BitMine added nearly 112,000 ETH valued around $237 million last week, its biggest ETH-denominated buy this year.
The firm now holds nearly 5.4 million ETH and is greater than 88% of the way to its pursuit of 5% of the circulating token supply.
Shares of BMNR have jumped more than 4% in early trading on Tuesday.
Publicly traded Ethereum treasury firm BitMine Immersion Technologies added 111,942 ETH, or more than $237 million worth, to its balance sheet last week, marking the firm’s largest buy yet this year as denominated in ETH.
The purchase brings the firm’s total holdings to 5,390,404 ETH valued around $11.4 billion as Ethereum trades around $2,117 on Tuesday morning.
BitMine now holds more than 4.4% of the circulating ETH token supply, better than 88% of the way to its goal of hitting 5%—a feat it anticipates achieving “sometime in 2026,” according to its chairman, Tom Lee.
(Disclaimer: Tom Lee is an investor in Decrypt’s parent company, Dastan).
Lee recently telegraphed that the firm would slow down its Ethereum purchase velocity, as it didn’t wish to reach the 5% mark too quickly. However, with ETH trading below $2,200, the BitMine frontman said last week that the firm viewed this as an “attractive opportunity” to add to its position.
“We continue to expect a supercycle ahead for crypto and Ethereum, driven by the dual drivers of Wall Street tokenization and agentic-AI. And thus, we continue to steadily acquire ETH, with BitMine now owning nearly 5.4 million ETH tokens,” he said in a statement.
Of the firm’s 5.39 million ETH, more than 4.7 million ETH—or almost $10 billion worth—is being staked via its industrial staking platform, the Made in America Validator Network (MAVAN). Based on its current staking numbers, BitMine anticipates annualized staking revenues of more than $276 million.
Shares of BitMine (BMNR) have jumped around 3.3% since the opening bell, recently changing hands at $19.51. At that mark, shares have fallen nearly 12% in the last month and more than 38% in the last six months of trading.
But the firm expects a liquidity injection next month as it gets added to the Russell 1000 index, an index that tracks the 1,000 largest companies in the United States. Ahead of its inclusion, Lee hinted that passive index funds and ETFs may create a wave of automated demand.
The firm’s treasury asset, Ethereum, has dropped 2% in the last 24 hours to trade around $2,078. The second-largest crypto asset by market cap has fallen more than 11% in the last month and remains about 58% off its August all-time high of $4,946.
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Rain, the decentralized prediction markets protocol, announces a $100 million liquidity commitment to support the launch of Rain V2 ahead of the upcoming FIFA World Cup, one of the largest expected global events for prediction market activity. The liquidity injection will also be completed by then.
The liquidity initiative is designed to provide deep market depth and scalable infrastructure for users, traders, developers, and applications launching on Rain during the World Cup cycle and beyond. Rain will inject $100M directly into the ecosystem’s liquidity pools, divided to $50M in USDT and $50M in RAIN tokens.
With this move, Rain becomes one of the top three largest prediction market ecosystems globally by Total Value Locked (TVL), alongside Polymarket and Kalshi, two of the dominant players currently leading the sector.
The announcement marks the emergence of a major new player in prediction markets at a time when the category is rapidly entering mainstream adoption across sports, politics, finance, and real-world forecasting.
Unlike centralized competitors, Rain is built as a fully decentralized and permissionless infrastructure layer where anyone can create prediction markets on any topic. Developers, communities, companies, and AI agents can launch custom forecasting applications, public or private markets, and localized experiences across all languages without centralized approval.
Rain’s upcoming V2 protocol introduces major infrastructure upgrades focused on scalability, liquidity efficiency, and trading performance ahead of the World Cup. One of the key additions is a new on-chain order book designed for both users and professional market makers, enabling deeper liquidity, larger trade execution, and a more advanced trading experience across the ecosystem.
The protocol also leverages AI-powered systems for market creation, categorization, moderation, and resolution workflows, helping enable scalable global forecasting markets across virtually any category or language.
“This is a defining moment for Rain and decentralized prediction markets,” said Roy Shaham, CEO of Rain. “The World Cup is expected to bring massive global attention to prediction markets, and Rain V2 is being built to support that scale from day one. Committing $100 million in liquidity positions Rain among the largest players in the space and signals the beginning of a new era for decentralized forecasting infrastructure.”
“Until now, the market has largely been dominated by a very small number of players. Rain changes that dynamic. We are building an open protocol where anyone, from individual users to AI agents and global applications, can create and participate in markets across any language, topic, or region.”
Rain’s real time TVL data on Dune can be viewed here: https://dune.com/rain_predictions/rain
About Rain: Rain is a decentralized prediction markets protocol designed to power the next generation of forecasting applications. Built on Arbitrum with account abstraction infrastructure, Rain enables seamless onboarding, gas abstraction, cross-chain deposits, and scalable market creation for both crypto-native and mainstream users.
