Bitcoin, ether and XRP selloff wipes out $1.5 billion in leveraged crypto bets
Bets on rising prices accounted for nearly 84% of forced closures, with Binance handling almost half the total. A rebound has since started catching short sellers.
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XRP-linked Ripple brings Wall Street into 24/7 bets, but HSBC warns of thin orderbooks
The swaps track perpetual futures listed by Trade.xyz, a platform for stock and commodity contracts on Hyperliquid, a crypto derivatives exchange. Perpetuals have no expiry date and trade around the clock, letting a fund take a position on gold on Sunday while conventional markets are… Read More
Chip-stock bets lost $52 million in 10 minutes with Wall Street shut
The selling started on Binance, according to a review of the trades by David Jeong, chief executive of trading firm Tread.fi, who placed the first large SanDisk and Micron sell orders on Binance at 21:21:59 UTC. Less than a second later, orders hit Hyperliquid, a… Read More
Bitcoin steady above $78,000, HYPE leads as majors slip on hawkish Fed bets
Ether, solana, tron and dogecoin all shed ground over 24 hours while HYPE added about 4%, leaving bitcoin flat on the week after August’s 24% run.
$1.9 trillion asset manager T. Rowe Price bets on active management with first multi-token crypto ETF
T. Rowe Price has brought what it said is the industry’s first actively managed multi-token spot crypto exchange-traded fund (ETF) to the market. The T. Rowe Price Active Crypto ETF (TKNZ) began trading on Thursday, giving investors exposure to a portfolio of crypto assets rather… Read More
Americans traded $571 million on Polymarket politic bets despite U.S. ban
As such, Allium can tie only about 6% of Polymarket’s political-market wallets to a country – so the firm says the figures should be read as directional rather than exact. Polymarket did not immediately respond to request for comments ahead of U.S. market hours. Meanwhile,… Read More