Study: TerraUSD Crash Caused by Coordinated Trading Attack Researchers... have found new evidence that the $3.5 billion TerraUSD and $LUNA crash in 2022 was likely caused by a coordinated trading attack. Instead of normal market activity spread across many traders, just a few controlled nearly all trading right before the collapse. This pattern suggests a planned effort to crash the system. The team used a method called temporal multilayer graph analysis to study trading behavior on Ethereum. Their data showed that five or six traders acted in sync, each holding almost the same market share — too precise to be random. They developed the tool with Pometry, a spin-out from Queen Mary University of London. The study was published in ACM Transactions on the Web by Cheick Tidiane Ba, Ben Steer, Matteo Zignani and Richard Clegg.show more

This weekend I had the opportunity to attend the... very first Prop Firm Expo by Prop Firm Match What an incredible event. Yes, it was crowded. Yes, it was hot. And yes, the lines were long. But if anything, that was a testament to just how popular prop trading has become in London, far beyond what many of us expected. It was amazing to see an online community come together in person. Traders had the chance to meet the founders and leaders of some of the biggest prop firms, connect with the streamers and educators they watch every day, and exchange ideas with fellow traders from around the world. It was a great opportunity to learn, network, and pick up new ideas to improve their trading. Having attended trading events around the world for more than two decades, I can honestly say the energy and enthusiasm of the prop community is unmatched. Thank you to Prop Firm Match for inviting me to be a part of it. I’m already looking forward to next year. I have no doubt the venue will need to be even bigger. Grateful to have been part of such a memorable first event.show more

Carbon credits are a key component of national and... global attempts to mitigate the growth in concentrations of greenhouse gasses (GHGs). The basic idea behind carbon credits is to use market mechanisms to control emissions. Carbon credits can be bought and sold on carbon markets, and this trading helps to set a price on carbon. The carbon credit system was established under the Kyoto Protocol and is now a key component of many emissions trading schemes around the world. By putting a price on carbon, the system aims to encourage the transition to a low-carbon economy and help mitigate the impacts of climate change, effectively making it more expensive to pollute. #SaveSoilshow more

When markets crash, the hard part usually isn’t the... chart work. It’s keeping your emotions under control. Most traders have a system, a plan, clear rules. But when your P&L swings tens of thousands in a day, all of that gets stress‑tested. Fear, anxiety, regret, anger – these emotions can destroy more than the sell‑off itself. Over the past decade, I’ve traded through multiple crashes, panics, collapses and violent corrections. What I’ve learned is this: Your long‑term results are not decided by how well you predict the market, but by whether you can stay rational when the market is at its messiest. In this post I’m sharing four mindset and strategy shifts I consider most critical. I hope they help you make better decisions the next time the market tanks. 📎What’s the mistake you’re most likely to make in a big sell‑off? 💬Tell me in the comments 🆕 Champion’s trading method — now on IG too. 👉 Follow us: IG@jlawstock2show more

🚨 96% OF SPACEX SHARES ARE STILL LOCKED Right... now you're trading on 4% of total supply the rest is sitting behind a lockup agreement counting down to zero. Here's what the calendar looks like: > August 6 → Q2 earnings, 20% of insider shares unlock instantly > Every 2 weeks after→ another chunk hits the market > By September → float goes from 4% to nearly 10x overnight For every 1 share trading today, 10 more are about to show up. Facebook IPO at $38 in 2012 lockups expired, supply showed up, buyers ran out six months later it was trading at $18. SpaceX is the same movie on a much bigger screen. My target: $74-85 before year-end. Keep in mind: I’ve called every major market top and bottom for over 10 YEARS. I was one of the only people who called the top in October, and I’ll do it again, that’s literally my job. If you still haven’t followed me, you’ll regret it.show more

Korea Now Sees 30% of The World's Crypto Trading... Volume According to data from Kaiko, South Korea now accounts for nearly 1/3rd of all crypto trading volume. Some 85% of this activity comes from altcoins with only 15% driven by $BTC and $ETH, despite a collapse in altcoin valuations over the past year. It certainly looks like Western cryptocurrency projects should be turning their attention to Asia... Source: Wu Blockchainshow more

