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Story: Hyperliquid’s HYPE Token Faces 33% Drop Risk as Hayes Targets $150

By Julie Binoche

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Arthur Hayes Is Watching This Closely. What makes the setup more interesting — and higher stakes — is who's sitting on the other side of…

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ZCash Is Flashing the Same Warnings. HYPE isn't the only asset Martinez is worried about. ZCash has its own problems right now.

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What Traders Are Bracing For. Markets are rarely clean. HYPE consolidating around $56 feels like a coiled spring — it can break…

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HYPE has had a wild 2026. The token is up 130% for the year and tacked on another 55% in just the past week — but crypto analyst Ali Martinez thinks the easy money might be…

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Martinez posted his concerns on X, pointing to a cluster of technical sell signals that, taken together, have a pretty ugly historical track record.

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Not a comfortable place to be holding a leveraged long.

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But Martinez's signals don't care about anyone's targets. If the $59–$60 zone holds as resistance, Hayes' HYPE position faces a rough near-term stretch before any $150 scenario…

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The resistance zones identified by Martinez could be a decisive test for those investments, and observers aren't shy about saying so.

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After a weekly surge of over 40%, ZCash is closing in on a resistance zone between $700 and $730 — a level that, per Martinez, previously led to a major pullback back in November.

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More context: Hyperliquid Short Seller Sits on $22M Loss as HYPE Nears All-Time High

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That's a potential 46% drop from the top of the resistance band. Not a small correction.

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And the parallel between HYPE and ZCash isn't lost on anyone watching both charts. Two assets, both with significant Hayes exposure, both approaching critical resistance at…

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For Hayes specifically, that's a complicated spot. His $10,000 ZCash target implies he's got a long runway in mind, but the near-term technical picture is murky at best.

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Markets are rarely clean. HYPE consolidating around $56 feels like a coiled spring — it can break either way, and the resistance zone at $59–$60 is the obvious trigger point.

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The broader context matters too. Stablecoin adoption and on-chain derivatives volume across major platforms have grown sharply, meaning more capital is sitting in perpetuals and…

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