ETH breaks through the $3450 mark

According to a report by Golden Finance, according to data from Strategic ETH Reserve, the total amount of ETH held by top institutions with Ethereum reserves exceeding 100 has exceeded 1.7 million, reaching 1738573 ETH as of now, with a value of approximately 6.152 billion US dollars. Among them, Bitmine's Ethereum holdings have exceeded 300000, surpassing SharpLink and the Ethereum Foundation to rank first. Institutions with current ETH holdings exceeding 100000 include Bitmine Immersion (300700), SharpLink Gaming (280600), the Ethereum Foundation (240500), PulseChain Sac (166300), Coinbase (137300), Golem Foundation (101300), Bit Digital (100300). 60000 pieces).

According to Lookonchain, someone has long ETH and SOL on the Hyperliquid platform with 25 times and 20 times leverage on four wallets, and the unrealized profit has exceeded $25 million so far.

On July 18th, according to Bloomberg, Paul Atkins, the Chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), stated that the SEC is weighing whether to introduce an "innovation exemption" to incentivize the market to advance the tokenization process following the landmark stablecoin bill passed by the US House of Representatives earlier this Thursday. He said at a press conference, "SEC staff are considering other possible adjustments to promote tokenization within the existing regulatory framework, including establishing an 'innovation exemption' that allows for the adoption of new trading methods and promoting the construction of other key components of the tokenized securities ecosystem through more targeted exemption forms

According to Bloomberg, the attack by the North Korean hacker group Lazarus Group on the exchange Bybit resulted in the theft of approximately $1.5 billion in funds, bringing the total amount of cryptocurrency theft in the first half of 2025 to $2.17 billion, surpassing the full year level of 2024.

According to analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, a giant whale has once again proposed 14982 ETH worth approximately $51.29 million from Kraken. Since the 10th, this address has cumulatively proposed 103274 ETH worth approximately $298 million from Kraken, with an average price of $2885. At present, there is a floating profit of 63 million US dollars.