Rain allows anyone to launch public or private prediction markets on virtually any subject, while developers can build fully customized forecasting platforms and niche applications on top of the protocol. The platform supports multilingual experiences, AI-powered market infrastructure, and deep liquidity designed for large-scale global events.
For more information, visit: https://www.rain.one
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Gregory, a digital nomad hailing from Poland, is not only a financial analyst but also a valuable contributor to various online magazines. With a wealth of experience in the financial industry, his insights and expertise have earned him recognition in numerous publications. Utilising his spare time effectively, Gregory is currently dedicated to writing a book about cryptocurrency and blockchain.
Dianne Buswell and Joe Sugg have been warned by fans after sharing numerous images of baby Bowden online.
The couple, who met when paired on Strictly Come Dancing, welcomed their first child – known affectionately as Bowie – back in March.
And, while fans have loved to see the couple settling into parenthood and sharing glimpses of baby Bowie, others have said that the pair shouldn’t be showing as much of the baby as they are because he can’t “consent”.
Joe Sugg and Dianne Buswell regularly post pictures of their baby online (Credit: Splash News)
Joe Sugg and Dianne Buswell parent-shamed
Joe and Dianne have always shared much of their personal and professional lives on social media. They regularly post vlogs about their daily lives, and this hasn’t changed since they became parents.
However, fans of the pair on Reddit have now shared their concerns.
“I was watching Dianne’s new vlog and does anyone else find it quite weird how much of baby Bowden they share?” one well-meaning fan wrote. They added: “I know every family has different boundaries and obviously it’s their decision. But I personally find it strange considering how public they are.
“Surely they know the dangers? A few weeks ago I think they even included him in an ad while he was in the bath, which seemed really odd to me. Curious what everyone else thinks.”
Dianne Buswell regularly shares posts on social media with her baby online (Credit: Instagram)
‘Your child cannot consent’
People definitely had their views. “I absolutely do not agree with posting your child online,” came one response. “People have such weird parasocial relationships with folk online which can become really unhealthy. I also think it is wrong to monetise off your child. Your child cannot consent.”
Another added: “Every adult knows exactly how nefarious it is to post children and babies online. Especially two people whose whole lives revolve around the internet and social media. It’s disgusting and so dangerous.”
A third commented: “I honestly would’ve thought Joe would be the most strict about not having his baby online so I was very surprised when it became immediately clear that he was actually going to be the exact opposite.”
Another said: “I didn’t want to say before but this baby has clearly been used as a form of content for them and it’s a shame how much they share of their baby onto the internet which isn’t a safe place.”
The Strictly pro has been defended by her fans (Credit: Instagram)
‘It’s their choice’
However, others backed the pair. One commented: “His sister showed her kids until they started going to school so he may be doing the same.” A second said: “I mean Joes career is the internet. Unfortunately a lot of people share their kids online. It’s terrifying but it’s their choice.”
Another commented: “He is a very cute little boy and they are so proud of him you can see it in their faces but they should be more cautious as he grows. No doubt they will block out his face as countless celebs do who post their kids.”
“Admittedly I don’t follow them regularly but from everything I have seen I have only seen two people incredibly in love with each other, with newfound parenthood, and with their newborn son,” said another. “And yet to most everybody else here they are stupid, disgusting, dull, and exploitative parents who are actively endangering their child. Ridiculous!”
“Maybe it’s about their control,” another added. “I don’t agree with making money this way but it’s their livelihood. They already share. And you all clearly watch. If they don’t get views then they won’t post.”
ED! has contacted Joe and Dianne’s reps for comment.
Read more: BBC warned over new Strictly Come Dancing hosts: ‘Should’ve been Anton!’
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It’s bin day for Marvbel Rivals, and NetEase has had a bit of a clearout, permanently banning 485 accounts and three devices after detecting a spike in cheating following its latest weekend update.
The bans were confirmed in a new “Zero Tolerance on Cheats” penalty announcement (shouldn’t be a new policy, but what do I know?), with NetEase saying its telemetry spotted players using “third-party enhancements” after the May 21 update. By May 25, the publisher had moved to what it called an “immediate, targeted purge” of accounts found to be breaking the rules.
According to NetEase, the banned players were found to have used cheats, illicit assist programs, or client tampering. The publisher also said the signatures for the newly detected cheats have now been added to its automated penalty system, meaning anyone caught using the same tools in future should be banned immediately.
The enforcement wave does not appear to have only hit low-level throwaway accounts either. NetEase published a list of the affected accounts with personal information removed, showing players across a range of in-game ranks. Three players were also hit with permanent device bans, including one listed at One Above All rank.
