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Gate Research: Vitalik Unveils Ethereum’s Kohaku Privacy Framework | Bitcoin Whales and Institutions Increase Accumulation

2025-11-19 06:05:15 UTC 10158 Read

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* Market Overview: On November 19, the crypto market saw a mild rebound despite extreme fear, with BTC edging up 0.15% to 92,410 USDT and ETH rising 0.29% to 3,109 USDT. The Fear & Greed Index remained at 15, signaling persistently low risk appetite; however, major altcoins posted a short-term recovery over the past 24 hours, led by SOL with a 7.3% gain, while DOGE, XRP, and ADA rose 2–6%.
* Top Gainers: Anoma (+50.92%) surged as its ARM virtual machine went live on Ethereum, boosting market interest in intents and programmable privacy. Grass (+23.03%) strengthened on anticipation of its first Token Holder Call and progress in processing 100 million scientific papers for open-science datasets. Falcon Finance (+17.69%) gained traction as USDf supply surpassed 2 billion dollars and its NFT collection was fully revealed. These tokens benefited from strong narratives and ecosystem catalysts, attracting structural inflows amid broader market volatility.
* Alpha Insights: On-chain data shows Bitcoin whales and institutions continued accumulating, with the number of wallets holding ≥1,000 BTC climbing to 1,384 — a four-month high — while corporate entities now control roughly 14% of total BTC supply, indicating a shift from short-term traders toward long-term holders. On the Ethereum side, Vitalik unveiled the Kohaku privacy framework, positioning privacy as a first-class property of the network. Meanwhile, Zama launched its FHE testnet v2 as a mainnet candidate, marking a significant step toward large-scale adoption of fully homomorphic encryption and reinforcing privacy and encrypted computation as key themes for the next phase of on-chain infrastructure.

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