The biggest traders have a problem: how to keep their activity quiet enough not to affect market prices or reveal any long-term strategies. In traditional markets like stocks, they have had that ability for decades through so-called dark pools and off-exchange venues. Even as far back as January 2025, more than half of all trading […]
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Jurrien Timmer, director of global macro at Fidelity Investments, characterizes the current market environment as “another wild ride,” with each week seeming to deliver stranger headlines than the last. But despite the volatility, his overall message is that conditions are not nearly as dire as they may appear, and he remains relatively bullish on the
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Oil futures rose on Hyperliquid after President Donald Trump ordered a naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, a major global supply shutdown. The move came after Iran refused to give up its nuclear ambitions during peace talks in Islamabad earlier in the day. Perpetual futures tied to WTI crude jumped to $96.40, up 7%
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Crypto prices are under further pressure in the US morning hours on Sunday after President Trump announced a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. “Effective immediately, the US Navy … will begin the process of blocking any and all ships attempting to enter or exit the Strait of Hormuz,” the president said in a social
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The crypto sector’s new Fellowship political action committee unveiled its first contribution ahead of the 2026 midterm congressional elections, and the $300,000 it spent went to a company co-founded by President Donald Trump’s former crypto adviser, Bo Hines — now CEO of Tether US. The Fellowship super PAC had announced itself as a crypto campaign
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The ripple effects of geopolitical conflicts are reshaping the piping of global trade finance, pushing some commodity traders out of the banking system and into the arms of stablecoins. That’s according to Luke Sully, CEO of trade finance-focused stablecoin issuer Haycen, who says the war involving Iran has heightened compliance fears among Western banks, sparking
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Trump-linked World Liberty Financial has lost a key backer after its $75 million DeFi loan tied up users’ liquidity, with Justin Sun publicly breaking out and criticizing the project’s treatment of investors. “Any action taken by the WLFI team to extract fees from users and treat the crypto community like a personal ATM is illegitimate,”
Big investors are accumulating TRUMP memecoin ahead of an upcoming gala hosted by President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago on April 28, even as the token trades near record lows and the impending event faces political scrutiny. Data tracked by blockchain practitioner Lookonchain shows notable whale purchases through centralized exchanges. One whale, “8DHkza”, withdrew $850,488 TRUMP
North Korea’s six-month infiltration campaign at Drift rattled a crypto industry already plagued by billion-dollar businesses. But as the news settled in, a bigger question came into focus: why does North Korea keep returning to crypto in the first place, and why does its approach look so different from every other state-sponsored hacking operation on
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XRP experienced a sharp collapse in late trade, with a sudden wave of selling pushing the price below key support. The speed of the move and the lack of strong recovery suggest that sellers are still in control, although volatility compression points to a bigger move ahead. News summary • XRP fell from $1.36 to
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