Is $HYPE Turning Bearish? Arthur Hayes X Post Raise Concerns

What to know: Arthur Hayes said HYPE is close to his buy zone but wants a dip below $20, adding to short-term fear. HYPE is down over 60% from its peak, with weak momentum and key price levels already...

China sidesteps chip export curbs with retrofitted ASML lithography gear

China is now retrofitting older ASML lithography tools to keep building advanced AI and smartphone chips, so they can bypass AI chip export restrictions set by the United States and the Netherlands, a...

Metaplanet’s ADR Debut Today Amid MSCI Exclusion Concerns

Key Highlights: Metaplanet launches Sponsored ADR to simplify U.S. investing. MSCI may exclude Bitcoin-heavy firms, such as MicroStrategy and Metaplanet, risking forced selling. BOJ rate hike adds mor...

Coinbase sues Michigan, Illinois, and Connecticut over their attempts to regulate prediction markets, undermining CFTC

Coinbase Global Inc. has filed lawsuits against the US states of Michigan, Illinois, and Connecticut, escalating a legal fight over who has the authority to regulate prediction markets in the United S...

Hyperliquid Tanked to $24 as Whales Secretly Deployed $37.1M Eyeing 4 Key Support Levels

Key Insights: Hyperliquid (HYPE) dropped to $24.71 on December 18 as technical analysts mapped critical support levels between $20 and $23 for the HYPE price. The decline occurred as validators prepar...

Tether affiliates buy Peak Mining in founder‑linked $200 million deal

Peak Mining has quietly changed hands in a $200 million deal involving Tether insiders, again. This time, the crypto miner was sold by Northern Data, a German AI data center firm mostly owned by Tethe...

US Dollar Index extends gains above 98.50 ahead of UoM Survey data

The US Dollar Index (DXY), which measures the value of the US Dollar (USD) against six major currencies, is extending gains for the third successive session and trading around 98.60 during the Europea...

Ralph Lauren (RL) outpaces stock market gains: What you should know

Ralph Lauren (RL – Free Report) ended the recent trading session at $370.06, demonstrating a +1.19% change from the preceding day’s closing price. The stock’s change was more than th...

‘Big Short’ Investor Michael Burry Warns US Economy Flashing Historical Signal That Preceded Multi-Year Bear Markets

‘Big Short’ Investor Michael Burry Warns US Economy Flashing Historical Signal That Preceded Multi-Year Bear Markets – The Daily Hodl ...

New Zealand Dollar weakens as upbeat GDP fails to lift Kiwi

The NZD/USD pair attracts some sellers to around 0.5760 during the early European trading hours on Friday, pressured by renewed US Dollar (USD) demand. Traders will keep an eye on the University of Mi...

Build a Balanced Portfolio; And DeepSnitch AI Is the Growth Component

Crypto Projects The best crypto to buy now are coins that build a balanced portfolio: USDC for cash, UNI for moderate returns, and DeepSnitch AI for explosive 100x-like growth. The end of the year is ...

TikTok strikes deal to shift U.S. control to American investors

ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, signed a new agreement to give up control over most of the app’s U.S. activities. Through the deal, the U.S. government campaign to force a sale on national se...

Hits fresh highs above 209.00 due to persistent bullish bias

GBP/JPY reaches fresh record highs after registering little losses in the previous session, trading at 209.18 during the early European hours on Friday. A look at the daily chart shows the currency cr...

UK Retail Sales fall 0.1% MoM in November vs. 0.4% expected

The United Kingdom (UK) Retail Sales declined 0.1% month-over-month (MoM) in November after falling 0.9% in October (revised from -1.1%), according to the latest data published by the Office for Natio...

Remains broadly sideways below 1.3800

The USD/CAD pair trades higher around 1.3790 in the early European trading session on Friday. The Loonie pair edges up as the US Dollar (USD) regains ground after being jolted by soft United States (U...

XAG/USD rebounds from 100-hour SMA support

Silver (XAG/USD) attracts some dip-buying near mid-$64.00s during the Asian session on Friday and stalls the previous day’s modest retracement slide. The white metal climb back closer to the $66...

