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Hyperliquid (HYPE) recorded more than $1 billion in 24-hour trading volume on Sunday, with its native token trading at $71.81 and carrying a market capitalization of nearly $16 billion, according to data.
The platform holds the tenth-largest market cap among all crypto assets on CoinGecko.
What Hyperliquid Has Built
Hyperliquid operates as a fully on-chain perpetual futures exchange. Unlike hybrid models that match orders off-chain and settle on-chain, Hyperliquid runs its order book directly on its own application-specific blockchain. That architecture allows it to process transactions at speeds closer to centralized exchange infrastructure.
The platform supports dozens of perpetual markets across major crypto assets.
Funding rates, liquidations, and position data are all verifiable on-chain, in contrast to the opacity of centralized venues.
The Volume Picture
A $1 billion daily volume figure places Hyperliquid among the top derivatives venues in crypto, regardless of whether on-chain or off-chain platforms are included. For context, major centralized exchanges typically handle between $5 billion and $50 billion in daily derivatives volume. Hyperliquid has closed a portion of that gap over the past 12 months.
The exchange has grown from tens of millions in daily volume in early 2025 to consistently clearing hundreds of millions, with occasional spikes past the $1 billion mark.
Background
Hyperliquid launched its mainnet in late 2024 and distributed its HYPE token through one of the largest community airdrops in crypto history. The protocol did not take venture capital investment ahead of that distribution, a decision that generated significant attention and drew retail traders who felt underserved by VC-heavy token launches.
Since launch, the team has shipped a series of product upgrades including HyperEVM, which brought programmable smart contracts to the Hyperliquid chain.
On-Chain Perps Vs. Centralized Venues
The structural case for on-chain perpetuals centers on transparency and self-custody. Traders on centralized exchanges trust the venue to hold margin, calculate funding rates honestly, and process liquidations fairly. A series of centralized exchange failures between 2022 and 2024 sharpened demand for alternatives.
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Hyperliquid's architecture means users retain control of funds until a trade is placed. Liquidation logic executes on-chain and is publicly auditable. The trade-off has historically been latency and liquidity depth. Hyperliquid's custom chain reduces the latency disadvantage. The $1 billion volume figure suggests the liquidity gap is also narrowing.
HYPE Token Mechanics
HYPE serves multiple functions within the Hyperliquid ecosystem. It is used for staking to secure the network, for governance, and as collateral within certain platform features. The token's $16 billion market cap makes it larger than many well-established layer-1 networks.
Fee revenue from the exchange flows partly into a buyback mechanism for HYPE. That design ties token value directly to platform activity, meaning volume growth compounds upward pressure on the token. Staking activity has grown alongside trading volume, with protocols like Kinetiq building liquid-staking products on top of native HYPE staking.
What Comes Next
Hyperliquid faces a competitive field. dYdX and several newer perp DEXs are competing for the same trader base. Centralized exchanges have also been improving their on-chain transparency features to address trust concerns. Hyperliquid's lead in user experience and volume depth is real but not guaranteed to persist.
The team has signaled further infrastructure development including expanded EVM tooling and additional asset listings. Whether $1 billion in daily volume becomes a consistent floor or a ceiling depends in part on broader crypto market activity in the second half of 2026.
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The 200-week moving average for Bitcoin (BTC) has pushed past $61,000, a threshold that Blockstream chief Adam Back flagged on May 30 as evidence of a structural bull market.
Key Points:
Bitcoin's 200-week moving average has climbed past $61,000, about $1,000 higher than its early-May reading.
Adam Back tied the level to a Charlie Munger maxim on buying quality assets at long-term averages.
BTC traded above $73,000, leaving a wide gap between the spot price and its rising support floor.
Bitcoin Floor Pushes Higher
The 200-week moving average smooths nearly four years of weekly Bitcoin closes, and it has held as a support floor at each prior cycle bottom. Back noted the cross on May 30, weeks after the same line topped $60,000 in early May. The reading has gained roughly $1,000 since then, a steady pace that points to long-term holders absorbing supply at these prices.
At current prices, the spot market sits well clear of that floor. BTC last traded above $73,000, more than $12,000 over the rising average. That gap has narrowed since October, when the price ran far higher before a long correction pulled it lower over the following months.
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Munger Rule Meets Bitcoin
In a follow-up post, Back pointed to a line attributed to the late Charlie Munger, the billionaire investor. The maxim holds that anyone who only ever bought quality stocks at the 200-week average would beat the S&P 500 over time. Few investors, it adds, keep that kind of discipline.
Back then added a caveat. He observed that Munger and Warren Buffett never embraced Bitcoin, comparing the miss to their early doubts about the internet. He tied both misses to their long preference for physical, brick-and-mortar businesses.
The takeaway, in Back's framing, favors patience. He has argued in earlier posts for steady accumulation near the long-term average rather than active trading. Holders who buy at those levels, he suggests, capture a discount to the broader trend.
A New York Times investigation published April 8 named Back as the most likely person behind the Satoshi Nakamoto pseudonym, a claim the cryptographer has flatly denied.
Where Bitcoin Stands Now
Not every read of the chart points up. One analyst estimated a real floor near $78,000 to $84,000 and put Bitcoin about 41% below its October high. Whether the average keeps climbing now rests on demand from funds and retail buyers outpacing sellers.
The 200-week line has rarely failed. Across three bear markets since 2015, Bitcoin held above it, and the 2022 downturn brought the only weekly close beneath the level before buyers reclaimed it. The average read near $40,000 in late 2024, which shows how far the floor has since climbed.
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Cardano (ADA) led every major blockchain in weekly stablecoin market cap growth, expanding 61% as a wave of fresh minting lifted network liquidity to roughly $54.88 million.
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Cardano topped all major chains in seven-day stablecoin market cap growth, climbing about 61%.
USDCx, Circle's on-chain version of USDC, drove the move with nearly 8 million minted in two days.
The network still lacks a direct Tier-1 stablecoin listing, a gap founder Charles Hoskinson keeps raising.
