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NEAR confidential perps went live this week, and the token exploded 22% to reclaim the $3 level. The new product lets traders open perpetual futures positions without publicly linking trades to their accounts. Hyperliquid provides the perp markets under the hood, while NEAR Intents routes orders through a private shard that hides position size, entry levels, and trading activity from public explorers.That’s the news. Now the fun part: NEAR sits in my crypto shopping list as one of my smaller positions, and I started DCAing in early August around the $1.60 zone. Two months later, the position has nearly doubled.…

The last few days, all eyes around here have been on the Arc Chain launch. Obviously, we were in the trenches: trading, adding liquidity to pools, testing new protocols and trying to spot the next runner before everyone else did.But while Arc dominated our screens, the rest of crypto didn’t exactly sit still.The Clarity Act failed to advance in the Senate. The Fed raised interest rates for the first time in three years. And now the SEC has opened a five-year regulatory pathway for tokenized U.S. stocks to trade onchain.And that’s only part of what happened.As always, we keep an…

Strip every indicator off your chart. No RSI, no moving averages, no volume bars. What’s left is price making highs and lows. That’s market structure, and it’s the oldest edge in trading.Every level I mark and every breakout I judge starts from structure. It tells me if the market is trending, ranging, or turning. Indicators react to price. Structure is price.In this guide, you’ll learn how to read market structure trading signals the simple way. We’ll cover higher highs and higher lows, the moment a trend actually shifts, and how to draw trend lines without fooling yourself. This guide is…

Scroll TikTok or YouTube for meme coin content, and one face keeps appearing: a young trader in a hoodie explaining how someone turned pocket change into millions. That face belongs to Orangie, one of the most-watched meme coin creators of this cycle, and a case study in how gaming clout converts into crypto influence.His path here is stranger than most. Pro gaming, Bored Apes, NFT game grinding, and finally the meme coin trenches. Here is the full story, and what beginners should take from it.Who Is Orangie?Orangie is the online name of Gabriel Leyva, a Miami-raised content creator and meme…

The doors are open. Arc, the Layer 1 built by Circle, launched its public mainnet today, September 16, and the first day delivered exactly the mix we predicted: institutional press releases upstairs, a full degen casino downstairs. This recap covers the numbers, the projects that jumped the gun, the heavyweights that showed up on day one, and why the founders keep repeating one specific phrase.New here? Start with our what is Arc chain guide, then come back for the launch-day chaos.Launch Day in NumbersArc did not open to an empty room. More than 100 applications and over 100 institutional and…

The waiting is over. Today the Federal Reserve raised interest rates by 25 basis points, lifting the target range to 3.75%–4.00%. This is the first Fed rate hike since 2023, and the vote was unanimous.Two weeks ago I wrote in my Bitcoin and the Fed September breakdown that this one meeting would decide the month. Well, the meeting happened. The market’s first reaction was a shrug, followed by a slow bleed once Chair Warsh started talking.Let’s break down what the Fed did, why the press conference mattered more than the hike itself, and why I sat this one out completely.What…

I closed my HYPE short yesterday. More on that below, because the timing connects to today’s story. While I was flat and scrolling, I went back through the Arkham thread that’s been sitting in my drafts folder for two weeks. It deserves a full post, because it captures the exact tension that will decide where HYPE trades next year.Wallets linked to North Korea’s Lazarus Group sold more than $30 million in Bitcoin through Hyperliquid. Sanctioned hackers used the biggest perps DEX in the world as a laundry stop. Meanwhile, that same DEX is knocking on the CFTC’s front door asking…

Meme season is back. At least, it seems so. The ANSEM coin sparked renewed interest in memes and brought the trenches back to life. Since then, money has been flowing around, and everyone is hunting “the next PEPE” of the new cycle. Which is the coin that runs to billions?Timing matters here. Some believe the bear market is over, or at least almost over, and the next PEPE gets born in exactly this stage, while most people are still licking their wounds. Imagine catching PEPE at a $2 million market cap and riding it all the way to $5 billion.…

A retroactive airdrop is a free token distribution that rewards users for things they already did — no announcement, no campaign, no dashboard. One day you wake up, check a claim page, and discover that the protocol you used months ago has set tokens aside for you. It’s the closest thing crypto has to finding money in an old jacket.In this guide we’ll define retroactive airdrops properly, walk through the famous examples that shaped the model, explain how they differ from today’s point programs, and cover why we often label these opportunities “potential airdrops” here on AirdropAlert.What is a retroactive…

The Clarity Act is dead, at least for 2026. On Tuesday afternoon, the Senate held its long-awaited cloture vote on the crypto market structure bill. The bill needed 60 votes to advance. It got 49.We covered the setup in our Clarity Act Senate vote preview, where the whole fight over ethics provisions was already visible. That fight never got resolved, and now the most important crypto bill in years sits on ice.Bitcoin took it badly, then recovered just as fast. More on that wick, and the trade I missed by a hair, below.The Vote: 49 Yes, 50 NoThe Senate needed…