Cryptocurrencies

Ether Falls Twice as Hard as Bitcoin: Understanding the Market Dynamics as HYPE Drops 10% and the Chip Trade Unwinds The cryptocurrency market is a volatile landscape, and recent trends highlight a significant divergence: Ether falls twice as hard as Bitcoin and HYPE drops 10% a ...

Trump Stock Promotion Ethics: A Crypto Market Bellwether? CNN reports that Donald Trump repeatedly praised companies soon after their shares appeared in his investment portfolio. The ethics problem jumps off the page. But crypto investors should pay attention too. CNN found at least 44 i ...

Ethereum Price Prediction on Twitter: Is $3,000 Really in Sight? A recent Twitter (X) post says Ethereum (ETH) could soon approach $3,000, and crypto investors wasted little time sharing it. That would be a hefty gain for the second-largest cryptocurrency. It could pull other altcoins hi ...

# Hyperion DeFi Deploying 500K HYPE to Hyperliquid HIP-3 Markets Hyperion DeFi is deploying 500,000 HYPE into Hyperliquid's HIP-3 markets. The plain read: more liquidity should mean tighter spreads and less slippage. My take: the HYPE rewards are not decoration. They are the bait for traders and ma ...

Visa, Mastercard and Ripple Back x402 to Cut Agent Payment Costs from 32 Cents Visa, Mastercard, and Ripple are backing x402, a blockchain protocol that claims to cut agent payment costs from 32 cents per transaction down to fractions of a cent. I'll be honest: that sounds small until t ...

Whale Liquidation Short ETH: $1.81M Loss Hits Market A "whale liquidation short ETH" means a large leveraged bet against Ethereum (ETH) was forced closed because the trader ran out of collateral. In plain English: the trade broke. Here, wallet "0xce34" had a $1,810,000 short position li ...

Whale ETH Long Liquidation Risk: $150M Position Under Pressure One whale, tagged as "0xa5B", is sitting on a $150,000,000 ETH long that is already down about $32,000,000 on paper. Bad place to be. The position was opened near an average entry of $2265, with liquidation around $1070. Tha ...

Morgan Stanley Ethereum Solana ETF filings point to bigger institutional interest Morgan Stanley's updated SEC filings for Ethereum and Solana ETFs, with tickers and and a 0.14% commission, are a pretty clear sign that institutional crypto interest has moved past the Bit ...

Bitcoin Slides as Fed Rate Hike Odds Rise Ahead of Inflation Data Bitcoin dropped 3% this week as July rate-hike odds moved higher. That part is simple. The part traders care about now is the Consumer Price Index report, because it will shape whether rates keep climbing. My take: crypto ...

U.S. Inflation, Second-Quarter Earnings Reports: Crypto Week Ahead Inflation data lands this week. So do earnings reports. Bitcoin probably won’t ignore either. Why do U.S. inflation figures matter for crypto? Inflation numbers feed straight into Fed interest-rate expec ...