According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, an address starting with 0xdc1 bought 2060 ETH through MetaMask Swap for approximately $4.94 million at an average price of $2399.

The market shows ETH has broken through $2,400 and is now trading at $2,400.43, with a daily increase of 5%. The market is volatile, so please be prepared for risk control.

According to Whale Alert monitoring, 20,020 ETH (approximately $46,018,564) was transferred from an unknown wallet to Coinbase.

According to Coinglass data, the nominal value of unclosed BTC options positions on the entire network is $12.9 billion, and the nominal value of unclosed ETH options positions is $6.47 billion.

On December 31st, data from the Ethereum official website shows that the current number of validators on the beacon chain has exceeded 900,000, reaching 900,276, with a total network staking amount of 28,704,153 ETH and an APR (annual return rate) of 3.48%.

On December 31st, according to Etherscan data, the current Ethereum network gas fee has dropped to 10 gwei.

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa,  two hours ago, an ETH whale deposited 6,293 ETH worth $14.41 million into Blast. This whale has deposited a total of 24,692 ETH worth $56.88 million into Blast since December 17th. Additionally, on January 6th, they deposited 6,304 ETH into the ETH2 staking contract.

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 Currently, staking inscription $ethi is supported, which can be withdrawn at any time.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.

This post stems from ongoing discussions between many researchers and client devs on the approach to scaling of the DA layer beyond EIP-4844, and is meant to summarize and make accessible some of the prevailing ideas. PeerDAS 2 is a recommended first read.Thanks to Danny Ryan, Ansgar Dietrichs, Dankrad Feist, Jacob Kaufmann, Age Manning, Csaba Kiraly, Leonardo Bautista-Gomez for feedback and discussions.

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.