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$1.51B in leveraged crypto positions were force-closed in the past 24 hours, and $1.30B of that came from longs, about 86% of the total. The selloff followed reports of a potential security issue at Binance after billions in crypto left its hot wallets. Binance says it is investigating and user funds are safe, while Tether and Circle have frozen $2.54B in linked stablecoins. Binance also carried half of all liquidations at $757.94M. HTX was the only venue where shorts outweighed longs.

$1.15B in leveraged crypto positions were forcibly closed in the past 24 hours, and $973M of that came from longs, traders positioned for prices to rise. The selloff followed large outflows from Binance hot wallets that co-founder CZ said look like a hack. Binance says it is investigating and that user funds are safe. Bitcoin slipped below $79,000, with roughly $628M liquidated in a single hour. Smaller coins combined for $395M, more than BTC’s $378M.

Canada just raised interest rates for the first time since July 2023. The Bank of Canada lifted its policy rate from 2.25% to 2.50% on October 28, ending a hold that lasted seven straight meetings. See how Canada compares on the Global Macro Map: askclash.ai/macro/map

Traders added $651.13M in open interest over the past 24 hours, lifting the total across five major assets to $35.26B. BTC carries the largest share at $19.29B, with funding of +4.74%. The build-up follows the Fed’s decision to hold rates at 3.75% to 4.00%, with two officials voting against it. These are intraday readings and can shift quickly. See the full gauge: askclash.ai/tools/derivative…

Hyperliquid (HYPE) is trading at $90.80, up about 14% in 24 hours, after a single 4H candle lifted price from the low $80s. The catalyst: ICE, parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, plans to build a regulated U.S. market for perpetual futures on Hyperliquid with Trade[XYZ]. These contracts track an asset’s price with no expiry date.

Alphabet is down 13.6% intraday. If it closes near that level, it would be the stock’s worst post-earnings reaction on record. Google Cloud revenue more than doubled, but profit missed estimates and $51.4B in quarterly AI spending pushed free cash flow to negative $9.1B. The market is weighing what the AI buildout costs, not just how fast it grows. Amazon, down 4.8% ahead of its own results after the US close, faces the same test.

US spot Bitcoin ETFs took in $137.3M on Oct 28, a third straight day of inflows. Nearly all of it went to BlackRock’s IBIT. Money keeps flowing into Bitcoin through ETFs, even as the Fed held rates and two officials pushed for a hike. See the chart: askclash.ai/tools/bitcoin-et…

Microsoft closed at $531.01 on Oct 28, nearly flat on the day, then rose about 2.6% to around $545 in after-hours trading following its earnings report. The quarter beat Wall Street estimates on both profit and revenue. Sales grew 19% to $92.28 billion, led by Azure, Microsoft’s cloud business, which grew 48%. After-hours prices can shift before the next session opens, so the full market reaction is still to come.

Google’s new Gemini 4 Carbon is now the top-ranked AI model on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, scoring 59. That puts it just ahead of Claude Opus 5.5 at 58 and GPT-6 Astra at 57. Most people can’t use it yet. Google is giving it to cybersecurity teams first, with no public release date announced.

Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads AskClash’s budget AI ranking with a 74.9 score at $4.0 per defined workload, a full 5 points ahead of Gemini 4 Argon. The bigger story is cost. Claude Haiku 5.5 scores 56.8 for just $0.20, about three quarters of the top score at one twentieth of the price. The board is moving fast. OpenAI’s GPT-6.1 Terra launched Oct 26 and already ranks 7th at 59.6. Full chart: askclash.ai/ai-leaderboard/b…

$256.85M in leveraged positions across crypto markets were force-closed over the past 24 hours, and shorts took the larger share at $157.42M, about 61% of the total. BTC and ETH liquidations were mostly shorts, at roughly 76% and 71%. The biggest slice, $135.47M or 52.7%, came from assets outside the top names, where longs and shorts were nearly even. The backdrop: the Fed held rates at 3.75% to 4% in a 10-2 vote, with two officials favoring a hike, while Bitcoin stayed near $81K. This is a rolling 24-hour window, so the figures will keep shifting. Full liquidations breakdown: askclash.ai/tools/liquidatio…

Bitcoin ETFs pulled in $176M in the last session, their second straight day of inflows. The rest of the board moved the other way. ETH ETFs saw $60.2M in outflows, SOL ETFs saw $19.2M, and stablecoin supply slipped to $302.5B, down $2.6B over 7 days. Put simply, fresh money is returning to Bitcoin funds but has not yet spread across the wider market. The split comes ahead of the Fed’s rate decision, where a hold is widely expected and traders are watching for hints about December.

Chicago Stadium in three.js, same brief, two models. GPT-6.1 Terra (Max): 23m 18s | 5.83M tokens | $0.68 Kimi K3.1 Pro (Max): 45m 33s | 7.09M tokens | $2.34 Clean and fast vs textured and detailed. See the full benchmarks: askclash.ai/ai-leaderboard/b…

Bitcoin ETFs took in $176M on Oct 27, their second straight day of inflows after $110.3M on Oct 26. Together, those two days recover only part of the $773M that left on Oct 22 and 23, so money is coming back gradually rather than all at once. BlackRock’s IBIT took $151.5M and Fidelity’s FBTC added $24.5M, while the other 10 funds were flat. The timing lines up with the Fed’s two-day meeting, where markets widely expect rates to hold after September’s hike. Zooming out, 30-day net flows remain positive at $2.08B. BTC ETF Flows: askclash.ai/tools/bitcoin-et…

US stocks are edging higher in Wednesday trading. The Nasdaq is leading, the S&P 500 is posting a modest gain, and the Dow and Russell 2000 are close to flat. That is a far quieter session than Tuesday, when chip stocks powered a strong Nasdaq rally. Small moves like these often show traders holding back ahead of major news. Two big tests land today. The Fed announces its rate decision this afternoon US time, where a hold is widely expected, so the focus shifts to whether Chair Kevin Warsh hints at more hikes. Microsoft and Alphabet then report earnings after the close.

RLUSD added $174.15M in supply over the past 7 days, the biggest gain among the top 10 stablecoins. Only RLUSD and PYUSD grew while USDT and USDC shrank. Now Coinbase has opened RLUSD on its retail app, Exchange and Prime, giving it wider US access.

Microsoft and Alphabet, worth about $3.9T each, both report earnings after the US close on Oct 28. That is roughly $7.8T in market value reporting hours after the Fed’s rate decision, so investors get rates and Big Tech results on the same day. Calendar: askclash.ai/markets/earnings…