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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.
India's Enforcement Directorate conducted raids on November 4 and 5 at three offices in Bengaluru. The country's largest crypto exchange by turnover, CoinDCX, and the derivatives platform Delta Exchange India came under scrutiny: they are suspected of circumventing currency legislation.
Japanese producer output prices rose 7.1% year-on-year in October instead of the expected 6.5%. This increases pressure on the Bank of Japan to raise the rate on December 17-18 - the third time in a calendar year, something that has not happened since 1989.
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.
The board is preparing to fire the founder and the only CEO in the company's history and is already selecting a candidate. The stock, which closed Wednesday in positive territory, plunged to $157 in the evening session.
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.
At the US market open on November 11, chipmaker stocks moved higher following CoreWeave's report. CoreWeave's own shares gained 16%, while the SOXX exchange-traded fund, made up of semiconductor company stocks, rose 5%.
Micron (MU, a major American manufacturer of memory for AI servers) shares were up about 6% before the US market opened on Wednesday, after closing Tuesday at $725.11. Two reasons converged: Anthropic named Micron among seven buyers of its $26 billion stock offering, and cloud company CoreWeave raised its revenue forecast.
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 yen weakens for the second day in a row after October US inflation data. The market has almost fully priced in a Fed rate hike in December, and less than a figure remains to the 160 level, near which Tokyo has already entered the market with interventions.
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.
The US Department of Commerce halted its review of Megaspeed, a company that purchased Nvidia chips, after Nvidia itself reached out. In parallel, the Department of Justice is conducting a criminal investigation into the same client - two levels more serious than an administrative review.
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.
