Single-Month Loss Exceeds $43 Million as Ethereum Whale Goes Short, Liquidation Price at $4,594

According to monitoring by Onchain Lens, a crypto whale transferred approximately 1,770 BTC (valued at around $112.14 million) after remaining inactive for roughly two years. The holding, which was received from Gemini, was worth about $131.91 million at the time, resulting in an unrealized loss of $19.8 million.

According to BIT (bit.com) market data, the as-expected slowdown in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) has dampened expectations of a Federal Reserve interest rate hike. The three major U.S. stock indexes closed mixed: the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.04%, the Nasdaq rose 0.54%, and the S&P 500 gained 0.26%. Nvidia climbed 3.03% to close at $224.09, its highest closing price since June 2. Overnight in pre-market trading, Goldman Sachs maintained its "Buy" rating on Nvidia with a $285 target price. SpaceX jumped 9.65% as the company announced the launch of Grok 4.6 during the session. AI-related stocks surged across sectors: In the memory chip segment, SK Hynix rose over 9%, SanDisk gained more than 5%, Western Digital advanced over 3%, Seagate climbed over 7%, and Micron Technology rose over 4%. For optical communications and photonics products, Lumentum surged over 13%, Coherent gained more than 8%, and Corning rose over 5%. In the semiconductor equipment space, Applied Materials climbed over 4%, Lam Research advanced over 4%, and KLA rose over 3%. Among next-generation AI cloud service providers, Nebius jumped over 34% and CoreWeave surged more than 19%. Turning to the Middle East situation: Former U.S. President Trump stated that the U.S. has full control over the Strait of Hormuz. A spokesperson for Iran’s Revolutionary Guard responded that if Iran faces another threat, hundreds of thousands of miles of energy transmission lines, thousands of power plants, all U.S. and non-U.S. facilities, and even global infrastructure connected to the internet will be targeted. According to HTX market data, Bitcoin edged down 0.19% in the past 24 hours, trading at $63,423.

According to monitoring by Onchain Lens, BlackRock’s ETF address has cumulatively withdrawn 1,019.27 BTC (valued at approximately $64.64 million) and 301.77 ETH (valued at around $570,000) from Coinbase Prime over the past few hours.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a whale withdrew a total of 4,650 ETH (approximately $8.77 million) from Coinbase, FalconX, Galaxy Digital, and Cumberland over the past hour.

CoreWeave Inc. has warned investors that shifting away from its current exclusive use of Nvidia AI chips could require significant time and capital. In a Wednesday regulatory filing, CoreWeave stated that changes in customer demand may force the company to invest "time, capital, and resources" to obtain alternative products to Nvidia GPUs. The company cautioned that this could ultimately impact its ability to deliver required products to clients.

According to market data from BIT (bit.com), Nebius, a leading neo-cloud player, closed 34.14% higher, marking its largest single-day gain since September last year, though it fell 2.01% in after-hours trading. Earlier reports noted that Nebius (ticker: NBIS) released its second-quarter financial results: the company’s Q2 revenue reached $582.3 million, a 454% increase from $105.1 million in the same period last year. Adjusted EBITDA for Q2 stood at $236.2 million, compared to a net loss of $21 million in the year-ago quarter, turning profitable. Its adjusted net loss narrowed 64% to $33.2 million, down from $91.5 million in the same quarter last year. However, the company’s net loss from continuing operations in Q2 was $190.4 million, versus a net profit of $502.5 million in the year-ago period. For the first half of 2026, Nebius’ cumulative revenue totaled $981.3 million, up 529% year-over-year; adjusted EBITDA reached $365.7 million, compared to a net loss of $74.7 million in the same period last year.