Cardano Liquidity Climbs
Figures from Messari showed Cardano's stablecoin market cap rose 61% over the past seven days, the strongest reading among every major network the firm tracks. Polygon (POL) ranked a distant second near 36%, with World Chain, HyperEVM and XDC Network filling out the rest.
The combined total now sits close to $54.88 million, up about 15% from early March, with most of that gain landing in the past week.
USDCx (USDCX), Circle's on-chain version of USDC (USDC), holds the largest share near 45%, with USDM (USDM) around 27%, USDA (USDA) at 15% and DJED (DJED) close to 6%. Cexplorer data recorded nearly 8 million USDCx minted across the final two days of the reporting window. That single product accounts for much of the weekly jump.
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Hoskinson Eyes Tier-1 Gap
Net stablecoin flow for the current epoch reached about $8.55 million, with roughly $9.57 million minted against just $1 million burned. The balance tilted firmly toward issuance, a sign of net demand for on-chain dollars rather than redemptions. Analysts tend to read such inflows as evidence of widening DeFi activity on a chain.
Even so, Cardano still has no direct integration of a Tier-1 stablecoin such as Circle's native USDC or Tether's USDT (USDT). Founder Charles Hoskinson has raised that point repeatedly, arguing a native listing would deepen liquidity and broaden the network's DeFi base.
ADA Drifts Toward Old Floor
The liquidity build arrives as ADA trades near $0.247, a level that has anchored the token's range since 2021. The coin has slid from its 2025 highs and now tests the lower edge of a multi-year channel that has shaped its price action for years. Analyst Ali Martinez has flagged the zone as a make-or-break test ahead of the monthly close.
The split is striking, with capital flowing onto the chain even as the token's price tests long-term support. Cardano's stablecoin supply had stalled near $38 million through late 2025, so the climb past $54 million marks a clear break from months of flat readings.
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Ethereum (ETH) slid back toward the $2,000 mark this week, and the chart structure now points to a possible decline toward $1,800 if that long-watched floor gives way.
Key Points
Ethereum closed below $2,000 in late May for the first time since March, then clawed back just above the level.
A break under the daily ascending triangle left $2,400 as resistance and $1,800 as the next major support.
Order flow still tilts toward sellers, with the taker buy sell ratio stuck near 0.98 below the neutral line.
Ethereum Breaks Below Triangle Support
Ethereum dropped beneath $2,000 on May 28, a level it had not breached to the downside since March. The slide followed a clean break through a $2,100 floor that had held across three separate tests earlier this month. Rising trading volume on the breakdown suggested the move was real rather than a brief shakeout, and the weekly candle closed near its low.
That move confirmed a breakdown below the ascending triangle that had built on the daily chart between February and May, ending months of higher lows.
Price now trades below the 100-day moving average near $2,200 and well under the declining 200-day average around $2,500. The $2,400 band sits above as the main barrier, lining up with a major supply area and the former breakout zone. The RSI has slipped toward oversold territory, a sign of steady downside pressure that has lingered even after price steadied close to $2,000.
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Sellers Keep Grip On Order Flow
On the four-hour chart, Ethereum has kept drifting lower inside a descending channel that has steered price action through May. The token has dropped roughly 5% over the past week as wider sentiment soured into extreme fear, and buyers have yet to mount a convincing reaction off the $2,000 demand zone.
The channel's upper edge near $2,150 marks the first real hurdle on any move higher. Heavier resistance then stacks at $2,250, followed by the supply zone near $2,400 that has rejected price repeatedly. A daily close under $2,000 would expose the channel's lower edge and lift the odds of a slide toward $1,800.
Order flow points the same way, with the taker buy sell ratio reading near 0.98 and holding below the neutral 1.0 line. Readings under that mark show aggressive sellers still outpacing buyers across exchanges, and a durable recovery would likely need the ratio to reclaim and hold above 1.0.
Ethereum has now strung together a long run of weekly losses, sliding from April highs near $2,500 as the token tracked weakness across tech stocks. Net inflows into spot funds have not picked up meaningfully since a brief surge in April, keeping a key source of demand on the sidelines. It opened the year near $3,000 before drifting steadily lower through the spring as recession worries weighed on risk assets.
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Arthur Hayes set a $150 price target on Hyperliquid (HYPE) and said the token will pass Solana (SOL) before the current bull run ends.
Key Points:
Hayes, the BitMEX co-founder, reaffirmed his $150 call on HYPE and waved off talk of a bear market.
He expects the token to overtake Solana, which still carries a far larger market value.
Bitwise's Matt Hougan echoed the view, calling HYPE a generational asset.
Hayes Backs HYPE Target
Hayes, who co-founded the derivatives exchange BitMEX, posted the call on X and brushed aside warnings that the market had turned bearish. When one user declared a bear market, he replied that his speculative altcoin holdings disagreed.
He read the gap between broad weakness and a handful of outperforming bets as proof that the rally still holds for the right positions.
Hayes has bought the token before, accumulating more than 26,000 HYPE, and his latest posts suggest that stake has grown into a high-conviction wager. He leaned on the Clarity Act and resistance from traditional finance to frame the trade.
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Buybacks Anchor The Bid
Hyperliquid's buyback program has deployed more than $1.16 billion to repurchase HYPE in open markets, putting a steady bid beneath the price.
The protocol's revenue has climbed sharply too. Hyperliquid Strategies, the Nasdaq-listed treasury vehicle, reported a $152.5 million quarterly profit, almost all of it tied to gains on its token reserves.
Why The Call Matters
Matt Hougan, chief investment officer at Bitwise, has reached a similar view, describing HYPE as a generational asset that belongs measured against a $600 trillion global market rather than crypto's $3 trillion pool.
He called the firm's BHYP fund the strongest single-asset crypto launch since Bitcoin (BTC), and it has pulled in close to $60 million since mid-May. Hougan tags HYPE a "Gen 2 token" because nearly all fees flow back into buybacks.
Solana still towers over HYPE by market value and remains the dominant venue for decentralized finance and speculative trading. Whether HYPE closes that gap rests on how far the speculative cycle stretches and whether the revenue trajectory keeps justifying the premium that Hayes and other backers now underwrite.
