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HYPE rose 4% as bitcoin fell 5%. Longs pay on 84% of its $2.6 billion in futures bets
Hyperliquid's token was the best performer among CoinGecko's 50 largest coins on the day bitcoin fell below $70,000. Futures traders kept betting on it to rise, and on Hyperliquid itself HYPE bets now outweigh ether's.
USDC shrank $361 million in a day as bitcoin fell below $70,000. USD1 lost 2%
The 20 biggest stablecoins lost $559 million in value in 24 hours, and Circle's USDC was most of it, CoinGecko data show. Tether's USDT barely moved this time, while a few smaller dollar tokens grew.
Nvidia bets traded $1.95 billion on Hyperliquid in a day, more than ether, as bitcoin fell
In the 24 hours to 6:38 a.m. ET Friday, the day after Nvidia announced its CEO's exit, its main perpetual market on Hyperliquid outtraded ether's and trailed only bitcoin's. Stock and commodity markets now hold 35% of the exchange's open bets, CoinGecko data show.
Bitcoin fell below $70,000. Shorts now pay longs on 60% of its $43.7 billion in futures bets
Funding turned negative on seven of the ten biggest bitcoin perpetual markets as the price fell 5% in a day, CoinGecko data show. Solana bets leaned even harder toward a fall. XRP and zcash bets did not.
A $101 million shark lost $1.21 million in a week, then sold 11 altcoins in two minutes
Hold91cc, an Ethereum wallet we have followed since November 8, now trades about $1.24 billion a month. Its 30-day result has turned to a $1.14 million loss.
Two Hyperliquid traders made $111.7 million in the week bitcoin fell below $70,000
DeepSea's smart money board puts SMc060 at +$57.45 million and SM6e36 at +$54.30 million over 7 days. Together they hold 60% of the top 10's gains.
Sharks' weekly loss quadrupled to $10.5 million. Yesterday's top wallet is down $1.35 million
In about 30 hours, DeepSea's 7-day table went from minus $2.56 million to minus $10.50 million for big traders. The best wallet this time made just $121,574.
A shark sold 29.17 million WLD for $8.49 million in one trade as bitcoin fell below $70,000
An Optimism wallet that DeepSea tags as a shark dumped about 0.78% of all circulating WLD overnight. Its closed trades are down $2.83 million in 30 days.
Rumor vs record: 7 viral claims about bitcoin's fall below $70,000, checked
Posts about Friday's crypto drop spread fast: a first since August, a 45% fall from the record, $1.2 billion liquidated, Nvidia to blame. We checked seven claims against price data and official records.
Bitcoin fell below $70,000 for the first time since August. Ether dropped under $2,000
Bitcoin fell to $67,922 and ether to $1,905 overnight, the lowest since mid-August, and the crypto market lost 6.8% of its value in a day. Rate fears and fund outflows built up all week.
Bitway (BTW) drops 29% in a day, now 74% below its October record
BTW fell from $1.06 to about $0.71 in 24 hours on thin volume of about $7.3 million, with Gate handling more than a third of the trading.
One company sold its last 211 bitcoin at $76,000. Strategy bought 1,036 at $79,012
Hyperscale Data says it has sold all its bitcoin, about 1,113 BTC since July. Strategy kept buying, but spent more than twice as much buying back its own preferred stock. Bitcoin now trades at $68,521.
Rumor vs record: Nvidia says Huang resigned but gives no reason. Was he ousted?
Nvidia announced its CEO's resignation on November 12, 2026, and crypto feeds filled with claims about why and what it did to prices. We checked six of them against Nvidia's own filing.
USDT shrank $2.69 billion in 8 days, but Tether's Ethereum treasury still holds $4.65 billion
Etherscan shows 4.65 billion USDT parked in the wallet it labels Tether: Treasury, which kept sending tokens out through November 12. CoinGecko counts $5.47 billion of USDT as not circulating.
64 of 90 bitcoin treasury companies are below cost at $72,857, Strategy by $2.21 billion
At $72,857 a coin, the public companies that report what they paid for bitcoin hold $3.01 billion less than they spent, CoinGecko's treasury tracker shows. Ether holders look worse: 14 of 15 are under water.
ARB fell 8% after one wallet's $3.17 million buy. Shorts now pay on 79% of its futures bets
Sharks bought $3.65 million of Arbitrum's ARB in a day and sold $9,135, DeepSea's data show. The price kept sliding, and on most futures markets traders betting on a fall now pay those betting on a rise.
MEET48's IDOL rose 65% and halved in under 16 hours. Futures traded 16 times spot
The small BNB Chain token jumped from $0.024 to $0.040 on Wednesday evening and was back below $0.020 by dawn. Open futures bets on it are worth more than the token's whole market value.
