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.
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.
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.
BlackRock's IBIT shed 22.7 million shares in four sessions as bitcoin fell to $68,393
iShares data shows IBIT's share count down 1.6% since November 6, roughly $919 million at Thursday's NAV. Bitcoin lost 7% in 24 hours.
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.
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.
Bitcoin Core discloses 3 bugs fixed in 2025. The worst could stop a node building blocks
Bitcoin Core published three security advisories on November 10, one rated high. All were fixed in releases from October 2025, and the advisories describe no theft of coins.
U.S. bitcoin ETFs lost $1.49 billion in five straight days as bitcoin fell 9%
Spot bitcoin funds have now seen money leave on eight of the last nine trading days, $2.57 billion in all, CoinMarketCap's tally shows. Ether funds lost $477 million in the same five days.
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.
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.
Deutsche Bank custody site says bitcoin, ether and 3 stablecoins are available in Germany
Germany's largest bank says its digital asset custody is available to Corporate Bank clients in Germany. Retail customers are not part of it.
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.
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.
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.
Coinbase's cbBTC gained 2,921 bitcoin in 30 days. Lombard's LBTC lost 39% of its supply
Bitcoin is leaving most wrapped tokens on other chains, CoinGecko supply data shows. Coinbase's version was the exception, until it gave back 891 BTC in a day.
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.
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.
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.
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.
BlackRock's IBIT shrank $105 million on Friday, yet its share count is flat since September
IBIT, BlackRock's spot bitcoin fund, cut 2.44 million shares on November 6, about 1,380 BTC. Yet it has slightly more shares than on September 30, so nearly all of its $6.4 billion drop in assets since then came from bitcoin's price.
A $216 million bitcoin whale shows a $291,600 weekly loss, but its moves look like loans
DeepSea counts an 82% win rate and a 7-day loss for an Ethereum wallet holding only cbBTC. Its trade list reads like a borrower moving collateral in and out of a lending market.
Russia lets ordinary investors buy only BTC, ETH and USDT, capped at about $3,665 a year
The Bank of Russia's directive 7441-U, published November 6, 2026, names just three assets that non-qualified investors may buy through a broker, with a yearly limit of 300,000 rubles. It enters into force 10 days after publication.
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.
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.
Bitcoin fell 5% in four hours. Fees peaked at just 12 sats after a 67-minute wait
mempool.space data shows the November 5 sell-off barely stressed the Bitcoin network. The biggest fee jumps came when blocks were slow, not when panic peaked.
Exchange wallets lost $11.45 billion in 18 hours. Mostly price, not withdrawals
DeepSea's exchange list shrank 4.7% as bitcoin fell about 6%. Binance's holdings dropped $6.84 billion, and MEXC fell 15.8%, the steepest among large exchanges.
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.
Seized UK government wallets rank seventh on DeepSea's exchange list, at $3.95 billion
DeepSea's exchange rankings mix trading venues with seized and long-silent wallets, including $574.14 million in failed QuadrigaCX's. Bitfinex ranks second at $31.27 billion, and one Coincheck wallet holds $3.42 billion.
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.
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.
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.
Robinhood's $14.9 billion ranks third on DeepSea. One cold wallet holds $11.27 billion of it
DeepSea's exchanges list puts Robinhood's labeled wallets behind only Binance and Bitfinex. A single Bitcoin cold wallet holds about three-quarters of the total.
32,175 crypto addresses are on DeepSea's risk list. Ransomware is the biggest category
DeepSea's database of scam, fraud and sanctioned addresses grew by 1,178 last week. Most new entries were hack-tainted, and Bitcoin holds more flagged addresses than Ethereum.
Whales cut $28.9 million of LBTC in a week. Smart money bought just $127,900
Lombard's bitcoin token on Ethereum was the most sold token in DeepSea's weekly data, by a wide margin. Whales also cut $6.47 million of ARB, with DeepSea flagging moves to cold storage.
PEPE and SHIB flowed into US and European exchanges as $120 million in bitcoin left
DeepSea's weekly data shows Western exchanges nearly flat overall, at minus $54.98 million. Under the surface, memecoins were deposited, bitcoin was withdrawn, Kraken lost 1,526 BTC and one $399.78 million USDC transfer left Coinbase.
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.
Binance took in a net 66,386 bitcoin, worth $5.2 billion, in the week it was hacked
DeepSea's data shows a net $5.04 billion flowing into Binance from October 26 to November 1, almost all of Asia's net inflow. Who sent it? The data cannot say.
$307 million in hack-linked bitcoin hit exchanges in one week. OKX got the biggest share
DeepSea counted 680 deposits of tainted funds into exchanges from October 26 to November 1, nearly all in BTC. OKX took $139.96 million in just 55 of them, including a run of near-identical $15.47 million transfers.
What is Bitcoin? How it works, why only 21 million exist and the risks
Bitcoin is a digital currency that moves directly between users on a public network, with no bank or company in the middle. Miners secure it with computing power, its supply is capped at 21 million coins, and BTC traded near $77,323 as of November 2, 2026.
