What Is the Difference Between Mark Price, Last Traded Price, and Index Price? Why Do They Affect Contract Trading?

In crypto contract trading, some people see that the last traded price has not yet reached their expected level, but their account is already showing a large unrealized loss or even nearing liquidation. Others find that the price on the candlestick chart does not exactly match the price the platform uses to calculate risk.

One important reason is that the last traded price, index price, and mark price are not the same thing.

First, the last traded price: the price of the marke

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Just now, Claude wouldn’t let me log in, and I thought my account had been banned. Turns out Anthropic itself was down.
Tonight, Code and the developer dashboard both started throwing errors, and login authentication was completely stuck.
The official status page showed a major outage. They just said a fix has been deployed and they’re still monitoring.
Claude Code is working again, but the web version still isn’t fully back.
Getting asked for ID this week scared the shit out of me 😂

The message was sent at 10:10, and about two or three minutes later, funds started flowing out in large amounts.

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In cryptocurrency contract trading, there is a very harsh reality: many accounts are not wiped out because of one wrong call, but because traders refuse to cut their losses even after losses have already appeared.

Why is stop-loss so important?

First, it controls the risk of each trade. The market is always uncertain, and no matter how thorough your analysis is, you can never guarantee that every trade will be right. Setting a stop-loss in advance can limit the damage a single mistake causes to your account.

Second, it prevents small losses from turning into big ones. When traders see the p

🏦 $QNT wants banks to sell payments as their own product

Quant is making a major push to get banks offering payments under their own brand.

As proof, it points to its selection for The Clearing House tokenized deposit network.

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What Is Market Depth? How Can You Tell Whether the Order Book Can Handle Your Trade Size?

In crypto trading, many people look at price and trading volume first, but overlook a metric that directly affects trade execution: market depth.

Market depth helps us understand how many buy and sell orders are available at different price levels, and how prices might change when the market faces a trade of a certain size.

First, what exactly is market depth?

In an order book, buy orders are usually placed at different price levels below the current market price, while sell orders are placed above it

Why Do Stop-Losses Keep Getting Hit, Only for the Market to Move as Expected Afterward?

In cryptocurrency trading, many people have experienced this:

You buy BTC, and a slight price dip triggers your stop-loss. Just after you sell, the market starts rising again. The same thing happens when shorting: the price first moves up and hits your stop-loss, then suddenly drops.

Why do your stop-losses keep getting hit?

First, your stop-loss may be set too close to the current price. Cryptocurrency markets are volatile, and normal price pullbacks over short periods are common. If the stop-loss dist

Sixfold Oversubscription Is Just the Beginning? Anthropic IPO Reignites Global AI Investor Enthusiasm!

The AI market has another headline-grabbing development: Anthropic’s IPO is reportedly six times oversubscribed!
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In cryptocurrency trading, many people watch BTC’s price fluctuations every day, but they don’t realize that what’s often worth paying attention to are several key price zones: support and resistance.

What is support?

Simply put, support is an area where buying pressure may gradually increase as the price falls. When BTC approaches an important price range, repeated rebounds may indicate strong buying demand in that area.

What is resistance?

Resistance is the opposite: an area where selling pressure may increase as the price rises. If BTC repeatedly rises to a certain level but cannot brea

The extreme fear index is only 20, yet FET posted a positive gain and moved above MA5 and MA20. This divergence of “sentiment at rock bottom, structure holding firm” is the most unusual detail in today’s market. Compared with peers in the same sector: POL rose 1.70%, but its MACD histogram has turned bearish and its +0.0036% funding rate signals crowded longs; PEPE rose 2.96% on $82.8M in volume, with an RSI of just 47.6 and an 8.85% range, making it a high-volatility sentiment-driven trade. $FET had the smallest gain (+0.48%), but MA5=0.14702 is above MA20=0.14601, the MACD histogram remains

Many traders see BTC trading volume suddenly surge and assume the market is about to reverse. In reality, a surge in trading volume does not mean a trend reversal. It more often indicates that market participation is increasing and that disagreement between buyers and sellers may be intensifying.

So, how should we interpret a sudden surge in trading volume?

First, rising volume in an uptrend. If prices continue to rise while trading volume keeps increasing, it indicates strong market participation and possibly new capital entering the market. But if prices become increasingly difficult to pu

Illinois Crypto Tax Draws Unlikely Alliance of DOJ, Banks and DeFi
A broad coalition has filed briefs supporting a legal challenge to Illinois’ Digital Asset Tax Act, the first tax of its kind in the U.S. The coalition includes the U.S. Justice Department, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Wall Street’s SIFMA, and a lineup of crypto firms led by the DeFi Education Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, Paradigm, and Uniswap.
The groups filed the briefs in Illinois state court in support of a lawsuit brought by the Crypto Council for Innovation and the Blockchain Association. They are asking a judge to strike

In cryptocurrency trading, many people watch BTC's price fluctuations every day, but don't realize that what is often truly worth paying attention to are several important price areas: support and resistance.

What is support?

Simply put, support is an area where buying pressure may gradually strengthen as the price falls. When BTC approaches an important price range, repeated rebounds may indicate strong buying demand in that area.

What is resistance?

Resistance is the opposite: an area where selling pressure may increase as the price rises. If BTC rises to a certain level multiple times b