North Korea’s $30M crypto cashout just handed legacy finance its best weapon to kill DeFi’s US debut
CME and ICE told Washington in May that Hyperliquid’s pseudonymous, always-on markets could let sanctioned state actors circumvent…
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Record Squeeze Drives Bitcoin Price Rally, But $83K Resistance Looms
A massive short squeeze on Aug. 19, which is the largest single-day short liquidation event recorded by Glassnode…
North Korean hackers are moving tens of millions on Hyperliquid as Trump pushes to onshore the crypto platform
Blockchain data reviewed by CoinDesk shows wallets tied to North Korea’s Lazarus Group sold more than $30 million…
Massive Bitcoin derivatives gap between CME and Coinbase threatens violent position shakeout
Leveraged funds held a 41,252 BTC-equivalent net short across CME Bitcoin futures, including standard and Micro contracts on…
Why Bitcoin’s $2B corporate treasuries are a ticking time bomb of hidden conditional supply
During the three months ending June 30, CleanSpark put 9,400 Bitcoin-equivalent call contracts through Spot+, its strategy for…
One mid-tier Bitcoin treasury just gambled its entire BTC reserve on a single 30-day reset price
PowerCompute, a Bitcoin treasury and mining company, added $3.765 million to its debt after an early Bitcoin collar…
Options Bets Turn Defensive Ahead of a Bitcoin Price Showdown
Bitcoin derivatives traders are dragging a hefty book into September, with futures open interest at $54.82 billion while…
Coinbase’s $104M US500 trading spike hits an early reality check
Coinbase US500 futures reached a $100 million milestone, giving the exchange an early test of whether a crypto-native…
Ethena looks beyond crypto to squeeze yield from booming equity perpetuals
The issuer of the $4 billion USDe token said it expects real-world asset perpetuals to eclipse crypto derivatives…
Traders start losing control of open positions as BitMEX begins its staged shutdown
As the BitMEX closure approaches, the derivatives exchange will enter reduce-only mode at 04:00 UTC on Aug. 26.…