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About $87,300 gone in one second—he only meant to buy 0.5 SOL.

Early this morning, a memecoin trader did what he always did: tapped “Buy in One Click” in a launchpad app. He’d always had the button set to 0.5 SOL. But when he tapped it, he saw about 578 million coins in his account—and he’d actually spent around $92,400, almost his entire portfolio.

What made it even worse was how tiny the coin was: before he bought in, its market cap was just over $3,000. His buy order sent it soaring to around $160,000. In a panic, he sold everything in the same minute and got back only about $4,980. The screenshot said it all: down around $87,300, or -94.4%.

And the worst part came later. Not long after he sold, the coin briefly hit a market cap of around $800,000, then fell back below $20,000 by a little after 8 a.m.

Just a month ago, the guy had gone through a huge boom-and-bust: he was up $110,000, but a week later, his account was down to just $944. He’d vowed to start over and share every trade. Little did he know he’d get tripped up by a button this time.

There was a kind side to the comments, too: a friend who often traded the same batch of coins said he’d made 20 SOL on this one and was willing to send it all to him. Someone else even launched a new coin “to get justice for him.”

In the memecoin trenches, sometimes the scariest thing isn’t the market—it’s a button. Ever had a slip of the finger cost you? Tell us in the comments.

Down about 13,900 U, with a return of -493%—all because of a coin that “looked like it should’ve topped out ages ago.”

The coin in question is $Q . Twelve days ago, it was hovering around 0.021. By noon today, it had hit a high of 0.163—up roughly 7.5x.

The most painful move came late on the night of the 17th. Someone opened a 5x short at 0.0552, when the coin was already up one and a half times from the start of the month. Then, around midnight, a huge green candle sent it straight to 0.135. The position was liquidated at around 0.1095, resulting in a loss of about 13,900 U. Another trader opened a 4x short at 0.0869, hoping to make just $100 on a quick trade. Instead, they cut their losses and exited around 0.118, ending up down 4,325 U.

The longs didn’t fare much better. Yesterday between 5 and 7 p.m., the coin plunged from 0.136 to 0.087, shedding more than 30% in two hours. Longs that chased the rally would have had a hard time holding on. But then came another surge at 10 a.m. today: in just two hours, it bounced from 0.106 to 0.163, setting a new high for this run.

Even now, nearly 70% of accounts on the market are still holding short positions, and 24-hour trading volume is around 900 million U. The more people think, “Surely this has to be the top,” the more it seems to target those short positions.

The cruelest thing about a meme coin isn’t that it goes up—it’s that you never know which way it’ll strike next. Have you ever been taught a lesson by a coin like this? Share your story in the comments.

Uh, what's going on?

As far as I know, Xiandao's account is @williamjoy93.

Why is there another new one? Is it the same person?
https://x.com/flyiiawei/status/2111951828913119402

A roughly $32.72 million Ether short was opened, and just over seven hours later, a relentless rebound had eaten away at it chunk by chunk.

Just after midnight, an address opened a 25x leveraged short of about 13,800 Ether at around $2,366. A little after 3 a.m., Ether briefly dipped to around $2,327, and the position’s unrealized profit reached about $500,000. At 5:30, the trader casually added a few hundred more Ether to the short.

Then the market turned. At 7:27 a.m., Ether rebounded to $2,409, liquidating about 2,765 Ether from the short—a position worth roughly $6.66 million, gone just like that. At 9:08, the price climbed to $2,420, and another roughly 2,212 Ether, worth about $5.35 million, was liquidated.

The trader now has about 8,849 Ether left in the short, with the liquidation price around $2,430—only about $10 above the current price. There’s just about $510,000 left in the account, and the unrealized loss is already close to $490,000.

In the middle of the night, he probably thought he was absolutely crushing it. A few hours later, the market took back that $500,000 in unrealized gains—and then some—and it’s still chewing away. That’s the brutality of high leverage: being right for a while doesn’t mean you’ve won.

What’s the worst “up big, then blown up” trade you’ve ever seen? Tell us in the comments.

About $1.16 billion—that’s the upper-end estimate of how much the team behind a coin bearing the president’s name took from buyers’ pockets. On the buyers’ side, the average loss now stands at 97%.

Someone traced the funds flowing out of the issuer’s wallets, transaction by transaction. The amount that can be verified—stablecoins transferred out, plus coins sent to identified exchanges—comes to about $779 million. Include transfers to unidentified custodial and external addresses, and the upper estimate reaches about $1.16 billion. The cash-outs didn’t happen all at once: there were several concentrated sell-offs in the first half of 2025 and around the end of 2025, with the cumulative total climbing in step-like jumps.

