The Ethereum Staking Queue Is 42 Days Long. The Fed Pays More.
Ethereum's exit queue emptied, but 2.4 million ETH is stuck in a 42 day entry line for a 2.66% yield the Federal Reserve currently beats.
Ethereum's exit queue emptied, but 2.4 million ETH is stuck in a 42 day entry line for a 2.66% yield the Federal Reserve currently beats.
One pre-market trade at a 29.96% discount dragged Hyperliquid's SK Hynix perp to $927, an hour before Seoul opened and crashed harder.
BitMEX invented the perpetual swap and once held 57% of crypto derivatives. It shuts down on 23 September while trading $138 million a day.
In one week, CME sued the CFTC over perps, Oman made its national Bitcoin mining pool mandatory, and China advanced a SWIFT rival. Three layers, one pattern: states and incumbents claiming crypto's rails.
Trump signed the Iran deal and stocks rallied, but crypto fell after Warsh's first Fed meeting signaled fewer cuts. Here is what the dot plot means for Bitcoin's range into Q3.
A US-Iran deal to end hostilities and reopen the Strait of Hormuz sent oil sliding and Bitcoin above $65,500, a two-week high. The catch: it fixes oil, not crypto's demand problem.
Crypto built a $557M shadow market for SpaceX before its Nasdaq debut, pricing it above the IPO. Then the tokenized shares fell apart on Binance, Bybit and Bitget.
HIP-4 went live on mainnet with zero fees to open and a 1 million HYPE staking requirement for builders. Polymarket charges up to 2% on winners. That gap is the entire pitch.
The venture capital giant filed an 18-page letter telling federal regulators to hold the line. On the other side: a coalition of attorneys general from nearly every state in the country.
Three funding rounds in seven months. Annualized volume tripled to $178 billion. Five states are suing it. Coatue, Sequoia, and Morgan Stanley all wrote checks anyway.
The attacker funded the node through Monero and Hyperliquid weeks before the theft. Chainalysis mapped the entire trail. THORChain paused all trading.
Hyperliquid's HYPE token printed a fresh all-time high of $69.97, up more than 67% on the month. ETF inflows, fee-funded buybacks and a CFTC ruling are all feeding the same fire.
Three DeFi protocols paid out $96 million to holders in a single month. Hyperliquid led the group, and unlike most of its peers, every dollar of revenue went straight back to token holders.
He turned $7,600 into $25 million on PEPE. He built an $87 million account on Hyperliquid. He opened a perpetual futures position with $1.25 billion in notional exposure — on roughly $31 million of actual margin. On April 6, 2026, his account had $914 in it. This is the full story of how that happened — and what it reveals about leverage trading in crypto.
Solana-based tokens claiming exposure to Anthropic and OpenAI dropped 40% after both companies said unauthorized share transfers carry no value. PreStocks held $23 million against a $1.5 trillion implied valuation.
Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan called Hyperliquid one of the most mispriced assets in crypto. The firm launched a HYPE ETF on the NYSE, pledged to buy and hold HYPE with 10% of its management fees, and published a memo arguing investors are making two fundamental errors in how they value the token.