0/ In today’s Delphi Daily, we examined ETH retesting range heights and the market’s current fear.
In addition, we analyzed @dydxprotocol flipping @coinbase’s total volume and Perp DEX token shining.
For a deeper dive 🧵👇
1/ Market Update-
🔹Macro and regulatory fears continue to linger as most of the market has been in the red today.
🔹Crypto markets dipped on Friday following news that China banned crypto (again), before recovering slightly heading into Monday.
2/ Unless a clear catalyst or shift in market structure takes place, ETH is likely to continue trading within this broad range.
Note that ETH is currently trading near the range high, which means if the market continues ranging, then a swing back to the lows is likely.
3/ Despite a solid bout of mean reversion over the weekend, it appears that markets are still gripped by fear as price action stalls out.
The Fear & Greed index has been hovering around ~25 (a state of fear) for the past few days.
4/ While dYdX continues to dominate the DeFi perps market, it also recently achieved another significant milestone – eclipsing Coinbase’s 24H trading volume.
A big contributor to this is the nature of dYdX’s trade mining rewards structure.
5/ In addition to breaking records for trading volume, the $DYDX token hit a new all time high price of $22.67 earlier today before cooling off.
Perpetual Protocol’s token ($PERP) has also followed closely behind, perhaps benefiting from the same thematic trade.
AI has blurred the lines of IP ownership. @StoryProtocol thinks blockchain can fix it.
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General-purpose blockchains aren't optimized either, lacking native support for complex royalty splits and embedding licensing terms into creative assets.
Hyperliquid just dodged a $13.5M bullet—but it exposed a critical flaw in decentralized trading.
Here's how one trader almost broke the system and how we can stop it from happening again.
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1/ An attacker opened a large short position on JELLY, then artificially pumped its spot price, forcing liquidation.
This pushed an unrealized $13.5M loss onto Hyperliquid’s liquidity pool (HLP), as the oracle price spiked from $0.0095 to ~$0.50 per token.
2/ Hyperliquid intervened by delisting JELLY perps and force-settling positions at the original price of $0.0095, protecting HLP and leaving the attacker at a loss.
But rather than just reacting, what steps can Perp DEXs take to mitigate future risks?
AI agents are evolving from simple assistants to fully autonomous entities.
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Here’s how ElizaOS v2 is shaping the future of AI-powered economies.
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• Event-Driven Architecture: AI agents can react to real-time data, making them more efficient in handling DeFi, governance, and logistics.
These improvements give AI more flexibility, planning capabilities, and the ability to execute more complex tasks.
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1. Appchains Have Struggled
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RaaS solutions (e.g., Caldera, Conduit) offer basic infra but lack key ecosystem components.
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