In the last seven days, Ethereum (ETH) has defied market odds and reversed its price trajectory, rallying to a level last seen in mid-February 2025.

This surge in the value of the second-largest cryptocurrency comes amid aggressive accumulation from market participants and declining sell-side pressure.

ETH Records Large Exchange Withdrawals

According to a tweet by the institutional-grade decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Sentora (previously IntoTheBlock), ether has witnessed an intense and sustained trend of net outflows from centralized exchanges since the beginning of the month.

Ethereum investors have withdrawn more than $1.2 billion worth of ETH from trading platforms within the last seven days. This happened just as ETH recorded a 52% rally in its price, jumping from less than $1,800 to at least $2,730. Massive accumulation trends like this often signal that investors are moving their assets off exchanges to hold in the long term, hoping for significant price appreciation.

ETH has remained dormant for most of this bull cycle, and this has caused investors and market participants to dismiss its bullish potential for this season. However, the asset’s sudden breakout from a resistance zone that has held it down for months triggered a shift in market sentiment.

Investor sentiment moved from fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) due to ether’s underperformance to the fear of missing out (FOMO) as traders scrambled for entry points amid the rally. As more traders try to get into the market, demand for ETH will increase. With sell-side pressure decreasing amid massive withdrawals from exchanges, ETH is bound to experience higher surges in the near term.

Most ETH Holders in Profit

Ether’s ongoing price appreciation has increased the percentage of addresses holding the cryptocurrency in profit to more than 60%. This is a significant development compared to 32% of addresses in profit roughly a month ago.

While most analysts believe ether’s rally is not just the result of a short squeeze, others have warned that the asset could consolidate between $2,400 and $2,700 before its next leg up. Nevertheless, on-chain analyst Ali Martinez has identified the range between $2,060 and $2,420 as the most crucial support floor for ETH. Here, there are 10 million wallets holding more than 69 million ETH.

TL;DR

• Scammers are impersonating Binance support on platforms like Telegram to trick users into clicking malicious links that steal credentials or 2FA codes.

• While Binance’s CEO assured that the company operates around the clock to safeguard user assets, he emphasized that individual vigilance remains paramount.

‘Scammers Never Sleep’

Alongside the technical innovation and opportunities that the cryptocurrency industry provides, the sector is also rife with wrongdoers who attempt to drain the funds of inexperienced investors.

Less than a week ago, the world’s biggest crypto exchange warned about phishing scammers who employed a relatively new technique: fake customer support. According to the firm, fraudsters present themselves as Binance staff on Telegram and other social platforms.

For instance, such a perpetrator would contact victims, claiming there’s an urgent issue. Then, they send a specific link to “verify” or “reset” personal login details. “Clicking it takes you to a fake site that steals your credentials or 2FA codes,” the team explained.

The company revealed a specific case from just weeks ago when an email marked “Binance Support – Urgent Login Issue” was received by the user, Jackie. The message contained a link she was told to click right away because of an alleged problem with her account. Needless to say, there was no actual threat – just scammers trying to con her. 

Binance advised people to stay cautious about such dubious messages and always verify the information before clicking on unknown links. 

Most recently, the exchange’s CEO, Richard Teng, shared the alert on his official X account. He assured that the company works 24/7 to prevent attacks of that type, “but your vigilance is the first line of defense.”

Phishing scams are targeting users through fake links and impersonation.

We’re here 24/7, but your vigilance is the first line of defense.

Learn how to protect your account https://t.co/Roo9iKoYqR

— Richard Teng (@_RichardTeng) May 14, 2025

The Previous Attacks

Earlier this year, numerous Binance users received an SMS supposedly sent from the usual number, which provides verification codes. The message informed people that their accounts had been allegedly accessed from North Korea, meaning they had to take quick measures. 

One user, called Joe Zhou, said he panicked and contacted the provided number. The mysterious person from the other side instructed the victim to set up a designated wallet and transfer his funds there for an “investigation.”

Zhou followed the steps but eventually became suspicious and contacted a close friend who works for Binance. They confirmed that everything was a scam. He then started moving funds out of the fraudulent wallet and lost only a minor sum. 

[PRESS RELEASE – Hong Kong, Hong Kong, May 14th, 2025]

Edgen ends its invite-only phase, launches globally as the first AI super app to unify trading insight, social signal, and real-time on-chain analytics into one platform.

Edgen, the AI-native market intelligence platform designed to restore informational edge in the age of noise, today announced its public release. Following a closed beta with over a million data being analyzed daily, Edgen is now accessible to all without invite codes, waitlists, or onboarding gates.

Dubbed the “AI Super App” for market intelligence, Edgen merges real-time social sentiment, on-chain analysis, and modular, specialized AI agents into a single AI-native workflow, giving retail traders and independent analysts the tools and clarity once reserved for hedge funds and quant desks.

