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Tony Rabbit

Tony Rabbit

Crypto Markets Writer

Tony Rabbit is a crypto markets writer at DEXTools News covering decentralized finance, on-chain trends, and trading narratives. He turns DEXTools live on-chain data into clear, actionable explanations for everyday readers, with a focus on new token launches, memecoins, liquidity, token safety, and how DEX market structure actually behaves. His reporting leans on primary sources and verifiable on-chain evidence over hype.

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The Fed Held Rates in a 9-3 Split With Three Members Voting to Hike, and Crypto Held Its Ground
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The Fed Held Rates in a 9-3 Split With Three Members Voting to Hike, and Crypto Held Its Ground

The Fed held rates at 3.50-3.75% on July 29 for a fifth straight meeting, but the vote split 9-3 with three regional presidents dissenting in favor of a HIKE, the most divided decision of the cycle. Our preview had flagged a real one-in-five hike probability, and the dissents proved it was not paranoia. Crypto took it in stride: Bitcoin dipped to about $62,850 intraday and recovered to around $64,600. The volatility that did appear came more from an oil spike and geopolitics than the Fed.

Tony Rabbit 4 hours ago
North Korea Just Moved Another 121 BTC: Inside the Lazarus Group's 2026 Crypto Theft Machine
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North Korea Just Moved Another 121 BTC: Inside the Lazarus Group's 2026 Crypto Theft Machine

On-chain trackers flagged wallets tied to North Korea's Lazarus Group moving another 121.5 BTC (about $7.74 million) today, one more shuffle in a laundering operation that dominates 2026's theft data. Per TRM Labs, DPRK groups stole about $643 million in H1 2026, roughly 66% of all crypto stolen worldwide, led by the $292M Kelp DAO and $285M Drift thefts in April. The single move is small; the machine behind it, patient social engineering followed by months of laundering, is not.

Tony Rabbit 4 hours ago
A Dormant Bitcoin Whale Just Sent 625 BTC to an Exchange After 17 Months, Apparently to Sell at a $20M Loss
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A Dormant Bitcoin Whale Just Sent 625 BTC to an Exchange After 17 Months, Apparently to Sell at a $20M Loss

A Bitcoin wallet dormant for nearly 17 months sent its entire 625 BTC (about $39.96 million) to the exchange FalconX on July 29, the classic on-chain signature of an intent to sell, and it is selling into a loss. We verified the movement on-chain: the wallet received the coins in early 2025, held through the peak and the slide, and is now empty. On-chain trackers estimate the holder's loss at roughly $20 million. One wallet, but capitulation from long-dormant money is a signal worth reading at $64,000.

Tony Rabbit 4 hours ago
X Money Went Live in the US With No Crypto, and Dogecoin Barely Moved
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X Money Went Live in the US With No Crypto, and Dogecoin Barely Moved

X Money, the payments product from Elon Musk's X, launched in the US with no cryptocurrency support, and Dogecoin, the token most associated with Musk, barely reacted, trading near $0.071 and roughly flat on the day. The non-reaction is the signal: after years of rumored-then-denied integrations, the market had already stopped pricing a DOGE tie-in. The disappointment was loud on social media and quiet on the chart.

Tony Rabbit 1 day ago
The Senate Shelved the CLARITY Act and Crypto Shrugged: Passage Odds Sit at 30% as the 2026 Window Narrows
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The Senate Shelved the CLARITY Act and Crypto Shrugged: Passage Odds Sit at 30% as the 2026 Window Narrows

The US Senate shelved the CLARITY Act, crypto's flagship market-structure bill, to prioritize a Russia sanctions package, and with the summer recess days away, 2026 passage is now a long shot. Polymarket gives it about a 30% chance of being signed this year. Yet spot crypto shrugged: a fast liquidation cascade on the news, then Bitcoin back above $64,000 and XRP recovering to ~$1.09 within a day. After a year of delays, the market has stopped trading on the bill.

Tony Rabbit 1 day ago
Lido Is Moving 8 Million ETH to a New Validator Architecture, and It Already Stakes Nearly a Quarter of Ethereum
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Lido Is Moving 8 Million ETH to a New Validator Architecture, and It Already Stakes Nearly a Quarter of Ethereum

Lido, crypto's largest liquid-staking protocol, has begun migrating more than 8 million ETH to a new Curated Module v2 architecture built for Ethereum's post-Pectra large validators. On-chain data shows why it matters: Lido's stETH supply is about 9.36 million ETH, roughly 22.8% of all staked ETH, so re-plumbing its validators re-plumbs nearly a quarter of Ethereum's security. The upgrade is routine; the concentration underneath it is the story.