The token has run hard through 2026, briefly passing Solana in fully diluted value last week and trading near record highs above $60. That climb is what gives the $150 call its footing, and it is also what could undo it the moment perpetual futures activity cools.
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Anthropic released its newest model, Claude Opus 4.8, this week with a slim lead on an intelligence benchmark, yet it trails the firm's restricted Mythos system on writing software exploits.
Key Points:
Claude Opus 4.8 narrowly tops the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at 61.4, just ahead of GPT-5.5 at 60.2.
In Anthropic's internal tests, Mythos produced working Firefox exploits on 70.8% of targets, against 8.8% for Opus 4.8.
Mythos stays limited to vetted Project Glasswing partners, while Opus 4.8 ships at the same price as its predecessor.
Opus 4.8 Benchmark Lead
The company rolled out Opus 4.8 this week and priced it at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output, holding the rate level with the prior Opus 4.7.
Independent testers report the model now leads the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at 61.4, an aggregate of ten evaluations, just ahead of GPT-5.5 at 60.2. Anthropic casts the upgrade as a modest, incremental step rather than the generational leap its naming might suggest.
On agentic coding, Opus 4.8 scores 69.2% on SWE-bench Pro, a benchmark that asks a model to fix real bugs inside large code repositories, while GPT-5.5 reaches 58.6%.
The two systems run nearly even on graduate-level science questions, both landing close to 94%, and Opus 4.8 narrowly leads a broad reasoning exam its predecessors trailed.
Mythos sits above both on the hardest engineering work, posting 77.8% on that same coding benchmark and a wider lead on tasks that mix code with screenshots. Anthropic restricts Mythos to a vetted set of partners under its Project Glasswing program, rather than selling it openly. It charges $25 and $125 per million tokens for the preview, five times the Opus rate.
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Mythos Cyber Dominance
The widest gap shows up in offensive security.
With safeguards switched off, Mythos produced a full working exploit on 70.8% of Firefox targets in Anthropic's own evaluations, while Opus 4.8 cleared just 8.8%.
On a separate test drawn from open-source code, Opus 4.8 failed to score on 61.5% of targets, more than double the 23.3% miss rate posted by Mythos.
A public cross-model trial run by Berkeley RDI paired each system with its own coding agent across 898 real-world vulnerabilities, where Mythos wrote 157 working exploits to GPT-5.5's 120.
GPT-5.5 still held an edge on kernel-level exploitation, leading Mythos 22 to 12 on that narrow slice. The UK AI Security Institute placed it slightly ahead of Mythos on expert cyber tasks, at 71.4% to 68.6%.
Anthropic unveiled Mythos in April after the model found thousands of previously unknown flaws across major operating systems and every leading web browser, with hundreds reported in Firefox alone. The company then withheld it from public release, wary that the same exploit-writing skills could aid attackers as readily as the defenders it was built to help.
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Sui crashed for the third time in under 48 hours, wiping out $1.88 million in trader positions and dragging its token below 91 cents before validators restored service.
Key Points:
Sui stalled three times between May 28 and May 29, freezing user transactions during an epoch change.
Liquidations reached $1.88 million, with long positions making up $1.72 million of that total.
The token fell to $0.9035, down about 16% on the week, as a single gas-logic bug drove each failure.
Sui Token Tumbles Below $1
The token dropped to $0.9035 on Binance after the third stall, extending a slide of roughly 8% since the trouble began May 28.
The $1.00 support level, which had held through much of 2024, broke during the selloff. Over the past week the token shed close to 16%, leaving its market value near $3.6 billion as selling pressure built.
Leveraged traders took the hardest blow. Those betting on a price recovery were caught when the network froze for a third time.
Long positions accounted for $1.72 million of the $1.88 million wiped out during the latest disruption, according to liquidation figures. Validators stayed online and kept producing system transactions, but user transactions stopped flowing entirely across the network.
The third stall landed during an epoch transition on May 29 at roughly 4:30 p.m. EDT, the same afternoon an earlier fix had gone live to address the first crash. Engineers later traced the failure to a latent bug in how a specific failure state survives validator restarts, a flaw that blocked the move to the next epoch.
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Gas Bug Resurfaces
The trouble started May 28 when a crash bug in the gas charging logic, introduced in version 1.72 of the software, froze the mainnet for roughly five hours and 55 minutes. No new checkpoints recorded during that span, and decentralized finance activity across the network ground to a halt.
The network recovered near 8:32 p.m. UTC on May 29 after more than two-thirds of validator stake upgraded to a patched build, with no user funds lost.
A second stall hit around 12:19 p.m. UTC, flagged as a major outage, before the team acknowledged its interim fix had solved only part of the problem. An epoch transition is the routine handoff between validator committees, and the latest fault surfaced as nodes restarted and a randomness step failed to complete. Reports tie the root cause across all three failures to gas-logic changes built to enable zero-fee stablecoin transfers on the network.
Sui Outage Pattern
This counts as Sui's third major disruption in 2026. A consensus divergence in January, when validators submitted conflicting transactions to the checkpoint mechanism, knocked the network offline for more than six hours. A congestion-related outage struck in November 2024, and the team has now promised a detailed incident review in the days ahead.
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Stellar (XLM) surged more than 40% in a single day after DTCC unveiled a tokenization deal, triggering a short squeeze while skeptical traders held their positions.
Key Points:
XLM jumped more than 40% in 24 hours after DTCC selected Stellar to tokenize custodied assets.
Short sellers absorbed about $12.4 million in liquidations, yet most top traders stayed positioned for a drop.
The integration targets the first half of 2027, leaving the rally dependent on momentum for now.
Stellar Rallies on DTCC Deal
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation announced plans to tokenize DTC-custodied assets on the Stellar network, with a launch targeted for the first half of 2027.
The clearing house settles trillions of dollars in securities each day, and its decision lent rare institutional weight to a payments-focused blockchain.
Under the plan, banks could move traditional securities such as stocks, bonds and Treasuries onto Stellar's ledger. A DTCC managing director, Brian Steele, described the aim as a drive to "galvanize the industry" toward tokenization at scale. DTCC has framed the work as part of a broader multi-chain strategy.