I found 7 free Polymarket trading bots on GitHub... for 7 different trading situations… Each of these bots comes with a detailed step by step setup and usage guide in English: 1. This bot includes 118+ ready to use strategies and tools for trading on prediction markets (Momentum, Binance-Polymarket latency, Penny Clipper, Smart Routing, Expiry Fade, DCA bots and more). Built by a Cambridge computer science student who won a hackathon with this trading bot. GitHub: 2. This bot automatically manages all your Polymarket limit orders to maximize liquidity rewards. GitHub: 3. A weather bot from a Chinese dev, that analyzes multiple sources in real time, like forecasts, airport data and aviation observations (METAR + SPECI) to get the most accurate temperature data and generate a detailed weather report for a specific city and day. GitHub: 4. A bot that automatically searches for arbitrage opportunities between Polymarket and Kalshi. GitHub: 5. This is a bot-toolkit that includes copy trading, arbitrage, market making, whale alerts, spread farming, sports trading and more… GitHub: 6. A smart money trading bot - it looks for the most successful traders in selected markets, filters them by Pnl + win rate, and then creates a list for automated copy trading. GitHub: 7. A large collection of 20+ free trading bots for prediction markets. GitHub: Every bot here has a Dry Run mode, so you can test it on real markets without risking any funds.show more

JAPAN TO PUT ITS $1.6T REPO MARKET ON THE... BLOCKCHAIN A consortium of Japan's top financial institutions plans to launch 24/7 trading of tokenized government bonds by end of 2025, Nikkei reported. The system will issue bonds as blockchain-based security tokens and settle transactions using stablecoins. That shift moves settlement from T+1 to T+0, same-day finality. The initial focus is Japan's repo market, which represents roughly 10% of a global market valued at $16 trillion. A development body launches in May, anchored by MUFG's stablecoin platform Progmat.show more

It’s no secret, we love Clanker. Last week, we... shared a proposal for Rainbow and Clanker to join forces. This week, we are shipping a fun new Clanker interface. Introducing King of the Hill, a new daily trading game powered by Clanker inside of Rainbow. It’s the best trading game we’ve ever played in crypto: trading Clankers, running it up , and earning rewards. 1️⃣ Creators clank right from the comfort of mobile, on Rainbow. 2️⃣ Traders compete to discover the top Clankers, every day. 3️⃣ Choose the Clanker that is crowned “King of the Hill” and win 2x points. 4️⃣ Launch the Clanker that becomes King of the Hill and win 10,000 points. Rewards are points, for now… soon they’ll be in $RNBW* (* Be safe, $RNBW does NOT exist yet.)show more

8 free Polymarket Trading Bots on GitHub (from Beginner... Friendly to Advanced Level). Each of these repos comes with a detailed step by step setup and usage guide in English. > Beginner Level - 5 min setup 1. This bot includes 120 ready to use strategies and tools for trading on prediction markets (Binance-Polymarket latency, Smart Routing, Penny Clipper, Momentum, DCA bots, Expiry Fade and more). It was built by a Cambridge computer science student who won a hackathon with this bot. GitHub: 2. A trading bot with a Smart Money strategy - it finds top traders in selected markets, filters them by Pnl, win rate, stable performance and then creates a list for automated copy trading. GitHub: 3. This is a bot toolkit that includes Polymarket - Kalshi arbitrage, whale alerts, market making, spread farming, sports trading and more. GitHub: 4. A weather trading bot from Chinese dev that analyzes different sources in real time, like forecasts, airport data and aviation observations (METAR + SPECI) to get the latest temperature data and generate a detailed weather report for a specific city and day. GitHub: 5. A huge collection of 30+ free trading bots and services for prediction markets. GitHub: > Advanced bot setup 1. This bot analyzes the real trading behavior of any Polymarket trader. It finds repeated patterns in his trades, shows which strategies he uses and helps you understand how to adapt them to your own trading. GitHub: 2. A bot that automatically manages all your limit orders on Polymarket to maximize liquidity rewards. GitHub: > A full ML weather model 1. A machine learning weather model that learns from weather forecasting errors. Instead of blindly trusting forecasts, it analyzes how different weather sources have historically overestimated or underestimated temperature values in specific cities and conditions. Then it automatically adjusts new forecasts to produce more accurate predictions. GitHub: All of these bots also support Dry Run mode, so you can test them on real markets without risking any funds.show more