NetEase also took aim at claims circulating online that Marvel Rivals’ anti-cheat can be bypassed using launch parameters. The publisher said those rumours are false, explaining that the anti-cheat launches alongside the game client and cannot be switched off separately. The parameter being shared online only hides a pop-up window, it said, rather than disabling the software.
Players who believe they have been wrongly punished can appeal through official customer support, although NetEase’s wording makes it pretty clear that it believes this particular ban wave is based on confirmed violations so, yeah good luck kids.
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Vitalik Buterin urges Ethereum ecosystem to focus on real-world implementation over privacy narratives.
Ethereum Foundation researcher Kassandra leads Kohaku initiative as frontier R&D for Ethereum wallets.
Kohaku aims to integrate shielded pool protocols into existing wallets through modular tools.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has urged the ecosystem to move beyond privacy narratives and focus on real-world implementation, responding to new updates around the Ethereum Foundation’s Kohaku initiative.
“We’ve accelerated narratives enough. Let’s accelerate the cypherpunk privacy reality,” Buterin wrote in a May 26 X post, replying to a thread on Kohaku’s wallet-level privacy work.
The comment came after Ethereum Foundation researcher Kassandra described Kohaku as “frontier R&D” for the future of Ethereum wallets and the broader Ethereum “Access Layer.” According to the thread, Kohaku’s goal is to make end-to-end privacy possible for ordinary Ethereum users rather than leaving privacy tools limited to technical users.
Kohaku plans to give existing wallets modular tools that can integrate shielded pool protocols directly into the wallet layer. The Ethereum GitHub repository describes Kohaku as “privacy-first tooling for the Ethereum ecosystem,” while also noting that some parts of the project remain work in progress and are not ready for production use.
Kohaku Targets Wallet-Level Privacy
The key idea behind Kohaku is to reduce the complexity of using privacy protocols such as Railgun, Tornado Cash, and Privacy Pools. Instead of forcing users to interact with separate privacy apps or protocol-specific infrastructure, Kohaku aims to let wallets abstract that complexity away.
The latest milestone centers on kohaku-eth/railgun v0.0.1-alpha.21, which has made ERC-4337 relaying operational for Railgun-based private transactions. The Defiant reported that Kohaku’s SDK is designed to integrate shielded pool protocols into Ethereum wallet interfaces, with 4337 relaying now operational for Railgun while Tornado Cash and Privacy Pools integrations are still in development.
Relayers have historically been a pain point for private transactions. Kohaku’s approach seeks to route privacy protocol transactions through the ERC-4337 mempool, reducing dependence on protocol-specific relaying infrastructure.
ERC-4337 is Ethereum’s account abstraction standard built around UserOperations, EntryPoint contracts, bundlers, and alternative mempool flows. The EIP also includes support paths connected to EIP-7702 authorizations, which are relevant to newer wallet and account designs.
Ethereum’s Privacy Roadmap Gets Practical Layer
Buterin’s latest comment fits into a broader Ethereum privacy push. Earlier this month, he outlined a near-term privacy roadmap covering account abstraction, FOCIL, keyed nonces, and Kohaku as part of a move to make privacy a native feature rather than an add-on.
Kassandra’s thread framed Kohaku as a practical step in that direction. The project is meant to support wallet integrations over time, while experimental work continues on a browser extension wallet, a CLI-based wallet, post-quantum accounts, multisigs, and hardware wallet support.
For Ethereum users, the larger message is clear: privacy is moving from conference-stage rhetoric to wallet infrastructure. Kohaku is still early, but the project signals that Ethereum’s privacy debate is shifting from “why privacy matters” to “how wallets can actually deliver it.”
Also Read: Vitalik Buterin Defends a Shrinking Ethereum Foundation Amid High-Profile Exits
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MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, has released its March–April bimonthly security report, including the strategic deployment of 1,000 BTC to its treasury reserves to strengthen user protection. Alongside this massive capital injection, the exchange continues to scale its compliance architecture to neutralize evolving market threats.
Intercepted 26,897 Accounts Linked to Organized Risk Activities
During this 60-day period, MEXC’s security infrastructure intercepted and restricted 26,897 accounts tied to coordinated fraud—an 18.9% increase from the previous reporting cycle. Threat intelligence engines mapped 6,903 malicious syndicates (up 33.6%), with the heaviest concentrations emerging from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and Indonesia, tracking 3,567 and 1,524 threat clusters, respectively. All identified entities were subjected to immediate platform-wide bans to secure ecosystem liquidity and protect user capital.