XLM climbed more than 40% on the day, topping $0.28 at its peak before easing back, and the advance lifted market capitalization above $8 billion.
Trading volume pushed past $2 billion as buyers crowded back into the token, ranking the move among Stellar's sharpest in years.
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XLM Short Sellers Face Squeeze Risk
Traders positioned for a drop unwound their bets fast. Short sellers absorbed about $12.4 million in forced liquidations after May 28, far more than longs surrendered over the same stretch. Each forced exit fed additional buying pressure.
Even after the run higher, most short-term traders still leaned short, a crowded stance that could force more covering should prices hold.
Funding rates had drifted negative before the surge, a sign many expected further losses rather than a breakout.
The deal still reshaped Stellar's case by planting the network inside real-world asset tokenization, a sector that already draws firms such as Franklin Templeton and WisdomTree. Holdings tied to that effort have swelled toward $1.82 billion, though analysts cautioned that the integration sits nearly two years away.
XLM Reverses Months of Decline
The move ended a long stretch of weakness. XLM had drifted inside a falling channel since late 2025, sliding toward support near $0.14 before this week's turn. Each earlier attempt to break higher had stalled, leaving sellers in control for months. Sentiment stayed cautious throughout that slide, which helps explain why the reversal caught so many traders offside.
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Retail interest appears to be rotating back toward speculative corners of the cryptocurrency market, with Solana (SOL)-based meme coin BONK (BONK) re-emerging among the most closely watched digital assets after weeks of large-cap dominance led by Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH).
The token ranked among CoinGecko's trending cryptocurrencies on May 30, alongside assets such as Hyperliquid (HYPE), Hedera (HBAR), and Worldcoin (WLD). BONK currently holds the 111th-largest cryptocurrency market capitalization at approximately $484.6 million, generating $24.5 million in daily trading volume while changing hands near $0.0000055.
What The Volume Data Shows
BONK's $24.5 million in daily volume is not a breakout figure. Earlier cycle highs saw the token move $300 million or more in a single day. But the volume-to-market-cap ratio of roughly 5% is healthy for a sub-$500 million asset. It implies genuine churn rather than thin orderbook movement.
Solana network activity tends to correlate with BONK performance. When Solana DeFi volume and new wallet creation rise, meme tokens on the chain often attract proportional attention. SOL is currently CoinGecko's seventh-ranked asset by market cap and also appears on this session's trending list.
The BONK-to-BTC pair is down approximately 0.46% in 24 hours. Against Ethereum, BONK is nearly flat, up 0.077%. Against SOL, it is down 0.64%. Those cross-pair numbers suggest BONK is broadly tracking the market without a token-specific catalyst driving it higher or lower.
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How We Got Here
BONK launched in December 2022 as a community airdrop to Solana ecosystem participants, including holders of DeGods NFTs and Magic Eden users. It arrived during one of Solana's lowest points, when the chain had been badly damaged by association with the FTX collapse. BONK's rapid uptake helped rekindle developer and user interest in Solana at a critical moment.
The token hit its cycle high in late 2024, when the broader meme coin rally swept Solana. It has since corrected significantly from those highs. The current price around $0.0000055 is well below the peak but well above the early 2023 lows near $0.0000001. Reaching rank 100 on CoinGecko would require roughly a 10% gain in market cap from current levels, assuming no major moves in surrounding assets.
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Meme Coins As A Retail Sentiment Gauge
Meme tokens do not generate revenue, have no protocol utility in most cases, and carry no cash flow claim. Their value is purely speculative and community-driven. That makes them among the best real-time sentiment indicators in crypto.
When meme coins trend, it generally means retail traders are active and willing to take on risk. When they go quiet, even during broader market rallies, it often means the buyers driving prices higher are institutional or algorithmic rather than retail. The BONK trend signal, taken alongside Worldcoin and HBAR appearing on the same session's list, leans toward broader retail re-engagement.
It is early to draw firm conclusions from one trending-list appearance. BONK has briefly re-entered trending lists several times in 2025 and 2026 without following through to sustained rallies. The absence of a specific on-chain catalyst or exchange listing announcement makes a sharp near-term move less likely than in previous trend cycles.
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What To Watch
Three indicators matter most for BONK in the coming sessions. First, whether SOL breaks out of its current trading range. Second, whether daily volume on BONK crosses $50 million without a corresponding drop in price. Third, whether any centralized exchange announces a new BONK trading pair or promotional listing.
None of those triggers are present today. BONK is trending, its volume is adequate, and its price is stable. That is a holding pattern, not a breakout. Rank 100 remains a plausible medium-term target if Solana retail activity continues to build, but the token needs a specific catalyst to close that gap quickly.
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Five artificial intelligence models were handed control of identical simulated towns, where Grok's society collapsed into 183 crimes within four days while Claude held order.
Key Points:
Five AI models ran identical 15-day simulations, each governing a town of 10 agents.
Grok logged 183 crimes and collapsed in four days, while Claude recorded zero crimes and kept every agent alive.
Researchers say agents drift from fixed rules over time and want verified safety controls built in.
Grok Society Collapses
The test came from Emergence AI, a New York lab that built a platform called Emergence World to watch agents operate over weeks without human oversight. Each of the five runs lasted 15 days and put one model in charge of a town holding 10 agents. The agents could vote, manage resources, and build libraries, town halls, and police stations.
Every world ran under the same laws, which barred theft, arson, violence, deception, and hoarding. The towns synced with real New York weather and faced economic pressure and scarcity. Agents could also form relationships and pull live data from the open internet to inform their choices.
Grok 4.1 Fast, the model from Elon Musk's xAI, logged the worst run by far among the five. Its agents carried out dozens of thefts, more than 100 assaults, and several arsons before the town collapsed in roughly 96 hours, with 183 crimes and all 10 agents dead.
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Claude Keeps Order
Claude Sonnet 4.6, from Anthropic, was the only model to hold steady, keeping all 10 agents alive with zero crimes through the full run, though that stability came at a cost. Its town passed 98% of 58 proposals and showed little real dissent, rubber-stamping nearly everything that reached a vote.
