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24 May 2026, 04:38

Hedera HBAR tests $0.085 support as trading volume hits $73M

🚨 HBAR rebounds from crucial $0.085 zone with $73M volume. HBAR now trades 84% below its all-time high in 2021. 🧾 Key point: Momentum depends on $HBAR holding above $0.085. Continue Reading: Hedera HBAR tests $0.085 support as trading volume hits $73M The post Hedera HBAR tests $0.085 support as trading volume hits $73M appeared first on COINTURK NEWS .

24 May 2026, 04:21

DeepSeek makes 75% price cut permanent on V4-Pro as AI price war enters new phase

DeepSeek will permanently keep the 75% discount on its flagship V4-Pro model that had been set to expire May 31, the company said Saturday. V4-Pro API output tokens now cost $0.87 per million, down from $3.48 at launch one month ago. DeepSeek announced Saturday that the 75% discount on its flagship V4-Pro model is now permanent, dropping API costs to as low as $0.0035 per million tokens and intensifying a price war with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. The Chinese AI startup had originally set the promotion to expire on May 31, according to its pricing page. Instead, the company said in a statement that V4-Pro API pricing would stay at a quarter of launch rates indefinitely, with costs ranging from 0.025 to 6 yuan ($0.003625 to $0.87) per million tokens depending on usage type. Claude charges 29 times more for the same output token With the new rate structure, the V4-Pro output tokens cost $0.87 per million tokens. Claude Opus 4.7 costs $25 per million tokens. The cost of GPT-5.5 is $30. According to CloudZero, Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro costs $12. Other lower-cost Western LLMs, such as Claude Sonnet ($15) and GPT-4.1 ($8), are 9 times to 17 times more An application generating 100 million output tokens per month would cost roughly $87 on V4-Pro at the new rate, versus $2,500 on Opus 4.7 or $3,000 on GPT-5.5, per MindStudio. As Cryptopolitan earlier reported when V4 launched last month, DeepSeek said the Pro version would initially cost up to 12 times more than the lighter Flash version due to “constraints in high-end compute capacity.” The company added that pricing would fall once Huawei Ascend 950 supernodes shipped in larger quantities in the second half of 2026. The permanent cut arrived months before that target. DeepSeek did not say whether Huawei chips made the cut possible DeepSeek did not disclose whether the permanent price cut was due to the increased supply of Huawei’s Ascend 950 chips. Huawei’s AI chip sales have benefited from US export controls that prevent Nvidia from selling its most advanced semiconductors in China. Separate restrictions on chipmaking equipment have limited Huawei’s ability to scale Ascend production. Huawei is targeting 750,000 AI chip shipments in 2026, per industry estimates, though its total production amounts to roughly 3% to 5% of Nvidia’s combined computing power. Four Chinese chip companies (Huawei Ascend, Cambricon, Hygon Information, and Moore Threads) confirmed their hardware worked with V4-Pro from launch day. The V4 launch already triggered a selloff in Chinese AI stocks In early April when V4 was introduced, the share prices of some Chinese artificial intelligence firms fell on the Hong Kong stock exchange. Zhipu AI declined by about 8%-9% while MiniMax saw a fall of 7%-8%. According to CNBC, Manycore Tech fell by 9%. Stocks of chipmakers rose contrary to the trend. DeepSeek’s pricing strategy has also drawn friction with Western competitors. Anthropic has previously accused the company of “distillation attacks” that improperly learn from Claude’s models, per Engadget. The White House accused China last month of stealing US AI labs’ intellectual property. The Chinese Embassy in Washington rejected those claims. DeepSeek is simultaneously in talks to raise outside funding for the first time, with Tencent and Alibaba among potential investors at a valuation above $20 billion, per Cryptopolitan . “Crypto bots and DeFi agents finally have pricing that works” Agents that execute multi-step tasks autonomously can burn through millions of tokens per session. The daily cost for running an agent such as Claude Opus at a rate of $25 per million output tokens is hundreds of dollars. DeepSeek V4-Pro at $0.87 is under $40. Crypto trading bots, DeFi watch agents, code reviewing processes, and market analysis applications all rely on the inference costs remaining below a threshold where the value of the output is greater than the compute cost. The announcement by DeepSeek about its permanent pricing enables a category of agent applications to be feasible on its platform that are not feasible on Western platforms at the present rate. OpenAI has been lowering its prices throughout the last year. Anthropic released Claude Haiku 4.5 for $1/$5 per million tokens. Google has rolled out Gemini Flash for a $0.30 input price. However, none of them could compete with DeepSeek’s pricing model. The V4-Pro is not a budget model. It has 1.6 trillion parameters, a 1 million token context window, and benchmarks that sit close to GPT-5.4 on math and reasoning tasks, per MindStudio analysis. Don’t just read crypto news. Understand it. Subscribe to our newsletter. It's free .

