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ASTEROID Rallies 45,000% Following Elon Musk’s Response on X


A crypto trader has seen a $370,000 profit in an almost forgotten digital asset in his portfolio during a swift turn of events, according to a post by Lookonchain. The trader, who spent 9.1 $ETH, equivalent to $21,600, in September 2024, to buy 8.02 billion ASTEROID tokens, saw the value of his digital assets decline to almost zero before the sudden surge.

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It took a total of 580 days for the significant turn of events, triggered by Elon Musk’s response to a now-viral post about the meme coin in X. In a swift move, ASTEROID Shiba gained over 45,000% to become one of the most talked-about events in the cryptocurrency circle. The token’s market cap surged past $20 million, causing the trader’s holdings to rise to $392,000 in value, which reflects a $370,000 gain.

The Dying Wish of ASTEROID’s Creator

ASTEROID is a Shiba Inu-based meme coin designed by Live Perrotto, a 15-year-old girl who tragically died of cancer earlier this year. Before her passing, Perrotto wanted to ask Musk if he would make the cryptocurrency a SpaceX mascot.

Musk did not answer the question until this week, when an X user, Glenn Beck, brought the question to light, highlighting Perrotto’s wish and a list of questions she had for Musk. Unfortunately, she was too tired to ask those questions herself when she had the opportunity to speak to the American entrepreneur.

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Musk responded to Beck’s post with a three-word phrase: “Will answer shortly,” which threw the ASTEROID community into a frenzy, boosting its demand like never before and leading to a massive rally in the meme coin’s price.

Besides the individual trader who gained about $370,000 from the ASTEROID “fever,” other speculative crypto users profited significantly from the incident. Arkham I

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Bitcoin Up 2 Weeks: Beginning or End?HTX Community Spring Creation ContestMarket Rally! Claim Your Airdrop A security lapse often cuts both ways. It sparks immediate fear, but the aftermath reveals de

A security lapse often cuts both ways. It sparks immediate fear, but the aftermath reveals deeper dynamics.

The recent Drift Protocol hack appears to be unfolding in a similar way. Initial market sentiment was dominated by panic after the exploit led to nearly $285 million in losses.

Now, recovery efforts are underway, but attention is shifting from the hack itself to the key players involved in the response.

As AMBCrypto earlier noted, Tether has stepped in with a $150 million recovery proposal for Drift Protocol, while Circle has declined to freeze the exploited USDC tied to the incident.

Notably, the contrasting reactions have fueled market speculation, putting Solana [SOL] right at the center of the narrative.



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Reports of potential progress toward a US-Iran deal acted as a catalyst across risk assets. Traders who had been betting against the market were caught badly positioned and forced to close their short positions in a hurry.

The result was a cascade of $425 million in short liquidations, part of a total $530 million wiped from leveraged positions on the day. When shorts get forced out at scale, they buy to close their positions, which adds buying pressure on top of buying pressure. That mechanical dynamic is why the move looked so sudden and aggressive.

Over $300 million in crypto shorts were liquidated in the 12-hour window around Bitcoin’s spike to $74,500.

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Chinese-Canadian educator and Predictive History host Jiang Xueqin has stirred debate after arguing that Bitcoin may have been created by the CIA or a broader US “deep state,” rather than by the pseud

Chinese-Canadian educator and Predictive History host Jiang Xueqin has stirred debate after arguing that Bitcoin may have been created by the CIA or a broader US “deep state,” rather than by the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto. The claim, made on the April 15 episode of the Jack Neel Podcast, quickly drew pushback from prominent Bitcoin commentators who said Jiang’s argument rests on a basic misunderstanding of how the network works.

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Jiang, a Beijing-based commentator with 2.3 million YouTube subscribers, framed the theory around what he described as a game-theory process of elimination. He said the standard origin story “makes no sense,” asking why someone would spend years or even decades developing blockchain technology only to release it to the world for free and then disappear.

“So then you have to ask yourself three questions,” Jiang said. “First of all is who would have the technology and the expertise to create something like the blockchain. Second of all, you have to ask who would benefit from this blockchain creation. The third question you want to ask is why would they keep it secret?”

From there, Jiang argued that the likely candidates were US intelligence and defense agencies, citing the role government-linked institutions played in building foundational internet infrastructure. “Probably the same people who created the internet, probably the same people who created GPS, DARPA, NSA, CIA, probably these guys,” he said. In his telling, blockchain would serve two strategic purposes: surveillance and covert financing.

He pushed the argument further by suggesting that the network’s value depends on people believing it sits outside political control. “The answer is only if people believe that this was transparent, open and beyond authority, beyond political control, would it have value,” Jiang said. “So

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Global oil prices fell sharply on Friday after Iran and the United States jointly announced the temporary reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, easing fears over a major disruption to the world's oil sup

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