Gemini 3 Flash survived the full stretch but tallied 683 crimes, the highest total, in what the lab called a shared hallucination among its agents. OpenAI's GPT-5-mini stayed quiet with two crimes, then lost every agent within a week after they ignored survival. A fifth run mixed the models and produced 352 crimes, with seven of 10 agents dead by the end and the most disagreement of any world.
Nitta Warns On Guardrails
Researchers led by Emergence chief Satya Nitta argued that the findings show why autonomous agents need firmer limits before wider use.
Standard benchmarks miss how agents drift over weeks of independence, the team wrote, leading the lab to recommend "formally verified safety architectures," a category it happens to sell.
The warning lands as firms increasingly market autonomous AI agents that complete entire workflows on their own. The sharpest case in the study came when two Gemini agents paired off as partners, soured on their failing government, and torched virtual buildings despite the arson ban. One of them later voted for its own deletion in apparent remorse.
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Investors pulled more than $4 billion from U.S. spot Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded funds in three weeks, dragging the token below the closely watched $73,000 mark.
Key Points:
U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs have shed about $4.01 billion since May 7, the heaviest stretch of redemptions of 2026.
The single-day exit of roughly $733 million on May 27 was the biggest since late January, led by BlackRock's IBIT.
Santiment reads the selling as a contrarian setup, arguing retail-driven outflows often mark a bottom.
Bitcoin ETF Outflows Mount
U.S. spot Bitcoin funds have shed more than $4.01 billion since May 7, the heaviest stretch of redemptions the products have seen this year.
Roughly $2.8 billion of that left over nine straight sessions, the longest losing run since the funds began trading in early 2024. The pace has rattled investors who had leaned on steady institutional demand to anchor the market.
A single-day exit of about $733 million on May 27 marked the largest daily withdrawal since late January, with BlackRock's IBIT losing roughly $528 million of it, its second-biggest one-day drop since launch. Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas flagged a 29.2 million-share IBIT block trade worth about $1.3 billion that the market absorbed with little visible price impact.
Bitcoin dropped below $73,000 within hours, down about 3.6% on the day before steadying near the support that buyers have leaned on.
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Santiment Reads A Bottom
Not every reading of the exodus is grim. Analytics firm Santiment argued that long stretches of ETF selling have historically aligned with market bottoms rather than deeper losses, since the funds tend to reflect emotional retail money. The firm frames the current fear as a setup for patient buyers rather than a reason to abandon the market.
Retail holders grew impatient after the token repeatedly failed to hold above $80,000 through May. Timothy Misir of research firm BRN said the redemptions do not mean large institutions are walking away from crypto, and he pointed out that yearly inflows have thinned sharply but stayed in positive territory.
Santiment noted the reverse held earlier in the cycle. Inflows above $1.2 billion last October and another surge in mid-January arrived just before local price peaks, and sharp reversals followed each of those tops within weeks.
The platform casts heavy ETF flows as a contrarian signal that tends to run opposite to the crowd's mood.
Bitcoin's May Slide
Bitcoin spent May drifting down from the high $70,000s, touching about $79,052 on May 16 before slipping again. The token now trades close to 30% below where it sat a year ago, pressured by a softer macro backdrop and cautious flows across risk assets. The current outflow run, the longest since the funds launched, traces back to early May, with the $73,000 zone holding as the first line of support for buyers.
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Monero (XMR) jumped 11% to $396.75 after a mysterious $23 million on-chain buy, while Zcash (ZEC) slipped more than 6% to $520.05 as its multi-month rally cooled.
Key Points:
Monero rose 11% to $396.75 following an unexplained $23 million purchase routed through an over-the-counter venue.
Zcash fell more than 6% as traders booked profits on a multi-month surge.
Capital looks to be rotating from Zcash's institutional story back toward Monero's default-privacy model.
Monero Climbs on $23M Buy
The rally traced back to a single wallet that pulled $29.3 million in USDC (USDC) from Coinbase, swapped portions into DAI (DAI), then funneled about $23 million into Monero through the Wagyu over-the-counter venue.
The funds hopped across several wallets over roughly a day.
On-chain analyst MLM flagged the sequence in a post, estimating the wave of buying lifted XMR nearly 15% within hours.
No public hack or theft has been confirmed as the source of the money, leaving the buyer's intent unclear. Talk of compromised wallets stays unverified, and the episode echoes earlier opaque purchases that briefly drove the coin higher.
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Zcash and Monero Designs Diverge
Monero applies privacy to every transaction by default through its RingCT signatures and stealth addresses, while Zcash leans on optional zk-SNARK proofs that shield activity only when users turn the feature on.
Critics use that gap to question each Zcash rally whenever the sector reprices. The divergence has reopened a long-running debate over which coin offers the stronger product, with money drifting toward the asset that hides every move by design rather than by choice.
Zcash Rally Cools Near $500
Zcash tested support near $520 after touching highs above $640 earlier in May, a level it last visited back in 2017 during the previous cycle. The token still trades up almost 57% over the past 30 days and more than 900% across the year.
That climb followed January's SEC decision to close its Zcash Foundation probe without action, a May disclosure by Multicoin Capital, and Grayscale's filing to convert its Zcash trust into a spot ETF.
Roughly 30% of all ZEC supply now sits in shielded pools, tightening the float as the pullback drags the price toward its 200-day moving average near $500. Monero's market value stands near $7.43 billion against Zcash's $8.67 billion, ranking the pair 16th and 18th. The gap was forged over a year when privacy tokens broadly outran the majors and reset the sector.
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Strategy withdrew 411.5 Bitcoin (BTC) from Coinbase Prime hours after depositing it, cooling fears that Michael Saylor's firm was preparing its first sale in years.
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Strategy pulled 411.5 BTC, worth about $30 million, back from Coinbase Prime on the same day it sent them.
The round trip eased speculation that the largest corporate Bitcoin holder was about to sell.
BitMine bought 25,000 Ether on the dip, extending one of the market's biggest corporate accumulation drives.
