Entain General Counsel Simon Zinger has written directly to six Premier League 
clubs, urging them to commit to UK-licensed gambling sponsors only for the 
2026/27 season, citing Stake’s “heavy reliance on cryptocurrency” and BJ88’s 
use of “unregulated payment methods like cryptocurrency to evade financial 
oversight” in letters reported by SBC News today. Entain’s General Counsel […]

Entain Directly Targets Premier League Clubs Citing ‘Cryptocurrency Reliance’ in Sponsor Ban

Ethereum has seen a Tom Demark (TD) Sequential sell signal on its weekly 
chart, something that last led to a major drawdown for the asset. Ethereum Has 
Seen A TD Sequential Sell Signal In a new post on X, analyst Ali Martinez has 
highlighted a TD Sequential signal that has emerged on the 1-week price of 
Ethereum. The TD Sequential is an indicator from technical analysis (TA) 
that&#8217;s usually used for spotting trend reversals in an asset&#8217;s price. Related 
Reading: Ethereum Dips To $2,250 As Trader Profit-Taking Hits 3-Week High It 
involves two phases: the setup and countdown. In the context of the current 
discussion, the former phase is the one of interest. During the setup, the TD 
Sequential counts up candles of the same color until the number hits nine. 
Once the nine candles are in, the indicator signals the exhaustion of the 
prevailing trend. Below is the chart shared by Martinez that shows the TD 
Sequential setup that has appeared on the weekly Ethereum price. As is visible 
in the graph, the TD Sequential has seen a setup complete with nine green 
candles recently, a potential sign that the bullish trend may be about to 
reverse for ETH. According to the analyst, the indicator has generally been 
reliable for ETH during the past year. &#8220;Every signal it has flashed on the 
weekly timeframe has been validated by significant price action,&#8221; noted 
Martinez. In April and June of last year, the indicator flashed buy signals 
that led into price surges of 86% and 134%, respectively. Similarly, the 
August sell signal resulted in a drawdown of 63%. Given that Ethereum has just 
once again seen a TD Sequential sell signal on the weekly, the pattern could 
follow this time as well. &#8220;To me, this suggests Ethereum is entering another 
corrective phase,&#8221; said the analyst. Martinez has given three targets for ETH 
for various timeframes: $1,900 in the short-term, $1,595 in the mid-term, and 
$1,090 in the long-term. The last of these levels also happens to be located 
around the bottom level of a Parallel Channel, as the analyst has pointed out 
in another X post. The Parallel Channel is a TA pattern that forms whenever an 
asset trades between two parallel trendlines. The upper line acts as a source 
of resistance, while the lower one that of support. Related Reading: Bitcoin 
Falls Below $80,000: Coinbase Sellers To Blame? From the below chart, it&#8217;s 
apparent that Ethereum has recently been trading in the lower half of a long- 
term Parallel Channel on the weekly timeframe. &#8220;$1,071, at the bottom of the 
channel, looks like a strong area to buy Ethereum $ETH,&#8221; noted Martinez. It 
now remains to be seen whether the asset will have to rely on this support 
level. ETH Price Ethereum has gone down this week as its price is now trading 
around $2,220. Featured image from Dall-E, chart from TradingView.com

Ethereum Sell Signal That Last Preceded A 63% Drop Flashes Again

OKX and Korea Investment &amp; Securities are reportedly in talks to acquire 
stakes in South Korean crypto exchange Coinone. The move could mark a major 
step in the opening of Korea’s tightly regulated digital asset market to 
global players. OKX Explores Strategic Coinone Role as South Korea Rethinks 
Crypto Rules Global crypto exchange OKX is […]

OKX Targets South Korea Entry With Proposed 20% Coinone Investment

Hyperliquid’s HYPE token retreated roughly 6% on Friday after Bloomberg 
reported that CME Group and Intercontinental Exchange are pressing US 
officials to scrutinize the decentralized exchange’s role in offshore oil- 
linked trading. The move puts one of crypto’s fastest-growing derivatives 
venues in direct tension with two of the most powerful incumbents in global 
commodities markets. HYPE traded near $43.81 after reaching an intraday high 
of $46.93, implying a drop of about 6.7% from the session peak. The token’s 
24-hour range ran from $42.75 to $47.00. CME And ICE Take Aim At Hyperliquid’s 
Oil Market According to the Bloomberg report, Intercontinental Exchange Inc. 
and CME Group Inc. are urging the US to rein in Hyperliquid, which they 
described as a fast-growing, unregulated crypto platform that “could skew 
global oil prices” and be used for “price manipulation.” Related Reading: 
Hyperliquid (HYPE) To $100? Expert Forecasts Major Rise Before Summer 2027 
Bloomberg reported that the exchanges have raised their concerns with the 
Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Capitol Hill officials. The core 
issue is Hyperliquid’s anonymous trading environment, which the exchanges 
argue could create openings for insiders to move prices or for state actors to 
evade sanctions. That argument lands at a sensitive point for both crypto 
market structure and commodity-market oversight. Hyperliquid has moved beyond 
crypto-native perpetuals into products tied to real-world assets, including 
oil. For legacy exchanges, the concern is not only that a new venue is 
capturing speculative flow. It is that a round-the-clock, offshore, crypto- 
native market could begin influencing price discovery in assets that feed 
directly into global inflation, energy costs and geopolitical risk. Oil Perps 
Became A Stress Test For 24/7 Markets Hyperliquid’s oil market had already 
drawn attention earlier this year. In March, an oil-linked perpetual contract 
tracking West Texas Intermediate crude generated more than $1.2 billion in 
24-hour volume on Hyperliquid, briefly becoming the platform’s second-most 
traded market behind crypto assets. That surge came as traditional oil futures 
jumped more than 30% to nearly $120 a barrel during escalating Middle East 
tensions. Related Reading: 21Shares Is Launching A Hyperliquid ETF: Here Is 
What Investors Need To Know The episode showed why Hyperliquid has become a 
serious venue for risk-taking. Traditional commodity futures still operate 
within defined market hours, while crypto derivatives trade continuously. 
During weekends or geopolitical shocks, that difference can turn a crypto 
venue into one of the few live markets expressing fast-moving views on oil, 
gold or other macro-sensitive assets. For crypto traders, that is the product- 
market fit: always-on access, leverage and immediate reaction to global 
events. For CME and ICE, it is the risk case. If liquidity, leverage and 
anonymity concentrate around synthetic oil exposure outside the traditional 
regulatory perimeter, the line between offshore speculation and real-world 
commodity price formation becomes harder to police. Featured image created 
with DALL.E, chart from TradingView.com

HYPE Falls 6% As CME, ICE Target Hyperliquid Over Oil Risks

Santiment warned that the crypto market “typically” moves against crowd 
expectations, pointing to a recent rise in bullish sentiment driven by renewed 
momentum around the US CLARITY Act.

US CLARITY Act brings ‘major spike of euphoria’ to Bitcoin: Santiment

Strategy plans to repurchase about $1.5 billion of convertible notes, with the 
final price tied partly to its stock performance. The filing also lists 
bitcoin sales as a possible funding source, renewing focus on its treasury 
strategy. Strategy Details $1.5 Billion Convertible Note Repurchase Plan On 
May 15, Strategy Inc. (Nasdaq: MSTR) announced on X […]

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