PEPE fell 11% in a day. Shorts now pay longs on half of its $465 million in futures bets
The frog memecoin was the worst performer among the 50 biggest coins on CoinGecko. Its open futures bets equal about a quarter of its market value, and on the biggest market, Binance's, shorts now pay longs.
PayPal's PYUSD shrank $136 million in a day and $377 million since its October 27 peak
The PayPal dollar token lost 4.9% of its market value in 24 hours, CoinGecko data show, while Ripple's RLUSD and the Global Dollar held steady. Its price never left $1.
Rumor vs record: MSCI's cut makes funds sell Strategy shares, not Strategy's bitcoin
After MSCI dropped Strategy from its USA index, posts warned of $2.8 billion to $8.8 billion in "forced selling" and asked what it means for bitcoin. We checked four claims against MSCI's own documents and Strategy's latest SEC filing.
A shark lost $4.03 million on 7 trades in a week, then bought $468,070 of a SpaceX token
A single BNB Chain wallet now accounts for more than half of the sharks' net loss on DeepSea's 7-day table. In the past day, the same address spent nearly half a million dollars on a SpaceX stock token on Arbitrum.
A shark lost $1.21 million on four chains in a week, then sold $1.36 million on Optimism
The wallet DeepSea calls Hold1f17 shows realized losses on all four chains it traded this week. In the last 24 hours it also made the largest sell-only move of any shark.
Two Avalanche wallets made 3,121 trades in a day, five times Monday's pace, and ended near even
DeepSea's shark table shows $4.86 million of bridged ether and bitcoin bought on Avalanche and $4.72 million sold. Almost all of it came from the same two wallets, swapping back and forth.
Bitcoin fell 8.5% in a week, XRP 20%, zcash 25%. Sharks did not dump bitcoin or ether
CoinGecko's 7-day numbers show the big coins sliding together. DeepSea's 24-hour shark table shows big wallets near flat on bridged bitcoin and ether, buying ARB and WLD and selling OP.
Sharks sold $3.64 million of OP in a day, $1.3 million more than they bought
DeepSea's 24-hour table puts Optimism's own token at the top of shark selling across every chain it tracks. OP is down 12.5% in a week on CoinGecko and 98% below its record.
75 of 102 shark wallets lost money this week. One BNB Chain wallet made $967,000
DeepSea's 7-day profit table shows big traders down $2.56 million on closed trades, winning one trade in three. A single wallet made 80% of all the gains.
Stablecoins lost $13.4 billion in 30 days. USDT alone shrank $8.3 billion
CoinGecko data shows the three biggest dollar tokens all got smaller since mid-October. Tether's USDT fell every week, and November 11 was its worst day of the month.
One wallet bought $3.17 million of ARB in one trade, a day after its $3.29 million CHIP buy
DeepSea's 24-hour table shows Arbitrum sharks bought $3.65 million of ARB and sold $771. Most of it came from one wallet that Etherscan shows holding 135 million ARB.
Only 89 of 210 KOL wallets made money in 30 days. Top earner kurtz won 11 of 11
DeepSea's realized PnL table shows most tracked influencer wallets lost money over 30 days, yet the group is up $374,000 as a few big winners carried the total.
MSCI cuts Strategy, owner of 850,364 bitcoin, from its USA index after November 30
MSCI's November review list names "Strategy A" among 24 deletions from the MSCI USA Index. Funds that copy the index will have to sell the stock by the close of November 30.
Initia's INIT falls 71% from its day high to $0.113, below where its rally began
INIT touched $0.392 in the past 24 hours, then slid to about $0.113 by 10:05 p.m. ET on November 11. That is lower than its price before the November 9 surge, with traders swapping three times its market value in a day.
US prices rose 0.4% in October, with no yearly inflation rate. Bitcoin fell 1.4% on the day
October's consumer price index, out November 10, slowed from September's 0.6% jump. The Labor Department could not publish the usual 12-month rate because it collected no data in October 2025. Bitcoin dipped about 0.6% in 20 minutes around the release and ended the day near $73,650.
Stablecoins shrank $1.25 billion in a day. USDT and USDC on Ethereum fell $1.06 billion
The eight biggest dollar stablecoins lost $1.25 billion in 24 hours and $4.86 billion in a week, DefiLlama data show. Ethereum and Hyperliquid shed the most, while USDC grew on Solana, Arbitrum and Base and USDT grew on Plasma.
