Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin declares that the role of single slot finality (SSF) is the most straightforward approach to tackling the majority of shortcomings on the Ethereum Proof-of-Stake (PoS) design.

On December 30th, according to official sources, the Ethereum IERC20 inscription protocol recently launched DPoS staking mining function. Currently, staking inscription $ethi is supported, which can be withdrawn at any time. The DPoS points obtained from staking can be exchanged for new PoW inscription tokens in the later stage. Within a few hours of launching this function, it attracted a staking volume of over 10 million $ethi inscriptions (total supply of 21 million), and the total staking amount TVL exceeded 22 million US dollars.

According to on-chain data analyst Yu Jin, on December 30 that FalconX has received 2,647.9 WBTC (approximately $111 million) in the past 10 days, and then borrowed 29,496 ETH (approximately $68 million) from Aave and transferred it to Coinbase. This may be a bet that the ETH/BTC exchange rate will continue to fall.

According to on-chain data analyst @ai_9684xtpa, within the past 2 hours, lxuan.eth has sold a total of 2171 ETH (approximately $5.12 million) at an average price of $2360.

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According to Whale Alert, 14,610 ETH (approximately $34,578,587) has been transferred from an unknown wallet to Coinbase.

Based on the monitoring of on-chain analyst Yu Jin, a whale bought 8,675 ETH (costing $1,672) and 541.3 WBTC (costing $28,615) with 30 million U during the period from September 2022 to March 2023, and then put them into the Uniswap liquidity pool.

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According to blockchain data analyst @ai_9684xtpa, the 100% win rate ETH whale has bought 11,173 ETH in the afternoon since November, and sold 5,000 ETH within two hours, with an average selling price of $2,402 ($2,380 cost) and a profit of $110,000.

OKX-ETH/USDT is currently trading at $2399.78, with a 24-hour increase of 4.99%.

Lookonchain has monitored that a "smart money" address is buying ETH. So far, the address has spent 21.82 million DAI at an average price of $2380 to buy 9168 ETH.

The market showed ETH breaking through $2,300, currently trading at $2,300.13 with a daily increase of 2.51%. The market is volatile, please manage your risks.

According to a popular crypto strategist, Bitcoin and Ethereum may be heading towards a significant correction. The strategist, who uses the Elliott Wave theory to predict future price action, believes that both cryptocurrencies are currently in the midst of an ABC corrective pattern. The analyst suggests that BTC and ETH may be positioning for the last leg down of the pattern, and shares a chart showing BTC potentially pulling back to $39,000 and ETH dropping to $2,000. The strategist advises caution and recommends monitoring the situation over the next few weeks.

The market shows ETH breaking through $2,300, currently reporting at $2,300.43, with a daily increase of 0.34%. The market is volatile, so please take caution and manage risks.

On December 24th, EtchMarket data shows that the price of a single Ethereum NFT token, eths, has risen to $16,575, an increase of over 27% in 24 hours. It is reported that eths is the first text token issued based on the Ethereum NFT protocol, Ethscriptions.

According to IntoTheBlock data, the percentage of ETH held by long-term holders exceeded 70% in December, reaching a new high.

According to Spot On Chain monitoring on December 24th, a whale address starting with 0xc3b deposited 5,975 ETH (worth $13.9 million) into Blast about an hour ago, becoming the fifth largest depositor.<br>· A total of 381,000 ETH ($879 million) has been deposited into Blast and will be locked until February 24, 2024<br>· About 129,500 ETH ($300 million) came from the top 20 users, accounting for 34% of the total deposits.

According to IntoTheBlock data, on December 24th, Ethereum's market value is expected to grow by about 85% in 2023. Despite upgrades, various ETF applications (already submitted), and strong adoption indicators, its performance is still slightly inferior to other major assets.

Whale Alert monitored that at 12:44:35 Beijing time, a pre-mine address containing 11,640 ETH ($26,489,720) was activated after being dormant for 8.4 years.

On December 22nd, Arkham monitoring showed that an address starting with 0x454 had collateralized about $80 million worth of WBTC on Aave, and borrowed around $48 million worth of ETH. Subsequently, these ETH were sent to Coinbase, suspected to be sold, and the whale may be shorting ETH.