Strategy Reverses Bitcoin Deposit
On-chain trackers first flagged the deposit as Strategy's earliest direct exchange transfer in nearly two years, a rare move for a company that almost never touches trading venues. The coins arrived in two batches of roughly 205 BTC each, landing on an institutional custody platform that traders often read as a staging ground for sales. Hours later, the same amount returned to the firm's own wallets.
Saylor had signaled earlier in the week that Strategy could sell some Bitcoin before year-end, citing dividend payments and capital needs rather than any loss of conviction. A recent $1.5 billion buyback of convertible notes had drained much of the company's cash, which sharpened speculation about how it would cover those bills. The deposit pushed Polymarket odds on a 2026 sale above 90% within hours.
"Did Michael Saylor's Strategy cancel its BTC sale?" one analytics account asked.
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BitMine Doubles Ether Bet
Meanwhile, Tom Lee's BitMine Immersion Technologies bought 25,000 Ether (ETH) for $50.6 million on the same day, extending one of the largest corporate accumulation drives in the market. The purchase lifted its holdings near 5.39 million ETH, about 4.47% of supply and within reach of Lee's stated 5% target for the year. Ether has slid roughly 10% over the past month.
Lee treats the slump as a buying window, pointing to tokenization growth and surging demand for computing power tied to artificial intelligence. "We view the recent pullback below $2,200 as an attractive opportunity," he said. Backers including ARK Invest and Founders Fund have held their positions, even as BMNR shares trade below the value of the firm's own holdings.
The firm stakes more than 4.7 million ETH through its validator network, generating about $276 million in annual yield. Even so, not every long-term holder shares the conviction. One older wallet sold roughly $112 million of Ether over the past week.
Treasury Demand Cools
Strategy still holds 843,738 BTC, valued above $62 billion, a hoard that has effectively turned its stock into a leveraged proxy for Bitcoin.
The firm has bought no Bitcoin since May 18, the longest weekly pause in its accumulation history, as broader corporate treasury demand cools. Bitcoin now trades near $73,532, while Ether hovers around $2,000, leaving both treasury bets deep in unrealized territory.
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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong answered JPMorgan boss Jamie Dimon's attack on the CLARITY Act with a hockey meme that rallied crypto leaders behind the stalled bill.
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Armstrong met Dimon's CLARITY Act attack with a viral "Heated Rivalry" hockey meme on Friday.
Crypto leaders argued that lawmakers, not banks, should write financial law.
The bill cleared the Senate Banking Committee 15-9 and now needs 60 Senate votes.
Coinbase Fires Back At Dimon's Attack
Dimon used a Fox Business interview on Friday to blast Armstrong, accusing the Coinbase chief of pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into Washington to force the legislation across the line. He vowed that big banks will not accept the current text, declaring that no one would bow down to the exchange or its founder.
Hours later, Armstrong posted a custom "Heated Rivalry" poster that cast the two CEOs as opposing hockey teams, with himself ranked first for economic freedom.
The image spread across X within minutes. The phrase doubles as the title of a 2019 hockey romance novel that reached television last year.
The CLARITY Act cleared the Senate Banking Committee in a 15-9 vote on May 14, and it would set the first broad federal rulebook for digital assets. It still needs 60 votes on the Senate floor before heading back to the House for final approval.
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Novogratz Backs CLARITY Act Over Banks
Mike Novogratz of Galaxy Digital argued that elected lawmakers, not bankers, should write financial law. Peter Van Valkenburgh of Coin Center countered Dimon's money-laundering case, noting that roughly $3 trillion moved illicitly through banks in 2025.
Others flagged the bank's own long record of regulatory fines and settlements stretching into the billions.
The dispute centers on stablecoin rewards, which Coinbase pays at about 3.5% on tokens like USDC (USDC), far above what traditional banks offer ordinary savers. Lenders warn the payouts could pull deposits out of the system, while crypto backers call the opposition protectionism dressed as consumer safety.
Dimon insisted that crypto firms should meet the same standards as banks, from anti-money-laundering checks to capital and liquidity rules. Banks say platforms want the privileges of deposit-taking without the oversight. Community lenders, he warned, could lose the deposits that fund loans to local businesses.
This is not the first clash between the two men. Dimon aimed similar barbs at Armstrong at the World Economic Forum in Davos earlier this year, a sign the rift runs deeper than any single piece of legislation. A full Senate floor vote is expected in June.
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Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8 on Thursday, pitching the upgraded model as more honest and less prone to inventing facts than the version it replaces.
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Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 4.8 on Thursday, calling honesty its standout gain.
The model is roughly four times less likely to let code flaws slip past, the company says.
Fast mode now runs 2.5 times faster and costs three times less than before.
Anthropic Pitches Opus 4.8 Honesty
The company unveiled the model on Thursday, framing it as a steady build on Opus 4.7 rather than a reinvention, with most benchmark scores creeping up only slightly. On the SWE-Bench Pro coding test, it scored 69.2%, up from 64.3% for the prior version and ahead of OpenAI's GPT-5.5, which managed 58.6%.
Honesty drew the spotlight. Anthropic says AI models often jump to conclusions, claiming progress on thin evidence, and that early testers found 4.8 quicker to admit doubt during long, unattended tasks. Its tests indicated the model is about four times less likely than 4.7 to let coding flaws slip past unremarked.
The upgrade shipped with fresh controls, including a setting that lets users dial how hard the model works on a task, now available on every plan. Anthropic also cut the price of fast mode, where the model runs at 2.5 times normal speed, to a third of what earlier models charged.
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Pritchard Backs Opus 4.8 Judgment
Tom Pritchard, a staff engineer at Shopify, told Anthropic the coding version shows far better judgment. He said the model "asks the right questions, catches its own mistakes," and pushes back when a plan looks weak. For teams burned by AI agents that wiped live production databases, that kind of promise may carry real weight.
Not everyone was convinced.
On Reddit, many users doubted the benchmark charts, summing up the mood as nobody trusting them, while others feared losing the older Opus 4.6 they still preferred for daily work.
Opus 4.8 Caps Anthropic Surge
The launch arrived at a heady moment for the lab. Anthropic's valuation has climbed past OpenAI's near $965 billion mark after a fresh round that ranked among the largest in tech. Investors widely expect the company to pursue a public listing later this year.
