On April 28, it was reported that 3,520 BTC were stolen through a social engineering scheme. The theft of BTC created a ripple effect, after which the prices of Monera coin grew in just a few hours.
It is worth noting that the stolen Bitcoin was rapidly funneled using hundreds of wallets, and around 20 exchanges were involved in laundering the stolen funds.
According to a X post from ZachXBT dated April 28, 2025, “ Nine hours ago a suspicious transfer was made from a potential victim for 3520 BTC ($330.7M).”
The theft address- bc1qcrypchnrdx87jnal5e5m849fw460t4gk7vz55g
According to data from CoinMarketCap, as of writing, Monera was exchanging hands at $280 with a surge of 1.40% in the past hours, and an unprecedented surge of 24.02% has been noted in the past 8 days.
Monera is up due to renewed interest or laundering activity behind
The post further notes that, “ Shortly after the funds began to be laundered via 6+ instant exchanges and were swapped for XMR, causing the XMR price to spike 50%.”
ZachXBT also said the entire amount of Bitcoin was stolen from an elderly citizen of the United States.
While writing, the data available on CoinGlass notes that the volume of XMR/USD on Kraken grew 365.24%, reaching $28.50 million, and the volume of XMR/USDT is up by 12.58% in the past seven days, reaching $6.90 million.
In the past 7 days, the net inflow of XMR/USD has reached $428.01k, and the inflow of XMR/USDT has reached $35.97k.
The volume of Monera derivatives has fallen 27.17%, reaching $61.75 million, and open interest is $28.62 million with a loss of -4.39%.
However, at the same time, the intraday volume of Monera has continued to fall on major exchanges like Binance, Bybit, WhiteBIT, MEXC, dYdX, CoinEx, Kraken, and HTX.
At the same time, the future open interest on Monera on Bybit is $11.23 million, Binance has $10.78 million, MEXC has $2.83 million, WhiteBIT has $1.36 million, Kraken has $1.02 million, and CoinEx has $688.08k.
Crypto market price updates
Until publishing, the crypto market cap was $2.96 trillion with a slight loss of 0.05%, and in the past 24 hours, the volume grew by 6.78%, reaching $79.88 billion.
The crypto fear and greed index is at 51, determining neutrality in the market, with Bitcoin exchanging hands at $94,878 and Ethereum still trading below $2,000 at $1,807. 25.
In the past 24 the intraday gainers list has been ruled by Virtuals Protocol, Fartcoin, Curve DAO Token, Hyperliquid, BRETT, and Dogwifhat, including others.
