Ethereum (ETH)

Sixteen hours ago, a wallet linked to Mining Express swapped 5,004 ETH for 8.8M DAI. Mining Express was a collapsed Ponzi scheme launched in 2019 in Ukraine by Brazilian founder Kaze Fuziyama. The scheme recruited investors through an MLM structure before eventually ceasing payouts and pivoting to cloud video rendering. In early 2022, Ukrainian law enforcement raided Mining Express's data center for several days, seizing cryptocurrency mining equipment as part of their investigation. On March 19, 2024, this wallet received 4,512 ETH from wallet linked to Mining Express. The funds were later staked through Lido and Etherfi. By April 2026, all of the ETH had been staked, before being fully unstaked on May 4, 2026. I first flagged this address on June 15, but didn't have the opportunity to investigate it further until now. Related addresses: 0x9D6c9E135f96e5317f58b7B5Bf49C0d5dB03F3c1 0x06B8C5883Ec71bC3f4B332081519f23834c8706E bc1qduw5sqvdc8dl4l7r84743xmang0ql2xghm407v Stay smart.

On-chain detective ZachXBT posted that on July 2-3, 2026, an attacker withdrew 3,200 ETH from Tornado Cash, the funds were linked to two private key leak incidents, then laundered about $5.5 million via the Circle CCTP cross-chain bridge, moving USDC into seven KuCoin deposit addresses on Arbitrum. Previously, ZachXBT warned KuCoin that the stolen funds had been repeatedly laundered using KuCoin accounts with proxy KYC. https://t.co/ImKK61VYl7

I missed the Ansem coin, I missed CZ, how many crypto personalities are left that people can make coins after? Asking for a friend

https://t.co/10SluxQr4Y integration is live on https://t.co/J2rZmuU7TV we have launched a bunch of new features this week: - permissionless market creation for assets beyond eth - improve ui on earn/boost page eth mainnet launch is coming very soon. https://t.co/FMOBei3BGD

Two weeks ago, Ethereum researchers met in Berlin to continue charting the protocol's long-term trajectory, following along discussions with client teams in Svalbard in April. The updated strawmap is at https://t.co/9e2AQ6rhz6, and I attached a picture of it to this post. My own high-level takeaways: * "Lean Ethereum" is not a single one-shot upgrade, it is a collection of improvements that will come online to the Ethereum network over the course of three or four years. But make no mistake, this IS the third major iteration of Ethereum in the same way that the Merge was the second. Almost every major piece of the protocol will be replaced: - Verification through recursive STARKs, rather than direct re-execution. Recursive STARKs become an enshrined first-class core component of the protocol - Replacing everything quantum-vulnerable with quantum-safe alternatives - Consensus: decoupled available chain and finality, one or two-round finality. Theoretically optimal security properties, simpler than today, an