Odaily reports: According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, Arthur Hayes transferred a total of $3 million USDC to OTC trading platforms Flowdesk and Galaxy Digital approximately 10 minutes ago. Half a month ago, Hayes had liquidated multiple altcoins worth at least $49.25 million and stated that he planned to wait for prices to decline further before buying back at an opportune time. Since then, the prices of the related tokens he had previously sold have fallen by another approximately 15% to 30%. This latest transfer of USDC has sparked market speculation that he may be preparing to buy back in, though the purpose of the funds and specific purchase plans cannot yet be confirmed.

Odaily: According to official sources, StableStock recently completed a new strategic funding round at a $75 million valuation, with participation from Amber, Nomad Capital, Flow Traders, and Gate. Previously, StableStock was a first-batch incubated project of YZi Labs EASY Residency and received seed-round investment from YZi Labs, MPCi, and Vertex Ventures.StableStock will launch its Genesis points program on November 2. Users can earn points by trading or holding eligible stocks and ETFs, with support for spot and leveraged spot trading, and points distributed daily. The program will also retroactively recognize eligible historical contributions and provide point bonuses for eligible early users.The platform has already covered the U.S., Hong Kong, and Korean stock markets and launched a mobile app. It currently supports thousands of stocks and ETFs, serves tens of thousands of users in emerging markets, and has accumulated trading volume in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

Odaily report: Spicenet has announced the completion of a $5 million Series A funding round, led by dao5, with participation from Babylon and Astrarizon. Combined with its previously raised $3 million seed round co-led by Hack VC and Magnus Capital, Spicenet's total funding has reached $8 million. The new funds will be used to launch Spice Edge, a cross-venue margin product, and the SPICE token, as well as to provide initial liquidity for products within the network. Spicenet's cross-chain interaction product Spice Flow has already surpassed $160,000 in beta trading volume. Spice Edge is about to launch its beta, with Derive as its first partner.

Odaily News: Spout Finance announced the completion of a $2 million strategic funding round, with participation from Draper Dragon, Anchorage, Flow Traders, Vessel Capital, Solayer, 2Square, and Bering Waters Group, among others, as well as strategic support from Solana Labs. The project's main business is providing Solana-based DeFi lending services, enabling users to borrow stablecoins such as USDC using their tokenized US stocks as collateral, without paying interest.

Odaily Planet Daily News: According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, an address (0x9a3…9513c) withdrew 327,872 UNI from Flowdesk half an hour ago, valued at $2.045 million, with an average withdrawal price of $6.24. This address has a different withdrawal source than the Haskey-associated address, and it is not yet possible to determine whether they belong to the same entity.

Odaily News: According to blockchain security firm Blockaid's monitoring, More Markets (More Labs) on Flow EVM has been exploited. The attacker leveraged Ankr's liquid staking tokens and the E-Mode mechanism to drain More Markets' WFLOW lending reserves, transferring approximately 15.5 million WFLOW from the mFlowWFLOW reserve. The detected impact amount is approximately $9.3 million, and the related attack transaction cluster also includes post-exploit fund transfer operations. At present, the specific losses and the destination of the attacker's funds are still under further confirmation.

Odaily Planet Daily News: HertzFlow, a perpetual contract protocol supported by YZi Labs, has opened mainnet trading. Users can trade, provide liquidity, and invite friends to earn Merit points. Previously, the Genesis Vault pre-deposit campaign was completed, and early participants have received 230,000 WLFI in allocations. The project is now adding 390,000 WLFI in liquidity rewards to the USD1 Vault. The campaign runs until August 31, has no cap, and is open to all users. Active users who have already participated in the pre-deposit campaign or testnet can directly access the mainnet, while new users need an invitation code. The platform currently supports BTC, ETH, and BNB trading pairs, with more markets to be expanded in the future. HertzFlow aims to create permissionless leveraged trading markets for oracle-backed assets and activate on-chain liquidity on BNB Chain through composable DeFi strategies.

Odaily News AI voice-to-text startup Wispr Flow has completed a $280 million Series B funding round at a valuation of $2 billion, led by Menlo Ventures, with participation from Notable Capital, NEA, Neo Ventures, and others. In November last year, Wispr Flow completed a $25 million Series A extension round at a valuation of $700 million. Following this round, the company's total cumulative funding has reached $361 million.Wispr Flow primarily provides AI voice dictation tools for writing and office scenarios. (Reuters)

Odaily News: According to on-chain analyst Ember's monitoring, HyperLabs, the development team behind Hyperliquid, redeemed 433,000 HYPE tokens from staking early yesterday morning, valued at $24.25 million, and has now been sold through market maker Flowdesk. Over the past few hours, 165,000 HYPE, worth $9.23 million, has been transferred to market maker Flowdesk; 75,000 HYPE, worth $4.19 million, has been transferred to Hyperliquid and sold for USDC; another 90,000 HYPE, worth $5.04 million, has been transferred to OKX and Bybit.

Odaily Planet Daily News: Bitcoin financial product platform Lombard Finance has announced the launch of the Bitcoin Onchain Credit Strategy, with global trading firm Flow Traders as the first pilot partner. Under this solution, Flow Traders can borrow stablecoins for market making without providing on-chain collateral. Its collateral security is provided by Bitcoin deposited in the Lombard Bitcoin Earn yield product, and underwriting is completed through the Cap private credit platform. (The Block)