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Arthur Hayes returned to buying Hyperliquid’s HYPE after selling nearly $18 million last week, a move that was followed by an almost 20% pullback. He accumulated 33,978 HYPE worth about $2.09 million as the token held near $60 after dropping from its $75 all-time high. Separately, rising TVL, fees, and on-chain activity point to a recovery supported by network fundamentals rather than trading flows alone.

BitMEX Group CEO Stephan Lutz said the Oct. 10, 2025 cascading liquidations functioned as a stress test that highlighted systemic risk created by fragmented liquidity and collateral across crypto venues. He argued that while regulation and frameworks such as MiFID II can provide clarity, derivatives flow will ultimately concentrate where liquidity, execution quality, and infrastructure reliability hold up under peak load.

Blockchain investigator ZachXBT urged traders to avoid Rain Protocol, describing it as a prediction-market project with an $8.8 billion market cap but limited users and traction. He pointed to Oct. 14, 2025 on-chain trails he says link wallets tied to the RAIN team to DOP and TOMI, and alleged signs of liquidity-based price manipulation. ZachXBT also said he downgraded Kraken from S-tier to B-tier over token listings including M, RAIN, RIVER and RAVE, and raised an insider bounty to as much as $100,000.

SEI fell more than 17% over the past 24 hours at press time, underperforming a broader crypto market move that was down over 5%. Network usage and liquidity metrics weakened in early June, while more than $13 million in Futures selling over the same 24-hour window added pressure. Technical indicators showed a break of a two-month support line, though a buy signal near oversold levels pointed to a possible rebound around $0.04845 if conditions improve.

On June 4, 2026, ADA traded at $0.1862, down over 20% on the week and about 94% below its $3.09 peak from September 2021, as key ecosystem services went offline. JPG.Store fully shut on May 23 and TapTools later ceased operations, while Cardano’s DeFi metrics and governance votes highlighted ongoing pressure on liquidity and funding.

Hyperliquid (HYPE) has been gaining relative to Solana (SOL) in price, widening the gap as SOL slides to its lowest level since 2023. However, SOL's circulating market cap remains above $38 billion, and the piece argues that institutional plumbing and collateral utility make a near-term "flippening" difficult. The discussion also cites a $1.1 billion market-wide liquidation event and notes Arthur Hayes' June 4, 2026 post saying he exited his $HYPE and $NEAR positions.

Hyperliquid is becoming a preferred venue for Wall Street traders to trade perpetual futures outside traditional exchange hours, as 24/7 onchain markets absorb activity from legacy venues. The report highlighted a Saturday crude-oil trade that ended with a 243% gain and noted claims that Hyperliquid controls more than 70% of decentralized perps, alongside daily volume often above $1 billion.

edgeX said the EDGE token sank as much as 71% within hours on June 2 and that reviews by exchanges and market makers found no signs of coordinated manipulation. The firm attributed the move to thin on-chain liquidity, crowded longs, and liquidation spillovers into perpetual futures, and it unveiled a 200,000 USDC bounty plus voluntary goodwill payments for affected users.

Orbs has rolled out the V5 upgrade on Ethereum and Arbitrum, introducing a hybrid Layer 3 model that shifts complex DeFi automation off-chain while keeping verification anchored on the two networks. The release adds a "Committee Sync" mechanism designed to reduce the cost and fragmentation of per-chain verification for advanced order types and automation tools.

EDGE fell to an all-time low of around $0.40 on June 1 after previously reaching $1.54, with the move erasing about 51% in a single day and sparking roughly $6.2 million in liquidations. edgeX said the protocol was not compromised and blamed suspected external market manipulation, while on-chain researcher ZachXBT questioned the token's supply concentration and criticized the project's self-investigation.