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Arthur Hayes, the crypto world’s favorite provocateur, just slapped a $150 price tag on HYPE by July 2026. Oh, and he’s backing it with a $100,000 bet. Because what’s a bold claim without a little skin in the game? With Hyperliquid’s market cap chilling at $7 billion and daily trading volume bouncing between $200-$300 million, this token is the crypto equivalent of a soap opera-everyone’s watching, but no one’s quite sure how it’ll end.

According to the wise seers at Arkham, these UAE-linked mining operations have conjured up about $453.6 million worth of Bitcoin, much of which remains stubbornly ensconced on-chain. After a little jiggery-pokery with energy costs, we find ourselves with an impressive $344 million in unrealized profit. Bravo! A round of applause for our patient treasure keepers!

So, Ethereum’s developers are all like, “Let’s spice up the Hegota fork with FOCIL (aka EIP-7805), because censorship resistance is so hot right now.” Apparently, soispoke.eth dropped the news that FOCIL’s been “SFI’d,” which is basically blockchain-speak for “it’s happening, people!” And now everyone’s obsessing over it like it’s the next big thing in crypto (which, let’s be real, it probably is).

Ah, but lo! Just a mere seven days post its grand debut, Robinhood’s Ethereum Layer-2 marvel, aptly named “Robinhood Chain,” has triumphantly achieved the remarkable feat of processing approximately 4 million transactions upon its public testnet. Such industriousness!

This creates a delightful tug-of-war between “recovery” and “I give up,” which is probably the most exciting thing Ethereum’s had since Vitalik started wearing socks.

The year 2025, they tell us, was a year of high-throughput theatrics, with mainnet changes anchored by two network upgrades: Pectra in May and Fusaka in December, accompanied by the grand unveiling of PeerDAS. Alongside these, the community, in a fit of exuberance, doubled the mainnet gas limit from 30 million to 60 million, a feat they proudly declare as the first significant jump since 2021. One wonders if they threw a parade.

Earlier this week, McGlone was waving his arms like a man trying to flag down a passing spaceship, warning that collapsing crypto prices could signal broader financial doom and that bitcoin might revert to $10,000 if U.S. equities decided to take a nosedive. He painted bitcoin as the high-beta risk asset equivalent of a towel-useful, but not something you want to bet your life on.

Under the freshly minted UNIfication doctrine, this mechanism is the first of its kind. If the council nods in approval, it may well rewrite how Uniswap scoops and consumes UNI across realms.

The UAE’s Bitcoin stash is so big, it’s practically a second palace. Arkham’s data reveals they’ve mined 6,782 BTC-enough to buy a small island, if islands were made of cryptocurrency.

Here we find Bitcoin, lingering like a house guest who’s overstayed their welcome, tethered tightly around $66,000 after several attempts to reclaim the glorious $70,000 fizzled out faster than a soda left open too long. Traders are keenly observing two nearby “magnets”: the overhead liquidation liquidity between $69,000 and $72,000, and that CME gap around the mid-$65,000s, which seems to have more gravitational pull than a black hole.