Analysts refute claims that Ethereum’s liquidity moat is collapsing: ETH still retains reserve asset value, with 36% of its total supply staked.

According to monitoring by crypto tracker Ai Yi, a whale that has accumulated positions in UNI, LTC, and BNB since September 23, totaling roughly $11.6 million, now has a combined unrealized loss of about $1.536 million on its three altcoin holdings and is suspected of liquidating BNB. On-chain data indicates the whale transferred approximately 2,380 BNB to Binance around 20 minutes ago, worth around $1.85 million. If sold at current prices, this portion of the position would incur a loss of roughly $73,000. For other holdings: the whale holds 1,014,020 UNI, valued at ~$8.91 million, with an average entry price of $8.79, resulting in an unrealized loss of ~$1.409 million; it also holds 12,397 LTC, worth ~$841,000, average entry price of $67.86, with an unrealized loss of ~$54,000.

According to TradingBeats' monitoring, cryptocurrency market sentiment has slightly recovered. The remaining 12,000 ETH long positions in crypto personality "Big Brother Ma Ji" Huang Licheng's address have narrowed their unrealized losses to $640,000, with an entry price of $2,547.66 and liquidation price of $2,454.22. His address has incurred $7.2 million in losses over the past seven days, bringing total losses to $33.97 million.

Robinhood Chain’s on-chain activity continues to cool off. Data shows that between October 2 and 8, the network’s average daily transaction volume dropped to 6.2 million, a 42% decrease from the 10.8 million transactions recorded from September 10 to 16, marking a 20% weekly decline. The average daily active addresses stood at around 322,000, down 31% from mid-September. Trading volume and network revenue have both come under pressure. Over the same period, the weekly spot DEX trading volume on Robinhood Chain fell to $7.45 billion, a 21% drop from the previous week’s $9.46 billion. The network’s average daily fee revenue was approximately $65,000, a 39% week-over-week decline. Notably, the network’s daily fee revenue once hit $8 million in early September. However, capital has not significantly flowed out. During the same period, the deposit scale of on-chain lending and trading applications rose by around 2% to $1.04 billion, while stablecoin supply increased to roughly $1.1 billion; perpetual contract trading volume grew by 26% to about $7.35 billion. To stimulate trading activity, Robinhood has extended the token swap fee subsidy for transactions over $0.5 via Robinhood Wallet to December 31. The subsidy was originally scheduled to end on September 29.

A study released by prediction market platform Kalshi reveals that its high-profit traders are not generally from traditional finance, and trading performance may be more closely tied to probabilistic reasoning ability. The research surveyed high-earning accounts across Kalshi’s markets (excluding sports and special categories) as of September 2026: questionnaires were sent to 2,360 accounts, with 325 valid responses received, marking a 13.8% response rate. Findings show 82% of high-profit traders have never worked full-time at an investment bank, hedge fund, private equity firm, or proprietary trading firm; 79% attended public high schools, 65% said they learned about markets and probability primarily through self-study, 91% are not full-time traders, and 42% have at least six months of customer service or retail work experience. On cognitive ability tests, surveyed traders posted an average score of 2.42 on the Berlin Numeracy Test (out of a maximum 4 points), compared to an average of 0.62 for the general U.S. adult population. 93% of traders resisted the gambler’s fallacy, versus 57% of the general public. The study concludes that trading advantages in prediction markets likely derive more from probabilistic reasoning, information research, and the ability to distinguish between predictable and unpredictable events, rather than traditional finance professional backgrounds. Furthermore, Kalshi’s analysis of traders’ residential locations shows only 6.3% live in ZIP codes with a median household income exceeding $150,000, meaning the overall user base’s income distribution is more aligned with U.S. middle-income groups.

According to HTX market data, Treasure (MAGIC) posted a sharp rally over the past 24 hours, surging more than 130% at its peak. Its current market capitalization stands at around $51.291 million, with a fully diluted valuation of roughly $52.8815 million. The global 24-hour spot trading volume reached $407.8 million, about 8 times its market cap, signaling extremely active trading. For perpetual contracts: the 24-hour open interest (OI) is approximately $693.2 million, translating to an OI/market cap ratio of 1351.55%, and a 24-hour perpetual-to-spot trading volume ratio of 32.7x. Its circulating supply is 337.23 million tokens, while total supply is 347.687 million tokens.

XRP Ledger has recently patched a payment system vulnerability dating back to as early as 2015. The flaw allows attackers to bypass the system’s token exchange amount calculation limits via a specially crafted payment transaction, generating and spending massive XRP out of thin air and undermining the mechanism capping XRP’s total supply at 100 billion tokens. Attackers can create hundreds of accounts, post offers to exchange a small number of tokens for a huge amount of XRP, then execute a single payment to settle all these offers at once. Due to a defect in the software’s total transaction value calculation, seller accounts may receive the full XRP amount while buyer accounts barely need to pay the corresponding sum. Researchers Cayden Liao and Veria AI reported the vulnerability on September 22. RippleX later reproduced the attack and confirmed the generated XRP could be used in subsequent transactions. RippleX noted there is currently no evidence the vulnerability has been exploited on any public network. The development team released the xrpld 3.4.1 version on September 25 to fix the flaw.