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A large, anonymous cryptocurrency investor has significantly increased its holdings of $HYPE, the native token of the Hyperliquid platform. According to blockchain analytics firm Lookonchain, a whale address identified as 0x4E53 purchased an additional 151,000 $HYPE tokens, valued at approximately $6.09 million, just two hours ago. The tokens were immediately staked on the network. Week-Long Accumulation This latest transaction is part of a broader accumulation trend by the same wallet. Over the past seven days, the whale has acquired and staked a total of 500,998 $HYPE tokens. Based on current market prices, the total value of these acquisitions is estimated…

Chairman Mike Selig of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said his agency is in talks with all major U.S. professional sports leagues as federal regulators deepen oversight of sports-related prediction markets. The regulator is seeking broader cooperation with leagues to monitor insider trading and market manipulation tied to event contracts, Selig said Tuesday at the annual FINRA conference in Washington D.C. on Tuesday, following an earlier CFTC announcement of a target=”_blank” rel=”noopener noreferrer”>brokerage industry’s self-regulatory organization. The CFTC agreement with baseball was its first formal information-sharing deal with a professional sports organization. The arrangement comes as federally regulated…

Since Donald Trump joined Israel’s war with Iran at 1:15am New York time on February 28, bitcoin ($BTC) has rallied 8% while gold has fallen 18%. At the onset of war, $BTC was trading at $65,492 and gold was at $5,279 per ounce. By Monday evening, however, $BTC had jumped to $70,700 while gold had tumbled to $4,300. All this means that $BTC now buys 32% more gold than it did on the morning of Operation Epic Fury. Indeed, the world’s most valuable precious metal shed 12% in a single week, its worst seven-day stretch since 1983. Investors who bought…

Ethereum price today: $2,110 $ETH and the broader crypto market face major sell-offs as rising inflation and Treasury yields pressure risk assets. Ethereum was hit the hardest, declining more than 10% and incurring more than $700 million in long liquidations over the past week. $ETH is retesting the $2,108 support level amid persistent downside risk. Ethereum ($ETH) is hovering around $2,110, up 0.5% on Tuesday after facing strong selling pressure over the past week. The top altcoin declined from above $2,300 after retail wallet distributions. The distribution wasn’t peculiar to $ETH, as several top cryptos witnessed major sell-offs following soaring…

Intel has done something it had not managed since the dot com era: set a new all time high. Shares of the chipmaker surged on April 24, 2026, trading around $82 to $83 after touching an intraday high above $85, according to market data. The move pushed Intel past its prior split adjusted record and marked a sharp reversal for a company that spent much of the last two decades watching rivals like Nvidia and AMD dominate the investor imagination. The rally followed Intel’s first quarter earnings report, which showed revenue of $13.6 billion, up 7% from a year earlier.…

What Is Base? Base is an Ethereum Layer 2 network incubated by Coinbase, built on Optimism’s OP Stack and launched on mainnet in August 2023. The pitch: be the bridge between Coinbase’s traditional user base and decentralized finance. So far, it has worked. By May 2026, Base holds approximately $15 billion in total value locked, commands roughly 46.6% of all L2 DeFi TVL, and processes close to 15 million daily transactions. These are not speculative numbers. They come from on-chain data, and they put Base ahead of Arbitrum, zkSync, and every other rollup in active usage. The network offers sub-cent,…

Senator Chuck Grassley has thrown his weight behind the CLARITY Act, adding a significant bipartisan endorsement to one of the most consequential pieces of crypto legislation to reach the Senate floor. The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025, originally introduced as H.R. 3633 on May 29, 2025, has been slowly building momentum, and Grassley’s support could prove to be the kind of push it needs to clear its final legislative hurdles. What the CLARITY Act actually does The bill distinguishes between digital assets that function as securities and those that behave more like commodities. Certain digital commodities would be…

Viral “predictive historian” Jiang recasts Bitcoin as a CIA war‑surveillance tool and hinge of U.S. imperial decline, mixing sharp geopolitical reads with conspiratorial leaps. Summary Viral “predictive historian” ties Bitcoin to U.S. imperial decline and a coming monetary reset Jiang claims $BTC is a Pentagon/CIA surveillance weapon even as markets treat it as digital gold Critics say his “predictive history” blends accurate war calls with speculative crypto conspiracies Beijing-based teacher Jiang Xueqin, the self-styled “predictive historian” who shot to fame for forecasting Donald Trump’s return to the White House and a disastrous U.S.–Iran conflict, is now recasting Bitcoin ($BTC) as…

$ETH trader sentiment just reached its most bearish level since the 2023 bear market, reported CryptoQuant analyst ‘Darkfost’ on Tuesday. The metric has been measured using the Binance taker buy/sell ratio, which has fallen back to levels not seen since September 2023, when $ETH had fallen to $1,600. “This highlights how much trader sentiment toward Ethereum has deteriorated over recent weeks.” Bearish Calls Mounting Up The weekly ratio has fallen to 0.91, which means sellers are dominating Binance futures order books. “In other words, aggressive sell orders are significantly outweighing buyers,” they said. Ether has traded in a broad range…

President Trump may sign a new executive order on AI security, according to the Washington Post, as the administration weighs whether frontier models should face deeper national security reviews before release. The potential order would mark a shift from the administration’s earlier AI agenda, which focused largely on removing regulatory barriers and asserting federal control over AI policy. The White House is now debating whether the Commerce Department or US intelligence agencies should take the lead in reviewing powerful AI models for security risks. The debate has intensified around models such as Anthropic’s Mythos, which has raised concerns among national…