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According to the Q3 2026 signal report released by Fidelity Digital Assets, the prices of BTC, ETH, and SOL are generally at historical lows, with multiple indicators close to the capitulation zone. Fidelity believes that the current valuation levels may correspond to attractive long-term entry conditions.As of the end of Q2, the weighted net unrealized profit and loss (NUPL) was -0.01, with BTC being the only asset with a positive unrealized profit, approximately 10% above its cost basis, with an unrealized profit of about $108 billion, while ETH and SOL were approximately 30% and 41% below their cost bases, with unrealized losses of about $87 billion and $29 billion, respectively. BTC's market share rose to 68% quarter-over-quarter.The report states that, based on historical backtesting, the current NUPL readings for the three correspond to one-year median returns of 53%, 70%, and 542%, respectively, but the reliability of the samples decreases sequentially. The NUPL reading for SOL has only occurred 21 times in history, concentrated at the end of 2025, which has limited statistical significance.On the fundamental side, the value of stablecoin transfers for both ETH and SOL has reached new highs, exceeding $20 trillion and $2.6 trillion, respectively, over the past 12 months, but network fee revenue continues to decline.Additionally, the report attributes the 22% decline in BTC hash rate from its peak to miners shifting their computing power towards AI and high-performance computing, as AI contract revenues are more stable due to the depressed coin prices.

According to Cointelegraph, the on-chain security platform Blockaid released its security report for the first half of 2026 on Tuesday, stating that the amount stolen in the crypto industry exceeded $1 billion in the first half of the year. A total of 212 security incidents were recorded during this period, marking the highest number of hacking incidents in half a year. The number of verified high-risk vulnerabilities reached 3.4 times that of the entire year of 2025, with the largest single attack coming from KelpDAO, resulting in a loss of $292 million.The report shows that Ethereum and Solana were the two networks with the heaviest losses, with stolen amounts of approximately $332 million and $326 million, respectively. Ethereum incidents were primarily due to code vulnerabilities, with attackers mainly targeting vulnerabilities in high-value applications, involving key leakage incidents such as Humanity Protocol and StablR. Solana's losses significantly increased by about $127 million compared to 2025, but the increase did not stem from smart contract vulnerabilities; over 98% of the losses were due to key leakage, mainly involving Drift Protocol and Step Finance, which Blockaid associates with North Korean hacker organizations.

The Singapore Police Force and the Federal Bureau of Investigation signed a memorandum of understanding to strengthen joint actions, intelligence sharing, training, and law enforcement assistance in online scams, cyber fraud, and money laundering cases.The two parties completed a joint operation targeting cross-border cryptocurrency fraud in Singapore and the United States, identifying 54 victims and potential victims through information sharing and blockchain intelligence, and preventing potential losses of approximately 2.7 million USD in the United States and about 388,000 SGD in Singapore.

CryptoQuant analyst Axel Adler stated that the current bear market phase of Bitcoin has seen the highest historical scale of holder realized losses, with the 30-day moving average (30DMA) of realized losses reaching $1.37 billion in February 2026, which is 19% higher than the cycle peak of $1.15 billion in 2022. Data shows that since the February peak, Bitcoin realized losses have decreased by 56.5%, currently down to about $597 million; meanwhile, the scale of realized profits has only slowly recovered to $257 million.Axel Adler pointed out that the sell-off pressure driven by losses has significantly weakened, but the market has not yet seen a sustained recovery in demand, with the rate of loss decline still outpacing the rate of profit recovery. Historically, on February 20, 2026, realized losses reached $1.37 billion, setting a historical high for this metric; the highest realized loss in the 2022 cycle was $1.15 billion, occurring on June 30, 2022. In terms of realized profits, as of July 23, the 30DMA of Bitcoin realized profits was $257 million, a decrease of 92.7% from the peak of $3.51 billion set on December 10, 2024; it was also down 77.7% from when Bitcoin hit its historical high of $124,710 on October 6, 2025. This metric had previously hit a low of $191 million on June 14, 2026, and has since rebounded by 34.7%.Axel Adler indicated that the selling pressure from profits has significantly decreased, and the amount of coins sold for profit is still at a low level in this cycle, but this does not mean that sellers have completely exhausted themselves, nor does it indicate that market demand has recovered. If realized profits continue to rise above $400 million to $500 million, it would further confirm a sustained improvement in the market. Additionally, the Bitcoin realized profit/loss ratio has rebounded from a low of 0.26 in June to 0.43, but it is still below the level of 1. Analysts noted that although the absolute scale of realized losses in the current cycle exceeds that of 2022, the relative market pressure remains lower than in 2022. Since Bitcoin's historical peak, there have been 190 days out of the past 291 days where realized losses exceeded realized profits. Axel Adler warned that if the profit/loss ratio falls below 0.26 again, accompanied by a price drop below the cycle low of $58,535 set on June 30, it could indicate further intensification of market pressure.

