PANews reported on October 25th that on-chain analyst Yu Jin has recently increased their SOL purchases, having purchased 249,500 SOL (US$46.78 million) through the FalconX and Wintermute platforms in the past four days alone. This brings the total amount of SOL purchased and staked to 827,000 (US$146 million) over the six months since the end of April, all at an average price of US$177.



Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin defended his blockchain’s 45-day exit queue after Galaxy Digital’s head of digital called it “troubling,” sparking backlash. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has finally addressed some concerns over the lengthening Ethereum staking exit queue, which has now grown to 45 days. His response came after Galaxy Digital’s head of DeFi, Michael Marcantonio, called the exit queue length “troubling” on X and compared it to Solana which only needs two days to unstake. He has since deleted the posts. However, Buterin seemingly took a more ideological stance on the subject, describing unstaking from Ethereum as “more like a soldier deciding to quit the army,” adding that staking is more about “taking on a solemn duty to defend the chain.”Read more