Zcash fell 12% to $1,015. Hyperliquid lost 57% of its open Zcash bets in a day
ZEC dropped from about $1,160 to $1,015 in 24 hours. On Hyperliquid, open interest in the ZEC perpetual fell from $486.8 million to $211.3 million, CoinGecko data show, the steepest cut of any big venue.
Optimism sharks lost $293,000 in a week, 20 of 24 in the red, yet bought $1.41 million of WLD
DeepSea's PnL table shows a bad week for big wallets on OP Mainnet. In the last day they bought more WLD than they sold and sold more OP than they bought.
The week's top shark made $1.52 million on 3,619 trades, then sold $369,000 of BTCB
The BNB Chain wallet that bought $5.4 million of ether three days ago leads every wallet in DeepSea's 7-day profit table. At 12:34 a.m. ET it sold 5 BTCB in one trade.
One wallet bought 5% of all circulating CHIP in a single $3.29 million trade
DeepSea logged an $18.4 million Arbitrum shark wallet buying USD.AI's CHIP token as it traded 50% below its price of a month ago. Arbiscan shows the wallet now holds 100 million CHIP.
Kinetiq's KNTQ fell 25% in a day and now trades at half its October 30 record
The token of Hyperliquid staking project Kinetiq slid from about $0.40 to $0.30 in two sharp drops on Tuesday, November 10, while HYPE and bitcoin moved less than 3%. More than half of the trading ran through Hyperliquid's own spot market, CoinGecko data shows.
BitMine bought 9,587 more ether, but its staking income estimate fell $49 million in a week
BitMine Immersion now reports 6,070,092 ETH. It staked no new coins this week, its yield estimate slipped, and ether's drop since its count has cut about $870 million off the pile's value.
Sharks bought $36.4 million of RLUSD in a day. Over the week, whales sold $12 million net
Two wallets made 37 trades in Ripple's stablecoin in 24 hours. One of them, with $97 million on DeepSea, swaps it in blocks of up to $4.5 million.
23 influencer wallets bought $555,000 of two new memecoins in a day. No priced sales
The same 23 BNB Chain KOL wallets piled into 狗狗币 and spyless within about two hours. CoinGecko does not list either token.
Smart money trader SMffa1 made $13.8 million in a week, 40% of its $34.3 million wallet
DeepSea ranks SMffa1 No. 3 on Hyperliquid this week. At 6:45 a.m. ET its live trades were in stock-price markets such as LITE, SKHY and SOXL, not crypto.
Super Inu (SI) jumps 164% in a day, a week after a 97% crash
The Ethereum meme coin traded near $0.016 early Tuesday, about 23 times its November 5 low, yet still 45% below its October 31 record. Almost all trading runs through one Uniswap pool.
Janction (JCT) gives back most of its rally: down 65% from Sunday's record
JCT hit an all-time high near $0.0185 on Sunday afternoon. By early Tuesday it traded near $0.0065, down 26% in a day, though still more than twice its price before the surge.
Zcash fell 9% in two days. Open bets on its six biggest futures markets fell 40%
ZEC slid from $1,279 to about $1,160 since November 8. Over the same stretch, open interest on Hyperliquid, OrangeX, CoinW, Gate, OKX and Bybit dropped from $2.51 billion to $1.50 billion, CoinGecko data show.
Initia's INIT jumped about 70% in a day, and traders swapped twice its market value
INIT climbed from about $0.12 to $0.22 in 24 hours, with $98 million to $102 million of trading against a market value under $50 million. Binance carried 43% of it, and a Turkish lira pair led every market.
Hyperliquid's oil market fell 7% and a chip-stock market rose 21%. Crypto bets shrank $420M
Hyperliquid's crypto markets held $9.18 billion of open bets, down from $9.60 billion a day earlier. Its stock and commodity markets now hold a third of the total.
World Liberty's USD1 shrank 22% in 30 days, and USDC lost another $205 million on Monday
USD1 fell from $4.26 billion to $3.32 billion in a month, CoinGecko data shows. USDC kept leaking too, while USDT held flat for a second day.
A $93 million shark made 28,847 trades in 30 days, lost $162,000 and doubled its gold
Two days ago Hold91cc was up $26,100 on 12,787 trades. Now it has more than twice the trades, a loss, $18.77 million in Tether Gold and a $173,000 AAVE sale.
Smart money SM2b00 made $22 million on $13.29 billion of trades. Now it holds 15 shorts
SM2b00 is No. 4 on DeepSea's 7-day board at +$10.26 million. Its biggest bets are against ETH, SOL and HYPE, and CoinGecko prices show most of them in profit.
Influencer panceramic sold $351,000 of silver bets in 20 orders and went all cash
DeepSea shows 20 silver sell orders on Hyperliquid, then a wallet of $353,200 in USDC and no open bets. Ninety percent of the influencer's 30-day profit came this week.
