Bitcoin derivatives are flashing a split personality as bitcoin’s price trades around $84,000 on Sept. 23. Futures open interest is climbing back toward $60 billion, while options open interest has jumped above $50 billion. Calls command 60% of options positions, yet puts account for 58.2% of 24-hour options volume. Meanwhile, billions in contracts are staring …
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A new report from Blackrock and new findings by the Bitcoin Policy Institute show that bitcoin is losing the agentic payment battle in the medium term at least, but the longer-term war is still undecided. The latest paper from Blackrock on “The Machine-Native Economy” essentially omits bitcoin, assigning it only the role of a savings …
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More than $1 billion in reported trading makes Coinbase’s stock tokens look active. For a holder looking to sell, the question is how much the market can absorb now, and at what price, particularly outside US equity hours. A Sept. 23 premarket check found indicative buy and sell routes for about $100,000 of each of …
Money-market mutual funds absorbed approximately 85% of the US government’s latest Treasury-bill surge, giving traditional cash managers the clearest claim to the marginal demand behind the summer issuance wave. The Treasury Department said net bill supply grew by more than $550 billion in July and August, an increase of about 8% in two months. Money …
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Coin Metrics corrected more than 19 months of Bitcoin ETF-related on-chain data, leaving users of its identified-wallet series to reassess any analysis built on the affected history. The Sept. 22 status notice says the correction covers Bitcoin data from Feb. 7, 2025 through Sept. 17, 2026. Coin Metrics listed 35 affected daily series and 25 …
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Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have erased their 2026 flow deficit after a sharp buying revival, even as the top crypto struggles to hold its latest gains. Data from SoSoValue shows that the US-listed funds have attracted more than $1.7 billion in fresh capital this week, with the products drawing $999 million on Sept. 21 and …
Solana has begun rolling out Alpenglow on testnet, moving its planned blockchain consensus overhaul into a public testing environment. The upgrade targets finality of about 150 milliseconds, down from roughly 12.8 seconds under TowerBFT, the system Solana validators currently use to agree on blocks. Alpenglow replaces that consensus layer while leaving the Solana Virtual Machine, …
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In the markets Talos tracked, daily volume in RWA perpetual futures tied to equities, commodities and indices rose from less than $1 billion in January to $18.8 billion during Sept. 3-9. That represented 18.5% of futures volume across those venues. Crypto exchanges built their derivatives businesses around perpetual futures, and the same contract structure now …
SoFi Bank and Mastercard have announced SoFiUSD settlement is live for the bank’s debit and credit card program, moving their March plan into production. The rollout puts a token-based settlement route behind familiar card payments and, according to SoFi, gives participating merchants a way to receive dollars in a bank account without holding the token. …
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Bitcoin’s rally abruptly ended as its price dropped below $84,000, reaching an intraday low of $83,508 shortly after failing to hold above $87,000. Rejection at Key Resistance Bitcoin’s latest rally snapped Wednesday as the cryptocurrency dipped below $84,000 for the first time since Monday. The reversal came just hours after it breached $87,000 for the …
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This month has seen a storm of dormant bitcoin wake up from slumber, and on Sept. 5, a set of 12 distinct block rewards from 2010 were shifted for the first time since they were mined. Moves like these often trigger breathless questions among the community, most prominently: Is Satoshi Nakamoto finally moving his coins? …
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The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has signed an agreement that could eventually put tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs inside Blockchain.com, placing Wall Street assets within reach of more than 44 million confirmed crypto accounts. There’s one fairly large catch: the NYSE digital market they would trade on hasn’t opened. The deal lays out a …
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Earlier this week, the Canadian bitcoin exchange and wallet company Bull Bitcoin explained that customers currently cannot convert their L-BTC back to BTC using the platform. The news traces back to the Liquid Network hack that occurred on Sept. 6, which saw 4,000 BTC siphoned from the protocol. While most of it was returned, the …
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Ethereum could eventually reach $8,600 if it first clears $5,000, according to a long-term chart posted by veteran trader Peter Brandt. With ETH trading well below that threshold, investors have a substantial price gap to watch before his scenario comes into view. Ethereum Faces a $5,000 Hurdle Ethereum investors have a clear threshold to watch …
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Bitcoin ETFs pulled in another $714.75 million on Tuesday, extending their inflow streak to four sessions as bitcoin traded near $86,000. Ether, solana, XRP and ZEC funds also attracted fresh capital, broadening the institutional bid across crypto markets. No Bitcoin Fund Posts an Outflow as Net Assets Climb Above $110B The money kept coming. A …
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