Deploying On-Chain Intelligence to Immobilize Compromised Funds
By syndicating threat-linked wallet data with major industry partners, MEXC actively maps and disrupts illicit capital flows tied to theft and fraud, preemptively restricting assets before secondary transfers can happen. From March to April, the platform processed 254 cross-platform intelligence requests, including 50 law enforcement freeze mandates. Through this collaborative infrastructure, the exchange directly immobilized 17,084,031 USDT across 47 active threat cases—23 of which were executed via direct law enforcement intervention. All intelligence broadcasting and subsequent asset freezes were conducted in strict adherence to multi-jurisdictional laws, ensuring rapid response efficiency while maintaining absolute regulatory compliance.
Restoring Misdirected Capital: 863,127 USDT Recovered Across 819 Incidents
Between March and April, MEXC manually processed 819 erroneous deposit cases, recovering assets equivalent to 863,127 USDT. Each case underwent rigorous manual review, on-chain verification, and cross-chain tracking procedures to guarantee the precise and secure restitution of user capital.
Guardian Fund Adds 1,000 BTC Reserves
MEXC’s deployment of the additional 1,000 BTC to its institutional reserves has established a formalized dual-asset architecture for the Guardian Fund. This framework leverages USDT to guarantee immediate operational liquidity, while the Bitcoin tranche functions as a macroeconomic anchor to preserve capital across market cycles. Concurrently, MEXC has initiated a mandate to aggressively scale the fund’s total capitalization from $100 million to $500 million over the next two years. To maintain absolute transparency, all institutional wallet addresses are fully public, enabling real-time, cryptographically verifiable proof of reserves.
Guardian Fund wallet addresses:
Major Assets Maintain Overcollateralized Reserves, With BTC Reserve Ratio at 293.29%
During this reporting period, MEXC’s major asset reserve ratios were as follows:
Bitcoin (BTC): reserve ratio of 293.29%, with total wallet assets of 11,895.453 BTC covering user holdings of 4,055.818 BTCEthereum (ETH): reserve ratio of 122.93%, with total wallet assets of 70,167.059 ETHUSDT: reserve ratio of 116.92%, with total wallet assets of 2.442 billion USDTUSDC: reserve ratio of 120.03%, with total wallet assets of 95.7287 million USDC
During the same period, the MEXC Futures Insurance Fund continued to operate normally, providing coverage for potential negative balance losses under extreme market conditions and reducing the impact of liability spillover on user assets. The fund balance remains publicly available in real time. Users can check the current balance of each trading pair on the MEXC official Insurance Fund page.
MEXC CEO Vugar Usi said, “Trust must be supported by verifiable capital and transparent mechanisms. The expansion of the Guardian Fund and the addition of BTC reserves mark an important step in MEXC’s continued development of user protection infrastructure. We aim to provide users with a higher level of security assurance and asset transparency as they participate in the market.”
Looking ahead, MEXC will continue to disclose key data through its bimonthly security reports, covering risk interception, law enforcement cooperation, user asset recovery, and proof of reserves. Through on-chain verifiable reserves, standardized risk control procedures, and cross-platform collaboration, MEXC will continue to strengthen user asset protection.
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CME Group (CME) is preparing to move crypto futures and options to near-24/7 trading starting May 29, 2026, in a change that could cause the familiar “Bitcoin weekend gap” to disappear on the world’s largest derivatives exchange. This plan still depends on regulatory review, but if it proceeds on schedule, it will bring an important part of the regulated crypto derivatives market in the U.S. closer to Bitcoin’s continuous trading rhythm.
This change could fade the role of the “CME gap” in Bitcoin price analysis, while helping institutional investors hedge weekend risks directly on a regulated venue.
CME Moves Crypto Futures Toward 24/7 Trading
CME first announced plans to open 24/7 crypto futures and options trading in February 2026, with an expected deployment date of Friday, May 29, 2026, after completing the regulatory review process. According to the plan, these contracts will trade continuously on CME Globex and CME ClearPort. Instead of taking a two-day weekend break, CME’s crypto derivatives products will operate closer to the 24/7 rhythm of the digital asset market.
This is a notable move because CME is a crucial venue for institutional capital. Bitcoin futures on CME are commonly used to hedge exposure, trade the basis, and manage risk in a regulated environment. The previous weekend pause often made it difficult for institutions to react in time when the spot market experienced high volatility outside traditional trading hours.
For traders, the CME gap may gradually lose its role as a technical signal. When futures no longer rest for the entire weekend, the gap between Friday’s closing price and Sunday’s reopening price will no longer be a default feature of Bitcoin futures.
How The New Schedule Will Work
According to CME, crypto futures and options contracts will still have a brief maintenance window. From Monday to Friday, trading pauses for 2 minutes daily around the end of the session. On Saturday, CME has a longer maintenance window, from 2:00 a.m. to 4:00 a.m. CT.
