Samiran is a well-known crypto writer and founder of Pressefy and News Coverage Agency, and a contributor at Hackernoon. He covers the crypto and blockchain industry with a focus on emerging projects, market trends, and the business side of Web3.
Articles by Samiran
Compound V4 Update: Institutional Market Passed $60M In Deposits
This Compound V4 update reports $60M in Institutional Market deposits, $18M in USDC loans, a six-person engineering team and open COMP reward claims for users.
CFX Price Analysis: Breakout On 9x Volume Meets The $0.0724 High
CFX price analysis: Conflux jumped 21.6% on Oct 10 on nine times normal volume. See the structure breaks, order block, fair value gap and two scenarios.
ENA Fee Switch Passed 17.8M To 0, But Buybacks Start At $7.5B USDe
ENA fee switch passed Snapshot with 17.8M votes for and none against, but buybacks start at $7.5B USDe supply. See the milestone table, unlocks and caveats.
Binance USDT Netflow Hits +$1.0B On Tron, But Combined Is Just +$76M
Binance USDT netflow on Tron hit +$1.00B on Oct 9, but Ethereum showed -$926M, leaving +$76M combined. See both charts, the reserves and what changed.
Balancer Fork Vote Reopens As The Wind-Down Clock Runs To Oct 30
The Balancer fork vote BIP-932 runs October 9 to 13 after the DAO approved a wind-down. See how the first fork failed, the October 30 deadline and TVL.
Cantor Fitzgerald Tether Letter: Blumenthal Sets October 23 Deadline
Cantor Fitzgerald Tether letter from Sen. Blumenthal makes 13 requests with an Oct 23 deadline. See what the letter asks, what it claims and who sent it.
Binance ETH Reserves Hit A Six-Month Low As Withdrawals Spike
Binance ETH reserves fell to 3.47M ETH, a six-month low, as CryptoQuant counts a record 320,000 withdrawals on Oct 6. See the data next to ETF outflows.
Cardano TPS Record Claim: One Address Made 25% Of Oct 7 Traffic
Cardano TPS record claim of 329 rests on a one-second block gap. Koios data shows one address made 25% of Cardano's October 7 transactions. See the numbers.
ETH Taker Selling On Binance Hits -$2.3B As Open Interest Rises
ETH taker selling on Binance reached -$2.3B while price held near $2,570 and open interest rose 11.6%. Two CryptoQuant Quicktakes read the split differently.
Falcon USDf Supply Jumps 37% As Six Wallets Take $431M
Falcon USDf supply rose 37% in a week to $1.66B. Contract logs show 22 mints from one sender, with six wallets taking $431M and none staking or selling.
Coinbase Pro Returns By Year End; Deribit Options Arrive First
Coinbase Pro returns at year end, Coinbase says, with Deribit options and spot margin first. See what CFTC Letter 26-17 allows and what it requires now.
Robinhood Chain DEX Volume Is 68% Below Its September Peak
Robinhood Chain DEX volume fell from a $3.67B peak on Sept 4 to $1.18B on Oct 5, per DefiLlama data, while TVL and stablecoin supply reached record highs.
Google Cloud Blockchain Node Engine Shuts Down December 15
Google Cloud will delete all Blockchain Node Engine nodes and Blockchain RPC endpoints on December 15, 2026 and points customers to Quicknode.
Unhosted Wallet Rule Withdrawn: FinCEN Drops Mixer Proposal Too
FinCEN is withdrawing its 2020 unhosted wallet rule and its 2023 crypto mixer proposal. Here is what each would have required and why they were pulled.
NEAR Intents Exploit Costs $3.8M, Users To Be Repaid
NEAR Intents lost about $3.8 million on October 1 to a bug in its Omni deposit and withdrawal setup. Here is what the team confirmed, and what NEAR did next.
Avalanche Treasury Sells $15M Of Locked AVAX To Foundation
Avalanche Treasury Corporation sold 2.08 million locked AVAX for $15 million. The 8-K, the June 10-Q and CoinGecko data show the implied price and the debt backdrop.
FCA Recovers £1.5 Million For Crypto Fraud Victims
The FCA secured confiscation orders worth over £850,000 against two men who ran a fake crypto investment scheme that defrauded at least 65 people.
CFTC Lets Futures Brokers Invest Customer Funds in Tokenized Assets, Keep Records on a Blockchain
The CFTC updated its crypto FAQs on September 24, letting futures brokers invest customer funds in tokenized assets and keep required records on a blockchain.
Anchorage Digital Is Building Bitcoin Staking Support for Stacks
Stacks Labs says Anchorage Digital is building support for Bitcoin Staking, letting institutions earn BTC rewards on coins held at the bank.
Fed Asks for Public Comment on Two Stablecoin Issuer Proposals
The Federal Reserve Board opened a 60-day comment period on two GENIUS Act proposals covering reserves, capital and applications for Board-supervised stablecoin issuers.
US Bitcoin ETFs Post Best Single Day in Nine Months at $730 Million
US spot Bitcoin ETFs took in $730.8 million on September 3, their strongest single day in nine months, according to Farside Investors data, reversing a rough late-August stretch of outflows.
Whales Open Massive Leveraged ETH Longs On Hyperliquid
Multiple traders posted matching Hyperliquid screenshots showing eight and ten figure leveraged ETH long positions opened within hours of each other, with liquidation prices clustered near 2,200 dollars while ETH itself traded near 2,500 dollars.
Ajna V2 Loses $775K As Oracleless Lending Protocol Gets Drained
Ajna v2 lost roughly $775,400 across seven Ethereum pools after an attacker exploited internal liquidation accounting, not an oracle. With no governance, the immutable protocol's only response was to ask users to withdraw.
MANTRA Chain Loses $3.6M In Cosmos-EVM Exploit, No Keys Compromised
MANTRA_Chain disclosed on X that an upstream cosmos/evm bug let an attacker drain 720.9 million MANTRA from two dormant addresses on August 20, without touching any validator, admin, or multisig key.