Crypto traders are migrating from memecoins to AI and semiconductor stocks, bringing their 24/7 playbook of momentum trading, anonymous X accounts, and round-the-clock leverage. Contracts tracking SK …
Hyperliquid, a decentralized perpetual futures exchange, reached a record $11.5 billion in open interest in 2026, the highest level of the year, driven by activity in equities and AI-related sectors. …
Real-world assets (RWAs) accounted for 54% of Hyperliquid's weekly trading volume during July 13–19, the first time non-crypto assets have dominated the exchange, according to ARK Invest director of d…
Hyperliquid is positioning itself as the default liquidity layer for AI trading agents, offering a unified feed of funding rates, open interest, and cross-venue exposure. The platform's open interest …
A developer built a DeFi trading agent using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) that can browse pair markets, read positions, and execute leveraged pair trades on Hyperliquid via Pear Protocol. The open…
Crypto-style perpetual futures tied to GPU and DRAM rental benchmarks have launched from Architect Financial Technologies and Hyperbolic Labs, marking the first hedging tools for AI compute volatility…
A developer released an MCP server that gives AI models direct, signed access to Hyperliquid perpetual futures trading, with built-in safety checks to prevent costly order failures. The tool supports …
MoltProof, a read-only verifier for on-chain autonomous agents, allows anyone to check whether an agent's trades adhered to its publicly committed mandate without trusting the agent or the verifier. T…
Bain Capital confirmed that a special-purpose vehicle it set up for SK Hynix still holds a 14% stake in Kioxia Holdings, as Bain itself fully exited its position in the Japanese NAND flash memory comp…
Open interest in SK Hynix perpetual futures on Trade.xyz surged 210% over the past month, driven by institutional appetite and AI-fueled demand ahead of the company's ADR listing. The decentralized pl…
Crypto venture firm Paradigm raised a $1.2 billion fourth fund to invest in AI, robotics, crypto, and other technologies, broadening its focus beyond digital assets. The firm, which has backed compani…
Anthropic received U.S. government clearance on June 30 to globally deploy its Claude Fable 5 AI model, lifting export controls imposed on June 12 over a jailbreak vulnerability. The clearance comes w…
Over $1.988 billion in cryptocurrency tokens are scheduled for release in July 2026, with major unlocks from Rain ($812M), Hyperliquid ($630M), and Pump.fun ($117M). Prediction markets indicate potent…
Phantom has acquired the team behind Ventuals, a platform for permissionless perpetual futures on private company valuations, to bolster its on-chain trading capabilities. The Ventuals team, led by CE…
Virtuals Protocol has enabled autonomous AI agents to trade tokenized versions of real US equities like Apple and Tesla directly on-chain through platforms such as Uniswap and xStocks, blurring the li…
A developer auditing their AI-assisted crypto trading bot 'ziom trader' on Hyperliquid found that 60% of a -$9.21 loss over 65 trades was due to system overhead, not strategy. The bot's landing page s…
Instinct, a Y Combinator Winter 2026 company, launched a mobile trading app that uses AI and quantitative tools to help retail traders act on their instincts in global and crypto markets. Founded by f…
X402stock launched a pay-per-call API for market and economic data, enabling AI agents to access live US stocks, options, forex, crypto, macro data, SEC filings, and sentiment without API keys or acco…
Anthropic's valuation surged to $965 billion after a $65 billion Series H funding round on May 28, 2026, surpassing OpenAI's $852 billion valuation and marking a rare leadership change in the AI indus…
A short squeeze in SpaceX perpetual futures briefly sent the company's implied valuation to $3 trillion on blockchain-based markets, surpassing Amazon and Microsoft. The squeeze liquidated over $50 mi…