Yield is a cash flow — and cash flows can be traded
Most DeFi beginners think of yield as a number: an APY on a dashboard. Yield trading starts from a different idea — that future yield is itself an asset you can buy, sell, or bet on, separately from the money that produces it. If you deposit a yield-bearing token — say a staked ether token, or a tokenized stock that pays a...
A split open to earnings week
Monday, November 2, 2026, opened the busiest earnings week of the season — 198 US-traded companies on the calendar for the day alone, and 1,590 across the week of November 2–6 — and the first results already split in both directions. Marriott International reported earnings of $3.02 per share for Q3 2026, beating the consensus estimate of $2.84,...
Tokenomics, in one sentence
Tokenomics — short for token economics — is the set of rules that decides how a crypto token is created, who gets it, when it can be sold, what it is used for, and how its supply changes over time. Two tokens can run on similar technology and still behave completely differently as investments, because their tokenomics are different. One may have a hard...
A calmer Monday after a bruising Friday
US stock futures rebounded on Monday, November 2, after one of the ugliest weeks of the year for technology shares. Contracts tied to the Nasdaq-100 rose about 0.84%, S&P 500 futures gained roughly 0.43–0.51%, and Dow Jones futures added about 0.29–0.55% in early trading, as investors returned cautiously to equities following Friday's...
Diplomacy moves oil first
Oil fell sharply on Monday, November 2, as signs of diplomatic progress between the US and Iran gave traders their first real reason in weeks to price in an end to the Gulf disruption rather than more of it. Brent crude declined about 3.3% to $109.70 a barrel in one morning read, and about 3.8% to just above $109 in another, while US crude dropped about 3.4% to $100.58...
Bitcoin steadied near $78,000 on Monday, November 2, after one of the most violent weeks in crypto history — and the calm on the surface hides a technically weak structure underneath. Early readings put Bitcoin at about $77,567 to $78,207, up only a fraction on the day after briefly touching $78,700 in Asian trading and $78,878, its best level since the October 29 Binance hack. Ether...
Web3 gaming enters November with a strange combination: a funding month that was quiet in absolute terms but sharply better than September, and a calendar packed with hard deadlines that will decide what players actually keep. The industry's October report counts $192,500 across 45 tracked capital events, up 104.8% on the previous month — a doubling that still leaves the total tiny by...
South Korea's financial regulator has called an emergency meeting with the country's major crypto exchanges after the $6.3 billion Binance hack — the first major regulatory response from a national watchdog, and a signal that the industry's biggest-ever theft is now reshaping exchange security rules beyond Binance itself. In a November 2 official statement, South Korea's Financial...
A ten-year chain closes its doorsThe Lisk Chain shut down on November 2, 2026, ending a blockchain that ran for roughly a decade and beginning a new chapter for the project behind it. In Lisk's own announcement, user-facing services closed first on November 2 — the Lisk Portal and the Lisk Bridge — with the rest of the chain switched off behind them. The company itself is not...
The average price that actually tradedMost moving averages treat every price equally: a quiet overnight print counts as much as a million-dollar hour. VWAP — the volume-weighted average price — does not. It weights each price by how much actually traded there, giving you the average price the market as a whole paid during the session. That is why traders, funds and algorithms use it...