The London-listed company is broadening its digital asset offering after introducing spot crypto trading for U.K. retail customers last year. What to know : IG could soon offer its crypto trading across Europe, a year after introducing it in the U.K. IG, which introduced financial spread betting to the U.K. in the 1970s, has 1.3 million clients globally.

According to on chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, a smart money trader on Binance contract lost $1.98 million within 24 hours, ranking first on the loss chart. Among them, ZEC suffered a floating loss of $1.15 million in short positions, with an opening price of $410.66; HYPE has a floating loss of 789000 US dollars on short positions, with an opening price of 42.49 US dollars; BTC short position floating loss of $158000, opening price of $76400; ETH has a floating profit of 124000 US dollars on a short position, with an opening price of 2232.28 US dollars.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a giant whale (0x082... a88) has been holding HYPE 5-fold leverage multiple orders since December 5, 2025, with a floating loss of over $260 million at one point and a current floating profit of over $274 million. The address currently holds 138 million HYPEs worth $810 million.

According to BizWatch, FocusAI, the largest shareholder of Busan Digital Asset Exchange, is seeking to acquire South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Flybit. Both parties have entered the final stage of discussing the details of the transaction, including the sale of shares held by Flybit CEO and largest shareholder Kim Seok jin. Flybit registered as a virtual asset service provider in 2021, but withdrew from the Korean won valuation market due to the inability to establish real name account partnerships with banks.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, loracle.hl (@ loraclexyz) has shorted HYPE for over $100 million, with a floating loss of over $230 million and a liquidation price of $69.49.