Pump.fun Lawsuit Expands as New Evidence Revives MEV Debate

Crime The lawsuit against the memecoin launch platform Pump.fun, Solana Labs, the Solana Foundation and Jito was amended to include new evidence over MEV trading practices. A US court is once again be...

Solana-Based Lifinity To Shut Down, Return $43.4M To Holders

Key Highlights: Lifinity will return $43.4 million in USDC from its treasury and development funds. LFNTY tokens holders can redeem their tokens for around $0.90-$1.10 each. Any unclaimed funds will b...

GBP/USD steadies following the previous day’s volatile price swings

GBP/USD steadies below 1.3400 as traders digest BoE policy update and US inflation data The GBP/USD pair stalls the previous day’s pullback from the vicinity of mid-1.3400s and a nearly two-mont...

Tokenized Stocks Arrive; DeepSnitch AI Targets 100x

Crypto Projects Securitize brings real stocks on-chain. This is the Dogecoin price prediction, and here’s why DeepSnitch AI is the next 32,000% opportunity. Securitize has announced plans to lau...

Midnight Emerges as a Standout Performer in the Cardano Ecosystem

Altcoins Midnight’s debut on the Cardano ecosystem is already reshaping activity across the network, with adoption accelerating at a pace few new tokens manage to achieve so early in their lifecycle. ...

BoJ hikes policy rate, USD recovers despite soft inflation

Here is what you need to know on Friday, December 19: The US Dollar (USD) manages to hold its ground early Friday and the Japanese Yen (JPY) stays resilient against its rivals following the Bank of Ja...

Tests nine-day support near 1.1700

EUR/USD remains weaker for the fourth consecutive session, trading around 1.1720 during the Asian hours on Friday. On the daily chart, technical analysis indicates a prevailing bullish bias, as the pa...

EUR/GBP holds steady near 0.8750 following BoE rate cut, ECB policy hold

The EUR/GBP cross trades on a flat note around 0.8760 during the early European session on Friday. This move follows the Bank of England’s (BoE) interest rate cut and market expectations for a s...

Micron posts blowout results in record quarter, stock Soars 13%

While AI stocks have sputtered in recent weeks, Micron Technology (NASDAQ:MU) keeps right on generating strong returns. Micron, a leading manufacturer of high bandwidth memory and storage chips for AI...

EUR/CAD ticks up to near 1.6160 ahead of ECB speeches

The EUR/CAD pair edges higher to near 1.6160 during the early European trading session on Friday. The cross ticks up as the Euro (EUR) outperforms its major peers ahead of speeches from a slew of Euro...

Indian Rupee gains as soft US inflation empowers RBI’s intervention

The Indian Rupee (INR) opens on a bullish note against the US Dollar (USD) on Friday. The USD/INR pair declines to near 90.30 as weakness in the US Dollar due to an unexpected slowdown in the United S...

Bitwise files with SEC to launch Spot Sui ETF

Crypto asset manager Bitwise aims to further expand its presence in the emerging crypto ETF market with a notice it has filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to create a spot Sui exchan...

Aptos Takes Preventive Step Against Long-Term Quantum Threats

Altcoins Aptos is taking an early step toward future-proofing its network by proposing optional post-quantum signature support, signaling that quantum computing risks are now being treated as a long-t...

Senate approves Michael Selig as CFTC Chair and Travis Hill as FDIC Chair

The U.S. Senate on Thursday approved two of President Donald Trump’s appointments to lead two of the most important U.S. cryptocurrency regulators. Mike Selig will join as chairman of the Commodity Fu...

US Dollar strengthens aboove 98.50 despite cooling inflation data

The US Dollar Index (DXY), an index of the value of the US Dollar (USD) measured against a basket of six world currencies, trades on a positive note near 98.55 during the early European trading hours ...

Fetch.ai Targets the Biggest Barrier to Autonomous AI Commerce

Fintech Autonomous AI agents have become increasingly proficient at searching and recommending shopping options, but most stop short of completing transactions. Fetch.ai said Thursday that it will rol...