Web3 security company CertiK released the "2026 First Half Wrench Attack Report." The report shows that in the first half of 2026, a total of 52 publicly verified wrench attack incidents were recorded globally, an increase of 33.3% year-on-year; related losses amounted to approximately $124 million, an increase of about 11.8 times compared to the same period last year.The report points out that attackers are shifting from exploiting technical vulnerabilities to targeting asset holders and their real-world relationship networks, with home invasion incidents rising from 1 in the first half of 2025 to 20, accounting for 41% of the total incidents during the same period. Europe has become a high-frequency attack region, with 33 incidents occurring in France, accounting for 63.5% of global cases.CertiK states that as real-world risks become a significant challenge for digital asset security, businesses and high-value individuals need to establish a more comprehensive protection system. CertiK has launched operational security services to help identify risks related to the exposure of information such as identity, home, residence, and travel trajectory; at the same time, through CertiK Security Workspace, it correlates off-chain intelligence, on-chain transactions, and AML risk signals to support institutions in tracking and analyzing cybercrime activities.In addition, CertiK is strengthening cooperation with international law enforcement agencies such as Interpol and Europol to provide technical support for cross-border attack investigations and security policy research.

The cross-chain bridge protocol Allbridge Core has experienced a security incident. The official team has suspended the protocol for investigation and advised users holding affected liquidity pools (LPs) to withdraw their funds immediately.This security incident has led to an imbalance in the liquidity pools, creating temporary arbitrage opportunities. The official team calls on arbitrage users to return the funds to compensate the affected liquidity providers (LPs). According to monitoring by Onchain Lens, Allbridge Core's losses have exceeded $1.1 million.

According to BlockSec Phalcon monitoring, the BarnBridge SMART Yield (cUSDC) protocol was attacked on Ethereum, resulting in a loss of approximately $776,000, suspected to be a governance attack.The attacker first gained DAO governance rights, then upgraded the SmartYield/controller proxy to a malicious implementation contract, which subsequently called the _takeUnderlying privileged function of CompoundProvider, using the pre-existing USDC authorizations of 50 user accounts to transfer aggregated funds to the attacker through transferFees.

According to Blockaid monitoring, the Lumi Finance protocol on Arbitrum is currently under attack, with approximately $270,000 in funds having been transferred out.

According to analyst Specter, the Hedera network is suspected to be under attack, with attackers transferring over $3.7 million to Ethereum via a cross-chain bridge.The stolen funds, after being cross-chained from the Hedera network through LayerZero, are currently being exchanged from WBTC to ETH.

According to The Block, a report from Immunefi shows that in the first half of 2026, cryptocurrency projects suffered cumulative losses of approximately $972 million due to 207 hacking incidents. Although the number of attacks reached a historic high, the total losses remained below $1 billion and were less than half of the losses in the first half of 2025.The report pointed out that losses from attacks in the DeFi sector have decreased by 74% from the peak of $2.62 billion in 2022, dropping to about $680.3 million, with the median single loss decreasing by 75% during the same period. Immunefi believes that this decline is related to ongoing security coverage, bug bounty programs, audit competitions, and more researchers discovering vulnerabilities early.In addition, the sources of risk are shifting from purely smart contract vulnerabilities to infrastructure failures, private key leaks, cross-chain configuration errors, and weak points in privileged access.

Web3 security company CertiK released the "Hack3D: First Half of 2026 Report." The report shows that in the first half of 2026, the Web3 ecosystem experienced a total of 344 security incidents, with cumulative losses of approximately $1.32 billion. Although this figure represents a 46.8% decrease compared to the same period last year, if we exclude the impact of the $1.45 billion security incident encountered by Bybit, the loss scale in the first half of this year has actually increased by about 28% year-on-year, indicating that the overall security environment in the industry has not seen substantial improvement.The report points out that wallet theft has become the largest type of attack causing financial losses, resulting in approximately $450 million in losses in the first half of the year; meanwhile, although the number of phishing attacks has decreased by over 50% year-on-year, the amount of losses has only decreased by about 10.8%, reflecting that attackers are increasingly targeting high-net-worth individuals and institutional targets, implementing more focused high-value attacks.In addition, code vulnerabilities remain the most frequently occurring type of attack, with related incidents reaching 204. CertiK believes that attackers are increasingly targeting long-running and outdated smart contracts that lack re-auditing.The report also shows that large-scale attack incidents continue to dominate industry losses, with the Kelp DAO and Drift Protocol incidents collectively causing approximately $577 million in losses, accounting for 44% of the total losses in the first half of the year. From the perspective of incident quantity, the impact of single attacks, and changes in attack patterns, the Web3 industry is facing increasingly complex and continuously escalating security challenges.

