Arthur Hayes says his firm Maelstrom sold several altcoin positions, including HYPE, NEAR and WLD, because the artificial-intelligence trade may be approaching a peak and could pressure crypto liquidity in the near term. In a Cointelegraph Markets Outlook interview, the BitMEX co-founder argued that AI-related capital demand has absorbed liquidity that might otherwise have flowed into Bitcoin and higher-beta crypto assets. WuBlockchain summarized the interview by saying Hayes had sold HYPE, NEAR, WLD and ZEC while keeping Bitcoin and Ethereum exposure.