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On October 9, on-chain analyst Ai Yi disclosed that two addresses belonging to the same whale have collectively taken long positions of approximately $50 million in BTC and ETH. Among them, diamondbull.eth initiated a 25x long position of 11,500 ETH during the rebound, valued at $28.72 million, ranking seventh in Hyperliquid's ETH long positions, currently facing an unrealized loss of $109,000. The funding source address, samurai.eth, also holds long positions of 200 BTC and 2,000 ETH, valued at $21.58 million, currently with an unrealized gain of $753,000.

New York Attorney General Letitia James announced that a settlement has been reached regarding former Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky's alleged fraud against investors, securing up to $35 million in conditional compensation and requiring him to permanently exit the securities, commodities, and cryptocurrency industries. Previously, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) had also imposed industry bans on Mashinsky. He is currently serving a 12-year prison sentence. Meanwhile, Celsius creditors have received over $3.4 billion through the company's bankruptcy proceedings.

Decentralized exchange THORChain has announced the launch of its native Zcash exchange, allowing users to swap ZEC with assets on other supported blockchains without relying on wrapped tokens or centralized exchanges. This launch follows the protocol's 3.20 update, which introduced support for Zcash and Monero. At the time of launch, the Zcash pool had liquidity exceeding $50,000, and the network has begun processing live ZEC exchanges. The pool is currently in a soft launch phase, with performance being monitored; if vulnerabilities or other issues arise, trading may be temporarily paused. The current pool size can easily support five-figure trades, while larger trades may experience higher slippage and slower settlement until liquidity increases. When the fee-to-depth ratio is sufficiently high, the protocol's own liquidity will automatically join the Zcash pool. This mechanism was introduced with the 3.20 upgrade, allowing the protocol to deploy a portion of liquidity fees (initially set at 20%) to supported liquidity pools. After integration, ZEC holders can swap their native assets with supported assets like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and stablecoins without needing to deposit Zcash with a centralized custodian or convert to wrapped assets on other networks. With the addition of Zcash, the total number of native blockchains in THORChain's cross-chain liquidity network reaches 14, and exchanges are settled in native assets on their respective chains rather than transferring assets through cross-chain bridges or requiring users to relinquish custody.