On the other side is the buyers’ price chart. The $TRUMP perpetual contract surged to about $79.70 on January 19, 2025, and is now around $1.70—a drop of about 97.9% from its peak. No matter what day you got in, you’re still underwater today. Some had been betting on a rally ahead of the U.S. midterm elections on November 3, hoping to catch a tailwind. Instead, they got more of a slow slide.

To be clear: the upper-end estimate includes transfers that haven’t been confirmed as sales, so it’s not all cash in hand.

One cash-out curve climbing, one price chart sliding—and the people caught in the middle are the ones left holding the bag. Were you among those who jumped in, or did you stay on the sidelines and watch? Let’s talk in the comments.

Could OKX make an API for Star?

Look what you've driven people to!

They handed their OKX account straight over to a third-party cloud server,

and not even one they own.

Is this really safe????

If I were doing this, I'd definitely withdraw my money from OKX first.

@Haiteng_okx @misaENFP @star_okx
https://x.com/flyiiawei/status/2111812504347386130

About $28.44 million — after two years, 7.2 trillion PEPE suddenly landed in a high-profile wallet.

On-chain data shows that about a day ago, an address often linked to Justin Sun received roughly 7.2 trillion PEPE in one go from an exchange’s multisig wallet, worth about $28.44 million at the time. The last time this address touched PEPE was back in June 2024, when the token was trading at around $0.00001256.

Some are interpreting this as a sign that “something’s brewing again,” while others point out that a transfer from a multisig wallet to a personal address looks more like a consolidation of holdings than a fresh investment with new money. The real thing to watch is the next move — whether the tokens go to an exchange. In the same discussion, people also noted that the address still holds around $567 million in staked ETH, despite having previously talked about selling ETH.

That’s crypto for you: one big number hits the chain, and the comments section erupts before the on-chain story has even reached its next chapter. Do you think this is accumulation, or a warm-up for a handover? Share your thoughts in the comments.

About $1.3 million—1,404 wallets drained in under two hours.

Early on October 18 Beijing time, someone targeted a batch of old wallets with insufficiently random “seed phrases”: recovery phrases generated on older Apple devices, in Safari, or in older apps had weak entropy and could be guessed in advance. Using these predictable seeds, the attacker swept up about 2.94 trillion QU between roughly 7:42 and 9:26 a.m. Beijing time on the 18th—less than two hours’ work, worth about $1.3 million at the time.

The second half was even more dramatic: network validators urgently halted the chain, leaving about 87% of the stolen coins frozen on-chain; the remaining 13% was sent to exchanges, where the receiving accounts were immediately frozen too. So far, the attacker has barely managed to cash out a thing. The protocol itself wasn’t breached—the problem was how wallet seeds were generated. The team has released a patch, while compensation for victims is still awaiting a validator vote.

That’s crypto for you: you think your assets are safe because they’re sitting in your own wallet, but that insufficiently random seed on an old device is the real backdoor. What do you think about this “the chain is fine, but the wallet failed” situation? Come share your thoughts in the comments.

10 million tokens minted out of thin air—the cross-chain bridge was used as a money printer, and about 7.2 million were sold in 29 minutes.

Someone got into the backend database of a cross-chain bridge. At around 8:30 p.m. on October 17 (Beijing time), an attacker used unauthorized access to exploit a flaw in the message-processing logic and mint 10 million CYS on the BNB Chain in a single transaction. The team said the original tokens on the mainnet and in users’ wallets weren’t stolen—the minting permissions on the bridge side were compromised.

The timeline is even more alarming. In the roughly 29 minutes after the mint, about 7.2 million tokens had already been swapped for USDT and BNB on DEXs, cashing out an estimated $750,000 based on that day’s market prices. The project only blacklisted the receiving address about 76 minutes after the mint, freezing the roughly 2.8 million tokens that hadn’t yet been moved. The blacklist could control this token, but not the stablecoins it had already been swapped for.

Once again, a cross-chain bridge treated “off-chain database + minting message” like an ATM. The bridge was paused, but the money was already gone. The most expensive lessons in crypto often aren’t about getting liquidated by a smart contract—they’re about realizing that the trust you thought was locked in a bridge was just a note that could be forged at any time.

About $44.84 million in unrealized gains—gone a year later, with another roughly $36.85 million lost on top.

