Japan's Interest Rate Hike Signal Triggers "Bloodletting" Worries in U.S. Markets, Fed's Rate Cut Prospect May Change
December 2
Japan, the largest foreign holder of U.S. Treasury bonds, could trigger a repatriation of domestic funds from U.S. bonds and other overseas assets if it tightens monetary policy—disrupting the U.S. Treasury yield’s downward trend and sowing global market uncertainty.
On Monday, global government bond yields broadly climbed after Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor Haruhiko Kuroda signaled a possible interest rate hike later this month. (Bond yields rise as prices fall.) The comment caught investors off guard—markets had expected the BOJ to keep policy unchanged.
Kuroda’s remarks pushed Japan’s 10-year government bond yield to 1.879%—its highest closing level since June 2008. U.S. 10-year Treasury yields also climbed to 4.095%—up from just below 4% mid-last week.
Wall Street is worried rising Japanese bond yields will draw capital away from U.S. assets, pushing U.S. Treasury yields higher. Japan holds roughly $1.2 trillion in Treasuries as of September, making it the top
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DeFi protocol Zoo Finance has announced the completion of an $8 million strategic fundraising round.
On December 2, DeFi protocol Zoo Finance announced it has closed an $8 million strategic funding round. The round was led by Bitrise Capital, with additional backers including Signum Capital, Certik Ventures, TOP, CGV Funds, and Cryptomeria.
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「Bankrupt」 Trader James Wynn Opens New 40x Leveraged BTC Long Position, Predicted Last Week That BTC Would Drop to $67,000 Within the Week
**December 2**
Per monitoring from HyperInsight, James Wynn’s address (0x8da) opened a 40x leveraged long position on BTC over the past 12 hours. Key details: average entry price of $85,400, position size of ~$2.95 million, and current unrealized profit of $57,000 (77% return).
Over the past week, Wynn has attempted to long BTC and ETH multiple times—all resulting in losses. On November 25, he issued a bearish prediction on X (formerly Twitter), noting Bitcoin could fall to $67,000 that week.
Separately, funds in another public address tied to Wynn (0x507) have been withdrawn, leaving a zero balance. Previously, after Wynn stated on November 10 that BTC would drop to $92,000, this address opened two consecutive BTC short positions—later liquidated with ~$100,000 in losses.
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Dark Pool DEX HumidiFi has reached a 24-hour trading volume of $1.048 billion, ranking first in the Solana ecosystem
Dec 2 — Per Defillama data, Solana-based on-chain dark pool DEX HumidiFi recorded a 24-hour trading volume of $10.48 billion, leading Solana’s ecosystem DEXs and representing roughly 30% of Solana’s total DEX 24-hour volume of $34.56 billion.
Unlike traditional automated market makers (AMMs) that rely on publicly accessible liquidity pools, HumidiFi excludes external liquidity providers and relies exclusively on the team’s internal liquidity to deliver tighter slippage tolerance and MEV protection. It is integrated into Jupiter’s routing system, accounting for nearly one-third of the platform’s Prop AMM activity.
Per official announcements, HumidiFi (WET) will launch its initial coin offering (ICO) on Jupiter’s Decentralized Token Formation (DTF) platform on Dec 3. Earlier today, the project released WET tokenomics details: total supply of 1 billion tokens, with 10% allocated to the ICO and fully unlocked at the token generation event (TGE).
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Whale "pension-usdt.eth" yesterday saw its ETH long position fall below the average price, with a position size reaching $56 million.
On December 2, data from the Coinbob Popular Address Monitor (https://t.me/Coinbob_track_CN) shows:
Last night at 9:00 PM, a crypto whale opened a new 2x leveraged ETH long position labeled “pension-usdt.eth.” The position totals $56 million, with an average entry price of $2,825 per ETH and an unrealized loss of $460,000 (1.78%). It currently ranks second on Hyperliquid’s ETH long position leaderboard.
Earlier yesterday at 9:00 AM, the same address closed an ETH short position worth roughly $18.1 million, locking in a $900,000 profit.
The address has been active in swing trading lately, typically using low leverage with large position sizes. Its average holding period this week is about 8 hours, and it has generated a monthly profit of $9.96 million.
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The U.S. Ethereum Spot ETF sees net inflows for 5 consecutive days come to an end, with a net outflow of $79 million yesterday.
On December 2nd, data from Farside Investors shows U.S. Ethereum spot ETFs recorded a net outflow of $79 million yesterday, snapping a five-day streak of net inflows.
Among them, Grayscale’s ETHE posted a net outflow of $49.8 million, while Grayscale’s ETH saw a net outflow of $20.3 million.
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