Last week's worst crypto influencer is now No. 2 and holds a $13.4 million Zcash short
The KOL wallet mk4 was down $2.84 million for the week on November 5. DeepSea now shows +$2.24 million over seven days, but still minus $876,800 over 30.
The No. 1 smart money trader is short $474 million of crypto and up $45.7 million on paper
SMc060 retook first place on DeepSea's 7-day board with +$36.67 million. Its 19 open bets against BTC, ETH, ZEC and others are all in profit on paper.
Sharks sold $584,000 of ARB in a day, nearly 4 to 1, as the token edged up 1.1%
Four days after shark wallets bought $850,000 of Arbitrum's token, the flow reversed. One wallet also sold tokenized Circle shares in the last hour.
Unichain sharks sold $2.12 million of USD₮0, three days after sharks bought $3.74 million
The flow on Unichain's dollar token flipped. A wallet that was not among Friday's buyers did almost all the selling.
Two Avalanche shark wallets made 580 small trades in bridged ETH and BTC as AVAX rose 8%
DeepSea's Avalanche shark feed looked crowded on Monday night. It was mostly two wallets swapping bridged ether and bitcoin back and forth in small pieces.
Pieverse (PIEVERSE) doubles in a week to a record $2.13 as Upbit leads trading
PIEVERSE rose 42% in 24 hours and 103% in seven days to a new all-time high on Monday. Upbit and Bithumb, two won-based exchanges, handled more than half of the $58.7 million traded.
Ether's 5% drop cut about $956 million from the 8.1 million ETH that public companies hold
CoinGecko lists 35 public companies with ether on their books, 32 with a balance. BitMine holds 74% of it, and 14 of the 15 firms with a listed cost are below it.
429 sharks traded LINK in a day, triple any other Ethereum token, buying $14.1 million
Chainlink's token was the most crowded shark trade on Ethereum as ether fell 5%. Uniswap's UNI drew under a third as many wallets, and they were net sellers.
Trader SMb7ae made $11.5 million in a week, and 18 of its 20 open bets are shorts
SMb7ae is No. 5 on DeepSea's 7-day Smart Money board. Its open positions on Hyperliquid bet against bitcoin, HYPE, Starknet and 15 other tokens.
One shark put $49.7 million into Aave USDT as ether fell 5%, and holds $129 million in gold
The same shark wallet we covered on November 5 is back, buying Aave's USDT receipt in five steps. It also holds $129 million of tokenized gold, second only to its restaked ether.
Rumor vs record: Strategy's bitcoin is underwater, but no filing shows it must sell
Bitcoin slipped below Strategy's average purchase price overnight, and posts about a $54 billion bet gone bad spread fast. We checked each line against the company's own SEC filing and CoinGecko prices.
Solana launchpad token STONK fell 32% in a day and lost $45 million in under two days
StonkFun's STONK token dropped from about $0.10 to $0.044 between Saturday and Sunday evening, now 88% below its September record. Most of the trading ran through Solana DEX pools, CoinGecko's market list shows, and one Meteora pool handled nearly half of all trading.
Rumor vs record: did whales really load up on XRP as it slid to $1.10?
XRP fell 5.4% in a day and hit its lowest price since August. Posts say whales are buying the dip. We checked six viral claims. The price claims mostly hold up; the whale claims cannot be confirmed yet.
One ether now buys 0.0286 bitcoin, the least since mid-July
Ether lost 2.7% against bitcoin in a day after Sunday's sell-off. CoinGecko's daily data shows no lower close since July 14.
Hyperliquid's crypto bets shrank $640 million since Friday, and ether shorts now pay
CoinGecko's per-market data puts Hyperliquid's open bets at $14.0 billion after Sunday's ether drop. Its $1.93 billion ether market now has negative funding, while bitcoin's does not.
Big stablecoins shrank another $1.5 billion since Friday. Sky's USDS lost $921 million
Eleven of the largest dollar tokens lost $1.54 billion in market value in three days, CoinGecko data shows. Ethena's USDe went the other way, up $412 million.
Shorts now pay longs on 77% of ether's open futures bets. On Friday it was 21.5%
After Sunday's 4.6% drop, funding turned negative on Binance's biggest ether market. Bitcoin barely moved: 1.4% of its bets lean short.
A smart money trader fell from No. 1 to No. 6. Two days later it is No. 2 with $23 million
SMc060's 7-day profit on DeepSea went from $59.67 million to $9.49 million and back up to $23.24 million. The top 10 now show $129.55 million, all on Hyperliquid.