There’s a well-known trader in crypto circles whom everyone calls Machi Big Brother. A year ago, he was sitting on about $44.84 million in unrealized profits from on-chain futures trades—it was like he was playing with cheat codes. But early this morning, his Ethereum long position was liquidated in full once again: the roughly 250,000 U he’d deposited as margin just two days earlier was almost instantly wiped out.

What really stings is the ledger: not only did he give back all those massive profits, he ended up about $36.85 million in the red. Not long after getting liquidated, he was back in the game, opening another highly leveraged Ethereum long. Some say he took about 15 minutes to regroup; others say he came charging back a few hours later with more than 20x leverage.

Make over $40 million in a year, lose it all a year later, and end up another $30 million-plus in the hole—with one liquidation and re-entry after another along the way. In crypto, the most nerve-racking moments often aren’t the instant riches, but those times you can’t resist taking another shot because you think you can win it all back. What do you think of this never-say-die approach? Let’s talk in the comments.

About $1,700 gone overnight—not from a crypto liquidation, but because someone stole a Key from an AI coding tool and ran up a huge bill.

The team behind OpenCode, the hugely popular open-source AI coding assistant, has confirmed that someone broke into an old cloud Console that was being phased out. The breach was linked to a large-scale distillation attack. The OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google keys stored there by about 1.4% of users who had connected external models may have been exposed. Some users have posted bills showing charges of $400–$500 to $1,700 in a single night; others say their API ran up around 35 million tokens overnight. People running it locally were unaffected—the users caught out were those who stored their Keys in a cloud workspace.

These days, it’s not just your wallet you need to protect—API Keys are hot targets too. You may think they’re just a convenient way to code, but to hackers, they’re ready-made ATMs.

An ~$11.74 million long position—wiped out around $2,356 this morning.

In the early hours two days ago, an address maxed out its leverage and opened a roughly $187 million long position in one go, betting on a rebound. About 4,890 ETH of it—around $11.74 million in notional value—hit its liquidation price in this morning’s sell-off and was forcibly closed in full. Traders watching the charts noticed that the low for that leg landed almost exactly on the account’s liquidation price. The wick may have been half of its own making.

The full timeline is even more brutal. At one point in late September, the account was sitting on about $19.7 million in unrealized profit. Over the past week, it gave it all back and then some, plunging to an unrealized loss of around $9.05 million—while still adding to its position. The ETH leg is gone, but it’s still holding roughly 1,355 BTC in longs, with a notional value of about $110 million. The liquidation price is around $80,035, and the stop-loss is set at about $80,500—leaving only a few hundred bucks of breathing room.

Sitting on tens of millions in unrealized gains and not taking them, then using 40x leverage to prove that “unrealized gains don’t count.” The most expensive lesson in crypto has never been getting the direction wrong—it’s letting your position turn you into fuel.

It finally happened~~~

So he wasn’t an insider whale after all—just a degen gambler???

That whale with huge ETH and BTC long positions on Hyperliquid:

His ETH long got liquidated,

and although he’s trimmed his BTC long, it’s still hanging by a thread.

He urgently added 200K in margin two hours ago,

and the BTC liquidation price is now down to 80,034.

What do you guys think—should we wait to pick up the scraps???
https://x.com/flyiiawei/status/2111624740117119419

NEWS DAILY · Daily News
2026.10.18 Sunday

🧭 Crypto Market

1️⃣ INJ staking ETF advances: Canary Capital will launch a staked spot INJ ETF under the ticker INJC. The Injective Foundation has also launched Trench Treasury to support the ecosystem, fueling expectations that capital flows will expand from BTC/ETH/SOL to INJ.

2️⃣ @NeoSoulAI hit Binance Alpha and its price touched $0.30, with an FDV of $300 million. Its Believe plan locks up team tokens for 12 months, then unlocks them in stages according to community KPIs; if targets aren't met, that tranche is canceled. It's seen as a rare new model of “community-supervised unlocking.” Word is the contract and Korean exchanges are coming soon?

3️⃣ Bitcoin traded in the $80,000–$84,000 range (around $81,400). Oil prices surging past $100 for WTI and nearing $110 for Brent, combined with concerns over AI debt, weighed on risk appetite. On-chain, a whale's 4,890 ETH long position was liquidated at $2,356 (position value: about $11.74 million).

4⃣ “Dacity Coin” appeared in the GTA 6 trailer, sending a Solana meme coin of the same name up around 2,900% in a short time. Event-driven memes are once again seeing extreme volatility. Did you guys catch it?

