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Following Hyperliquid’s audacious leap, the crypto circus welcomed its imitators. ASTER, the native token of the Aster decentralized perpetual exchange, strutted onto the stage with all the confidence of a tightrope walker who’s never fallen. Its open interest climbed into the billions, a feat that, while impressive, still leaves it in the shadow of Hyperliquid’s towering success. Yet, ASTER’s token price lingers 70% below its all-time high, a humbling reminder that even the boldest acts can stumble.

Currently, the token is priced around $72.71, showing a gain of about 6.27% in the last 24 hours and over 17% for the week. Over $1.3 billion worth of the token has been traded in the past day.

In overnight trading, shares decided they hadn’t had enough fun and kept climbing toward $920. Because, why stop at the moon when you can aim for Mars?

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Ah, the irony! Bitcoin, that digital Prometheus, has been chained to its narrow range since February 2026, its volatility indicator crushed to a multi-month low of 0.90%. The market, once a roaring bear pit, now resembles a desolate steppe, its liquidity dried up like a Soviet-era ration queue. Yet, in this barren landscape, even the slightest breeze-a Fed whisper, a Saylor sneeze-could ignite a firestorm.

You’d think with all the big, fancy institutional money bailing out of the “flagship” cryptocurrencies like they just found out Bitcoin is actually just a bunch of spreadsheets made by a guy who likes to wear wizard hats, XRP would’ve crashed into the ground by now. But nope, it’s somehow propped up by a fancy hourly chart pattern that traders spend 12 hours a day staring at, plus four straight weeks of ETF inflows that haven’t taken a single day off, turning $1.34 into what some guy named Ali Martinez is calling a “potentially ideal buying zone.” Which is trader speak for “maybe don’t buy it right now, but if you do, don’t say I didn’t warn you when it drops to $0.80 next week.”

I’ve noticed an interesting post from Mr. Hodl. He highlighted a connection between Roger Ver and GrassFedBitcoin, and included screenshots of Ver’s 2019 statement where he argued that Bitcoin had failed to provide censorship resistance, specifically pointing to instances where parts of the community were being censored.

In this gilded age of lobbying, the crypto industry has outpaced even the most venerable of Washington’s heavyweights-Big Oil, pharmaceuticals, and finance. By early May 2026, these digital titans had lavished over $271 million on advertising, a sum so vast it could make a Rockefeller blush. And for what noble cause, you ask? Why, to secure a “stamp of legitimacy” from the halls of power, of course, and to carve out a regulatory landscape as favorable as a summer breeze.

As we all know, the blockchain crowd’s trusty detective firm Blockaid was the first to sniff out the trick. The Security Alliance’s SEAL_911 unit followed suit, keeping chaps on the lookout while the whole affair unfolded.

Giustra’s latest tirade was sparked by U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who casually mentioned the federal government’s seizure of a cool $1 billion in crypto wallets. “Some of them are typing in their wallets right now and have no idea it’s already gone,” Bessent quipped, presumably while twirling a mustache he doesn’t actually have.