AscendEX shuts down: users warned of partial crypto withdrawals
The exchange blamed a failed strategic transaction and MiCA pressure for the July 1 shutter, but the more dangerous signal is the empty hot wallets ZachXBT flagged weeks earlier.
Sector-wide market analysis: dominance, liquidity, on-chain flows, whale activity, and exchange in/outflows.
The exchange blamed a failed strategic transaction and MiCA pressure for the July 1 shutter, but the more dangerous signal is the empty hot wallets ZachXBT flagged weeks earlier.
Abraxas Capital pulled $16M of tokenized gold off exchanges in a single day, and dormant wallet 0xD20E broke a 3-year silence to add another $3.9M, a coordinated bid into XAUT.
190.8M $USDC (≈190.8M) moved from Unknown Whale 1 to #Aave.
882.8M $ENA (≈65.9M) moved from unknown wallet to unknown wallet.
914.3M $ENA (≈68.2M) moved from unknown wallet to unknown wallet.
190.7M $USDC (≈190.8M) moved from #Aave to Unknown Whale 1.
The addition shrinks the fund's effective concentration in BTC and ETH and marks one of the first times a hyperliquid-native token lands in a US-listed index product.
3.6K $BTC (≈221.9M) moved from unknown wallet to unknown wallet.
Both BTC and ETH are sitting at multi-year falling trend lines and on RSI levels last seen at the 2018 and March 2020 cycle lows, a setup the analyst frames as either a macro reversal trigger or the…
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110M $USDT (≈109.9M) moved from #JustLendDAO to unknown wallet.
160M $USDT (≈159.8M) moved from unknown wallet to #Aave.
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