The new schedule still keeps some technical pauses, so “24/7” does not mean trading absolutely never stops. If the spot market moves sharply during these maintenance windows, price gaps can still appear. However, compared to the model of closing for the entire weekend, the new schedule will significantly reduce the period during which CME futures cannot respond to Bitcoin prices on the spot market. Trades executed from Friday evening to Sunday evening, or on holidays, will be assigned a trade date of the next business day; clearing, settlement, and regulatory reporting will also be processed on the next business day.
The product scope does not revolve solely around Bitcoin. CME’s filing on the weekend market maker program lists futures contracts linked to Bitcoin, Ethereum, and several major altcoins such as Solana, XRP, Chainlink, Cardano, Sui, and Avalanche, along with their micro versions. CME can choose up to 7 market makers to support weekend liquidity.
The Bitcoin Weekend Gap, Explained
The Bitcoin weekend gap is the spread between the closing price of CME Bitcoin futures on Friday and the reopening price on Sunday. It appears because the Bitcoin spot market still trades over the weekend, while CME futures previously suspended trading.
CME Bitcoin futures. Source: TradingView
In the market, this gap is often monitored for the price’s tendency to return and test the empty zone after CME opens. With the 24/7 schedule, this setup may gradually lose its significance because futures no longer have to reflect the entire weekend volatility in a single reopening session.
CME cited the U.S. Strategic Crypto Reserve event on March 2, 2025, as an example: the crypto spot market gained about $300 billion in market capitalization over the weekend, and Bitcoin futures reopened with a gap of around $10,000. When futures trade through the weekend, such movements can be reflected gradually instead of concentrating into the reopening session.
Institutional Demand Behind The Shift
CME’s move comes as demand for crypto derivatives on the exchange surges. According to CME, cryptocurrency futures and options reached nearly $3 trillion in notional volume in 2025. By the time CME announced its plan, average daily volume (ADV) reached 407,200 contracts, up 46% year over year, while average daily open interest reached 335,400 contracts, up 7%.
These metrics indicate that crypto derivatives have become a significant liquidity segment on CME, where institutional investors use futures and options to hedge exposure, trade the basis, and manage risk in a regulated environment.
2020-2026 Spot Bitcoin Daily Volatility. Source: CME Group
The demand to extend trading hours is also supported by data on weekend volatility. According to CME’s analysis for the period from January 1, 2020, to March 8, 2026, weekend volatility for spot Bitcoin was equal to about 75% of weekday volatility. The average daily move during the week was 3.10%, while on weekends it was 2.33%.
With crypto, many major events can occur outside traditional trading hours, ranging from policy news to liquidation cascades or volatility on offshore exchanges. The 24/7 schedule helps reduce the time institutions must wait for CME to reopen, switch to other venues, or hold unhedged exposure.
The Limits Of Round-The-Clock Trading
Opening trading through the weekend may eliminate the traditional CME weekend gap, but it does not eliminate all price differences. Maintenance windows still exist, especially the 2-hour window on Saturday. If the spot market experiences sharp movements during this timeframe, futures can still reopen at a price significantly different from before maintenance.
Despite the market maker program, weekend spreads and depth are hard to guarantee as equivalent to main weekday trading sessions, particularly when the market suffers a major shock.
Therefore, the largest impact of the launch is not making Bitcoin less volatile, but erasing a structural gap caused by CME’s old trading schedule. If deployed according to plan on May 29, 2026, the “weekend gap” could shift from a familiar setup into a rarer phenomenon, depending more on liquidity and technical pauses.
As a consultant who works on modern & future work, AI and Microsoft 365, my mouse is one of the tools I use the most every single day. I have been a long-time fan of the MX Master line — the MX Master 3s has been my daily driver for years — so when Logitech offered me the chance to try the new MX Master 4 for Business, I was very curious to see what a new generation would actually bring to the desk. Thank you, Logitech, for sending it over for testing.
I have now used the MX Master 4 for about a month, both at my home office and on the road, and I want to share my hands-on experience with it. MX Master 4 is the first mouse to support advanced haptics on Windows!
First impressions: familiar, but a little biggerThe new headline feature: haptic feedbackTuning the haptics to your tasteLogi Options+ is still the way to configureEasy-Switch between three computersBattery — and Logitech’s estimates that are actually accurateDimensions and small things that add upWho is it for?
First impressions: familiar, but a little bigger
If you have used an MX Master 3 (or 3S), the MX Master 4 will feel immediately familiar. The shape, the sculpted thumb rest, the MagSpeed scroll wheel, the side thumb wheel — they are all there, where you expect them to be.
What surprised me at first was the size. The MX Master 4 is slightly larger than the MX Master 3s, and I noticed it immediately. My hand needed a little time to adjust to the new proportions. After about a week it felt completely natural, and now I actually prefer it. If you ever felt that the MX Master 3 was just a touch too small for your hand, this version is going to fit you better.
