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Hedera (HBAR) Price Eyes 57% Rally as Short Squeeze Looms Over Traders
Hedera price has surged in recent sessions, positioning HBAR for a breakout from a bullish chart pattern.
The recent move reflects improving sentiment across select altcoins. However, breakouts require follow-through buying.
HBAR Investors Are Buying
The Money Flow Index indicates rising buying pressure for HBAR. The indicator has trended upward, signaling that capital is flowing back into the asset. Strengthening MFI readings often reflect growing demand during early recovery phases.
Investors appear to be accumulating as the price begins to climb. Increased participation provides liquidity support and reinforces bullish structure. If buying pressure continues building, HBAR could maintain upward momentum beyond near-term resistance.
HBAR MFI. Source: TradingView
The liquidation heatmap highlights $0.1084 as a critical level. Around that range, approximately $1 million worth of short positions could face forced liquidation. A move through this zone would likely accelerate upside volatility.
Short liquidations often create rapid price spikes. When bearish traders are forced to cover positions, buying pressure intensifies. For HBAR, clearing $0.1084 could serve as a catalyst for extended gains.
However, investors must sustain bullish momentum until that level is reached. Without steady accumulation, the market may struggle to generate the necessary pressure. Breakout durability depends on consistent inflows and reduced profit-taking.
HBAR Liquidation Heatmap. Source: Coinglass HBAR Price Needs To Secure Support
HBAR price is trading at $0.1025, pressing against the $0.1030 resistance. Securing this level as support would confirm a breakout. However, a decisive close above resistance could shift sentiment toward sustained recovery.
The token has been moving within a descending broadening wedge. This formation projects a potential 57% rally upon confirmation. While that projection signals strong upside potential, a more realistic target lies near $0.1234, which would recover recent losses.
HBAR Price Analysis. Source: TradingView
On the other hand, if investors begin booking profits prematurely, downside risk increases. A pullback toward $0.0901 support would invalidate the bullish thesis. Going forward, maintaining buying pressure remains essential for Hedera’s price to extend gains and sustain breakout momentum.
Vitalik Buterin Warns Prediction Markets Face Collapse Without Fix
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is calling for a fundamental restructuring of decentralized prediction markets. He argues that the sector’s current reliance on speculative gambling threatens its long-term viability.
This view comes as prediction marketplaces like Polymarket have enjoyed significant success over the past year.
Buterin Calls for Structural Overhaul of Prediction Markets
On February 14, Buterin contended that while platforms like Polymarket have achieved significant volume and mainstream attention, they are currently suffering from an “unhealthy market fit.”
“[Prediction markets] seem to be over-converging to an unhealthy product market fit: embracing short-term cryptocurrency price bets, sports betting, and other similar things that have dopamine value but not any kind of long-term fulfillment or societal information value,” Buterin argued.
He warned that the sector is dangerously over-reliant on “naive traders,” defined as speculators seeking short-term payouts.
This speculative behavior contrasts sharply with the markets’ intended purpose: facilitating information discovery and risk management.
Buterin categorized current market participants into two distinct groups: “smart traders” and “money losers.” Currently, the latter category is dominated by retail gamblers.
He argued that if prediction markets continue to prioritize revenue extraction from these users over societal utility, they risk collapsing during bear markets when speculative fervor cools.
“There is nothing fundamentally morally wrong with taking money from people with dumb opinions. But there still is something fundamentally “cursed” about relying on this too much. It gives the platform the incentive to seek out traders with dumb opinions, and create a public brand and community that encourages dumb opinions to get more people to come in,” the Ethereum co-founder contended.
To secure a sustainable future, Buterin proposed that these platforms transition to “hedging”—effectively serving as insurance mechanisms rather than betting platforms.
In this model, a user would not bet on an outcome to make a profit, but rather to offset real-world risks, such as a business owner betting on a policy change that could negatively impact their supply chain.
AI-Driven Hedge System to Replace Fiat
The Ethereum co-founder’s recommendations extended into radical economic territory, suggesting that prediction markets could eventually render fiat-pegged stablecoins obsolete.
Buterin proposed creating granular price indices covering major categories of global goods and services.
Under this theoretical framework, users would utilize local Large Language Models (LLMs) to analyze their personal spending habits. The AI would then construct a personalized “basket” of asset shares that mirrors the user’s specific cost of living.
By holding these prediction market shares rather than U.S. dollar-pegged assets such as USDC or USDT, users could theoretically maintain their purchasing power against inflation without relying on traditional banking infrastructure.
“We do not need fiat currency at all! People can hold stocks, ETH, or whatever else to grow wealth, and personalized prediction market shares when they want stability,” he wrote.
Buterin acknowledged that transitioning from the current “info buying” phase to an advanced hedging economy would require new infrastructure.
However, he maintained that replacing fiat currency with diversified asset baskets remains the technology’s ultimate evolution.
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