James Fickel stakes 20,000 ETH, valued at $36.09 million.

Global second-largest asset management firm Vanguard, which oversees roughly $12 trillion in assets under management, has established a digital asset head role for the first time, tasked with developing the firm’s long-term crypto and blockchain strategy. The position will evaluate areas including tokenization, stablecoins, digital wallets, custody, and blockchain settlement, and determine whether Vanguard will build in-house capabilities, partner with external parties, or delay entry into certain markets. The role will also need to craft a multi-year roadmap and design governance and risk frameworks. Vanguard noted that this recruitment does not signal an imminent launch of crypto products, adding that it currently has no plans to issue its own crypto investment tools.

According to Hyperinsight monitoring, in the past hour, an address starting with 0x1cb opened a long position in SK Hynix (SKHX) using 10x leverage: holding 2,362.465 units, with a nominal value of approximately $3.576 million, an average entry price of $1,496.485, a liquidation price of $1,436.50, and current unrealized profit of around $40,700 (a return rate of ~11.5%). SK Hynix surged 10.5% at today’s opening, recovering most of yesterday’s losses. The address concentrated on chasing the rally during the main uptrend, executing a total of 653 trades at prices between $1,486.90 and $1,520.00, gradually building its position through rolling trades. Over the past two weeks, this address has opened SKHX positions 25 consecutive times, mostly completing intraday swing trades with a win rate of ~70.8%; this marks its 25th long position in the recent period. - HyperInsight Bot is now live. Add @HyperInsightBot to your Telegram group and set it as an admin (enable message sending permission) to automatically sync on-chain news.

According to Yu Jing Monitoring, since early this morning, 18 wallet addresses have dumped a total of 372 million TAC on-chain, fetching $1.78 million. Market data shows TAC Protocol (TAC) experienced extreme price action, plunging 90% in just 15 minutes early this morning to around $0.0067.

Predict.fun has rolled out a new feature: institutional-level block trading, offering exclusive services primarily for large traders conducting transactions of over 100,000 units per trade. Buyers and sellers can directly match with counterparties, with zero slippage, zero fees for the first 14 days, and no size limits, filling the gap in on-chain prediction market block trading. The feature is powered by liquidity from SIG, a leading traditional financial market maker that also acts as the exclusive market maker for US-compliant prediction platform Kalshi.

Ethereum Foundation (EF) Developer Relations member Sophia Dew announced in a post that this week will be her final full week serving the foundation. Dew has been active in the Ethereum ecosystem over the past four years. She stated, "I remain very bullish on Ethereum’s future—it is indeed one of the strongest, most cohesive ecosystems ever."

According to GMGN monitoring, the on-chain meme token CASHCAT on Robinhood has surpassed a market cap of $45 million, with a 24-hour surge of over 370%. The early mascot of Robinhood’s U.S. stock trading app was CASHCAT, which was later renamed Robinhood. On July 1 this year, Robinhood launched its own Layer 2 (L2) public chain, Robinhood Chain, focusing on on-chain finance and real-world assets (RWA). BlockBeats reminds users that most meme coins have no intrinsic value and are highly volatile, so trading them requires caution.