Market Summary: Downhill slope
The “flash crash” of last week has come to a screeching halt. But not all the way it seems. If we look at the chart of Bitcoin from the last week, you can see price has fallen down to the upper $370 range to lower $380 range. From there we have had upward trends that have tried to break the $400 barrier, but none have been successful for too long. Besides that, Bitcoins market has been moving sideways with a slight decline, a recurring pattern over the last several months. When it comes to supposedly explaining why this occurs, no major theories have surfaced. There is always the ever....
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Bitcoin exchange reserve has fallen off a cliff, on-chain analysis shows. This behavior is usually a bullish indicator for the BTC market. Bitcoin All Exchanges Reserve Is Down As pointed out by a CryptoQuant post, the BTC all exchanges reserve indicator has surged downhill over the past couple of days. The Bitcoin all exchanges reserve is an indicator that shows the amount of BTC stored in wallets of all exchanges. When the metric’s value goes up, it means more investors are sending their crypto to exchanges. More BTC in exchanges implies a selling pressure. On the other hand, when....
Following the Solana wallet attack, the Solana Status team updated the public and detailed that the wallet addresses affected by the breach were tied to Slope mobile wallet applications. The team further stressed that “there is no evidence the Solana protocol or its cryptography was compromised.” Solana Status Report Says Affected Addresses Were at One Point Created in Slope Mobile Wallet Applications During the last 48 hours, the Solana team has been dealing with an attack that saw thousands of Solana-based wallets compromised. At the time, Solana Labs co-founder and CEO....
Blockchain analysis firms involved in Solana exploit investigation unpack the latest developments as teams try to figure out how private keys were stolen. Blockchain auditing firms are still trying to figure out how hackers gained access to about 8,000 private keys used to drain Solana-based wallets. Investigations are ongoing after attackers managed to steal some $5 million worth of SOL and SPL tokens on Aug. 3. Ecosystem participants and security firms are assisting in uncovering the intricacies of the event. Solana has worked closely with Phantom and Slope.Finance, the two SOL wallet....