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Every Trading read CryptoBloggers has picked: 57 so far, 44 in the last 30 days, strongest first under “Start here” and newest first below.
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Let claude ghost "trade" Polymarket and Kalshi for 2 months. It lost 13% of a pretend $5k, and my own biases made it worse
A Reddit trader let Claude Code forecast and pretend-bet on Polymarket and Kalshi for two months; it lost $663 of a pretend $5,000, and the trader's own input on AI and geopolitics markets lost more.
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What 50+ Bids on Agent Job Boards Taught Me About the Agent Economy
A registered AI agent with its own Base wallet bid on agent job boards for crypto work and earned $11.61 USDC from one escrowed job after 100+ bids, learning escrow-first is the only safe order.
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Alpha Arena: six AI models each traded $10,000 of real money on Hyperliquid
Nof1 gave six AI models $10,000 each to trade crypto perps on Hyperliquid with no human input and public trades; results swung widely, and several models lost more than a quarter of their stake.
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My LLM trading agent says "skip" almost every time. I added a second agent with looser rules and it still said skip 23 out of 23
A trader running a Claude CLI agent on crypto news reviewed 392 events in a week, opened 8, watched 4 and skipped 380, with each decision stored in a hash chain.
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BitMEX Sued in UK for Return of $27M in Bitcoin Over Unlicensed Derivatives
A UK lawsuit seeks return of $27M in Bitcoin from BitMEX over 1,053 unlicensed perpetual swap trades, alleging deceit by the closed exchange.
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Let claude ghost "trade" Polymarket and Kalshi for 2 months. It lost 13% of a pretend $5k, and my own biases made it worse
A Reddit trader let Claude Code forecast and pretend-bet on Polymarket and Kalshi for two months; it lost $663 of a pretend $5,000, and the trader's own input on AI and geopolitics markets lost more.
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What 50+ Bids on Agent Job Boards Taught Me About the Agent Economy
A registered AI agent with its own Base wallet bid on agent job boards for crypto work and earned $11.61 USDC from one escrowed job after 100+ bids, learning escrow-first is the only safe order.
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Alpha Arena: six AI models each traded $10,000 of real money on Hyperliquid
Nof1 gave six AI models $10,000 each to trade crypto perps on Hyperliquid with no human input and public trades; results swung widely, and several models lost more than a quarter of their stake.
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My LLM trading agent says "skip" almost every time. I added a second agent with looser rules and it still said skip 23 out of 23
A trader running a Claude CLI agent on crypto news reviewed 392 events in a week, opened 8, watched 4 and skipped 380, with each decision stored in a hash chain.
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Run crypto futures trades with an agent under trader-set rules
A trader connected OpenClaw to OpenAlgo on a crypto futures exchange; it placed 47 trades, 4 were manually overridden including a rogue ETH long, and its execution permission was then removed.
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SEC enters fight over who regulates perpetual derivatives on stocks in the US
The SEC is entering a jurisdictional fight over whether perpetual derivatives on individual stocks should have been approved by the CFTC.
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A DEX wants streamers calling leveraged trades live and hasn’t said how it checks their records
A DEX is recruiting streamers to call leveraged trades live without explaining how it verifies their trade records, a transparency gap worth knowing about.
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eToro’s Q3 profit plunges 74% as weaker crypto trading weighs on earnings
eToro Q3 profit fell 74% to $15M as weaker crypto trading hit earnings.
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The crypto wallet that grew up inside Telegram is striking out on its own
Telegram-born crypto wallet Walt is spinning out as a standalone app offering trading, tokenized U.S. stocks and perpetual futures.
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Coinbase, Kalshi and Payward backs CFTC in lawsuit over single-stock perp futures
Coinbase, Kalshi and Payward back the CFTC's authority over single-stock perpetual futures in a US lawsuit.
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Let claude ghost "trade" Polymarket and Kalshi for 2 months. It lost 13% of a pretend $5k, and my own biases made it worse
A Reddit trader let Claude Code forecast and pretend-bet on Polymarket and Kalshi for two months; it lost $663 of a pretend $5,000, and the trader's own input on AI and geopolitics markets lost more.
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PeckShield Flags $45.3 Million ETH Long With Possible UXLink Exploit Link
PeckShield flagged a $45.3M ETH long possibly linked to a UXLink exploit, with about $652K unrealized loss in a later snapshot.
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Hyperliquid Whale’s 56,667-ETH Long Fully Liquidated
A tracked Hyperliquid whale's 56,667-ETH long was fully liquidated, with the two accounts showing about $44.8 million in lifetime losses.