5⃣ Another crowd-pleasing exchange spat—this time BG and HTX are the main players. HTX seems to be surrounded on all sides: Binance, OKX, BG, Bybit, and others have reportedly added HTX addresses to their blocklists. What's going on with Sun Ge?? Anyone here to protect the world's best Sun Ge, @justinsuntron?

📌 U.S. Stock Market

1⃣ The Nasdaq plunged 2.14%, ending a four-week winning streak. Tech stocks sold off across the board, with AI stocks leading the decline (Nvidia fell 1.43%).

2⃣ International oil prices surged (WTI topped $100 and Brent neared $110), making energy costs and inflation expectations a renewed headwind.

3⃣ Crypto-related U.S. stocks saw a widespread flash crash in premarket trading this morning. No related news has emerged yet. vida, founder of Equation, says they've gone long on “nature's gift.” Are you following?

🌍 International Headlines

1⃣ France's foreign minister condemned Israeli settlers for attacking French officials in the West Bank. The Israeli Prime Minister's Office called violence against European diplomats “unacceptable.”

2⃣ International oil prices rose sharply, topping $100 per barrel, as energy supply alerts continued.

3⃣ The U.S. says it may strike Iran's “Pickaxe Mountain” nuclear facility, as tensions over Iran's nuclear program intertwine with oil-price risks.

💻 IT · AI Tech

1⃣ China's first 100,000-card AI supercluster has been unveiled (“big enough to hold a universe”), marking another step forward for domestic computing infrastructure. So is that why U.S. AI stocks crashed??

2⃣ AXP, the industry's first intelligent-agent interconnection platform based on deterministic networking, was unveiled in Nanjing. It can centrally manage millions of agents and coordinate across regions spanning thousands of kilometers, improving overall scheduling latency by about 20%.

3⃣ Sentiment in the AI sector is under pressure: the Nasdaq has slumped sharply this week, while CoreWeave credit risks and concerns over AI debt persist. The industry is entering an earnings-validation phase.

#Bitcoin #Ethereum #Solana #Crypto #AI
https://x.com/flyiiawei/status/2111629392455913597

About $1.26 million in unrealized gains—with 2x leverage, one altcoin long turned into an ATM.

One address went long on about 20.5 million $AGT in the futures market with 2x leverage, building a position worth roughly $1.63 million. Over the past few days, the coin surged from its lows, more than doubling at one point intraday. Several other addresses jumped in on the same move, with positions totaling around $1.7 million and unrealized gains briefly nearing $900,000.

By October 17, this address had more than $1.26 million in unrealized gains on a single trade—a return of about 155%—and the position was still open. An AI-themed coin that had traded sideways for most of the past six months suddenly took off on a surge in volume. Some got on the rocket early; others are still chasing its tail lights.

In crypto, what stings most often isn’t how much a coin has risen, but that someone used only modest leverage to get ahead of you on the trade. Until unrealized gains are cashed out, the numbers on the screen can change in an instant—that’s the most common script around the weekend.

About $115 million in long positions—wiped out in a single hour before dawn on the weekend.

At around 5:15–5:25 a.m. Beijing time today, stock perpetuals were hit first: 3x Semiconductor plunged from around $94 to $86.7, while tokens tied to Micron, SK Hynix, and SanDisk all fell a little over 6%. Weekend order books are already thin, and some traders were still sleeping with leveraged positions open during off-hours. Then the broader market took a hit: Bitcoin briefly touched around $80,800, while Ethereum plunged to around $2,356, breaking below $2,400. Some estimates put long liquidations over the past hour at more than $115 million—weekends don’t mean a break from the action.

Think you can kick back on the weekend? Thin liquidity can be the most brutal fuel of all. Did you catch this move? Let’s talk in the comments.

How are all you airdrop farmers doing?

There’s a DePIN project I recommend checking out, especially if you have an unused Android phone at home.

It’s called @Acurast, and its focus is decentralized computing power at the intersection of AI and DePIN.

AI is advancing rapidly, and demand for computing power keeps growing. But traditional computing resources are largely controlled by big tech companies.

Acurast takes an interesting approach: instead of competing for data centers, it puts people’s unused phones to work, making them part of the cloud computing network.

How can you participate?

In simple terms, download its Processor app and connect your phone to the network. Your phone then acts as a small compute node. Developers can deploy programs to the network, and the system assigns them to suitable devices to run.

Node.js services, Telegram bots, scheduled tasks, and even some AI model inference workloads can run on it.

For example, if we want an AI agent to run around the clock, leaving a computer on uses electricity, while shutting it down interrupts the task. On a decentralized computing network like Acurast, the task can instead be handled by devices that stay online.

