A certain whale withdrew 6000 ETH from Kraken after 6 months of silence

On October 21st, Eric Trump, the son of former President Donald Trump, said in an interview with CoinDesk that his younger brother Barron Trump is a significant enthusiast of cryptocurrency. He shows interest in certain meme coins and fun projects. Previously, there were reports suggesting that Trump's youngest son Barron holds a 10% stake in WLFI, which is valued at $1.5 billion. Rumors within the community imply that he has earned more than $1 billion in profits from shorting crypto.

On October 21st, the AI research lab concentrating on the financial market, nof1, began a large-scale model trading test named Alpha Arena on the 18th. This test employs 6 mainstream AI large models (GPT-5, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Grok-4, Claude Sonnet 4.5, DeepSeek V3.1, Qwen3 Max). Each model is allocated $10,000 in real funds on Hyperliquid and has the same prompts and input data. As of the moment of writing, due to the mostly long positions of the major AI models and the market downturn, their returns have dropped significantly. DeepSeek, Claude, and Grok rank among the top three with returns of 21.29%, 18.34%, and 14.96% respectively, while Gemini 2.5 Pro has already suffered a loss of 38.19%.

On October 21st, Joseph Lubin, the founder of ConsenSys, tweeted that he will launch a new tokenomics platform and launchpad on Linea. "If we are able to accelerate the global adoption of prediction markets such as Polymarket and MYRIAD, we can introduce collective intelligence and market forces into governance and decision-making at all levels of society. Before Futarchy truly becomes mainstream, we require deep liquidity and widespread use of prediction markets. Once this goal is attained, we can begin to replace subjective and centralized control platforms with rent-seeking and platform-centric power, and instead involve a broader set of stakeholders in more objective market-based decision-making."

On October 21st, Vitalik Buterin published an article on the X platform, highly praising Polygon and its co-founder Sandeep Nailwal. He stated that they have played a crucial role in the Ethereum ecosystem. Vitalik mentioned that Polygon made early and significant investments in ZK-EVM research and development, drove the technical implementation of the Jordi team, and built infrastructure such as AggLayer. He also commended Sandeep for his contribution to public health in India through the CryptoRelief project and his voluntary return of $190 million in SHIB donations, enabling the Balvi open-source pandemic response project to move forward. Vitalik expressed the hope that Polygon would directly adopt mature ZK technology in the future to provide complete security for its PoS chain. Previously, Polygon CEO Sandeep Nailwal responded to Ethereum core developer Péter Szilágyi's open letter and bluntly stated that he had begun to "doubt his loyalty to Ethereum." He mentioned that Polygon

On October 21st, as per AI Monitor, the "1011 Insider Whale" which held a short position in Bitcoin has now transformed a loss into a profit. Currently, with a 1100 BTC holding (approximately $120 million), the short position has achieved a profit of $345,000.

On October 21st, based on GMGN data, the Chinese concept meme coin of Solana, which is named "Solara," has a market capitalization exceeding $12 million. Its 24-hour trading volume is $13.64 million, and there are reported to be 5,422 hodlers.