Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, has deposited 400 ETH (equivalent to $0.63 million) into Coinbase, sparking speculation about his intentions and strategies in the volatile cryptocurrency market. Recent transactions involving his ETH holdings have added to the intrigue surrounding his movements.

September 25th, according to Glassnode data, the balance of Ethereum on trading platforms reached 14,551,400.379, hitting a new low in nearly 5 years.

According to Scopescan monitoring, Stake.com's wallet address transferred 12,500 ETH (worth about $20.3 million) to Binance one hour ago. Previously, on September 18th, the Stake.com wallet address transferred 10,000 ETH ($16.3 million) to Binance.

Whale Alert has detected the transfer of 16,500 ETH from an unknown wallet to OKX, worth $26,778,575.

Balancer, an Ethereum-based automated market maker, has suffered a frontend compromise on its website due to a social engineering attack on its DNS service provider, EuroDNS. The attack led to the theft of an estimated $238,000 in crypto. Balancer's decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) worked to recover the Balancer UI and secured the domain, but the company is exploring deprecating the .fi TLD and suggests other projects using the same top-level domain should consider moving to a more secure registrar. The attacker employed Angel Drainer phishing contracts and SlowMist and CertiK reported that the hacker may be related to Russia.

As monitored by on-chain analyst Yu Jin, two hours ago, a whale bought 768 MKR with 606 ETH ($1 million). This whale has bought a total of 1261 MKR with 992 ETH ($1.62 million) in two days, at an average price of $1291.

Bitcoin's price surged past resistance at $27,000 on Monday, boosting sentiment for most cryptocurrencies. Ethereum also saw gains, reaching above $1,600 but stalling at $1,650. Other altcoins such as XRP, Cardano, and Toncoin also performed well, with gains ranging from 2.5% to 4.5%. The total market capitalization increased by 1.4% to $1.1 trillion, indicating a bullish trend. However, if Bitcoin fails to break through the $27,000 resistance, it may revisit the next major support area at $25,000.

Raoul Pal, a former Goldman Sachs executive, has named Solana (SOL) as one of his top altcoin picks and believes it could be the most promising project outside of Ethereum (ETH). Pal praises Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko for his thought leadership and ability to build bridges within the crypto space.

The price of ETH has seen gains at the start of the week, bouncing back from selling pressure over the weekend and trading at $1,630. Despite negative market pressure since June, ETH has sustained support above $1,530. If the support area from $1,600 to $1,630 holds, Ethereum may consolidate with an upper limit of $1,700 before the next breakout targeting highs above $2,000.

Major cryptocurrencies saw positive performance on Monday, September 18, with investors regaining confidence in digital currencies. Bitcoin's price rose 0.15% to $26,585.27 over the last 24 hours, while Ethereum's price remained flat at $1,629.15. XRP's price increased by 0.11% to $0.4973, and Litecoin's price added 1.06% to trade at $64.63.

Ethereum executed the beacon chain merge on September 15th, 2022, and today marks the one-year anniversary of the merge. According to on-chain data provider Ultrasound.money, the Ethereum supply has decreased by 299,722.81 ETH since the merge, keeping Ethereum in a state of deflation. In addition, the amount of ETH burned since the merge has reached 981,698.48, worth approximately $1,655,780,441.

Lido's collateral ratio reached 32.26%, with a net inflow of 2.596 million ETH since the upgrade in Shanghai. In addition, the total amount of ETH collateral is 26.77 million, which is 22.27% of the supply.

Metis plans to become Ethereum's first decentralized L2 this year, allowing its community to take control of critical centralized components of the network.Metis co-founder Elena Sinelnikova said that by authorizing community control of the decentralized sequencer pool, Metis aims to demonstrate the advantages of maintaining L2 scalability while reducing centralization risks.

According to Whale Alert monitoring, 21,000 ETH (worth $34,227,360) has been transferred from an unknown wallet to OKEx.

XRP's price has risen by 3% to reach $0.5, thanks to positive US CPI data and a new Bitcoin ETF filing by Franklin Templeton Investments. The cryptocurrency has broken out of a falling wedge pattern and could potentially reach $0.7. Ripple is planning to hold a "Proper Party" on September 29 to celebrate its win against the SEC, with potential announcements including an IPO.

PeckShield, attackers on the cryptocurrency trading platform CoinEx used Stargate to transfer 113 ETH from Arbitrum to the Ethereum mainnet, and then transferred them to centralized trading platforms such as Binance and FixedFloat.

According to PeckShield monitoring, the attacker of CoinEx transferred 113 ETH across chains to Ethereum and then transferred them to exchanges, including FixedFloat and Binance.

Ethereum has made significant progress in reducing energy consumption and becoming economically deflationary since transitioning to proof of stake a year ago, but technical challenges persist. The Merge, which took place on September 15, 2022, resulted in a 99.9% reduction in energy use and the dominance of liquid staking providers like Lido.

According to DefiLlama data, the 24-hour protocol revenue of friend.tech reached 2.27 million US dollars, ranking second only to Ethereum and surpassing Lido.

According to Etherscan data on September 15th, Banana Gun: Router had a gas consumption of 35.51 ETH in the past 3 hours, ranking third in gas consumption. It has consumed a total of 115.69 ETH in the past 24 hours.