Sharks sold $12.85 million of tokens and bought $7.98 million as ether fell 4.7%
DeepSea's live feed shows big wallets were net sellers on ether's down day. A dollar token on Optimism took most of the selling, and one Monad wallet bought $2.46 million of staked ether.
Nvidia's CEO told staff he was unfaithful. Tokenized Nvidia stock fell 7% at the open
Nvidia posted a memo from Jensen Huang on Sunday, November 8, and its board opened an independent investigation. On-chain Nvidia tokens fell 4.7% that evening, and after Monday's open the NVDAx token was still about 4.6% below Friday's close while a tokenized Nasdaq 100 fund rose.
Ether drops 4.6% in 20 minutes to $2,122 on Sunday afternoon, twice bitcoin's fall
ETH slid from about $2,224 to $2,122 between 4:40 and 5:00 p.m. ET on November 8, 2026, per CoinGecko. Bitcoin fell 2.2% in the same window. Ether is now down about 5% on the day and 14.5% over 30 days.
Janction (JCT) jumps 285% in a day to a record high as volume tops its market cap
JCT climbed from about $0.0025 to a new all-time high near $0.0107 on Sunday morning. About $175 million changed hands in a day, more than the token's $120 million market cap, and three venues handled 86% of it.
Hyperliquid holds $626 million of open Zcash bets, more than Binance's $556.9 million
On a quiet Sunday, Zcash was the second most traded market on Hyperliquid, ahead of ether. CoinGecko's data shows the on-chain exchange now carries the largest pile of open ZEC futures of any venue.
A shark bought $612,100 of OP in one trade. Nine hours later its wallet held no OP
An Optimism wallet DeepSea calls Hold9675 bought 6.03 million OP on Saturday night, about 3% of the token's daily trading. Its page now shows no OP among its holdings.
A shark lost $1.64 million on 5,488 trades in 30 days, then bought $155,000 of DEBIT
DeepSea's page for a shark wallet ending in 1f17 shows losses on BNB Chain, Ethereum and Optimism. On Sunday morning it kept trading: gold tokens out, small caps in.
One KOL lost $44,400 on Sunday, wiping out 82% of what 31 winning KOLs made
DeepSea's one-day board lists 58 crypto influencers with a result on November 8. Most made money, but Loopierr's single loss pulled the whole group about $20,900 into the red.
Two BNB Chain influencers made 18 of the same memecoin trades within hours. Both are up this week
DeepSea's KOL wallets for kurtz and tech bought and sold the same tokens, in the same direction and within about an hour, over two days. DeepSea counts every closed trade of theirs this week as a win.
A $100 million Ethereum shark traded $450 million in 30 days. Its profit: $26,100
Three quarters of the wallet sits in three dollar tokens. In four minutes from 12:30 a.m. ET it bought $340,000 of Ripple's RLUSD, sold $131,000 of LINK and made 18 buys of under $10 each.
A shark sold $13.4 million of bitcoin, ether and JCT in minutes. The buyer made 81,836 trades in a month
A BNB Chain wallet that DeepSea shows down $1.75 million in 30 days sold three tokens just after midnight ET and now holds $28.7 million in a dollar token. DeepSea logs the buyer of its ether and JCT as one of the most active wallets it tracks.
Is the memecoin easy-money era over? The 12 biggest memecoins sit 44% to 98% below their highs
Traders are arguing about whether memecoins still pay. We skipped the opinions and pulled the numbers: prices against all-time highs, Pump.fun's revenue and the size of the meme market today.
Harmony's ONE jumped 85% in a day and a half. Trading hit 3.4 times its market value
ONE went from about $0.00106 to $0.00196 on CoinGecko as daily trading rose from about $2 million to $97 million. We could not confirm an official reason for it.
One Mantle shark swapped ether tokens 208 times in a day. Its 30-day result: minus $2,400
The wallet traded about $314,000 between WETH and Mantle's staked ether token in 24 hours. After 2,219 closed trades in 30 days, it is slightly in the red.
An Ethereum shark was down $159,600 for the month. Two days later it's up $18,100
DeepSea's PnL table shows one wallet's 30-day result swing by $130,000 in less than a day of closed trades, while ether went nowhere for the week. It now has the best 7-day result of any Ethereum shark with a 7-day figure.
CYBER jumped 53% in about a day, then gave back 20%. Sharks on Optimism bought $668,000
CoinGecko shows the small-cap CYBER token trading four times its market value in 24 hours, with South Korea's Upbit the busiest market. DeepSea's shark wallets were net buyers on Optimism over a day in which the price fell.
