Perpetual Futures Passed The Test By Predicting Where SpaceX Would Open

Hyperliquid’s SPCX perpetual futures traded within what became the stock’s first-day range for most of the week before the IPO, giving traders a continuous 24-hour read on investor sentiment before Nasdaq opened. 

SpaceX closed its first day at $160.95, valuing the company at $2.2 trillion. The shares jumped another 20% to $192.46 Monday.

“The SpaceX premium was not a forecast,” said D2 Finance portfolio manager Luca Parlamento. “It was exposure that re-priced the second a cash market existed to re-price against. That is what pre-IPO perps actually are: a place to hold the opening basis until the bell.” 

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Popular digital artist Mike Winkelmann, better known as Beeple, portrayed Elon Musk as a massive cyborg figure late Monday following his historic achievement as the world’s first trillionaire.

Musk Shows As Undisputed Tech Tzar

Beeple posted an artwork on X, titled “1.3 TRILLION,” celebrating Musk hitting a record net worth of $1.3 trillion after Space Exploration Technologies Corp.‘s (NASDAQ:SPCX) IPO drove a sharp valuation surge.

The artwork showed Musk towering over a futuristic city with cheering crowds below. Inside the cyborg’s glowing chest chamber are portraits of rival tech figures, including Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Amazon founder and Executive Chair Jeff Bezos and…

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Schiff Vs Pompliano

The two individuals with diametrically opposite views on Bitcoin faced off in a debate moderated by Fox Business.

At a point in the debate, Pompliano challenged Schiff to make a bet on whether Bitcoin would still be around in a decade.

“That’s an easy bet. If you think it’s going to go away, let’s make a little bet,” Pompliano told Schff.

“Well, I can’t. It’s not going to go to zero. Maybe,” Schiff responded.

Pompliano Claims It As A Win

Later on X, Pompliano spun Schiff’s remarks as a gotcha moment.

“I got Peter Schiff to admit Bitcoin is not going to zero on national television. Next, he will reveal he owns a bunch of Bitcoin too…,” Pompliano said.

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Armstrong Bats For Retail Investors Amid IPO Wave

Armstrong said on X that current rules unfairly restrict “retail investors” from early-stage private deals, forcing them to wait until IPOs, when much of the upside has already been captured.

“These rules were created with the best of intentions, to protect regular people from scams – a noble idea,” he added. “Unfortunately, in practice, they’ve often made it illegal to get richer, unless you’re already rich.”

His remarks follow the blockbuster stock market debut of Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (NASDAQ:SPCX), which operated as a private company for over 24 years.

Cuban Jabs Armstrong

Accredited investor rules are set…

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Influential analyst Ali Martinez spotlighted on Saturday the strong demand for Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (NASDAQ:SPCX) among cryptocurrency investors.

‘Demand Was Always There’

In an X post, Martinez said that the “appetite” for the newly listed space giant is “bigger” than what they expected.

The analyst cited CoinMarketCap data showing billions traded in SpaceX-linked cryptocurrency products across the market since the stock’s debut on Wall Street.

In the past 24 hours, approximately $11.9 billion in SpaceX derivatives were traded on cryptocurrency exchanges, of which Binance (CRYPTO: BNB) accounted for 26%.

“For years, retail investors had almost no way to get…

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“A traveler can set up the AI concierge in two minutes via Claude. Once set up, they can ask the agent to make a hotel booking, which will quickly narrow down the options for the traveler based on their prompt, avoiding decision paralysis,” said Juan Otero, Travala’s CEO.

“The way we book travel is changing,” Otero said. Agentic bookings are the next iteration of the online experience, and will exist alongside traditional online bookings and human travel agents for at least the foreseeable future. But I think the online travel market is moving toward agentic commerce, even though it’s still very early days,” he said.

Travala true believers – and users – hold the company’s token, AVA….

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XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) surged to $1.27 Monday, breaking decisively out of the June descending triangle as $6.07 million in short positions got liquidated in 24 hours.

Descending Triangle Breaks Out With Volume Exploding 129%

XRP pushed through $1.14, then $1.18, and reclaimed $1.20 on its strongest volume since the early-June washout, forcing traders to reassess expectations for continued weakness.

The move cleared both the 0.382 Fibonacci level at $1.1702 and the 0.5 Fib at $1.2071, with price now testing the 0.618 Fib at $1.2440. 

Buyers have broken the descending trendline, the Parabolic SAR remains bullish at $1.0527, and the 20 EMA at $1.2069 now acts as support.

Derivatives confirm the…

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The Fortress Versus The Glass House

The Volatility Trap

The Future Landscape and Strategic Shifts

Investors will eventually reject the high-risk, high-inflation models like the restaking ones. They will demand yields backed by real-world assets. The 4.5% to 5.5% APY from restaking looks attractive now, but it relies on complex software layers that could fail.

Conclusion

Do not get me wrong, I am not against Defi. I am for Defi but we need to pivot from what we are right now to something more sustainable. Perhaps exploring more meaningful use cases will help churn out real yields.

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Most of Sandisk’s run came after the stock bottomed at $27.89 in April 2025 — barely 14 months ago.

Wall Street Is Now In Love With Memory Stocks

Sandisk rose as much as 6% Monday to a record near $2,100, after Western Digital surged 14% to its own all-time high. A wave of Wall Street target increases on Western Digital — JPMorgan to $650 from $530, Wells Fargo to $575, Bank of America to $610 — lit up the entire storage complex.

Sandisk has rallied 28% over the past three sessions, its sharpest three-day run since early January.

The rally rests on a physical shortage.

Most people know Sandisk from memory cards and USB sticks. The same flash technology now fills the storage racks…

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