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Key Takeaways Arthur Hayes sold another 682 Ethereum, worth around $2 million, on Wednesday. The move follows a similar trade executed over the weekend, when Hayes swapped 680 ETH for 1.2 million ENA. BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes sold 682 Ethereum worth roughly $2 million on Tuesday, according to data tracked by Lookonchain. Arthur Hayes(@CryptoHayes) has just deposited another 682 $ETH($2M) into #Binance to sell and rotate into high-quality DeFi tokens. In the past week, he has sold a total of 1,871 $ETH($5.53M), and bought 1.22M $ENA($257.5K), 137,117 $PENDLE($259K), and 132,730 $ETHFI($93K).… pic.twitter.com/2mddOY3H1t — Lookonchain (@lookonchain) December 24, 2025 Hayes also…
Seven-time Super Bowl Champion, Tom Brady, stepped into one of biotechnology’s thorniest debates this week when he revealed that his dog Junie was a genetic clone of Lua, the pit bull mix he once shared with his ex-wife, Gisele Bündchen. The disclosure placed one of the world’s most famous athletes at the center of a growing commercial market for pet cloning. The field continues to raise ethical questions about animal welfare, scientific oversight, and how far private companies should push genetic engineering. Brady said Texas-based Colossal Biosciences had created Junie using a blood draw taken shortly before Lua died in…
Ripple said it deepened its relationship with brokerage firm TJM Investments, buying a minority stake that takes it further into the behind-the-scenes infrastructure that institutions use to trade and settle assets. Ripple will support the trading and clearing operations of TJM, a U.S.-regulated broker-dealer, as part of the arrangement. The companies did not disclose financial terms. The relationship builds on Ripple’s institutional platform, Ripple Prime, which provides trading, financing and collateral tools to hedge funds, asset managers and family offices. TJM plans to use the connection to offer digital asset trading to clients in the coming months. Rather than running…
Ethereum’s price action has entered a delicate phase as traders reassess momentum near the $3,000 area. After failing to sustain gains above the $3,200 region, ETH shifted into a corrective structure on the 4-hour chart. The market now shows controlled selling rather than panic, suggesting consolidation instead of a sharp trend reversal. Consequently, traders remain focused on whether price can reclaim key resistance or slip toward deeper support zones. Technical Structure Shows Capped Upside Ethereum continues to trade below critical moving averages, which now shape near-term direction. The 50-period EMA near $2,965 acts as immediate resistance, while the 100 EMA…
Key Highlights In his speech, Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller stated that stablecoin could increase competition in the world of digital payments He highlighted stablecoin’s nature to enhance the payment system by making financial settlement faster and cheaper After the approval of the GENIUS Act, many payment giants and banking institutions are rushing to integrate stablecoins During the panel discussion on central banking and the future of payments, Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller referred to stablecoin as a “fascinating new payment instrument,” which is expected to introduce competition in the payments sector. JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Fed Governor Christopher Waller says…
EchoSync unveils trade copying tools for spectators of Aster DEX human vs. AI trading competition
EchoSync has launched a new copy trading dashboard for the decentralized perpetual exchange Aster’s Human vs. AI trading competition. The initiative pits human traders against algorithm-driven AI large language models to see which of the two can garner the most realized profits over a two-week period. According to the AI-data driven statistics platform’s official announcement on X, the Aster DEX copy trading went live on Friday, and investors can now copy trade all Human and AI traders on the so-called “Aster’s Human vs AI battle.” EchoSync copy trading dashboard led by humans Aster’s trading contest started on December 9 and…
Ethereum got a classic “ghost wallet” moment on Christmas Eve as a dormant premine address holding 2,000 ETH suddenly reawakened after 10.4 years. It all started with Whale Alert reporting about a transfer worth $5.86 million today, up from $620 back in 2015, which comes out to a 944,992% gain and puts this holder in the “generational wealth” category off one early investment decision 10 years ago. The on-chain sequence does not look random. Trackers by Arkham show a one ETH probe first, then a much larger transfer of 1,599 ETH into a new address, and three other tranches worth…
Nearly half of exchange-traded fund (ETF) investors are planning to buy a crypto ETF, matching those who said they’d buy a bond ETF, according to a report from brokerage giant Schwab Asset Management. In its ETFs and Beyond report released on Thursday, Schwab found that 52% of respondents to its survey were planning to invest in US equities, while 45% said they were interested in crypto ETFs, tied in second place with US bonds. Bloomberg’s senior ETF analyst Eric Balchunas said in an X post on Thursday that the results were a surprise, given the sheer size of the bond…
Key Takeaways The Coinbase Premium Gap has dropped to -$57, indicating strong selling pressure from US investors. A negative premium shows that Bitcoin is trading lower on Coinbase compared to global exchanges, reflecting regional sentiment. The Coinbase Premium Gap has fallen to -$57, indicating a reduction in Bitcoin market demand from US institutional investors, according to CryptoQuant data. U.S. investors are hitting the sell button hard 💥 The Coinbase Premium Gap is now at -$57—signaling aggressive selling pressure from American traders. pic.twitter.com/gRCPSVvf1o — Maartunn (@JA_Maartun) December 19, 2025 The index measures the Bitcoin price difference between Coinbase and Binance, showing…
Sentora’s blunt assessment of 2025’s biggest DeFi calamity landed on social media and crystallized what had been a jittery few days across Web3. Sentora tweeted, “We can’t look back on 2025 without mentioning the Stream Finance & Elixir losses. Stream Finance suffered a $93 million loss due to external fund manager failure, triggering a catastrophic default for their xUSD token.” It further added, “As the markets scrambled to identify what curators and protocols were exposed, Elixir announced that they had significant allocation in Stream Finance and would not be able to cover the gap to repeg their stablecoin. The entire…