「$10M Profit Whale」 Suspected of Accumulating 6000 ETH in a Transaction, with an Average Price of $1582

May 11 — Augustus Corporation announced today it has secured a national bank charter from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), making it the eighth institution to receive such a charter since 2010. Previously, the company held a European banking license for cross-border euro transactions, serving clients including major financial firm Kraken—with the firm seeing tenfold annual growth. Augustus has raised $40 million in funding from investors including Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures, Creandum, and founders of Ramp, Deel, Circle, and other prominent digital financial firms. Unlike “light” licenses (e.g., traditional trust charters), Augustus’ formal banking charter allows it to accept customer deposits and access a master account at the Federal Reserve. Augustus CEO Dabitz—a 25-year-old Thiel Fellowship recipient—said the legacy clearing system, which relies on correspondent banks, is slow and error-prone. The firm plans to build a new code-based settlement system tha

May 11 — Per HTX data, OSMO has surged past the $0.1 threshold, currently changing hands at $0.1028, with a 201% gain over the past 24 hours.

May 11: Per Bitget data, Intel (INTC) is currently trading at $132.63 in pre-market, up 6.17%.

On May 11, data from Onchainlens indicates the Ethereum Foundation has just unstaked 21,271 ETH from Lido, with the tokens valued at $49.66 million.

As of May 11th, HTX data shows OSMO is currently trading at $0.0886—up 68.32% over the past 24 hours.

May 11: Per LookOnChain data, a whale who netted $2.27M from APE longs has opened a new position—going long on 8.69M LDO with 5x leverage, valued at ~$3.72M. Notably, the same whale previously lost ~$194K on LDO longs.