DeepSea's top 10 smart money traders: $256 million in weekly profit, then $110 million
The 7-day profit shown for the crash-week winners on DeepSea's boards fell by more than half in 24 hours. The top two influencers' figures halved, and sharks are still down $3.15 million on closed trades.
Sharks "sold" $16.31 million of uniBTC on Berachain. CoinGecko saw $591 of trading
DeepSea's live feed logged two wallets moving about 212 uniBTC out on Berachain in 24 hours. One of them is a DEX pool, and CoinGecko counted less than $600 of uniBTC trading worldwide in the same day.
Shorts are paying longs on 21.5% of ether's open futures bets, against 1.4% for bitcoin
CoinGecko's data on 287 bitcoin and ether perp markets shows short sellers paying to hold their bets on 21.5% of ether's open interest, against 1.4% for bitcoin, a day after the sell-off.
Hyperliquid holds $14.9 billion in open bets, second only to Binance on CoinGecko
CoinGecko ranks Hyperliquid second of all derivatives exchanges by open interest, about $14.9 billion. Its traders also churn their positions far less than on centralized rivals.
Stock and oil bets outtraded crypto on Hyperliquid: $9.96 billion vs. $9.67 billion
CoinGecko's market data for Hyperliquid shows its 165 builder-run markets, almost all on stocks, indexes and commodities, did more volume than its 179 crypto perps as bitcoin fell 5%.
One shark sold $2.59 million of LYK. The token's Arbitrum pool holds $396
DeepSea logged big shark selling in two layer 2 tokens, LayerK's LYK and Linea's LINEA. LYK's public markets were far too small to absorb what was counted.
Two sharks bought $3.74 million of USD₮0 on Unichain in a day and sold just $75,000
A day after sharks were net sellers of the dollar token on Unichain, two wallets flipped to heavy buying. One of them also bought $4 million on Optimism.
Stablecoin supply shrank $5 billion in six days. USDT fell the most
DefiLlama shows the total supply of dollar stablecoins fell every day from October 30 to November 5, the day bitcoin dropped below $76,000. Tether's USDT supply fell $2.76 billion in a week.
71 of 100 shark wallets lost money on closed trades in crash week, $5.85 million in all
DeepSea's realized profit table shows large traders came out behind as bitcoin fell. Three wallets made up 63% of the loss, and one Optimism wallet won 3 of 61 trades.
Influencer slingoor turned a $686,000 week into $9.38 million as bitcoin fell
DeepSea's 7-day KOL board changed fast in the November 5 sell-off. The top two influencers now hold 91% of the profit shown in the top 100.
Bitcoin fell 6%. DeepSea's top 10 smart money traders went from $98M to $256M
In about 18 hours, the 7-day profit of DeepSea's ten best wallets more than doubled. All ten trade perps on Hyperliquid, and the leader alone added $47.9 million.
Bitcoin lost $4,400 in four hours. Why did ETH and XRP fall even harder?
Bitcoin slid from about $80,300 to under $76,000 on November 5, most of it between 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. ET. Ether, Solana and XRP dropped 7% to 9%, and the whole crypto market shed about 8% in a day.
Trump Media moved 4,259 BTC to Crypto.com from its collateral wallets. A move is not a sale
Two transfers worth about $344 million left wallets that Arkham labels as collateral for Trump Media's $1 billion convertible notes, weeks before holders can ask for their money back.
Smart money is 15 to 1 long on ether, but only 2 to 1 on Zcash
DeepSea's Long / Short panel shows all seven of its biggest coins leaning long. Ether and NEAR are the most one-sided, while bitcoin carries the largest short bets.
A net 16,251 bitcoin flowed onto exchanges in a week. Binance took in the most
DeepSea's dashboard shows a net 1,387 BTC flowed into exchanges in 24 hours, with Binance up 2,479 BTC while Kraken and Bitfinex lost coins.
DeepSea's top 10 smart money traders made $98.4 million in a week, all on Hyperliquid perps
The first 41 names on DeepSea's 7-day leaderboard are Hyperliquid perpetual futures traders. The leader made $16.44 million on $208 million of assets.
Sharks bought $10.25 million of WLD on Optimism in a day while its price fell 4%
Thirteen big wallets made 240 WLD trades in 24 hours and net bought about $4.31 million. WLD itself fell 4% on CoinGecko.
Sharks sold $9.52 million of USD₮0 on Berachain in a day, $3.39 million in the last hour
One busy wallet made 260 shark trades on Berachain, where DeepSea logged 263 in Tether's cross-chain dollar token. A day earlier the 24-hour selling was about a quarter of the size.