According to a report by The New York Times, cryptocurrency analysis company Nansen data shows that nearly one million TRUMP Meme coin investors had accumulated losses of $3.81 billion by the end of June, with approximately 989,000 wallets in a state of loss, accounting for about two-thirds of total buyers. The token has currently dropped 97% from its peak.Meanwhile, about 500,000 wallets profited from the TRUMP token, with a total of approximately $4 billion. The Nansen report pointed out that this portion of profits "reflects a small number of early buyers reaping huge gains, while the vast majority of retail investors bear the losses." Trump himself profited $636 million from this Meme coin, with total returns from all his business investments in 2025 amounting to at least $2.2 billion.

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, a trader address that switched to shorting 22,000 ETH after four consecutive losses in long positions has cut losses one and a half hours ago, with an average opening price of $1613 and an average exit price of $1772, resulting in a loss of $3.5 million over three days.

Cryptocurrency analyst Darkfost published an on-chain indicator interpretation on the X platform, analyzing the current profit and loss structure of Bitcoin positions in the market through the core economic indicator TMM (True Market Mean) and the AVIV ratio. The TMM indicator excludes long-term untransferred and partially permanently lost dormant Bitcoins, only accounting for the average holding cost of actively traded chips in the market, with the current value around $76,700. This level has become a significant price resistance, as during the May market, when the price reached this point, many investors exited to break even.The accompanying AVIV (Active Value / Investor Value) ratio currently hovers around 0.8, within the valuation discount range, indicating that the average floating loss for all active BTC investors is 20%. Historically, at the bottom of bear markets, this indicator has dropped to 0.5 to 0.6, corresponding to investor losses of 40%-50%. The current loss magnitude has not yet reached extreme bear market levels.The analyst also pointed out that even with a large influx of institutional funds and Bitcoin ETFs injecting massive liquidity in this cycle, Bitcoin still follows its own cyclical patterns. In the short term, there is no need to wait for the indicators to drop to historically extreme low levels before a rebound occurs, but it is necessary to acknowledge the current pressured environment of widespread losses among market participants.

According to monitoring by PeckShield, there were a total of 40 major hacking incidents in the cryptocurrency sector in June 2026, with total losses reaching 75.87 million USD, a decrease of 7.13% compared to May's 81.70 million USD.Among them, Humanity Protocol suffered an attack of 31 million USD, ranking first; Syscoin Bridge and JaredFromSubway.eth MEV bot lost 10 million USD and 7.5 million USD respectively.It is worth noting that the attackers of Humanity Protocol are laundering money through multiple chains such as BTC, Solana, Hyperliquid, and BNB Chain, and the funds are mixed with the earnings of the KelpDAO attackers, suggesting a possible connection. In addition, Aztec Bridge and Aztec Connect were attacked in the same month, with total losses of approximately 4 million USD.

According to the security agency TenArmor's monitoring, BackedFi on the Ethereum network is suspected to have been attacked, resulting in a loss of approximately $204,200. Relevant attack transactions have been recorded, and the security agency reminds users to be aware of the risks.

According to The Block, Florida man Christopher Alexander Delgado (34 years old) pleaded guilty to charges of telecommunications fraud, conspiracy to commit fraud, and money laundering. His company Goliath Ventures carried out a Ponzi scheme under the guise of investing in cryptocurrency liquidity pools, raising over $400 million from investors and causing actual losses of at least $250 million.The funds were used to purchase six luxury homes valued between $1.15 million and $8.5 million, multiple Lamborghinis and Rolls-Royces, as well as a large number of Rolex watches, Louis Vuitton bags, and Tiffany custom jewelry. Delgado has agreed to forfeit eight properties, 11 vehicles, 30 watches, over 50 luxury bags, and 29 pieces of jewelry. Each fraud charge carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, while the money laundering charge carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.

According to monitoring by CertiK, the Edel Finance lending market was attacked. The attacker engaged in unauthorized borrowing by manipulating the collateral price of wGOOGLx (which depends on its GOOGLx balance), resulting in a loss of approximately $204,000 for the protocol. The relevant attack transactions have been flagged, and security agencies remind users to be aware of the risks.

According to on-chain analyst Onchain Lens (@OnchainLens), the whale address "0x913" has completely closed its $SOL short position, with a loss exceeding 4.84 million dollars for this closing. Combined with previous losses, this address has accumulated losses of over 7.7 million dollars in this round of SOL short operations.