SK Hynix labor and management reach preliminary salary agreement: 6.3% pay raise, with 60% of performance bonuses to be issued as stocks.

According to monitoring by TradingBeats (formerly Hyperinsight), address 0x6666...23f5 currently holds 450,000 HYPE long positions on Hyperliquid, with a position value of approximately $32.49 million. Its average entry price is $39.8114, and the current unrealized profit is around $14.58 million. On-chain fund flow data shows that the address’s initial funds entered HyperCore primarily via Circle CCTP-related HyperEVM CoreDepositWallet. The first deposit was made on March 18, 2026, followed by cumulative receipts of about 3.8 million USDC between March 18 and 27, all from the HyperEVM CoreDepositWallet. Subsequently, starting at 02:31 HK time on March 18, 2026, the address built a 10x leveraged HYPE long position from scratch, completed its last position addition on April 7, and has since been inactive (making it impossible to calculate its historical trade win rate). As of press time, the address has paid $950,000 in funding fees for its long positions, ranking third among all HYPE contract long addresses on Hyperliquid by position size.

According to HTX market data, Bitcoin has broken through $70,000, posting an 8.6% gain over the past 24 hours.

According to monitoring by Onchain Lens, a whale has withdrawn 42,460 HYPE tokens from Coinbase Prime, worth approximately $2.93 million. Over the past two weeks, this whale has withdrawn a total of 98,490 HYPE tokens from Coinbase Prime, valued at around $6.11 million.

According to HTX market data, Bitcoin has rebounded above $69,000, currently trading at $69,711. Strategy’s unrealized loss on its Bitcoin holdings has narrowed to 7.53%, roughly $4.77 billion, down from a prior peak of over $10 billion. As of August 17, Strategy holds 840,447 Bitcoin, with a total cost of $63.36 billion and an average cost basis of $75,385 per Bitcoin.

According to Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase stated that SK Hynix may allocate at least $130 billion in additional shareholder returns by 2027. The South Korean chipmaker earlier announced a 40 trillion won (roughly $29 billion) share repurchase plan, and plans to raise the proportion of cumulative free cash flow dedicated to shareholder returns from "no more than 50%" to "at least 50%" between 2025 and 2027. JPMorgan analyst Jay Kwon noted in a report that the key to the 40 trillion won repurchase plan is SK Hynix’s raised shareholder return commitment cap. Under the new policy, the company is projected to deliver "at least 180 trillion won in additional shareholder returns" by 2027, equal to 16% of its current total market capitalization, which is expected to support its stock price following recent declines. Kwon commented: "We believe the worst is behind us, and expect stock sentiment to gradually improve in the medium term, recommending investors to increase their holdings of the stock." He added that the repurchase plan was unveiled earlier than market expectations. SK Hynix’s stock rose as much as 13% Thursday on the Korea Exchange. The company announced it would repurchase and cancel up to 24 million shares, a move marking the largest share cancellation plan in the history of South Korean listed firms. SK Hynix’s gain also lifted the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI), with rival Samsung Electronics’ stock climbing as much as 10%. Market participants believe higher shareholder return expectations could drive a rebound in South Korean memory chip stocks. The memory sector has recently pulled back due to concerns over the sustainability of AI-related investments and competitive pressure from China. Currently, SK Hynix’s stock remains more than 40% below its all-time high set in June.

According to Bitget data, South Korea’s KOSPI index closed 381.41 points higher on Thursday, August 20, notching a 5.89% gain to end at 6852.58 points. Samsung Electronics rose nearly 9%, while SK Hynix jumped more than 13%. Japan’s Nikkei 225 index closed up 890.37 points on the same day, a 1.36% increase, finishing at 66216.79 points.