The once-profitable CS2 skins market has collapsed by a... billion dollars! The culprit is a new update in the game - now you can craft knives that previously only dropped from cases with a random chance. Their prices have plummeted, while the skins needed for crafting knives have skyrocketed. Valve added an exchange mechanic: now 5 items of covert quality can be turned into a knife. For $5, you can get a blade that yesterday cost $5000 — and sell it right away. As a result, knives have depreciated, while red guns have surged in price by 10–20 times. Trading sites crashed from the influx of panicking players selling off their items, and the market, which was recently called "the most reliable asset at $6 billion," is bursting at the seams. In the end, overnight the richest knife collectors lost millions, while owners of cheap "red skins" became fabulously rich. At the same time, analysts had previously noted that weapon skins from CS2 turned out to be more stable than crypto, American stocks, and precious metals.show more

China's central bank has now bought gold for 19... months straight, the largest official buyer on earth. And this week, as gold broke 4,000 dollars, China's biggest banks moved to push ordinary Chinese out of leveraged gold trading, with at least one warning it will liquidate any position not closed by month-end. Both are true at once, and together they explain what this crash really is. Start with what is being banned, because the words matter. ICBC and a string of other banks are shutting down retail trading in what the Chinese themselves call paper gold, the margined, leveraged contracts where you bet on the price without ever owning a bar. Some banks lifted the margin requirement to 140 percent to choke the leverage off before closing the products outright. Physical gold, meanwhile, stays wide open. Coins, bars, savings plans, ETFs, all fine. It is only the paper, the leverage, the casino, that is being shut, the last step in a five-year retreat that the crash just finished. Officially this is about protecting small investors, and that part is real. The same kind of leverage wiped out a wave of Chinese retail in a 2020 commodity blowup. But set the ban beside what the state is doing and something larger comes into view. While its citizens are pushed out of the paper, the People's Bank of China has spent those same 19 months buying the physical metal, more than two thousand three hundred tonnes of it now, accumulating straight through a 28 percent crash that scared everyone else out. Beijing is not trading gold. It is hoarding it. That is the strategy in one frame. China looked at the two things both called gold, the paper bet and the physical bar, and made a choice no Western government would make. It is taking the metal for the state and closing the casino for everyone else. The reason sits in a single date. 2022, when Russia's reserves were frozen with a keystroke. That taught every country outside the Western system one lesson: dollars in an account can be switched off, gold in your own vault cannot. So China is building its monetary independence out of the one asset nobody can freeze, and it does not want that foundation in the hands of leveraged traders who panic-sell in a crash, or priced by a paper market it does not control. Watch this month and the two worlds split in real time. Western investors were forced out of their gold by margin calls and a rate scare. China's central bank bought that exact dip with both hands. One side treats gold as a trade. The other treats it as the floor under a currency. The West is selling paper gold and calling it a crash. China is buying physical gold and calling it a foundation. In ten years, only one of them will look like it understood what gold was for. The metal is already moving to that side.show more

Trading 212 now has a voice, and it's pretty... smart 🤖 Stay up to date with our brand-new AI analysis tool. This latest feature uses OpenAI to analyse raw market data in real time and transforms it into a smart summary, available instantly to read or listen 🎧 The data is updated multiple times a day and takes various factors into consideration to provide you with a summary of the current sentiment, market trends, and fundamentals. Currently available only for selected stocks. The data is generated by an AI automated tool. It does not reflect human opinions and should not be considered professional advice. AI analysis is experimental, and Trading 212 does not guarantee its accuracy. Not investment, legal, or tax advice. Do your own research or consult a qualified advisor.show more

🔥LISTING ANNOUNCEMENT! Based on global community suggestions, Unich #Mainnet... will soon support pre-market trading for tokens of the following 5 projects: #PUMPFUN: The leading platform for launching meme coins on Solana blockchain. #BIO: One of the most prominent protocols in DeSci narrative, empowered by Ethereum ecosystem. #SOLAYER: Another top name in Solana ecosystem, focusing on restaking services. #BACKPACK: An innovative trading platform on Solana, operating as a convenient digital wallet. #EVERREACH: A pioneering Web3 gaming platform incubating AAA games on Solana. 👉We're going to provide more details on listing time, trading pairs, and insights for each project. While waiting, be sure to check out the video below to enhance your trading knowledge and maximize profit potential.⤵ ✅Remember: #Unich is the only pre-market platform that allows users to reclaim funds anytime. You can always exit positions and explore new opportunities through Cashout Order function.show more