And this isn’t one of those projects that’s just making promises. According to official figures, Acurast’s mainnet is live, its network spans more than 175 countries and regions, hundreds of thousands of phones are connected, and it has already processed over one billion on-chain records. At least in terms of network scale and real-world use, it has built a solid foundation.

I’m especially optimistic about AI computing power. As more AI agents emerge, the computing, automation, and always-on capabilities they need will grow too. If Acurast can continue attracting developers and real demand for computing, the long-term value of $ACU may have a chance to truly materialize.

Of course, don’t assume you’ll make easy money just because there’s a chance to earn rewards. Actual returns will depend on the rules and how your device performs.

One more reminder: it’s best to use a spare device. Don’t experiment with a phone that stores your wallet, private keys, or important data.

I’m planning to try it out on a spare phone and see how easy the setup is, how hot the phone gets, how much power it uses, and how many rewards I can actually earn.

If you’re interested, click the link to participate: https://hub.acurast.com/rebellion?ref=egy4wc

When it comes to farming rewards, opportunities that let you use an idle device are worth understanding before you decide whether to get involved.
https://x.com/flyiiawei/status/2111475329768497652

Worth about $88,000 in 2013, it slept for nearly 13 years—and woke up worth about $20.2 million.

A wallet that had been dormant for about 12.9 years held 248 bitcoins. Back in 2013, they were worth only around $88,000; today, the wallet has woken up to a balance worth about $20.2 million—nearly 230 times more. At the same minute, another address dormant for about 13.2 years also became active, moving 167 bitcoins worth about $13.6 million. The two wallets held more than 400 bitcoins combined, worth about $33.9 million in total, and moved them from old addresses to a string of new wallets. A transfer doesn’t necessarily mean an immediate sell-off, but it’s still unsettling to see coins untouched for 13 years suddenly spring back to life.

You might think the wildest thing in crypto is getting rich overnight. But what’s really wild is someone getting rich, sleeping on it for 13 years, and only then remembering. What do you think? Let’s hear it in the comments.

About $806,000 in unrealized losses—buying the dip turned into holding the bag.

An on-chain whale poured about $1.106 million into Artificial Inu, a low-cap meme coin riding the AI hype. The market cap was around $332 million when they entered. As the price kept falling, they put in another roughly $76,800 to “buy the dip.” But the more they bought, the more they lost: the market cap plunged from about $332 million to around $90 million, leaving them with roughly $806,000 in unrealized losses—nearly three-quarters of their investment. They still haven’t cut their losses.

Buy orders are loudest at the peak; the road down is quietest. You think you’re buying the dip, but really, you’re fueling someone else’s exit. The most expensive lesson in crypto often isn’t called tuition—it’s called an unrealized loss.

How are you airdrop farmers doing?

There’s a DePIN project I recommend checking out, especially if you have an unused Android phone at home.

It’s called Acurast, and its focus is decentralized computing power for AI × DePIN.

AI is developing at such a rapid pace, and the demand for computing power keeps growing. But traditional computing resources are largely controlled by big tech companies.

Acurast takes an interesting approach: instead of competing for data centers, it puts people’s idle phones to work, making them part of the cloud computing ecosystem.

How can you get involved?

In simple terms, download its Processor app and connect your phone to the network. Your phone acts as a small computing node. Developers can deploy programs to the network, and the system assigns them to suitable devices to run.

Things like Node.js services, Telegram bots, scheduled tasks, and even some AI model inference can run on it.

For example, if we want an AI agent to run 24/7, leaving a computer on at home uses a lot of electricity, and shutting it down interrupts the task. On a decentralized computing network like Acurast, the task can instead be handled by devices that stay online.

And this isn’t one of those projects that just launched with big promises. According to the official figures, Acurast’s mainnet is live, its network spans over 175 countries and regions, hundreds of thousands of phones are connected, and it has processed more than 1 billion on-chain transactions. At least in terms of network size and real-world use, it already has a solid foundation.

What I’m most bullish on is AI computing power. As more AI agents emerge in the future, the need for computing, automation, and continuous operation will grow along with them. If Acurast can continue attracting developers and real demand for computing, the long-term value of $ACU could finally come through.

Of course, don’t assume you’ll make easy money just because it offers rewards. Actual returns will depend on the rules and how your device performs.

One more thing: I recommend using an idle device. Don’t experiment with a phone that holds your wallet, private keys, or important data.

I’m planning to try it out on a spare phone and see how complicated the setup is, how hot the phone gets, how much battery it uses, and how much I can actually earn in rewards.