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According to Lookonchain’s monitoring, 11 new wallets suspected to belong to the same whale sold 602 BTC and bought 18,780 ETH on Hyperliquid over the past three days. Both transactions are valued at roughly $45.83 million, signaling the whale is rebalancing its portfolio.

Renowned crypto analyst Willy Woo analyzed Bitcoin’s (BTC) monthly chart using the Fisher Transform indicator, noting that the current golden cross on the metric marks the 4th bottom signal in history, with no false breakouts in the prior three instances. However, Woo emphasized this is not an immediate reversal buy signal; prices may first consolidate sideways before moving in their original trend. He added that during bull markets, the Fisher Transform has previously triggered a bearish death cross followed by a bullish golden cross, with the uptrend still intact afterward. Woo distinguishes between market tops and bottoms: At tops, long-term investor buying dries up, while speculative buying continues to push prices higher. The rally relies on momentum rather than sustained long-term holding support, leading to frequent false turning points. As such, Woo’s strategy is to reduce positions gradually instead of predicting exact peak levels. At bottoms, price drops create a buying vacuum as speculative investors exit. When prices fall to levels long-term investors deem valuable, buying resumes. With speculative activity limited, reversals are cleaner, making many technical indicators more reliable at bottoms than at tops. The Fisher Transform is a technical indicator developed by U.S. quantitative researcher John Ehlers in 2002. It first compresses prices and applies a mathematical transformation similar to normalization to make price distributions closer to a bell curve. This causes the indicator to spike or drop sharply near extremes, with more distinct turning points. Traders typically use golden crosses/death crosses of the indicator’s two lines to identify potential turning points, though the Fisher Transform signals a possible shift in price rhythm rather than an immediate reversal.

UNI is currently trading at around $8.56, up approximately 26.6% in the past 24 hours, returning to the price range before the October 11 (1011) crash. Compared to its phase low of roughly $2.3 in June, UNI has rallied about 272.1% cumulatively. During the market recovery, the UNI long position of the address starting with 0xf21d has an unrealized profit of around $1.125 million, making it the address’s most profitable position to date. This address holds approximately 265,200 UNI via 10x isolated margin, at an average entry price of ~$4.279, has held the position for about 25 days, with a position value of ~$2.26 million and a realized return of roughly 991.1%. Additionally, the address also holds around 267,000 LIT via 3x isolated margin, with a position value of ~$1.33 million, unrealized profit of ~$466,000, and a return of approximately 161.2%. The combined unrealized profit of these two long positions is around $1.591 million, with UNI contributing roughly 70.7% of the total.

Eli Ben-Sasson, one of Zcash (ZEC)’s founding scientists, noted that some people—especially Bitcoin supporters—might not take kindly to his remarks, but he felt compelled to share them. He attributed ZEC’s recent price rally in part to concerns that Bitcoin has grown overly ossified, adding that he himself has a deep affection for and cares greatly about Bitcoin.

Insight Beating AI Flash News: Three white-hat researchers from security firm Hacktron gained access to OpenAI’s internal codebase using Claude in under 72 hours. The trio voluntarily reported the vulnerability, and OpenAI awarded them a $6,500 bounty after patching the flaw. The attack vector was OpenAI’s community forum: the researchers discovered uploading a specially crafted HEIF image could exploit a vulnerability in Discourse (the forum software) to execute arbitrary code on the server. They then obtained login tokens for forum users—essentially "logged-in access passes". A more critical issue lay with OpenAI itself: the forum’s login tokens had overly broad permissions, granting access to the same user’s ChatGPT and Codex accounts, and some tokens belonged to OpenAI employees. The researchers used one employee’s Codex account, which was linked to the company’s GitHub. They ultimately had Codex submit a harmless documentation change to the internal openai/openai codebase to confirm access, then halted testing and reported the incident. Claude handled the most challenging step: converting the image-based vulnerability into functional exploit code. Opus 4.8 was unstable, but the team made breakthroughs just hours after Opus 5 launched. Hacktron noted the entire process—from initial discovery to accessing OpenAI’s internal repository—took less than 72 hours, with only a few hours of actual human work invested.

According to Bitget market data, South Korea’s KOSPI index closed 180.14 points higher, up 2.68% to finish at 6895.55 points. SK Hynix rose 6.41%, while Samsung Electronics gained 3.36%. Japan’s Nikkei 225 index closed 882.70 points higher, a 1.38% increase, ending at 65018.95 points.