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Why does one coin still hold nearly 60 cents of every dollar in crypto, even though more than 22,000 other coins exist? That share has a name: Bitcoin dominance. It is Bitcoin's market value divided by the market value of all crypto put together, and right now it sits near 59%.

CFTC Clears Stock Perpetual Futures for US Trading First Time

For the first time, a US trader will be able to bet on a single stock with a contract that never expires, inside a regulated US market. On Tuesday, Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chair Michael Selig cleared perpetual futures tied to individual stocks for registered US exchanges, and he put them under joint watch by the CFTC and the Securities and Exchange Commission. What traders watch next is plain. Which exchanges move first, and which stocks they list, because Selig's statement named neither.

What Is a Crypto Whale? How Big Holders Move the Market

A crypto whale is a wallet that holds so much of one coin that a single buy or sell can push the price around. In October, one wallet woke up after six quiet years and moved $378 million in Bitcoin in a single transfer. That is the whole idea in one line: when your pile is that big, an ordinary move becomes a market event. Key points: A whale is any wallet big enough to move a coin's price — for Bitcoin, most trackers draw the line at 1,000 BTC. A big transfer is not always a sale. Plenty of whale moves are just coins shifting between wallets the same owner controls. Free alerts and block explorers let anyone watch whales, but copying their trades blind is the fastest way for a small trader to lose money. My own read is simple: whales matter, but not the way most headlines make it sound. A whale alert tells you something big moved. It never tells you why. How much crypto makes a whale There is no rule book for this. The line moves with the coin: what counts as huge for B...

What Is a Crypto Airdrop and How Does It Work?

In September 2020, people who had simply swapped coins once on Uniswap woke up to 400 free UNI tokens in their wallets. At the time, that gift was worth over a thousand dollars, and some early users got far more. That is a crypto airdrop in one line: A project sends free tokens straight to people's wallets, usually to thank early users, spread the word, or hand out a say in how the project is run.

What Is a Rug Pull in Crypto? How to Spot One Before You Buy

A coin can double in an hour and be worth nothing by lunch. That is a rug pull. A team launches a token, hypes it hard, waits for buyers to fill the trading pool, then pulls the money out and walks away. Holders are left with a token nobody will buy. It is theft, planned from the start. Not a crash. Not bad luck.

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