One small consequence of the new shape: the furthest button under the side thumb wheel is, for me, a bit out of comfortable reach with the thumb. I solved this by assigning a rarely-used function to it in Logi Options+, so I do not need to stretch to it during normal work.
Logitech site also mentions that MX Master 4 should have improved stain resistance, and it would be easier to clean than 3s. I am looking forward to seeing this in couple of years for sure!
The new headline feature: haptic feedback
The big new thing on the MX Master 4 is the haptic feedback — Logitech calls it the Haptic Sense Panel, and it sits right under the thumb area where your thumb naturally rests. This is the feature I have been most excited to test, and honestly it has been the most fun part of the review.
Haptics here are not just a gimmick. The mouse gives you a small, tuned vibration when something meaningful happens. The first time I really got it was in PowerPoint: as I dragged a shape near another one and they snapped into alignment, I felt a clear little tick from the mouse. It is a small thing, but it changes the experience. You feel the alignment as well as see it. Suddenly the layout work becomes a more tactile activity, almost like working with physical objects on a desk.
You will also feel haptics on things like window snapping and resizing in Windows 11 — Logitech has built native integration with Windows 11 Advanced Haptics, and more scenarios (like file drag and drop) are coming. On the Logi Options+ side, the Actions Ring, Smart Actions and Gestures all benefit from the feedback — when the Actions Ring opens around the thumb area, the haptic feedback comes from exactly the same area, which makes navigation feel very natural.
Windows 11 Haptics support: MX Master 4 Native Haptics with Windows 11 – Logitech Support
Take a look on Haptics on Logitech’s page: Logitech MX Master 4 — discover Haptics.
Tuning the haptics to your taste
In Logi Options+ you can configure the haptic feedback in a way that fits you. There are four intensity levels:
Subtle
Low
Medium (default)
High
I have stayed on Medium, which is exactly where I wanted it after a few days. You can also enable or disable haptics per plugin/per app, so if you do not want feedback in a particular tool you can switch it off there and keep it elsewhere.
I really like the haptics. The feedback genuinely adds to the experience and, after a month, it is the feature I would miss the most if I had to go back.
Logi Options+ is still the way to configure
To get the most out of this mouse, install Logi Options+. This is where you tune the haptic intensity, configure per-app profiles, set up the Actions Ring, Smart Actions, Flows, and gestures, and assign each button. The MX Master 4 has a lot of buttons, and Options+ is the place where they all become your buttons.
One change I made compared to my MX Master 3 setup: I moved my media controls away from the thumb button and assigned them to one of the three buttons under the side thumb wheel. This is partly because the thumb area is now the haptic zone where the Actions Ring opens, and partly because, after a few days of using it, the buttons under the thumb wheel turned out to be a more comfortable place for media keys for me. It is a small workflow change, but it is the kind of thing Options+ makes very easy.
Easy-Switch between three computers
Like the MX Master 3, the MX Master 4 supports Easy-Switch between up to three computers. I bounce between a work laptop, a personal device and a demo machine constantly, so this is the single feature that earns its place on my desk every single day.
You can switch in two ways:
The dedicated button on the bottom of the mouse, the classic way. This is how I switch.
From the Actions Ring, right under your thumb — which, with haptics, feels great.
Connect via Logi Bolt USB receiver or Bluetooth, on Windows, macOS, Chrome OS or Linux.
What I truly like is how easy it is to connect the mouse to Windows 11 computer these days. Just easy-switch to unassigned slot and it is automatically pairing, which Windows then notifies and asks if you want to connect to the device. It could not be easier.
Battery — and Logitech’s estimates that are actually accurate
Logitech states a battery life of about 70 days on a full charge. I usually take such numbers with a pinch of salt, but my experience with the MX Master line — and with the MX Brio and other Logitech gear — is that their battery estimates are remarkably honest.
After about a month of heavy daily use, including a lot of meetings, presentations and the haptic feedback enabled the whole time, the mouse still reports 65 % battery remaining. That is right on track for the 70-day estimate, and that is with haptics doing their thing. If you ever do run low, USB-C quick charging gives you several hours of use from a one-minute top-up.
Dimensions and small things that add up
Dimensions
Height: 5.05 in (128.15 mm)
Width: 3.48 in (88.35 mm)
Depth: 2 in (50.8 mm)
Weight: 5.29 oz (150 g)
A few more things worth noting:
Quiet Clicks: the primary buttons are very quiet, which I appreciate especially when I am on meetings and calls.
The MagSpeed scroll wheel is still magic. Line-by-line precision when you scroll slowly, free-spin mode when you flick it.
8,000 DPI sensor that tracks on glass and almost any other surface.
For organizations, the for Business variant works with Logitech’s management tooling for IT.