Tony Rabbit 1 day ago
The 2026 Crypto Hack Tracker: Every Major Exploit, the Money Lost, and Where the Chain Says It Went
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The 2026 Crypto Hack Tracker: Every Major Exploit, the Money Lost, and Where the Chain Says It Went

A running tracker of 2026's major crypto exploits. Security firms counted 207 hacks in H1 2026 draining about $972M (TRM) to $1.32B (CertiK), with roughly 66% ($643M) attributed to North Korea. The full table of the biggest thefts, by amount, method and chain, including the incidents DEXTools News decoded on-chain ourselves (Drift $285M, Triple-A $11.8M, WEMIX, Ostium and more). The lesson: social engineering and stolen keys, not smart-contract bugs, cause the biggest losses.

Tony Rabbit 1 day ago
BitMart Is Winding Down After Nine Years, and Its BMX Token Has Crashed 82% in a Week
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BitMart Is Winding Down After Nine Years, and Its BMX Token Has Crashed 82% in a Week

BitMart, a centralized exchange of nine years, is reported to be winding down, and its BMX exchange token has already priced it in: a roughly 82% collapse in one week, from about $0.31 to under $0.06, with a 65% single-day drop on July 25 as the news spread. BMX is now down about 91% from its all-time high with a market value under $20M. An exchange token is a claim on the exchange, and this is what that looks like when the exchange goes away.

Tony Rabbit 1 day ago
One Venue Now Does 44% of All Solana DEX Volume: How the Pump.fun Ecosystem Took Over the Chain
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One Venue Now Does 44% of All Solana DEX Volume: How the Pump.fun Ecosystem Took Over the Chain

When we pulled the DefiLlama data, one venue dominated Solana: PumpSwap, the Pump.fun AMM, is doing about 43.6% of all Solana DEX volume, more than five times the next-biggest DEX. Solana DEXs did $1.84B in 24 hours; PumpSwap alone did $803M, and with the bonding curve the Pump.fun ecosystem is close to 47% of the chain. It is no longer a memecoin sideshow but the market structure itself.

Tony Rabbit 1 day ago
Triple-A's $11.8M Hack: We Followed the ETH On-Chain and It Has Already Left the Wallet Investigators Flagged
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Triple-A's $11.8M Hack: We Followed the ETH On-Chain and It Has Already Left the Wallet Investigators Flagged

Triple-A, a Singapore-regulated payments firm, confirmed an $11.8M hack across seven chains. We read the flagged ETH consolidation wallet ourselves: it now holds just 1.62 ETH after eight transfers moved 5,287 ETH (about $10.1M) to a single new address, which then dispersed the funds via 36 more transactions. Both wallets now sit near zero, one hop past the address every outlet cited.

Tony Rabbit 1 day ago
DeXe (DEXE) Went From a $47.84 High to Under $2 in Two Weeks: the On-Chain Anatomy of a 95% Collapse
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DeXe (DEXE) Went From a $47.84 High to Under $2 in Two Weeks: the On-Chain Anatomy of a 95% Collapse

DeXe's DEXE token ran to an all-time high of $47.84 on July 13, then collapsed to about $2.51 by July 27, roughly a 95% loss, with an 83% single-day crash on July 22. We mapped the daily price record and current on-chain figures: over $180M in daily volume against a ~$245M market cap. The token is live and actively traded; we prove the collapse but make no claim about its cause.

Tony Rabbit 2 days ago
Crypto's Own Money Prices a Real Chance of a Fed Hike on July 29: What Polymarket Odds and Perp Funding Actually Say
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Crypto's Own Money Prices a Real Chance of a Fed Hike on July 29: What Polymarket Odds and Perp Funding Actually Say

The Fed decides on July 29 and crypto's own money is pricing a real chance of a hike. Polymarket implies 79.7% no change, 19.9% for a 25bp hike (the highest of the cycle) and 0.35% for a cut, while Hyperliquid perp funding (BTC ~6.4%, ETH ~11% annualized) shows calm, un-braced positioning. Crypto and rates traders take a hike seriously; economists mostly do not.

Tony Rabbit 2 days ago