This week's worst crypto influencer lost $2.84 million and still bets $27.6 million on a fall
DeepSea shows the KOL wallet mk4 on Hyperliquid holding 11 short positions, led by $7.82 million against ether and $7.69 million against bitcoin, while both coins rose overnight.
The TRUMP memecoin hit a record low of $1.22. It is now 98% below its January 2025 peak
The Solana token fell 12.6% in two hours on November 4 as trading volume more than quadrupled, CoinGecko's data shows. Its 24-hour volume is now larger than its whole market value.
Ether jumped 4.6% in two hours and bitcoin is back above $80,000. Big traders are 86% long
Most of ether's 5.5% daily gain came between 9 and 11 a.m. ET on November 4, CoinGecko's data shows. DeepSea counts $3.35 billion in long bets against $543.87 million in shorts.
177 crypto influencers made money in 30 days. Four others lost $19.8 million
DeepSea's 30-day KOL leaderboard looks like a winning month: 177 of 202 accounts are up. Then you reach the bottom, where Machi Big Brother alone shows minus $12.42 million.
The top crypto influencer of the week made $8.84 million and now sits on $25.5 million in USDC
DeepSea's KOL leaderboard puts "2 freres 2 fauves" first by a wide margin, three times the runner-up. Its latest Hyperliquid orders were in silver and copper markets, not crypto.
One Monad wallet bought $2.38 million of ether. Its closed trades lost $1.15 million in 30 days
Every shark trade DeepSea logged on Monad in the last 24 hours came from one wallet. It bought wrapped ether and sold fixed-yield dollar tokens.
Shark wallets sold $7.85 million of the USD₮0 dollar token on Optimism, a day after buying it
A day ago shark wallets were buying USD₮0 on Optimism. DeepSea's feed now shows them net sellers of almost $3 million, while OP selling kept going.
Sharks bought $850,000 of Arbitrum's ARB in a day. Whales added $4.59 million in a week
DeepSea's data shows big wallets buying ARB on Arbitrum while $11.6 million more ARB left exchanges than arrived over seven days. Two stock tokens also drew shark money.
DeepSea tagged 2,790 new smart money wallets in a week, and not a single new bot
DeepSea's weekly report counts 2,615 wallets seen for the first time from October 26 to November 1, plus 652 new DeFi borrowers and 93 new influencer (KOL) wallets. Here is what the labels mean.
Shark wallets sold $3.55 million of Optimism's OP in a day and bought just $486,000
DeepSea's live feed shows big wallets selling Optimism's token while still parking dollars on the chain. On Berachain, a heavy seller of USD₮0 turned buyer in the last hour.
MachiBigBrother opened $145,405 of ETH longs in 25 seconds, six hours after the last burst
DeepSea's live feed caught the crypto influencer opening six ether long positions on Hyperliquid at 6:33 a.m. ET, after nine more just past midnight.
Whales sent out $317 million more than they took in last week. Where did it go?
DeepSea's wallet-to-wallet map shows $1.10 billion leaving whale wallets and $783 million coming back, while unlabeled wallets pushed a net $306 million into exchanges.
Two Hyperliquid wallets are up $20.7 million on open bets. The crowd is down $2.19 million
DeepSea's weekly data names the biggest paper winners on Hyperliquid, a 40x bitcoin short opened on October 31, and an ether short now 3.3% from forced closing.
Crypto influencers made $590,000 in 30 days. Sharks in DeepSea's live feed lost $10.7 million
DeepSea's 30-day realized profit table puts its live-feed KOL wallets in the green and shark wallets deep in the red. On Hyperliquid, one KOL opened a $538,000 silver short in nine minutes.
Whales put $63 million into stablecoins and sold a net $27.6 million of other tokens
DeepSea's sector data shows big wallets moving into dollars last week, while smart money kept buying. Ethereum took most of the $66 million net inflow.
Only 29 of 59 tracked BSC wallets made money last week. Smart money won, influencers lost
DeepSea's weekly data shows BSC smart money wallets finished $7,800 up while eight tracked KOLs lost $55,400. One influencer wallet had no green day in seven.
Sharks bought $3.05 million of WLD on Optimism in a day. One Monad wallet traded $15.7 million
DeepSea's live feed shows big wallets loading up on USD₮0 and WLD on Optimism, one wallet churning $15.7 million on Monad and a single $10 million Aave USDC exit on Arbitrum.
One Tron wallet moved $751 million of USDT through Binance in about two hours
DeepSea's list of the week's largest exchange transfers is all dollar tokens: $2.49 billion in 11 moves, led by Coinbase USDC and a single unlabeled Tron address moving USDT to and from Binance.