24 May 2026, 03:29

Bitcoin: The Next Leg Down Could Be Near (Rating Upgrade)

Summary Bitcoin is following historical price cycles, with a likely bear market bottom projected for September or October 2026. BTC's current bear market may see a shallower decline, potentially bottoming around $38k, reflecting increased adoption and ETF demand. A bullish divergence on the weekly RSI, similar to 2022, could signal a compelling long entry point for BTC. Dollar cost averaging into BTC or ETFs like IBIT is favored, while tactical positioning in WNTR is maintained until a bottom is confirmed. It looks like Bitcoin's ( BTC-USD ) price action is playing out similarly to the previous price cycles. Bitcoin's price tends to rally for about three years. This is followed by a bear market that lasts about one year. I pointed out in my December article that Bitcoin likely peaked for this price cycle . This was based on the consistency of the length of each price cycle. The last two price cycles lasted 1,064 days from the price bottom to the peak . The recent price cycle, which peaked in October 2025, lasted approximately the same time from the price bottom to the top. So, that means that the current bear market will probably bottom in September or October of 2026. This would mark about one year from the price peak. Bitcoin's Weekly Chart Bitcoin's (BTC-USD) Weekly Chart w/ RSI & MACD (TradingView) Bitcoin's weekly chart above shows the current price in its 2nd bear flag formation since the peak price of $126k was hit in October 2025. The price did rally from about $60k up to about $83k within the flag formation of this move. Now, it looks like the price is heading back down to the support area of the flag, which is in the low $70s. A weekly close below this level would likely lead to the next leg down in this bear market. However, it is possible that the price rallies off of this support zone with a prolonging of the bear flag formation. There are really only about 4 or 5 months remaining in the current bear market. This is if the current bear market follows the consistent patterns of past price cycles. Of course, there is no guarantee that the current bear market will last for a similar period of time. The price cycles have been relatively consistent so far. The last bear market ended at the end of 2022 after a bullish divergence formed on the weekly chart. This occurred when the price made a lower low. At the same time, the RSI indicator made a higher low. The bearish divergence occurred from June 2022 to November/December 2022. It is possible that a similar bearish divergence occurs again in the bottoming process of this bear market. A bearish divergence would occur in this bear market if Bitcoin's price dropped below $60k, forming a lower low. Then, the RSI would form a higher low. Bitcoin did reach an oversold level when it hit $60k. Bitcoin also reached an oversold level in June 2022 when the price hit about $18k. Back in 2022, Bitcoin proceeded to drop to about $15k, making a lower low. At the same time, the RSI formed a higher low just above the oversold area. It looks highly probable that Bitcoin's price and the RSI form a similar bullish divergence. If it does, it would be a good time to buy Bitcoin, in my opinion. This would likely mark the bottom of the current bear market. Bullish Divergence from 2022 Bitcoin's (BTC-USD) Weekly Chart Highlighting the 2022 Bottom w/ RSI & MACD (Trading View) Bitcoin's weekly chart above provides a better view of the 2022 bullish divergence. See how the price dropped from $18k to $15k while the RSI made a higher low. The MACD also made a higher low during that time, which reinforced the bullish divergence. Investors should watch for a possible similar setup over the next few months. While I don't know how low bitcoin's price may go. My educated guess is that it could drop to about $38k. This would be a 70% decline from the peak price of $126k. The reason why I picked 70% is that each price cycle's bear market tends to be shallower than the previous one. The last price cycle bottomed after a 78% drop. The cycle before that suffered an approximate 85% decline. So, this price cycle will probably experience a drop that is less than the 78% drop from the previous cycle. The reason for the shallower declines could be due to more widespread demand for bitcoin as an investment as time goes on. Now, the adoption of bitcoin ETFs makes participating in crypto investing easy for investors, pushing demand higher. Strategy for the Bottoming Process Bitcoin has proven to be a strong asset so far over the long term. There are no guarantees that this will continue, but bitcoin has increased significantly in value since its inception in 2009. The long-term bull case is that it has a finite supply of 21 million coins that will ever be mined. Investor demand pushes the price up over the long term. Investors gave the name 'digital gold' to Bitcoin. As long as investors give bitcoin value as a store of value (similar to gold), the demand should put upward pressure on the price over time. With that in mind, a simple strategy for the next few months of a bitcoin bottoming process can involve dollar cost averaging. Investors can buy bitcoin every week or every month to build a position at prices that are much lower than the all-time high. There is no guesswork involved. This strategy takes emotion out of trying to buy at the exact bottom, which could be difficult. We may not get the bullish divergence that I think may happen. Another option is to dollar cost average into a bitcoin ETF such as iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF ( IBIT ), which I last wrote about back in February 2026 . More daring investors might consider building a position into Strategy ( MSTR ), which is highly levered to Bitcoin. I have actually been holding the YieldMax MSTR Short Option Income Strategy ETF ( WNTR ). The reason for holding WNTR during bitcoin's bear market is due to the ETF's high yield and weekly distributions and its bearish bitcoin bias. I plan on switching my WNTR position to a long-bitcoin position when I am comfortable that a likely bottom is near or here. I will provide an updated article when I believe the bottom is in.

24 May 2026, 03:00

$323B stablecoin ATH meets Ethereum staking peak – Here’s the Q2 correlation to watch!

Stablecoin liquidity surge meets ETH on-chain strength - Is a new bullish correlation forming this cycle?

24 May 2026, 02:00

EDGE price prediction – Analyzing why the altcoin’s stay above $1.1 is at risk

Weak trading volumes in May might make a range breakout less likely.

23 May 2026, 22:15

Elliott Wave Theory Reveals Crypto Is Gearing Up For Its “Most Powerful Phase Yet”

The crypto market may be on the verge of its most explosive macro growth phase yet, according to a prominent market strategist who points to a classic technical analysis framework to forecast an unstoppable Bitcoin rally. Jordi Visser, drawing on Elliott Wave theory, stated that the crypto market is poised for an unprecedented surge. Rooted