unrealized profit of $35.26 million, with a return rate of 1811%.

ChainCatcher news, according to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, "the mysterious whale who spent 15,140.85 SOL heavily on Pnut, FRED, and OPK" has realized full profits on the tokens, with unrealized gains nearing 30 million dollars, and both FRED and OPK have turned from losses to profits.

ChainCatcher news, according to a report by Yonhap Infomax, since Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election, the value of Bitcoin-related stocks held by the National Pension Service (NPS) of South Korea has increased nearly threefold.As of the end of September this year, NPS held 265,646 shares of Coinbase Global and 245,000 shares of MicroStrategy. Although NPS does not directly invest in cryptocurrencies, it has included cryptocurrency-related stocks such as the U.S. exchange Coinbase in its portfolio since the third quarter of last year.

According to ChainCatcher news, monitored by Onchain Lens, a new wallet has accumulated 4,007.89 BTC from Binance in the past 14 hours, worth $353.41 million, with an average purchase price of $88,178. Shortly thereafter, the whale transferred 3,991.59 BTC to a separate wallet, leaving 15.89 BTC (worth $1.41 million) in the main wallet.

ChainCatcher news, according to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, FTX/Alameda's SOL staking address redeemed 179,800 SOL (39.21 million USD) from staking yesterday, and then transferred these SOL to 20 addresses 2 hours ago.Most of these SOL will flow into Coinbase and Binance. Currently, FTX/Alameda's SOL staking address still has 6.764 million (142.8 million USD) SOL staked.

ChainCatcher news, MicroStrategy founder Michael Saylor posted on social media that this year MicroStrategy's capital operations achieved a 26.4% BTC return, bringing approximately 49,936 BTC in net profit to shareholders. This amounts to 157.5 BTC per day, and without the usual operational costs or capital investments associated with Bitcoin mining.

ChainCatcher news, according to Arkham monitoring, about 30 minutes ago, the Grayscale address transferred a total of 4,897 BTC to 5 unmarked addresses through 5 transactions, worth approximately 434 million dollars.

ChainCatcher message, according to Whale Alert monitoring, 10 minutes ago, 18,256 ETH was transferred from Binance to an unknown wallet, approximately worth 58.23 million USD.

ChainCatcher news, DeFi platform Infinex integrates NEAR Chain Signatures and NEAR Intents. NEAR Chain Signatures enable users to sign transactions on third-party blockchains using a single account. With this integration, Infinex users can control and interact with non-smart contract chains like Bitcoin and XRP through their existing accounts. In the coming months, users will be able to trade these assets on the platform using NEAR Intents.

According to ChainCatcher's message, on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa monitored that in the past hour, "smart money with a swing win rate of 86.7%" bought 1,699.88 WETH on-chain at an average price of $3,193, worth $5.42 million; it seems they plan to first establish a position and then add to it depending on the situation, and the 16th swing should have already started.

ChainCatcher news, according to on-chain data tracking service Whale Alert, at around 2:38 AM Beijing time, 49,000 ETH (158,915,434 USD) was transferred from Arbitrum to an unknown wallet.

ChainCatcher news, NEAR AI announced the launch of its Alpha version, which includes a customizable AI smart assistant that interacts on Web2 and Web3 by connecting with other AI agents and services. Meanwhile, the NEAR AI Research Center will support community-driven AI research and foundational model creation, aiming to build a 1.4T parameter model.

ChainCatcher message, according to monitoring data from Arkham, about eight hours ago, 206.583 BTC flowed from the Coinbase Prime hot wallet address into the BlackRock Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Fund IBIT Bitcoin ETF, worth approximately 15.91 million dollars.

ChainCatcher message, according to Arkham monitoring data, about two hours ago, 8,851 AVAX flowed from an unknown address starting with 0xC7E into the Grayscale Avalanche Trust fund. Additionally, during the same time, 1,396 AAVE also flowed from that address into the Grayscale Aave Trust fund.

ChainCatcher news, according to Arkham monitoring, 8 hours ago, 1,885 ETH was transferred from a Coinbase Prime address to the Grayscale Ethereum Trust, worth approximately $5.53 million.

ChainCatcher news, according to Lookonchain monitoring, DWF Labs received 697,670 NEAR about 30 minutes ago, worth approximately 3 million dollars.

ChainCatcher message, according to Arkham monitoring data, approximately 150,000 USDC flowed out from the BlackRock BUIDL Fund to an unknown address starting with 0x713F about 50 minutes ago.

ChainCatcher message, 5 minutes ago, 9,999 ETH transferred from an unknown wallet to Bitfinex, worth $29,052,298.