Sustainability information
Sustainability information from Logitech MX Master 4 page
Who is it for?
If you are coming from the MX Master 3S, the MX Master 4 is not a revolution in shape, but the haptics change how the mouse feels in daily work and that is more meaningful than I expected before I started using it. If your hand always wanted a little more mouse, the slightly bigger size will be welcome. If use PowerPoint, Windows 11, and other programs & OSs supporting haptics, the feedback on alignment, snapping and resizing is the kind of small upgrade you notice. But the key thing is that this is the best mouse I have used so far. It is solid ( quality feel), quiet, sits nicely in my hand ( despite the larger size), and it is very configurable.
For me, after a month, the MX Master 4 for Business has earned its place on my desk. The combination of the familiar MX Master ergonomics, the new haptics, quiet clicks, configurations, Easy-Switch and a battery that delivers exactly what Logitech promises is a very solid package for anyone whose daily work is built on a mouse.
Big thanks again to Logitech for letting me test it. You can read more about it on Logitech’s page: Logitech MX Master 4 for Business — and especially have a look at the Haptics section with examples.
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Vesa “Vesku” Nopanen, Principal Consultant and Microsoft MVP (Microsoft 365 and Azure AI Foundry) working on Future Work at Sulava MEA.
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In Emmerdale spoilers for next week, Charity feels she has no choice but to steal from Kim as Dr Todd’s threats deepen. But will it work?
Elsewhere, Laurel gives into Ross and the pair get down to it. But will Sam catch them in the act?
Meanwhile, Lydia is worried about her marriage to Sam and then Kim gets involved and things could get a whole lot worse!
All this and more in next week’s Emmerdale spoilers.
1. Kim pulls out
Charity is horrified when Kim pulls out of buying the Woolpack. Desperate she instead begs for a loan and is left shouting after Kim in despair.
2. Chas finds out in Emmerdale spoilers
Chas hears the commotion and wants to know what’s going on. Charity finally admits to Chas she’s being blackmailed by Todd and they come up with a plan to get the cash. They are going to rob the safe at Home Farm to pay Todd off. But will it work?
3. Todd’s final threat
Charity gives Todd some money as a down payment. However Todd isn’t impressed and tells her she still wants the rest of the cash tomorrow.
Todd’s threat is clear: if Charity doesn’t deliver, she will blow the Leyla secret wide open at Sarah’s 21st birthday party the next day. Can Charity stop her whole world coming crashing down?
4. Ross makes his feelings clear in Emmerdale spoilers
After Gabby drowns her sorrows and confides in Dawn about Ross rejecting her, Dawn wants answers from Ross.
He insists there’s only one woman he’s interested in – and makes sure he’s within earshot of Laurel!
5. Sam catches Ross and Laurel?
After Ross promises to keep things quiet, Laurel gives in to her passion for him.
But they are soon interrupted when Sam crashes in. Ross is forced to cover that Laurel will be helping Sam dance. But will Sam work out what’s really going on?
6. Laurel sheds her guilt in Emmerdale spoilers
Enjoying the thrill of her secret affair, Laurel still feels guilty knowing Gabby is into Ross. But Gabby soon declares she’s firmly over the Barton bad boy and Laurel feels that she can go full speed ahead without feeling guilty. Is this going to get messy?
7. Gabby gets clean
With a stonking hangover, Gabby looks into clean living and thinks about changing things up at the Hide too. Is this the future?
8. Kim suspects Sam in Emmerdale spoilers
Lydia is feeling distant from Sam and tells Kim she’s fed up of him working extra hours and feels like it’s to avoid spending time with her. Kim is suspicious of Sam’s behaviour, knowing he isn’t working extra hours at all.
But neither of them have any idea he’s actually taking dance lessons for Lydia. So when Kim then hears from Nicola that Laurel is seeing someone in the village, she is convinced Sam and Laurel are having an affair!
9. Archie cons Kerry
Kerry and Pollard discover they’ve been conned by Archie and present a united front to get their money back. Archie’s punishment is to start working in the shop. Secretly, however, Pollard is actually impressed by Archie’s scheming!
10. Liam has more advice for Cain in Emmerdale spoilers
Liam tells Cain he needs to find a practical solution to start living his life again. Will Cain listen?
Read more: Emmerdale cast shake-up 2026 as exits confirmed and big returns teased – so who’s leaving?
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When Hyperliquid’s HYPE token touched a record high above $64 on May 24, 2026, the financial press reached for the most comfortable available explanation: institutional money had arrived. The first US spot HYPE exchange-traded funds had launched days earlier, and the narrative wrote itself — Wall Street had blessed a decentralized derivatives exchange, and the market was responding accordingly.
That story is technically true, but it is mostly a distraction. The real engine driving HYPE’s price is something far more structural, and far more unusual: the protocol spends almost everything it earns buying its own token. Understanding that mechanism changes what the rally actually means.
