On August 19, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, a certain Whale extracted 361,118 LINK from a CEX, worth 8.77 million dollars. Overall, in the past 4 days, this Whale has accumulated 1.29 million LINK from the CEX, worth 31 million dollars.

[South Korea demands exchanges to suspend Crypto Assets lending services until new guidelines are established] The South Korean Financial Services Commission (FSC) has ordered local digital asset exchanges to suspend their encryption lending operations.
The Financial Services Commission announced today that it has issued a notice to the exchange, which includes administrative guidance requiring the cessation of such services starting Tuesday until the country develops appropriate guidance for Crypto Assets lending.

On August 19, according to monitoring by Farside Investors, there was a net outflow of 196.6 million USD from the Ethereum Spot ETF in the US yesterday, and a net outflow of 121.7 million USD from the Bitcoin Spot ETF.

On August 19, according to CEX market information, Ethereum fell below 4200 USD, with a 24-hour decline of 2.6%.

On August 19, according to Lookonchain monitoring, with the market falling, "Big Brother Ma Ji" Huang Licheng's long positions in ETH, BTC, HYPE, and PUMP are now facing unrealized losses of nearly 10 million USD.

On August 19, the native Token LIGHT of the Solana on-chain AMM and Launchpad platform Heaven surpassed a market capitalization of 200 million USD, reaching a historic high, with a 24-hour rise of 54%. The Heaven platform will programmatically buy back and burn 100% of its revenue in LIGHT Tokens.

On August 19, according to on-chain analyst Ai Yi (@ai_9684xtpa), a Whale monitoring "$125,000 rollover go long ETH" has just reduced position by 2,900.59 ETH, incurring a loss of $238,000. He has lowered the Holdings at the address 0x5f72...da67, which has a smaller liquidation space, to 7,852.35 ETH, with the latest liquidation price at $4,226.4.

On August 19, Wang Feng, founder of Blueport Interactive, tweeted, "I have been buying the dip on Ethereum for three consecutive days." In previous reports, Wang Feng stated that he was bullish on TSL last year, but now he suggests buying Ethereum. Trump's new policies on encryption, liquidity release, Bitcoin being regarded as digital gold, and traditional funds embracing the programmability of crypto assets, all contribute to the fact that in the "Consensus first" track, only Ethereum has advantages. This is also the reason many players are competing for the top spot.

On August 19, according to Cointelegraph, the amount of ETH on centralized trading platforms has dropped to a new low in 9 years. Tom Lee, the new chairman of BitMine's board, stated that the last time the ETH balance was this low, the price of ETH was $30, and then it rose to $1,500.

On August 19, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, a newly established Wallet deposited 1,997,000 USDC into HyperLiquid and opened a BTC short positions with 10x leverage, reaching a position of 19,950,000 USD.

As of August 19, the Ethereum PoS network exit queue reached 910,461 coins, setting a new historical high, valued at approximately $3.91 billion. Meanwhile, 268,217 ETH are queued to join the network, indicating the presence of two forces in the market: exits and new deposits.

According to EmberCN monitoring, trader The White Whale holds $410 million in long orders for ETH and SOL on the Hyperliquid platform. The principal has increased from $21.18 million at the beginning of July to $72.78 million, with a profit of $51.6 million, firmly ranking first on the leaderboard.

On August 19, according to Coinglass data, the total open interest for Ethereum futures contracts across the network remains at a historic high, currently reported at $60.44 billion. On July 19, the open interest for Ethereum futures contracts was reported at $50.68 billion, showing an increase of over 19.25% in the past 30 days. Additionally, the total open interest for Bitcoin futures contracts across the network is currently reported at $81.48 billion.

BitMine (BMNR) announced that its crypto assets holdings exceeded $6.612 billion, comprising 1,523,373 Ether and 192 Bitcoins, with cash reserves of $80 million. BMNR has the largest Ether holdings globally, and its total holdings rank second.

On August 19, the NFT project Meebits announced the launch of the MeebCo upgrade plan beta version. Until September 7, MeebCo will allow holders to exchange multiple common Meebits for 1 rare Meebits each day to reduce the underlying circulating supply. MeebCo will review all transaction quotes daily and execute a maximum of one transaction per day. According to Blur market data, the current Floor Price of Meebits is 0.738 ETH, with a 24-hour rise of 5.43%.

On August 19, according to strategicethreserve data, the companies and institutions with significant changes in Ethereum holdings over the past 30 days are as follows: Bitmine Immersion Tech (BMNR) ranks first, currently holding 1.5 million ETH, valued at approximately 6.53 billion USD, with a 30-day holdings increase of 406.68%; SharpLink Gaming (SBET) ranks second, currently holding 728,800 ETH, valued at approximately 3.12 billion USD, with a 30-day holdings increase of 159.72%; The Ether Machine (DYNX) ranks third, currently holding 345,400 ETH, valued at approximately 1.48 billion USD, with a 30-day holdings increase of 8.01%; Ethereum Foundation.

On August 19, investment bank TD Cowen maintained a bullish target price of $680 for Strategy, predicting that by the end of 2027, Strategy will accumulate 4.3% of the total supply of Bitcoin (i.e., 900,000 coins), and the price of Bitcoin will reach $232,000. The current trading price of MSTR is $363, with Bitcoin prices above $116,000. Today, Strategy announced that it has relaxed its equity sale financing restrictions, allowing for the issuance of common stock when its stock price is less than 2.5 times its corresponding Bitcoin holdings, to provide more flexibility for Strategy to raise funds to increase BTC holdings. This move has sparked controversy in the market, and analysts at TD Securities stated that the financing restrictions were initially implemented as a defensive strategy to protect the value of reserve assets, but have now evolved into a means to accelerate creation.

On August 19, according to CEX market information, Bitcoin fell below $116,000, with a 24-hour decline of 1.16%. Ethereum fell below $4,300, with a 24-hour decline of 3.66%.

On August 19, according to OnchainLens monitoring, a newly created Wallet Address received 15,752 ETH from FalconX, worth 68.24 million USD.