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According to monitoring by Onchain Lens, a certain address created a new wallet, deposited 630,000 USDC into HyperLiquid, and opened a 10x leveraged short position of 2.9 million XRP.

ZachXBT stated in a post that an hour ago, stolen funds from recently hacked projects Humanity Protocol and Kelp DAO have converged, indicating a possible overlap between the attackers of the two incidents. Kelp DAO’s LayerZero bridge was exploited on April 18, 2026, due to infrastructure compromise, resulting in approximately $292 million in stolen assets; the Lazarus Group has been accused of carrying out the attack. Humanity Protocol’s team address and deployer were hacked on June 9, 2026, after a developer’s device was compromised, leading to the theft of roughly $32 million.

Polymarket’s Vice President of Product Engineering and former Craft co-founder Balint Orosz tweeted that Polymarket has acquired productivity app Craft Agents, with some members of the latter’s team joining Polymarket.

Framework Ventures announced the successful closing of its fourth fund, FVIV, raising $400 million, with a focus on cross-frontier sectors spanning blockchain, AI, robotics, energy, and fintech. Additionally, the firm disclosed holdings of digital assets including Hyperliquid, Plasma, and Sky, alongside team adjustments: Rajiv Patel-O'Connor has been promoted to General Partner, two new partners from Pantera and DRW have joined, and recruitment for founders in related fields is now open.

According to Arkham's monitoring, the 21Shares Hyperliquid ETF made its first reduction in HYPE holdings yesterday. The ETF sold HYPE worth $1.8 million in a single day, accounting for approximately 3% of its assets under management (AUM).

Citrini Research, the firm behind the "AI Doom Report", has released a new research note. The report notes that while the AI boom has sparked debates over bottlenecks in data centers, computing power, and electricity, the sector has grown overly crowded. A massive concentration of intellectual and model resources on the single AI narrative has left other fields under-allocated, under-modeled, and overlooked, potentially driving capital rotation to neglected themes. The report outlines five specific areas, advising investors to watch for mispriced opportunities in life science cycles, high-end residential and elderly housing, fintech revival, and airlines. Citrini Research, which carries significant market influence, published a report in February this year introducing the "global intelligence crisis" concept, warning that AI could spark a "race to the bottom" for knowledge-based jobs, disrupting the industrial and credit chains built around white-collar productivity. That report subsequently triggered a sell-off in U.S. stocks.