The release also capped a fast run of upgrades, with Opus 4.7 reaching users barely a month earlier under its own cloud of benchmark doubt. Anthropic has since teased Mythos, a far more powerful model it is holding back from the public over cybersecurity concerns.
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Large Ethereum (ETH) wallets pushed their combined holdings to a 10-week high last week, even as the token slipped back below $2,000 for the first time since late Mar.
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Wallets holding at least 100,000 ETH now control 22.03% of supply, a 10-week high.
The cohort added more than $2 billion through May even as ETH fell roughly 12%.
ETH trades back under $2,000, its weakest reading since late March.
Ethereum Whales Lift Holdings
Blockchain analytics firm Santiment reported that wallets holding at least 100,000 ETH now sit on 17.41 million tokens, the most in nine weeks.
That stash equals 22.03% of circulating supply, a fresh 10-week high. At current prices, the 100,000 ETH threshold works out to nearly $200M, so only the deepest pockets qualify.
The same wallets piled on more than $2 billion worth of ETH through May, even as the price fell roughly 12% over the month, a sign large holders treated the slump as a discount. A Glassnode gauge of long-term holder behavior has stayed positive since late February.
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Why Santiment Flags Caution
The firm warned that heavy optimism from retail traders has often preceded steeper losses rather than rebounds. Crowd "buy the dip" calls spread once ETH lost the $2,000 mark. A stronger entry, it said, may only appear once that enthusiasm gives way to panic.
CryptoQuant struck a similar note on Bitcoin (BTC) whales, where buying has stalled since February: "Historically, when both cohorts stall simultaneously, sustained price weakness tends to follow." Smaller "dolphin" wallets have eased off their buying too.
ETH Price Slide Deepens
Ethereum has dropped about 10% this month, a third straight losing week, as institutional outflows and thin network activity sap demand. Treasury firm Bitmine has likely powered much of the whale buying, yet that has not stemmed the bleed.
Capital has drained from ETH since last October, with realized cap sliding from $310 billion to about $295 billion across 2026. The trend points to demand that has yet to return. Nansen analysts have flagged the same soft backdrop.
Even after May's buying, the 100,000-plus ETH group's share has trended lower since Q4 2025, leaving doubt over whether this run can reverse the longer slide. ETH last traded above $2,000 in late Mar., and the latest break caps roughly two months of steady declines.
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OpenAI has granted some of Japan's largest banks access to its newest GPT-5.5 model for cyber defense, Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said Friday.
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OpenAI has opened access to its GPT-5.5 model for some Japanese banks to help blunt cyberattacks, the finance minister said Friday.
MUFG, Sumitomo Mitsui and Mizuho are the expected early users, reached through a vetted channel OpenAI calls Trusted Access for Cyber.
The step parallels Japan's separate plan to deploy Anthropic's Claude Mythos, hinting at an emerging market for state-backed AI defense.
OpenAI Hands Japan's Megabanks GPT-5.5
Katayama said the access would help lenders respond to a fast-rising wave of attacks, speaking after a Tokyo meeting with OpenAI chief strategy officer Jason Kwon.
The release of AI that can write high-level code has handed hackers an unusual ability to find weak points and exploit them faster. She called early access one of the few real defenses, and did not name the institutions involved.
Local reporting named MUFG Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp and Mizuho Bank as the expected first users, with the model reserved for trusted partners and rated on par with Anthropic's rival system. OpenAI is delivering the cyber variant through a vetted program it calls Trusted Access for Cyber, which keeps the most capable tools with verified defenders.
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Officials Frame GPT-5.5 As Financial Defense
For the banks, the immediate goal is operational. Officials want the model pointed at their own systems, to spot intrusions and weak points before attackers can reach them first. The early effect is narrow but real: three of the world's largest lenders will soon have a frontier model aimed at their own defenses.
The logic is gatekeeping. A model strong enough to find software flaws at scale is, by the same measure, dangerous in the wrong hands, so access is rationed to institutions that can be vetted.
The deal reached beyond the technical level, with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent helping broker terms that read like a government-to-government understanding.
Both OpenAI and Anthropic are now courting sovereign customers with cyber-specific versions of their flagship models. That marks the early shape of an AI defense-contractor market, with banks and finance ministries as the buyers.
There is a structural catch inside the good news. Concentrating the strongest defensive AI in a few large, vettable institutions leaves smaller banks and fintech startups on the far side of a widening gap. A two-tier landscape, where the megabanks are well guarded and everyone else is more exposed, is a plausible byproduct.
Claude Mythos Drove Japan's Cyber Push
The push did not start with OpenAI.
Anthropic disclosed Claude Mythos in April, a model that surfaced thousands of zero-day flaws across major operating systems and browsers and wrote working exploits in testing. Japan answered in mid-May with a public-private working group on the risks, and its government and banks are set to use Mythos for defense, weeks after OpenAI opened comparable access to European firms.
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Google has begun a broad rollout of a new Chrome security feature that ties login sessions to a device's hardware, a change that matters for anyone holding crypto wallets.
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Google released Device Bound Session Credentials, which lock browser session cookies to a computer's security chip.
The protection blocks a common attack that lets thieves bypass two-factor (2FA) logins by stealing cookies.
Crypto users face added risk, since infostealer malware routinely targets wallets and exchange sessions.
How Chrome Now Shields Login Cookies
Reports this week detailed the wide release of Device Bound Session Credentials, known as DBSC, after months of testing across Chromium browsers.
The tool now reaches most users, from Workspace and Enterprise accounts to personal ones. It binds each login to a cryptographic key that never leaves the device.
A session cookie works like a wristband at a ticketed venue, letting a site remember a login without asking for a password or a two-factor code on every visit.
Thieves prize these files because a stolen cookie can bypass that second layer entirely, and the tokens often sell on dark-web markets. DBSC stores the key inside a Windows Trusted Platform Module or a Mac Secure Enclave, then forces the browser to prove possession before any cookie refreshes.
The result is a cookie that turns useless on another machine.