448 of 617 Solana influencers lost money last week. The best one won all seven days
DeepSea's tracked crypto influencers on Solana closed the week $395,600 down. A trader called zeropnl made $82,900 with seven green days, while one smart money wallet lost $1.81 million in a single day.
Hyperliquid's big traders bet $3.78 billion on a drop. One put $126 million on HYPE rising
DeepSea's tracked traders held six dollars of shorts for every dollar of longs last week. Against that tide, one wallet opened a $126.62 million HYPE long, and a 40x bitcoin bet sat 2.4% from liquidation.
Polymarket adds 15-minute gold and silver bets. One early window traded just $100
Polymarket has added 15-minute and one-hour Up or Down markets on gold and silver, settled by Chainlink price streams. The format began with crypto, where Chainlink says it has passed $9 billion in volume, but the metal markets start almost empty.
Token unlocks November 2 to 8: $1.05 billion due, led by HYPE, and Kite's float jumps 27%
Five scheduled unlocks this week add up to about $1.05 billion at November 2 prices, according to CoinGecko's calendars. Hyperliquid's HYPE is almost 80% of the dollar total, but Kite's KITE release is the biggest relative to what already trades.
12,562 sells, 10,480 buys: what Asia's crypto influencers really did in early October
DeepSea's Asian KOL reports show influencer wallets selling more than they bought, a handful of traders taking most of the profit, and a quiet mid-October week on Solana. For followers, that is a warning.
Whales sold $22.8 million of UNI while it rose 7%, and bought LINK and ARB
Big wallets used the late October bounce to sell, not buy. DeepSea's 7-day data shows whales net selling RLUSD, UNI and PEPE and making only small purchases of LINK and ARB, as bitcoin closed below $78,000 on October 29.
Hyperliquid's big traders flipped from 4.2x long to net short, then swung back to 86% long
In mid-October, traders tracked by DeepSea dumped their bullish bets and piled into ETH and BTC shorts worth more than $200 million apiece. Two weeks later they were leaning long again, even as prices kept sliding.
Asian exchanges lost $2.2 billion in one week, and $2.12 billion of it left Binance
DeepSea's report for October 12 to 18 shows stablecoins, mostly USDT on Tron, pouring out of Binance while bitcoin flowed in. The same week, hack-linked funds flooded exchange deposit addresses and a few big Hyperliquid traders turned short.
Smart money net bought $1.09 million of Concrete as it slid 17%. Its top sale: AUSD
DeepSea's seven-day flow data to November 2 shows tracked smart money wallets building a position in Concrete (CT) while its price fell, and pulling $3.77 million out of the AUSD stablecoin. Selling signals outnumbered buying ones.
US growth hits 3.4%, PCE inflation hits 3.6%: why neither helps crypto
At 8:30 a.m. ET on October 29, the government said the US economy grew at a 3.4% annual rate in the third quarter and the Fed's preferred inflation gauge rose 3.6% in a year. For crypto traders hoping for cheaper money, both numbers point the wrong way.
Two Fed officials voted for a hike and lost 10 to 2. Is December next?
The Fed held rates at 3.75% to 4% on October 28, but Lisa Cook and Beth Hammack wanted a quarter-point rise. With September inflation at 3.7%, the December meeting is now the one to watch.
Gasoline up 34% in a year: US inflation hits 3.7%, and bitcoin slips 1.8%
September CPI, released on October 14, showed headline inflation at 3.7% and core at 2.6%, both up from August. Fuel did most of the damage. Bitcoin closed the day about $1,500 lower, and short-term Treasury yields rose.
Most Fed officials saw another hike by year-end. Bitcoin ETFs lost $485 million that day
The minutes of the September Fed meeting, released on October 7, showed officials worried that five years of high inflation could stick. Spot bitcoin ETFs had their worst session of the week the same day.
Bitcoin went from $75,600 to $87,000 in a week after the Fed hiked. ETFs did the lifting
The Fed raised rates on September 16, and bitcoin rallied instead of falling. Within a week it hit its highest level since late January as US spot ETFs took in almost $3 billion. By November 1 it was back near where it started.
The Fed hiked for the first time since 2023. Why did bitcoin barely flinch at $76,000?
A unanimous quarter-point hike on September 16 took the US policy rate to 3.75% to 4%, and 16 of 18 officials penciled in more. Bitcoin closed the day at $76,147, up about 1% in two days.
Inflation stuck at 3.4% in August. Bitcoin jumped 2.8% in two hours, then faded
Gasoline drove US prices up in August while core inflation cooled on the year. Bitcoin hit about $79,160 within two hours of the September 11 report and ether gained almost 7%, but both gave most of it back later in the day.