BREAKING: $435 million has been liquidated from the cryptocurrency market in the past 12 hours.

**SEOUL, South Korea — June 17 (Chosun Ilbo report) —** Soaring performance bonuses for employees at Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix have fueled a massive surge in home buying demand in South Korea, driving up prices of some apartments by 100 million to 200 million South Korean won (roughly $75,000 to $150,000 USD), per local media. High-end import car dealerships have also seen a flood of customers from semiconductor firms. A sales representative surnamed Choi at a Seoul lot in Paldang-gu district said, “Lately, the number of customers who look like Samsung employees has spiked—most are in their 30s and 40s. Among regulars using our partner company discount programs, nine out of ten are from semiconductor companies.” As peak shopping season approaches, major department stores are reaping the benefits. A Shinsegae Department Store branch in Paldang-gu will launch a Samsung-exclusive event starting June 23, offering perks like fast-track access to luxury boutiques, parking vouche

June 17: Per monitoring from Onchain Lens, a single crypto address withdrew 88,350 HYPE tokens (valued at $6.4 million) from centralized exchanges OKX, Gate, Kraken, and Bybit. Additionally, since June 1, this same wallet has pulled a total of 1,229,524 HYPE tokens (worth $85.54 million) from those platforms and staked the full amount.

June 17 Update: According to monitoring from Hyperinsight (via its Telegram channel at https://t.me/HyperInsight), an address on the Hyperliquid exchange has established a 3x-leveraged long position on Micron Technology (MU). The address currently holds 25,241 MU contracts, with a total position value of roughly $26.7 million. The average entry price for the trade is $924.9, and unrealized profits from the position total $3.42 million—this makes the address the largest individual MU holder on Hyperliquid. Market data on Hyperliquid shows MU is trading at $1062, with a $178 million trading volume, making it the second most actively traded asset on the platform (only SPCX has higher volume). During the U.S. pre-market session (timed from 16:00 ET onward), MU experienced a slight 1.1% pullback. The relevant address is: 0x9dcf1c87b82a35519a430457c1157f21e68f302d.

June 17 — Michael Burry, the legendary investor who inspired *The Big Short* for his prescient bet against the U.S. housing market ahead of the 2008 crash, said yesterday he does not hold any shares of SpaceX. Even as he questions the aerospace firm’s sky-high nearly $3 trillion valuation, Burry noted that shorting the stock remains prohibitively expensive. Burry laid out the cost of key put options to illustrate: Contracts with a $100 strike price expiring in December 2028 trade at roughly $25 apiece, while SpaceX stock is changing hands at about $212. A comparable put option set to expire in June 2027 costs around $13 per contract, and a December 2026 put goes for $6.75. He added he was tempted to pull the trigger on a position, but ultimately decided against it. His best-case scenario? If the SPCX index stabilizes around the mid-$200 range, it would lower volatility across the entire put option chain.

June 17th: CryptoQuant analyst IT Tech’s data reveals altcoin selling pressure on spot centralised exchanges (CEX) has hit a five-year extreme. The spot crypto market has logged 15 consecutive months of net outflows. The cumulative difference between buying and selling volumes for altcoins—excluding Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH)—has fallen to the deepest negative level since tracking of this indicator began in 2020. This metric had nearly reached equilibrium in early 2025, then turned sharply negative again and has continued to decline steadily since.

June 17 — According to data from Hyperinsight Monitor (https://t.me/HyperInsight), a Bitcoin (BTC) short whale closed out their position at roughly breakeven on June 17, with the trade generating a small realized profit of around $110,000 after BTC dipped below the whale’s cost basis. The whale’s initial short position size stood at 175.3 BTC, equivalent to $11.37 million when opened, and the position was closed at a price of $64,931. Related Wallet Address: 0x931153baac031d055389b41d12cd32c9bf0ae7a3