Gauntlet has initiated a proposal to change the borrowing and supply limits for Ethereum in v3 within the Aave community. According to Gauntlet's supply and borrowing limit methods, the proposal suggests increasing the WSTETH supply limit to 1.1 million and increasing the BAL supply limit to 700,000 on Ethereum v3.

Data from the Kanro (Vitalik Charity) wallet created by Arkham analysis and co-founder of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, shows that the current total value of cryptocurrencies held by the charity entity is close to $75 million, including about 74.567 million USC, 1000 MTV, and 3.724 million MVRS. However, the amount of ETH held within the charity entity shows zero. It is reported that Vitalik Buterin revealed in 2018 that he held about 0.9% of the total supply of ETH at that time, and his public address now shows a holding of about 250,000 ETH, with a total value of nearly $400 million.

On October 18th, according to the monitoring of on-chain data analyst Yu Jin, a certain whale address exchanged 13,871 ETH for 21.87 million USDC in the past hour, with an average selling price of $1,577. It is reported that this address has sold a total of 18,579 ETH (exchanged for 2,937 USDC) since September 11th, with an average selling price of $1,581, realizing a profit of $6.35 million.

HopeLend lost 526 ETH due to a hacker attack, according to user Spreek.

October 18th news, Ethereum client Nimbus announced on X platform that version V23.10.0 has been released. This is a low urgency upgrade focused on stability and performance improvements, with the performance improvements having the greatest impact on networks with a large number of validators (such as the Holešky test network).

SSV Network, the Ethereum staking infrastructure, has released its Governance 2.0 plan, aimed at establishing the SSV Foundation and decentralizing power to the community, moving towards community governance of the protocol. Currently, SSV Network consists of three core parts: an open-source protocol, SSV DAO, and the newly established SSV Foundation.

The Ethereum liquid staking derivatives finance (LSDFi) ecosystem has experienced significant growth this year as ETH holders choose to stake rather than liquidate. Despite the ability to withdraw ETH with the Ethereum Shapella upgrade in April 2023, the LSDFi sector has grown by 58.7x since January, with LSD protocols accounting for 43.7% of the total 26.4 million ETH staked by August 2023. The total value locked in LSDFi protocols has grown 5,870% since January 2023, while the total decentralized finance TVL has contracted by around 8% over the same period. The rise of LSDFi platform Diva, which offers higher incentives than Lido, has been cheered on by Ethereum proponents.

According to a popular analyst on social media platform X, an altcoin on the Ethereum blockchain, Tellor Tributes (TRB), is likely to lose a significant portion of its recent gains. The trader predicts that TRB has reached its peak and will eventually drop down to $32 based on his chart analysis.

Whale addresses holding at least 1 million ETH have for the first time since 2016 accounted for 32.3% of the available supply.

On October 17th, the Ethereum client Prysm released version v4.1.0, which includes new features such as: Providing basic support for Deneb/Cancun; Reducing memory usage through Multi-Value Slices; EIP-4881 for optimizing block processing; BLST0.3.11 improves portable build performance; Real-time preview of Multiarch Containers, and more.

School of Business and Management at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology released the results of a public opinion survey on virtual asset investment attitudes, showing that 41% of Hong Kong people said they have no intention of holding any type of virtual asset, about 20% of respondents said they intend to hold virtual assets in the future, and cryptocurrency exchanges (61%) are the most common medium for holding virtual assets.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, the whale address starting with 0xbd6 is using a loop loan to buy more ETH on Aave. Six hours ago, the address spent 8 million USDT to purchase 5060 ETH at an average price of $1583. The 5060 ETH was then deposited into Aave and borrowed 3 million USDC. 30 minutes ago, the 3 million USDC was deposited into MEXC.

October 17th, as monitored by on-chain data analyst Yu Jin, a certain whale leveraged long ETH 4 hours ago, and through 2 addresses, collateralized 20,016 ETH (approximately 31.9 million USD) on Aave and borrowed 21 million USDT, then bought 13,101 stETH at an average price of 1602 USD per coin.

Odaily Star Planet Daily News reports that according to OKX, ETH has broken through 1600 USDT and is currently trading at 1611 USDT, with a 24-hour increase of 3.2%.

Coinbase (COIN) stated in a research report on Friday that the Ethereum blockchain validator queue has been cleared for the first time since Shanghai was upgraded in May, indicating that investor demand for ETH staking is becoming stable. The report stated that as validator entries peaked in recent months, staking yields have dropped from over 5% to 3.5%. Activity on the Ethereum mainnet remained stable in the third quarter, while total transaction volume increased. Coinbase stated that if basic activity and transaction fees on the network remain consistent, staking yields are expected to remain stable due to a slowdown in validator growth.

On October 16, according to PeckShield monitoring, the attacker address of Uranium Finance bridged 10,000 BUSD from BNB Chain to Ethereum through Stargate. The attacker's address on BNB Chain currently holds 13.4 million BUSD and 22,000 BNB (worth about 4.7 million US dollars). One hour later, the attacker's address bridged 3.11 million BUSD to Ethereum through LI.FI and Stargate. The attacker address of UraniumFinance on the Ethereum network has received 1,946.06 ETH (about 3.02 million US dollars) and USDT and USDC worth about 25,500 US dollars.

According to Spot On Chain monitoring, Whale Address 0x88e deposited the remaining 4,404 ETH in its wallet into Binance 10 minutes ago. On June 23, 2020, the whale address accumulated 11,904 ETH from Bitfinex at an average price of only $243.1 ($2.894 million). In the past 3 days, the whale has deposited all 11,904 ETH ($18.58 million) into Binance. Expected profit is $15.8 million (+542%).

According to PeckShield monitoring, the address of the attacker identified as EraLend has transferred 281 ETH to the new address 0xf888...ac02.

rollbot.eth (the address related to the deployment of the RLB program) exchanged 123.89 ETH for 1.426 million RLB (worth $193,000) at an average price of $0.135 per RLB in the past 24 hours. The latest purchase was made 40 minutes ago, during which time the RLB price has increased by more than 10%. Currently, rollbot.eth holds 14.26 million RLB (worth $2.04 million) in its address and 13.6 million RLB (worth $1.95 million) in the liquidity pool.

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