The machine that never stops buying
At the center of Hyperliquid’s economics sits a mechanism called the Assistance Fund. According to DeFiLlama data, roughly 99% of trading fees from the platform’s perpetual and spot markets flow directly into this fund — which then spends that money buying HYPE on the open market. There is no board vote to authorize the purchases. No quarterly decision about whether to return capital or reinvest. The buying is written into the protocol’s default behavior, and it happens continuously, in every market condition.
The scale is staggering. Hyperliquid has generated more than $1.16 billion in cumulative revenue since launch, with effectively all of it channeled into acquiring HYPE. In the third quarter of 2025 alone, the protocol bought back $316.76 million worth of the token in a single quarter — a buyback intensity that dwarfs most public companies. The key difference: most companies choose to do this. Hyperliquid’s fund simply executes it automatically.
And the Assistance Fund is not the only programmatic buyer. USDC serves as Hyperliquid’s aligned quote asset, meaning up to 90% of reserve yield earned on billions of USDC held across the platform also flows back into buybacks and ecosystem incentives. With daily trading volumes hovering around $1 billion, the interest on idle USDC alone generates a nine-figure annual flow pointed at the same token. Three separate revenue pipes — trading fees, reserve yield, and protocol treasury activity — all draining into HYPE.
99% of Hyperliquid’s trading fees are used to buy HYPE from the open market (Souce: DeFiLlama)
The business underneath is genuinely real
This flywheel would spin uselessly if the underlying business were hollow. It is not. Hyperliquid has captured a dominant share of on-chain perpetual-futures trading, a category that has expanded sharply as traders seek alternatives to centralized exchanges. Its cumulative perpetual volume runs into the trillions of dollars, and the fees feeding the Assistance Fund represent genuine revenue from genuine customer activity.
That separates Hyperliquid from a long list of earlier crypto projects that manufactured the appearance of activity by paying users in their own inflating tokens. Here, the exchange earns close to a billion dollars a year from real trading, and routes it back toward token holders. The business is strong. The mechanism built on top of it is unusual and powerful.
So what did the ETF actually do?
The first US spot Hyperliquid ETFs, backed by funds including Bitwise, attracted tens of millions of dollars in their opening week. That is genuine institutional validation, and it matters for sentiment. FalconX, a major digital asset prime brokerage, has noted that Hyperliquid is increasingly being viewed not just as a crypto exchange but as a challenger to parts of traditional trading infrastructure. Institutional integrations with providers like Anchorage Digital and Ripple Prime add further credibility.
But the ETF inflows are measured in tens of millions. The Assistance Fund operates at hundreds of millions per quarter. ETF demand reflects investor choices that can be reversed tomorrow. The buyback reflects an accounting consequence of trading volume — it would continue at full pace even if every ETF holder exited overnight, as long as trading activity held up.
The ETF became the headline because it fits a familiar template. The buyback is the part actually setting the price.
So what did the ETF actually do?
The flywheel runs both ways
None of this means the rally is purely artificial — but it does mean the support is highly conditional. The buyback can never exceed what trading volume allows, and crypto trading volume is deeply cyclical. The protocol’s own figures already show the effect in action: quarterly buybacks fell from $316.76 million in Q3 2025 to $255.05 million in Q4, and down again to $192.25 million in Q1 2026. The engine shrank by roughly 40% across two quarters while the token was simultaneously hitting record highs.
Price and flywheel moved in opposite directions — and that gap is the part the institutional-demand story quietly omits. In a genuine crypto drawdown, perpetual-futures volume contracts hard, the buyback contracts with it, and the support the Assistance Fund provides fades at the exact moment holders most need a buyer in the market. Only the upswing of that cycle has been tested at scale.
There is also an unlock schedule to contend with. A large share of HYPE supply has not yet reached the market. As locked tokens enter circulation, the Assistance Fund must absorb steadily more potential selling pressure simply to hold the price flat. A slowdown in volume and an increase in floating supply could arrive simultaneously — and they would compound each other.
What it actually means to buy HYPE at a record high
Prominent voices in the space, including Arthur Hayes, have placed $150 price targets on HYPE by August, and given the mechanics, such targets are internally consistent. The bull case and the bear case are, in essence, the same sentence: HYPE’s price is mechanically tied to Hyperliquid’s trading volume, because volume funds the buyback and the buyback funds the price.
An investor buying HYPE at a record high is, stripped of the narratives around it, taking a leveraged position on whether perpetual-futures volume on a single exchange keeps growing. That is a narrower wager than a broad bet on decentralized finance, and narrower still than owning a general-purpose blockchain. The chart looks like a conclusion. With this token, the market is mostly reading its own reflection.