Backed by Framework Ventures, North Island Ventures, Portal Ventures, Hivemind Capital Partners, and Moonrock Capital, Edgen introduces a new intelligence framework for navigating markets: an always-on, modular reasoning engine for traders, capable of parsing live markets, detecting signals before they trend, and enabling conviction where once there was chaos.

”We built Edgen to help traders make smarter decisions, faster. It gathers insights from the entire market and from everyone, learns from them, and gives them an edge. Markets move fast. Edgen helps people move faster and smarter. When information is everywhere, what matters most is how fast you can turn it into conviction. That’s what Edgen unlocks,” said Sean Tao, Cofounder of Edgen.

The Mental Infrastructure for Smart Money

Markets today are not won by access to data, but by the ability to reduce complexity into clarity, faster than consensus. In a trading environment increasingly shaped by narrative cycles, virality, and social-driven volatility, Edgen offers an intelligence operating system, one that fuses structured AI orchestration, speed, and execution with human pattern recognition and intuition.

“If Bloomberg Terminal were invented today for a generation raised on Discord, DeFi, and ChatGPT, it would look like Edgen,” Sean added.

Edgen is built on a proprietary Efficient Decision Guidance Model (EDGM)—a lightweight, real-time system that intercepts user queries, identifies intent, and routes them through a stack of specialized agents and relevant data sources. Rather than relying on a monolithic and rigid LLM, Edgen dynamically coordinates smaller tools, models, and data sources in parallel, creating answers that are faster, cheaper, and optimized for the crypto-native environment.

This routing system is what makes Edgen not just fast, but contextually intelligent. It knows when to pull on-chain data, when to surface X/Twitter sentiment, when to highlight smart money flows, and when to do all three at once.

From Tool to Network: Edgen as Collective Cognition

Edgen offers users four core interfaces: real-time Search, momentum Radar, crowd-sourced Insight feeds, and a dynamic crowdsourced intelligence layer known as “Aura”. These modules do not exist in isolation, they are stitched together by EDGM to form a continuous perception loop.

Every search query, every published call, and every response reinforces the system. In this way, Edgen behaves not as a platform, but as a distributed learning brain, one trained not by engineers, but by the most attuned minds in the market.

This architecture includes a Cognitive Layer (query parsing and tool routing with EDGM), an Agentic Layer (modular agents for TA, macro, on-chain, and social signal interpretation), and a planned Execution Layer, which will allow AI-generated insights to translate directly into trade execution or smart contract interaction.

“Imagine spotting a sudden spike in a microcap token. Edgen Search gives you an instant TLDR of its utility, recent smart wallet buys, and who’s talking about it on Twitter, all in one click,” said Sean.

Aura: A Crowdsourced Intelligence Layer for the Intelligence Economy

Edgen’s vision is not to replace human judgment, but to amplify it. Every question asked, every insight shared, contributes to the platform’s intelligence. The more users engage, the more refined and valuable Edgen becomes, creating a self-reinforcing loop of market understanding.

Unique to Edgen is its incentive mechanism. Aura is a non-tradable metric that tracks a user’s insight contributions, predictive accuracy, and impact within the ecosystem. It operates as a kind of proof-of-intelligence, ranking those who identify signals before the market does.

“The real arms race in crypto trading isn’t for blockspace. It’s for information asymmetry, attention, synthesis, and decision velocity. Edgen is how we give individuals an institutional lens without replicating institutional baggage”, Sean continued.

Aura is earned in two primary ways: by training the AI through verified high-quality insight, or by distributing that insight and triggering real user engagement. These contributions are scored through a three-tier process involving automated model review, community rating, and expert verification.

This system allows Edgen to transform every high-quality market thesis, meme-framed call, or chain-driven analysis into live training data, creating an AI that reflects the instincts of real traders, not corporate abstractions.

A Platform Designed for a Smarter Future

Edgen marks the beginning of a new infrastructure layer for financial cognition. Looking ahead, Edgen releases the Edgentic Marketplace, a permissionless environment where third-party developers can publish AI agents, custom workflows, and strategy modules built atop Edgen’s multi-agent infrastructure. This isn’t just about empowering traders. It’s about democratizing institutional-grade tools and unlocking them for everyone from digital asset holders to the crypto curious, giving all participants a path to think, act, and evolve like smart money.

About Edgen

Edgen is the leading AI-powered market intelligence operating system in the crypto space. Through its proprietary Efficient Decision Guidance Model (EDGM), the platform transforms high barrier institutional-grade strategies into universally accessible smart tools. Pioneering the “Cognition-as-a-Service” (CaaS) architecture, Edgen integrates modular AI agents, real-time social sentiment analysis, and on-chain analytics to empower retail traders and independent analysts to navigate crypto markets with institutional-grade precision.

Backed by crypto-native funds such as Framework Ventures and North Island Ventures, Edgen’s technical team combines former Wall Street quantitative trading experts and core Web3 protocol developers, collectively building the cognitive infrastructure for next-generation open finance.

Website: https://www.edgen.tech/

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Media contact: press@edgen.tech