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KNTQ will allow holders to participate in decisions shaping the Kinetiq liquid staking protocol.The Kinetiq Foundation on Wednesday unveiled KNTQ, the official governance token for the Kinetiq protocol—the largest liquid staking platform on Hyperliquid’s Layer 1, HyperEVM, with a total value locked (TVL) of over $1.6 billion.As a governance token, KNTQ will enable holders to participate in decision-making and help shape the future of the Kinetiq protocol. The token will have a maximum supply of 1 billion, and eligible airdrop recipients must agree to the Kinetiq Foundation Terms of Use by Nov. 21 at 20:00 UTC.Kinetiq’s token distribution will allocate…

Joe Naggar, CEO & CIO of Feynman Point Asset ManagementFPAM Joe Naggar, a former partner at Steven Tananbaum’s GoldenTree Asset Management, is launching an independent hedge fund with $300 million under management, marking the formal spin-out of his team from crypto-focused investment firm Republic. Naggar spent 16 years at GoldenTree, helping oversee its $61 billion in credit assets. A longtime crypto enthusiast, he started mining bitcoin in 2013 and made early investments in projects like Stacks and Algorand as well as Coinbase. In 2022, he began assembling a dedicated digital assets team inside GoldenTree, betting that macro-informed approach and institutional-grade…

Gold, one of the oldest and most trusted stores of value, suffered a brutal sell-off in just 24 hours, wiping out trillions of dollars in market value, more than the entire value of Bitcoin.The gold market extended Tuesday’s massive correction, with $2.5 trillion being erased from its market cap on Wednesday, according to the financial analysis publication, The Kobeissi Letter.Putting gold on track for its largest two-day decline since 2013, the 8% drop has sparked panic among investors who had turned to the metal as a hedge against inflation and market volatility after its 60% surge earlier in 2022.Although Bitcoin…

Bitcoin is now more than just something people trade or hold as a store of value; it’s starting to pay interest.But there’s a catch: the coins earning those rewards can’t move for months or years. A growing number of holders are locking their BTC into time-based contracts that promise yield but also freeze supply.However, on the plus side, this tightens the market’s breathing room and opens a pathway to future supply squeeze-enabled price pumps.Timelocked and staked Bitcoin are creating a duration structure in the UTXO set that affects free float, execution costs, and fee reflexes.The change is most visible in…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure The volume of crypto transactions in the US has skyrocketed under President Donald Trump’s administration. A new report by TRM notes that between January 2025 and July 2025, crypto transactions in the US surged by about 50%, crossing $1 trillion in value. Crypto Witnesses Resurgence Under Trump According to a report by TRM, titled ‘Country Crypto Adoption Index 2025’, countries like India, the US, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Brazil ranked among the top five nations around the world in terms of digital assets adoption. While India maintained…

Key takeaways: Use confirmation, not hope: Wait for a higher-timeframe close and a clean retest before sizing up.Read leverage tells: Extreme funding plus rising open interest at a key level signals trap risk in the opposite direction.Don’t trust thin books: Off-hours liquidity, spoof orders, listings or unlocks can manufacture fake breaks.Respect liquidations: Cascades often mark exhaustion; snap-backs are common once forced flows clear.Why crypto is a trap-heavy marketThe way crypto trades sets it up for traps.Markets run 24/7, and a growing share of volume comes from high-leverage perpetual futures. That means even small order imbalances can trigger sharp, short-lived moves.That’s why…

Key points:Bitcoin retreats to near $106,000 as gold struggles to find support after major daily losses.BTC price action continues low-time frame liquidity games after failing to hold support higher.CPI week begins to take its toll on crypto and risk assets.Bitcoin (BTC) stuck to $108,000 after Wednesday’s Wall Street open as gold sought new lows.BTC/USD one-hour chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingViewBitcoin vs. gold celebrations cut short as price U-turnsData from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView tracked volatile BTC price action after a trip to $106,100 earlier in the day.Attempts to crack resistance higher up ended in failure, with market commentators warning of a…

In brief Over the past week, investors been pulling money out of Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs. But on Tuesday, they reversed course, putting a combined $618.9 million into the funds. Experts told Decrypt that crypto markets path forward remains uncertain. Investors piled back into Bitcoin ETFs and their Ethereum counterparts Tuesday, reversing days of outflows, although the fresh investments failed to give the two largest cryptocurrencies by market value a long-lasting bump. The price of the two biggest digital assets has in the past risen significantly when investors have bought shares of the American ETFs. Investors sank about $477 million and $142…

In brief Google’s Willow chip achieved a verified quantum speed-up confirmed by experiment. Verified results mark a step toward fault-tolerant quantum systems with real-world impact. Experts warn that such progress could eventually threaten Bitcoin’s elliptic-curve encryption. Google’s latest quantum processor has achieved what physicists have pursued for decades: a verified speed-up over the world’s best supercomputers. And that makes the anticipated threat against Bitcoin appear even bigger than ever.In a study published in Nature on Wednesday, the company’s 105-qubit Willow chip ran a physics algorithm faster than any classical machine could simulate—a first experimentally confirmed quantum advantage achieved with real…

HBAR fell 5.4% over the past 24 hours, slipping from $0.1792 to $0.1695 as sellers regained control. The token traced a series of lower highs within a volatile $0.0140 trading range, pointing to accelerating downside momentum. Heavy selling intensified at $0.1820, where 123.7 million tokens—95% above the 24-hour average—were exchanged, triggering a swift rejection and sharp move lower through key support levels.After briefly stabilizing near $0.1684 overnight, HBAR remained under pressure as each recovery attempt was met with renewed selling. The bearish tone dominated most of the session, keeping the token pinned near its lows and reinforcing the short-term downtrend.A…