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Tornado Cash-Funded Wallet Builds $26 Million Bitcoin-Ether Trade
A Tornado Cash-linked wallet converted 3,100 ETH to about 6.92M USDC and opened a $26M Bitcoin long against an Ether short on Hyperliquid, a notable onchain trading trail.
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Testing my agent against Claude, GPT and Humans for trading. Experiment is live and I have put a tracker on it.
A trader pitted Claude and GPT agents against holding BTC and ETH with $50,000 each on live spot trades; the agents are roughly flat to down a few percent so far, with a public tracker.
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Crypto Liquidations Top $1 Billion as Bitcoin Tests 11-Week Low
Over $1B in crypto liquidations as bitcoin nears 11-week lows after AI stocks plunged.
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Floki Takes Trading Bot Offline Amid Exploit Investigation
Floki took its trading bot offline during an exploit investigation and is moving users to new wallets.
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Solana Labs’ Leap Launches Mobile App for Trading Tokenized Stocks and Crypto
Leap launched a beta iPhone app for trading tokenized stocks and crypto on Solana; a product launch with limited substance.
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Kalshi Opens Single-Stock Perpetual Futures Trading
Kalshi opened single-stock perpetual futures on AAPL and AMZN at about 5x leverage while a court challenge looms.
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Binance Revokes SignalPlus API Keys After Security Warning
Binance revoked SignalPlus API keys after a security warning and told users to check positions and orders before reconnecting.
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I paper-tested an AI memecoin trading bot for 2 days. Here's what the safety checks caught, and what they didn't
A developer built a six-agent Solana memecoin desk from a viral prompt and paper-traded it for two days to see what its safety checks caught and missed.
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Bitcoin, ether and XRP selloff wipes out $1.5 billion in leveraged crypto bets
Selloff in BTC, ETH and XRP forced about $1.5B in leveraged closures, with long positions making up most of the liquidations.
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Avail launches ShieldTX privacy tool targeting copy-trading bots on Hyperliquid
Avail launched ShieldTX, which gives each Hyperliquid perp position its own wallet to hide it from copy-trading bots.
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Pump's public callout history makes it possible to study which callers deliver
An analysis of 307 public Pump callouts from 12 top-PnL wallets tests whether high-ranking social traders actually deliver returns.
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My 5 birds have traded memecoins on their own for 10 days Result: +/-$300 🐦 So bad!
A poster let five AI agents trade memecoins from their own wallets for 10 days; results were roughly +/-$300, which they called bad.
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Crypto.com and OG.com launch US crypto perps with up to 5x leverage
Crypto.com and OG.com launched US crypto perpetual contracts with up to 5x leverage and no expiration date.
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I gave an agent its own wallet and let it trade with real money. Here’s what it took before I’d trust it.
A builder describes the guardrails for an agent with its own funded wallet trading on a sports prediction market: policy caps in code, trade previews, and minimum fills. It is design advice from a product builder, with no trading results yet.
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5.57 The Price Impact of Nothing: Rejected Orders Predict Returns
Research finds Hyperliquid post-only order rejections carry a short-term signal for 10-second BTC perp mid moves.
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What 50+ Bids on Agent Job Boards Taught Me About the Agent Economy
A registered AI agent with its own Base wallet bid on agent job boards for crypto work and earned $11.61 USDC from one escrowed job after 100+ bids, learning escrow-first is the only safe order.
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Binance Adjusts US Stock Perp Funding After Blue Ocean’s Overnight Trading Halt
Binance kept a nearly three-hour window out of one funding settlement for its US stock perps after a Blue Ocean overnight trading halt. A narrow operational update.
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Is your AI trading bot ready for your money? Mine failed the rules I'd set it on all 185 trades it proposed in September, so I didn't fund it
A builder ran an AI crypto trading bot through a fortnight of signals before launch; his rules blocked all 661 proposed trades, so he withheld $5,000 of real money.
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Kalshi Pushes Deeper Into Crypto Derivatives With Bitcoin-Backed Margin Loans
Kalshi Prime clients can now borrow against bitcoin via a BitGo tri-party structure to margin perpetual futures.
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Binance to Reprice bStocks Collateral While US Stock Markets Are Closed
Binance will reprice bStocks collateral during US market closures, which can weaken margin buffers on weekend trades.
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My LLM trading agent says "skip" almost every time. I added a second agent with looser rules and it still said skip 23 out of 23
A trader running a Claude CLI agent on crypto news reviewed 392 events in a week, opened 8, watched 4 and skipped 380, with each decision stored in a hash chain.