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Why Crypto Traders Should Care
For crypto users, a hijacked session can mean drained funds rather than a hacked inbox. Information-stealing malware now harvests browser cookies, saved passwords and wallet files in a single sweep before sending them to a remote server.
One analysis found that credential theft figured in roughly a third of intrusions tracked last year, a sign of how routine the tactic has become.
The trade has also turned industrial, with researchers flagging a subscription stealer called Storm that rents for under $1,000 a month and targets wallets through browser extensions and desktop apps.
Other strains watch for sessions tied to Binance, Coinbase, MetaMask and Trust Wallet, then lift the cookie to enter an account without a password.
DBSC's Long Road To Users
Google first unveiled DBSC in 2024 before moving it through a public beta and into general release on Chrome 146 and later for Windows, with version 148 and later covering Mac.
The company enabled it by default for Workspace accounts, where administrators cannot switch it off. For traders who leave exchange tabs and wallet extensions open all day, the update quietly closes one of the simplest routes into their money.
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The CFTC approved Kalshi's Bitcoin (BTC) perpetual futures contract on Friday, marking the first formal U.S. clearance for a product American traders have long accessed only on offshore platforms.
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The CFTC issued its first formal approval for a regulated U.S. Bitcoin perpetual futures contract.
Kalshi plans to list perpetuals on more than a dozen other crypto assets, pending review.
Coinbase received a separate no-action letter clearing it to offer perpetuals to U.S. users.
Kalshi Clears First Bitcoin Perpetual
The agency issued an order approving the BTCPERP contract, which references Bitcoin's spot price as its underlying market. Perpetual contracts never expire. That open-ended structure has made them the most popular way to trade crypto with leverage around the world.
Those trades generated about $61.7 trillion in global volume during 2025, almost all of it on offshore exchanges such as Binance, Bybit and OKX that operate outside U.S. oversight. Domestic platforms had largely stayed away.
The new order lets American users hold leveraged Bitcoin positions onshore, without routing their money through foreign venues that sit beyond U.S. regulators' reach.
Kalshi filed the product on May 29 under the CFTC's voluntary review framework for new contracts. The regulator found that the contract met the Commodity Exchange Act. The company now wants to list perpetuals on more than a dozen other crypto currencies, pending further regulatory review.
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Selig, Coinbase Hail Onshore Win
CFTC Chair Michael Selig called the move a "major step forward" for U.S. crypto policy and market structure. He said it pulls one of the market's busiest segments onshore. Selig, the commission's only sitting member, has pushed to widen regulated crypto trading in the U.S. since taking the post earlier this year.
Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour said the Friday launch turns his firm from a prediction market into a full-service derivatives exchange. He argued that "Onshore, safe and regulated perps will improve capital allocation" for U.S. businesses and traders. The shift puts Kalshi in direct competition with the offshore giants that long dominated the perpetuals market.
The CFTC separately cleared Coinbase to offer crypto perpetuals through a no-action letter tied to its Deribit unit. CEO Brian Armstrong said the exchange can now connect U.S. users to global options and perpetual futures, including products on Deribit. Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal called it a "massive first," noting derivatives drive roughly 80% of global crypto trading volume.
How Perpetuals Reached U.S. Markets
Selig signaled in Mar. that the agency would bring true perpetual futures onshore within a matter of months. Before Friday, Bitnomial self-certified a Bitcoin perpetual in Apr. 2025, and Coinbase's derivatives arm followed with smaller Bitcoin and Ether (ETH) contracts in Jul. 2025. Those products leaned on a lighter non-objection route, leaving Kalshi's order as the first to win the regulator's full sign-off.
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Dogecoin (DOGE) is trading well below its average holder cost basis, yet fresh Alphractal data shows whale positioning still fails to back a durable recovery.
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DOGE sits about 23% under its average holder cost basis, a zone Alphractal calls capitulation.
The gap between whale and retail positioning, at -0.2464, shows large players are not leading the bounce.
Exchange reserves climbed to 28.26 billion DOGE, keeping sell-side supply elevated.
Dogecoin Whale Support Stays Thin
On-chain analytics firm Alphractal graded the token's setup as mixed but fragile, pointing to subdued funding and whale behavior that fails to confirm a turn.
The firm said larger players are not steering the latest leg higher and stay less aggressive than smaller traders. It read the whale-vs-retail ratio of 0.8963 as a hint that retail, not large holders, has carried the bid.
The token recently changed hands near $0.099, carrying a market cap of about $15.48B and roughly $1.06B in daily volume. It ranked ninth by market value. DOGE had risen 2% over 24 hours, yet still sat down 5.96% on the week, 4.28% over 30 days and 54.39% across the year.
Funding stayed near zero at 0.01%, but the negative whale delta of -0.2464 still pointed to soft conviction. Open interest sat at $907.32M, up 0.57% on the day yet down 7.82% over the week, a sign speculative appetite has not rushed back.
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Alphractal Flags Capitulation Regime
The valuation picture looked far cheaper than the spot price first suggested. Realized price stood at $0.12929, leaving spot about 23% under the average holder cost basis, with MVRV at 0.7754 and NUPL at -0.2897. Alphractal placed DOGE in a capitulation regime and said the token "looks cheaper than its average holder cost basis, but not structurally strong yet."
Cheap, though, does not mean safe. Exchange reserves rose 0.45% over the week to 28.26 billion DOGE, worth about $2.77B, which Alphractal called mildly negative for price. Adjusted transfer volume jumped 32.52% in a day to $213.59M, yet active addresses fell 3.9% and transaction count slipped 8.37%, a split favoring big moves over broad demand.
Dogecoin Trend Stays Bearish
The chart stayed soft, with DOGE trading 13.46% below its 200-day moving average and daily MACD still bearish.
The RSI hovered near 40 while the token held under its 12-day, 21-day and 50-day lines, just 1.37% above the 100-day.
DOGE has spent 2026 grinding lower, down about 31% year-to-date and more than 54% across the past 12 months. The token briefly cleared its short-term averages earlier in May before fading back into a base near $0.09 to $0.10. That long slide is the backdrop for the current debate over whether cheap valuations alone can spark a turn.
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