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Santiment (an analytics platform that tracks crypto market data) reported on the morning of November 14: the total open positions in BTC futures have fallen to August values. Borrowed volume is leaving the market.
On the evening of November 13 at 21:15 Moscow time, a report emerged that the Bank of Japan is conducting interventions in the yen. These are direct operations by the regulator in the foreign exchange market, where the central bank itself buys the national currency to stop its weakening.
Decentralized exchange Hyperliquid closed the third quarter with a record $16.8 billion in open interest (the sum of all open futures positions) and for the first time surpassed three major centralized competitors on this metric.
FTMO, one of the world's largest prop firms, has announced the hiring of 300 employees. Roughly half of the vacancies are at OANDA, a broker that is part of the company's structure.
Over 24 hours, $1.64 billion in leveraged positions were forcibly closed on the crypto market - 513.7% more than the day before. Almost 89% of the amount came from long positions: BTC's drop to $67,770 wiped out those who bet on growth.
Apex Trader Funding, Tradeify, Bulenox and My Funded Futures have removed the monthly evaluation fee for new purchases this year. At the same time, CME, the exchange whose data a trader needs to see quotes, still bills prop firms as before - every month.
Japan's largest broker Nomura is in preliminary talks to sell Laser Digital, its crypto business for institutional clients. London-based Marex Group is named among possible buyers. Bloomberg reported this on November 11.
Altcoins are falling faster than Bitcoin itself, which is why BTC's share of total market capitalization has approached 61%. The indicator has not held above this level even once since August 2025.
On the morning of November 12 in Hong Kong, shares of Alibaba (ticker 9988.HK) and Tencent (700.HK) fell by about 5%. The reason was the preparation of new US rules: Chinese AI companies are to be banned from remotely using advanced chips via data centers outside the US and China.
Glassnode in a report dated November 11 calculated: the volume of the largest stablecoins (coins with an exchange rate pegged to the dollar) shrank by $14.2 billion over 30 days. It only fell more sharply in the bearish 2022.
The Central Bank published a release on November 11: from November 22, 2026, Russian exchanges have the right to open organized trading in cryptocurrencies. This concerns infrastructure at the level of the Moscow Exchange (MOEX) and SPB Exchange (SPBE).
The U.S. futures market regulator has sent the prediction markets platform Kalshi a warning that its review may result in formal claims against it. It is reviewing notices for dozens of the platform's new products.
The prop company has rewritten three rules in its evaluation programs: the earnings limit around the release of macroeconomic statistics has tripled, the minimum trade holding time has been halved, and the ban on copying trades has been lifted entirely. The changes were announced on November 11.
Kevin Cramer, a Republican senator on the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, publicly called for Jensen Huang to step down as head of Nvidia for the first time. According to The Telegraph, his departure could cost the company up to $1 trillion in market value. The trigger was an investigation into Huang's contacts with a woman suspected of working for Chinese intelligence.
One of Brazil's largest crypto exchanges is restoring deposits and withdrawals of money via Pix (the Brazilian central bank's instant payment system) starting next week. Deposits and withdrawals of cryptocurrency itself remain suspended, with no date for their return.
Solana has fallen to its lowest level in four weeks. Over 28 days, SOL lost 22.9%, and this drop is deeper than Bitcoin's over the same period. At the same time, money was withdrawn from exchange-traded funds on SOL on November 6 and 9 in a row.
The developer of Claude has named its IPO price for the first time. On Nasdaq under the ticker ANT, 825 million Class A shares are being sold: at the upper bound, that's up to $64.4 billion raised and a company valuation of up to $1.4 trillion.
On Tuesday, gold gave back almost all of the previous day's gains - traders took profits, and a Fed official's comments about a possible rate hike in December added pressure.
US stocks recovered almost the entire post-midterm Congress selloff: the S&P 500 posted its best day since April, while the Nasdaq gained 5% over two sessions.
Clare Lombardelli, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, told the Guardian that she does not rule out a rate hike at the December meeting. For a market accustomed to expecting cuts from the British central bank, this is a reversal in tone.
On November 9, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC, the regulator of the futures and forex market) banned eight Americans from working in the industry: they brought U.S. retail traders to unlicensed offshore brokers. Clients deposited about $391 million with the four brands.
Brent crude closed at $92.57 on Monday, November 9 - down $5.75 for the session. Over the past week it fell 16%, the worst weekly result since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
