“People were keenly aware, like me, they were bulled up because it was ‘go’ time,” Connors said. “We were going to go to that $250,000 to $300,000, $400,000 level using previous cycles.” Instead, the market turned against them. “The movement was obviously not onchain data.… Read More
Altcoins left behind For altcoins, the picture is reversed. In CoinDesk Research’s basket of altcoins, dollar depth was greatest on Jan. 1, 2025, and has been lower on each date measured since. Depth at 5% from the price is down about a third since the… Read More
Perpetual futures tied to SK Hynix, a South Korean chipmaker whose American depositary receipts debuted on Nasdaq earlier this month, suffered a flash crash on Hyperliquid shortly before the underlying share price came under pressure in its home market. Between 23:00 UTC and 23:01 UTC,… Read More
The two biggest DeFi exploits of the past two months have one thing in common. They used a tool that does not exist on the XRP Ledger. Thorchain lost roughly $10.8 million on May 15 to a cross-chain attack that drained funds across Bitcoin, Ethereum,… Read More
The crypto market dropped back on Thursday with bitcoin BTC$80,840.60 losing around 0.7% since midnight UTC following Wednesday’s rally to a three-month high of $82,800. Ether lost around 1% during Asia and European hours, now trading at $2,325 having briefly topped $2,420 on Wednesday. The… Read More
By Francisco Rodrigues (All times ET unless indicated otherwise) Bitcoin BTC$102,785.08 briefly slipped below $100,000 for the first time since June as a wave of liquidations and shifting macro expectations triggered a broad crypto sell-off. The leading cryptocurrency is now down more than 20% from… Read More