What is Sui? The object-based blockchain that says it settles in 390 ms
Sui is a layer-1 blockchain from Mysten Labs, founded by former Meta engineers, that launched in May 2023. It stores everything as objects with clear owners, runs smart contracts in Move and, by Sui's own figure, settles transactions in roughly 390 milliseconds. SUI has a 10 billion total supply.
Bitcoin mining and hashrate explained: difficulty, hashprice and data sources
Bitcoin miners race to find a block hash below a target, and every 2,016 blocks (about two weeks) the network resets the difficulty so blocks keep coming about every 10 minutes. Hashrate, the total guessing power, cannot be measured directly; it is estimated from difficulty and block times.
Crypto options expiry and max pain explained: what happens at 3 a.m. ET
Crypto options on Deribit, a major options exchange, expire at 3 a.m. ET (4 a.m. ET during daylight saving time) and settle in cash against a 30-minute average of an index price. Max pain is the strike price at which the most option value would expire worthless, a number traders watch but one that does not control the price.
Bitcoin dominance and crypto market cap explained: why sites say 58% or 60%
Total crypto market cap adds up the market value of every tracked coin, and bitcoin dominance is bitcoin's share of it. As of November 2, 2026, the total was about $2.6 trillion to $2.7 trillion and bitcoin's share about 58% to 60%, depending on the data site.
Bitcoin halving explained: what it is, when the next one is and why it matters
The bitcoin halving is a rule in bitcoin's code that cuts the reward for mining a new block in half every 210,000 blocks, about every four years. The last one happened on April 20, 2024, at block 840,000. The next is due at block 1,050,000, expected around spring 2028.
Binance took in 18,435 BTC in two weeks while $6.81 billion in stablecoins walked out
DeepSea's data shows about $1.5 billion in bitcoin flowing into Binance in early October, just as billions in USDT left. Kraken saw the opposite, and the price fell anyway.
How crypto liquidations work: why a 10% move can wipe out a 10x trade
A liquidation is when an exchange force-closes a leveraged trade because losses have eaten through the trader's collateral. It protects the exchange and other traders from debts the trader cannot pay.
Perpetual futures funding rates explained: how 0.05% can cost 55% a year
A funding rate is a small payment that traders of perpetual futures make to each other to keep the contract's price close to the real market price. When it is positive, longs pay shorts. When it is negative, shorts pay longs.
What is a bitcoin ETF? How spot funds hold coins and what daily flows mean
A spot bitcoin ETF is a fund that holds real bitcoin and trades on a stock exchange like a share. Big brokers create and redeem its shares in blocks, and the daily flow numbers measure exactly those creations and redemptions.
Sui promised Hashi in October with $500 million pledged. Its own page still says testnet
Hashi is Sui's plan to let native bitcoin back loans on Sui. The Sui Foundation said mainnet would go live in October. On November 2, the official Hashi page still read "Now on Sui Testnet".
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.
OKX's 48th reserve report shows $29.4 billion, up 27% in three months, with BTC at 110%
OKX marked four years of monthly proof-of-reserves reports on October 30. Its primary assets rose from $23.1 billion in July to $29.4 billion, and every listed coin is backed at least 1:1. Here is what the report proves and what it leaves out.
Bitcoin hashrate is back above 1 zettahash: two difficulty jumps in 13 days
Mining difficulty rose 5.92% on October 16 and another 5.54% on October 29, ending seven months below the 1 ZH/s line. A new record is about 5% away, but miners earn far less per machine than a year ago.
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.
Bitcoin Core 32.0 never shipped. Version 32.1 is out with 200 peer slots and a wallet fix
The new major release of Bitcoin's main node software arrived on October 27 under a different number than planned. It raises default peer slots to 200, speeds up block checks and closes a wallet bug that could run commands on a node. Nodes on 29.x or older are now out of support.
Native bitcoin as Aave collateral? Babylon's plan starts with a 300 BTC cap
Babylon Labs wants Aave V4 to accept bitcoin that never leaves the Bitcoin chain, with no wrapper or custodian. Aave Labs says the integration works and LlamaRisk has set a 300 BTC starting cap, but a Snapshot vote is still to come.
Lightning Labs puts bitcoin wallets for AI agents on mainnet, capped near $244 each
Wavelength lets any app or AI agent send and receive bitcoin without running a node. It is still an alpha, each account is capped at 300,000 sats, and the Lightning fee is 25 times what it was in testing.
Bitcoin ETFs lost $636 million in one day as chip stocks sank 6.7% and oil jumped
A tech sell-off and a 7% oil spike on October 22 erased most of a $1.07 billion, three-day inflow streak into US spot bitcoin funds. It was their worst day since late June, and it tipped October into the red.
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.
Thailand's SEC: 11 crypto ETF rules, then a block on Vcex.io from November 7
In three October days, Thailand's Securities and Exchange Commission set rules for local Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs, filed a criminal complaint over the unlicensed Vcex.io exchange and said access to it will be blocked from November 7. The message: use the licensed route or be shut out.
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.
A Liquid bug minted 4,000 unbacked L-BTC. Eight weeks on, the reserve is 550 BTC short
An attacker used a flaw in Liquid's software to create unbacked tokens and redeem them for about $319 million in real bitcoin, then sent 85% back. The reserve is still 550 BTC short and direct redemptions stay paused.