Exactly four years ago this month, I was staying... in this beachfront apartment in the Caribbean when I lost $40,000 in the Luna crash. I had $20k staked in UST on Terra and another $20k in LUNA and eco-coins. By March 13th, my entire $40k was worth about around $1. I posted about it at the time, this isn’t new. What I didn’t fully comprehend was the knock-on effect. The whole market came crashing down. It was a genuinely dark time. Why didn't I cash out? I couldn't. All the funds where locked into a 30 day unlocking protocol. I couldn't access the coins to sell them. That moment marked the end of my COVID travels. A few weeks later, I flew back to England for the Queen’s Jubilee. Whoo-hoo! Loved it. 💕 I posted the 'don't worry' clip on Twitter a few days before the crash. The irony. Ironically, again - I lost 15k on the MANTRA OM collapse last year too. But I was lucky I had bought the OM for just a couple of 2,000 USD. Hey Ho. Life ... we live and learn.show more

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🚨 CRYPTO: MYSTERY WHALE SCOOPS $35M IN XRP IN... UNDER AN HOUR USING ALGORITHMIC BOT An unidentified entity rapidly accumulated over $35 million in $XRP across Coinbase, Bitstamp, and Kraken using a sophisticated trading bot. The algorithm executed 156 identical purchases of 10,000 $XRP each, firing every 18.5 seconds for 48 minutes. Coinbase accounted for $23.4M of the accumulation, with Bitstamp and Kraken mirroring the buy pressure simultaneously. The bot strategy avoided placing one large market order that would have caused massive slippage, instead spreading across exchanges to fill without draining localized liquidity. $XRP is currently trading at $1.32, down 2.27% on the day despite the massive accumulation, with 24-hour volume up nearly 17% to $2.5B.show more

Data released by the US National Transportation Safety Board... (NTSB) in response to a freedom of information request, shows that the fuel switches to both engines were shut off simultaneously before China Eastern Airlines flight MU5735 dropped out of the sky and crashed in March 2022. It was China’s deadliest air disaster in decades, but the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has not addressed the crucial question of what had prompted the deadly nosedive. The data was taken from the plane’s flight data recorder that record all relevant operational information — which was recovered from the wreckage and sent to the NTSB’s laboratory in Washington DC for analysis (with the agency’s involvement stemming from Boeing being a US aircraft manufacturer). “It was found that while cruising at 29,000 ft, the fuel switches on both engines moved from the run position to the cutoff position. Engine speeds decreased after the fuel switch movement,” the NTSB report said. China has not published an update into its investigation since 2024, when the CAAC released a statement on the two-year anniversary of the crash reiterating earlier findings that it found no problems with the aircraft, crew or weather conditions.show more

“Shokunin Spirit” & Trading Last year, while traveling, I... saw a Japanese tour bus driver sitting in front of the wheels, carefully polishing them. He was waiting for his passengers and could have easily stayed on the bus to rest or play on his phone. But instead, he chose to clean the bus. At that moment, I understood why Japanese taxis and buses are always spotless and shining. That’s when I truly understood what “shokunin spirit” is all about—the dedication to excellence. I used to encourage people to aim for "financial freedom" or "F.I.R.E." as their goal when learning investing and trading. But in recent years, I’ve realized this approach is completely wrong because it puts the cart before the horse. Investing and trading are not easy. It takes more than just a few years to see results. It’s only those with a craftsman’s mindset—who are willing to constantly learn, refine their skills, and embrace challenges without focusing on immediate rewards—who have the best chance of succeeding. Financial freedom, in reality, is just a byproduct of this mindset. If your motivation is "financial freedom," it’s easy to feel frustrated and give up when progress is slow. But if you approach investing and trading with the craftsman spirit, you’ll see failures as part of the process and face them calmly, focusing on finding solutions instead of quitting. Successful traders (or entrepreneurs) don’t see "financial freedom" as their ultimate goal. Even after achieving it, their work and lifestyle often remain the same. What drives them is the craftsman spirit—the desire to keep excelling in the field they love and to push their boundaries. If you truly love your work and what you do, and you live each day fully, you don’t really need financial freedom. You’ve already found freedom in your mindset.show more