Stablecoin-margined XRP open interest on Binance fell to about $186 million on July 31, its lowest level since April 2025, according to CryptoQuant. Bybit held roughly $229 million in the same contract type, about $43 million more than Binance. XRP trades near $1.03, putting the token roughly 3% above the $1 level that has become […]
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Its Aug. 4 filing showed $93.522 billion in June cash, but unchanged endpoints cannot rule out intra-period transactions.
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A Bitcoin holder who wants less downside exposure today usually sells the asset or shorts a perpetual futures contract, taking on funding costs and liquidation risk. On-chain options offer a third path consisting of paying a fixed premium, keeping the Bitcoin, and handing the crash risk to whoever is willing to price it. Crypto built […]
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Commission review puts QBTC’s conditional approval at risk while an Aug. 24 statement deadline opens the next round.
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A 500,000-share-equivalent held put appeared in Q2, but the filing cannot reveal the bank’s net options exposure or motive.
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New keys, saved histories, closed margin loans and an Aug. 28 opt-out boundary precede the estimated cutover.
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The July 28 futures snapshot shows a split reset, with trader motives and broader bullish confirmation still unresolved.
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Bitcoin enters the weekend near $62,900, less than 1% above the July 31 intraday low, and Deribit has already settled roughly $9.6 billion in monthly Bitcoin options. The venue settles monthly contracts at 08:00 UTC on the last Friday of each month, and live expiry data placed July’s Bitcoin notional near $9.7 billion. The immediate […]
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At 4:05 pm in New York, a large tech company releases earnings. The main stock session has ended, executives begin their conference call, and billions of dollars start shifting through every instrument connected to the company. Shares move across extended-hours venues, options desks recalculate volatility, index futures absorb the broader reaction, and investors in Asia […]
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Takata's 1.25% bid failed, while decision-day derivatives showed no active leverage break despite the measurable squeeze setup.
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The order-flow pattern stood out across six events, while two observations still overlapped ordinary-market conditions.
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Open orders will be canceled and final positions settled against contract-specific 30-minute indexes at 12:00 UTC.
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US spot Bitcoin ETFs took in roughly $999 million over seven straight days of inflows from July 14 to July 22, according to data from Farside Investors. Four straight outflow days followed, pulling about $526 million back out through July 28. Across the broader window from May 29 to July 28, daily totals imply roughly […]
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ETF outflows, softer perpetual buying and stagnant on-chain capital leave long-term holders carrying the immediate support test.
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XRP trades near $1.06, down 2.9% over 24 hours and 8.6% over the past week, as CoinGlass shows $2.43 billion in XRP open interest, $2.47 billion in 24-hour futures volume, and just $361 million in spot volume. Futures turnover is running roughly 6.85 times spot turnover, and forced liquidations have already erased $9.51 million in […]
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The new network powers Ondo's recently-launched perpetual futures platform and will eventually support trading across onchain financial assets.
A later snapshot showed open interest down 20.29% while Trade.xyz investigated the price inputs submitted to HyperCore.
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Bitcoin traders have spent the past month reducing protection against a price decline while the Fed has made its next decision harder to predict. The Bitcoin options put-to-call open-interest ratio has fallen to approximately 0.52 from 0.76 in late June, meaning about 52 put contracts remain open for every 100 calls. Meanwhile, Fed Funds futures […]
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The new complaint alleges an internal desk exploited customer data, while BitMEX says the case has no basis.
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Traders spent most of July with a pretty good explanation for why Bitcoin wouldn't move. A dense cluster of options contracts had the price boxed in, they argued, because the dealers who sold those contracts were buying every dip and selling every rally to keep their own books balanced. Clear the contracts away, and Bitcoin […]
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Coinbase began offering US perpetual-style futures on its CFTC-regulated derivatives exchange, starting with nano Bitcoin and Ethereum contracts that track spot prices, carry embedded leverage, and trade around the clock. This is a financial product that's responsible for most of the crypto leverage in the world, and it's now crossed into the US market. Aside […]
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Two Wall Street trading desks can hold economically similar exposure to Bitcoin and still pay materially different amounts to keep that exposure open. That's not because one desk made a better market call, but because the regulated products carrying the positions are inside collateral systems that don't always recognize them as parts of the same […]
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For most of the month, traders had a pretty good explanation for Bitcoin's refusal to budge. A dense cluster of options contracts, they argued, was holding the price in a cage between $60,000 and $65,000, with dealers buying dips and selling rallies to stay hedged. Friday's expiry cleared roughly $1.2 billion of that exposure, and […]
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Spain’s second World Cup title settled the largest sports-related winner markets yet on Polymarket and Kalshi, closing a tournament that brought prediction trading closer to the center of the global sports-betting business. Available data from the two leading platforms show that they recorded about $5.57 billion in cumulative volume on contracts tied to the tournament […]
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XRP open interest is above $2.4 billion, about $125 million up over the last week, as traders rebuilt derivatives exposure beneath the token’s next price barrier. XRP trades near $1.13, up 1.5% over 48 hours, with CoinGlass recording $1.98 billion in futures volume, $274 million in spot volume, and $2.53 million in liquidations. CoinGecko measured […]
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The headline figure is gross notional for one capped spread, while $72,500 touch odds stood at just 4.1%.
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ANJ cited Similarweb estimates after operator-level controls were circumvented in practice while the platform's live odds remained visible.
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The Hyperliquid account closed 1,897.74 BTC before its recorded exit trades reached the listed $61,605 marker.
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Trump Media is turning Truth Social posts into a feed for traders, and prediction markets now face a timing problem. The issue is what happens after a post becomes public but before most users can see, read, and act on it. On July 17, the Financial Times reported that Trump Media discussed charging traders up […]
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