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Leverage drove the breakout, with open interest near $28.83B and network activity lagging, leaving BTC dependent on fresh spot demand to hold above resistance.
The trade highlights the scale of leveraged positioning in Bitcoin perpetuals, with the account already carrying a six-figure paper gain.
Risk appetite drove a concentrated burst of speculative buying, with seven listed large-cap tokens gaining at least 77% during the week.
Pontes brings digital euro settlement into tokenized wholesale finance, giving banks a central-bank money rail for transactions involving digital assets.
Open interest and trading volume are rising with the rally, showing traders are rebuilding leveraged positions instead of retreating after the liquidation wave.
Forced closures add buy-side pressure to a leveraged market, amplifying upside momentum while leaving traders watching whether demand lasts beyond the squeeze.
The record puts Hyperliquid’s native token at the center of the altcoin and perpetuals market conversation, with traders watching whether momentum holds above $95.
The week pairs a post-rate-hike crypto rebound with a five-year SEC pilot for tokenized stocks and macro data that could reset expectations for policy and risk.
The proposal centers on importing Bitcoin liquidity to Cardano, then using it for stablecoin lending and issuance if the governance process advances.
Hyperliquid's lead comes as on-chain revenue rankings broaden beyond major stablecoin and asset-management firms, which CoinGecko excluded from the comparison.
The transaction shows how established distributed-ledger rails can connect Korean institutions to global settlement accounts ahead of Seoul's 2027 tokenized-securities framework.
The dispute centers on whether payout-based volume conventions explain Kalshi's $539M figure, or whether fee incentives enabled artificial activity.
The episode combines a seven-figure domain purchase with an unusual outcome: Uniswap's team ultimately secured Uniswap.com at no cost.
The dispute centers on roughly $539M in 24-hour ETH-PERP volume against $3.1M in open interest, while Kalshi defends its market-making incentives.
The dispute highlights how a domain purchase became part of the fallout around FTX and a competing Uniswap fork.
The vote separates Cardano’s treasury authority from Input Output’s commercial strategy, forcing the ecosystem to compete for future products rather than rely on founding ties.
The contraction is not a flight from risk. Perps absorbed the directional leverage while options absorbed the more complicated risk around holding Bitcoin, leaving dated futures squeezed between them.
Checkout.com at one point rejected more than 80% of Polymarket US deposits as fraudulent, versus a roughly 1% industry norm, while the CFTC probes the firm ahead of a potential 2027 IPO.
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Goldman Sachs and Citizens analysts flag three early beneficiaries of the SEC's five-year innovation exemption, with custody, tokenization infrastructure and USDC settlement the key battlegrounds as…
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