Whale, or large cryptocurrency investors, have lost millions of dollars by betting on the price rise of Trump’s family-linked World Liberty Financial (WLFI) tokens.
Since launch on Monday, the price of WLFI tokens has fallen by more than 40%, but a permanent decline in large token burn events aimed at permanently reducing the distribution of tokens and increasing the value of the remaining tokens in the market.
Despite a decline of over 40%, some pre-selling holders still show confidence in the president’s support of tokens.
Of the more than 85,000 participants on the sale, 60% still held the tokens, while only 29% were fully sold, I wrote a bubble map of the blockchain data platform on X-Post on Wednesday.
Whale loses millions in 40% dip in WLFI related to Trump despite 47 million burns
Large crypto investors, or whales, had lost millions of people in World Liberty Financial (WLFI) tokens associated with the Trump tribe.
According to Onchain Lens, the whale wallet 0x432 lost more than $1.6 million after closing its three times leveraged WLFI long position.
“The Moral of the Story: Never Become a FOMO” shortened out for fear of missing out, writing the platform on Thursday’s X-Post, referring to the whale’s hasty investment move.
Investors began their second long position in the WLFI token just 15 hours after closing their previous ones with a profit of $915,000, but lost $1.6 million.
Confidence in Trump-related tokens is weakening
Other whales are also at a loss for their WLFI position and are waning confidence in the price outlook for Trump’s tokens.
The whale sales came one day after the WLFI platform burned 47 million tokens on Wednesday, closing the supply of remaining tokens and permanently removing them to boost their value.
The token burn was not enough to stop the post-release decline as WLFI prices fell another 18% until 8:31am UTC in 24 hours, another 18% down Thursday in 24 hours and another 18% down in 24 hours until 8:31am UTC, followed by an additional 18% decline in 24 hours, according to CoinmarketCap data.
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Avalanche activities driven by Dexs, Trading Bots and Whale Memecoin speculation
Smart Contract Blockchain Avalanche recorded a consistent surge in blockchain activity as it noted that it would increase decentralized trading activity and return crypto whale speculation with the next emerging memo coin.
Avalanche’s trading growth surpasses all other blockchains over the past week, increasing 66% with over 181,000 active addresses to increase transactions of 11.9 million, indicating an increase in blockchain-focused investor mindshare.
The milestone came after a “groundbreaking effort” by the US Department of Commerce. It reported that it adopted an avalanche and, together with nine other publicly distributed blockchains, published its true gross domestic production (GDP).
Nicolai Sondergaard, research analyst at Nansen Crypto Intelligence Platform, said despite the growing institutional and government adoption of Avalanche, “at this point this cannot be attributed to the US government’s adoption of avalanche.”
The increase in network blockchain activity was driven primarily by traders of bots and whales miners extractable value (MEV) trading, distributed finance (DEFI) traders, who infer mainly at the launch of the next big memo coin.
“The surge in transactions is driven by 60% Defi protocol activities (Trader Joe, Aave, Benqi), 25% automatic trading bots and MEVs, and 10% whale trading and Memecoin speculation. […]. ”
Research analysts said 5% of the additional activity was attributed to blockchain games and inappropriate tokens (NFTs).
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Defi Lending will rise 72% with institutional benefits, RWA collateral adoption
According to Binance Research, decentralized lending protocols are rising in total value and are set to leverage the adoption of growing facilities with ridiculous and tokenized assets.
Decentralized Financial (DEFI) lending protocols are automated systems that promote investors’ lending and borrowing through smart contracts, eliminating the need for financial intermediaries like banks.
According to a Binance study, the Defi Lenending protocol rose from $53 billion (YTD) in early 2025 to more than $53 billion (YTD).
This explosive growth is attributed to the definition lending protocol and benefits from the accelerated adoption of stubcoins and tokenized real-world assets (RWAS) facilities.
“As the adoption of Stablecoin and Tokenized Assets accelerates, the Defi Lending protocol is increasingly positioned to promote institutional participation,” he wrote Binance Research in a report on Wednesday, shared only with the Cointelegraph.
A significant portion of this growth was attributed to Maple Finance and Euler, which saw an increase of 586% and 1,466%, respectively.
“As tokenized assets continue to be integrated into the mainstream financial system, we expect a new generation of on-chain financial products to emerge, enabling a more efficient, transparent and accessible capital market.”
“In particular, the Defi Lending protocol will be suitable to provide a programmable, interoperable framework and promote institutional participation.”
The new dynamic is set to enhance defi liquidity and broader crypto ecosystems by “filling traditional finances and decentralized infrastructure,” the spokesman added.
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Mantle 2.0 to accelerate Defi-Cefi convergence: Delphi Digital
Purposed to be an institutional “liquidity chain” of tokenized real-world assets, Mantle 2.0 defends a new business model that could accelerate mutually beneficial convergence with centralized and decentralized participants in the industry.
Mantle Network was first launched in 2021 under Bitdao as an Ethereum Layer-2 (L2) scaling solution.
In July 2023, Bitdao and Mantle Network were integrated into Mantle Brands and Mantle (MNT) tokens.
The project is currently in a “new phase of the lifecycle,” known as Mantle 2.0. According to a report on Wednesday from Crypto research firm Delphi Digital, Bybit executives have been installed as key advisors and marked as a new roadmap targeting the convergence of centralized finance (CEFI) and distributed financial finance (DEFI).
Mantle 2.0 defends a new business model in the cryptocurrency industry, encouraging more DAO-governed projects to merge with major centralized exchanges, combining the benefits of decentralized governance with the deep liquidity of centralized trading venues and a mainstream user base.
On August 18th, Bybit Exchange launched several exclusive campaigns to win products for MNT tokens.
On August 29th, Bybit Exchange and Mantle revealed their total roadmap. This has given MNT holders more payment options, more payment options within the Bibit ecosystem and other savings and staking products.
“The mantle is no longer an L2, it’s the foundation of the Bibit ecosystem. It’s not a simple partnership, it’s a play with RWA dominance,” wrote Delphi Digital in Wednesday’s X-Post.
“This update will shift the mantle token to a bibit utility asset.”
“This fixes the value of MNT on the large daily volume of Bibit ($3-5 billion or more derivatives) than simple governance,” the researcher wrote, adding that he is seeing the emergence of a “new competitive environment where Tradfi infrastructure merges with Defi Rails.”
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Venus Protocol recovers 13.5 million for $13.5 users stolen in phishing attacks
Decentralized Finance (DEFI) lending platform Venus Protocol has helped users recover stolen codes after a phishing attack related to North Korea’s Lazarus Group.
On Thursday, Venus Protocol announced that it helped users recover $13.5 million in crypto after the phishing incident that occurred Tuesday. At the time, Venus Protocol suspended its platform as a precaution and began investigating it.
According to Venus, the suspension halted further fund movement, but an audit confirmed that Venus’ smart contracts and front-end have not compromised.
An emergency governance vote allowed for forced liquidation of attackers’ wallets, allowing stolen tokens to be seized and sent to recovery addresses.
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Overview of Defi Market
Most of the 100 largest cryptocurrencies by market capitalization ended in a week on Green, according to data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView.
Meme Token Memecore (M) rose more than 236% as the week’s biggest winner in the Top 100, followed by Memecoin LaunchPad Pump.Fun’s (Pump) Token, up over 41% last week.
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