Past 24 hours CEX Net Inflow of 14,900 Ethereum

On August 11th, the Ethereum staking protocol Lido released a post indicating that the economic security metric of Ethereum has reached a historical high of $1.538 trillion. BlockBeats' Note: The Ethereum economic security metric is employed to measure a set of key indicators and parameters that reflect the overall economic security of the Ethereum network. It mainly showcases the network's capacity to fend off attacks (such as 51% attacks, double-spending attacks, etc.) in order to ensure the robustness and trustworthiness of the blockchain network. These metrics incorporate various factors including the locked value within the network, validator economic incentives, miner (or validator) rewards and costs, and so on.

August 11th, Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin shared in a post, saying, "At present, many artificial intelligence developments are aiming to make systems as 'autonomous' as they can be. However, in reality, creating more channels for human participation not only leads to better results (and this is likely to remain the case for a long time in the future), but is also more beneficial for security." "Today, I am much more inclined towards AI models that are open-source weighted and have good 'editing' capabilities rather than models that are simply created from scratch." "In the medium term, I hope for a certain kind of advanced brain-computer interface (BCI) technology that can provide me with real-time feedback while generating content and detect my sentiments towards each part, and then make adjustments based on the feedback."

On August 11, the U.S.-listed company Sequans (SQNS) announced today that it has acquired 13 bitcoins with an average price of approximately $117,000. As of August 8, 2025, the company holds a total of 3,171 bitcoins. The cumulative net investment is approximately $370 million, and the average purchase price is $116,700.

On August 11th, as per the monitoring of OnchainLens, an Ethereum ICO participant transferred 2,000 ETH to Kraken, with an approximate value of $8.55 million. This whale had acquired 100,000 ETH during the ICO at a price of $31,100. Currently, the whale holds 58,000 ETH distributed across multiple wallets, which is worth around $2.4786 billion. Deposit Address: 0x815C53bF36a3BC8B066715Da459B365e6ce6c3eD ICO Address: 0x2c06Dd922b61514aAFEDd84488c0c28e6dCF0E99

On August 11th, as monitored by lookonchain, the whale "8dduty" recently achieved a profit of $489,700 on SPARK, with a growth rate of 906.7%. In the past 16 hours, they have purchased 2.79 million AVA tokens, which are approximately worth $118,000. This whale also holds 509.33 million PUMP tokens, with a value of about $1.83 million.

On August 11th, the strategist of Citigroup raised the target for the S&P 500 index and claimed that tax cuts should offset the negative influence of tariffs on U.S. companies. The team led by Scott Chronert increased the year-end target for the index from 6300 points to 6600 points, suggesting a roughly 3% growth compared to the close of last Friday. This quarter's earnings reports were stronger than expected, with little indication of the impact of tariffs on performance, which has driven the stock market to new highs this month. Institutional data shows that more than 81% of S&P 500 index component companies have exceeded expectations, which is the highest level in seven quarters. The Citigroup team stated that companies not only performed well but also mostly maintained their expectations for the second half of the year. Therefore, market consensus earnings per share expectations are being elevated. They have raised the earnings per share forecast for S&P 500 index component comp