On Friday, bitcoin BTC$71,459.30 options or derivative contracts worth billions will expire on crypto exchange Deribit. Traders might want to note that the dynamics of the expiry are such that BTC’s market price could be lifted toward a very specific point: $75,000. Deribit, the world’s largest crypto options exchange, will settle bitcoin options contracts worth…
The Iran war has set oil on fire and crypto exchanges are racing to offer 24/7 trading to fill tradfi gaps, with most copying decentralized giant Hyperliquid’s perpetual-futures play. Crypto market-making giant Wintermute is taking a different approach. On Tuesday, its derivatives unit, Wintermute Asia, launched over-the-counter (OTC) trading in WTI crude oil contracts for…
Prediction markets are exciting, but they’re not reliable wealth builders for retail users. Research by Citizens shows that retail prediction market users are losing more money than legal sports bettors, with the sharpest traders and market makers capturing returns on the other side of their flow which. The research note also reveals the platforms are…
XRP is holding near $1.41 after a steady session, but price is stuck in a tight range, with neither buyers nor sellers taking control. The longer it stays compressed between support and resistance, the more likely a sharper move becomes. News Background XRP traded in line with the broader crypto market, with no major token-specific…
Some worry bitcoin BTC$70,725.91 could still see a deeper sell-off, but one key indicator suggests the bottom may already be behind us. That indicator is the 30-day implied volatility, which is an options-based measure of expected price turbulence over four weeks. The widely-tracked 30-day implied volatility indices like Deribit’s DVOL and Volmex’s BVIV surged to…
Bitcoin BTC$70,596.24 slipped back toward $69,000 on Tuesday morning as a broader pullback in equities spilled over into crypto markets. After trading near $71,000 earlier in the session, BTC fell to around $69,600 in the early U.S. hours, tracking a broader reversal in risk assets. Ether (ETH), Solana (SOL) and XRP (XRP) were also down…
Crypto has gone mainstream as a financial asset class and TradFi institutions now feel obligated to dip their toes into the space, if only to show their existing clients that they aren’t afraid to handle innovative technologies. The problem, for some of them, is that staking — one of crypto’s most basic primitives — is…
NEW YORK — BNY CEO Robin Vince said the next phase of crypto adoption will depend on large financial institutions, arguing that banks are positioned to connect digital assets with the broader financial system. “We can act as a very effective bridge between the traditional finance and the digital finance ecosystems,” Vince said during a…
A down day in crypto became slightly less so in the minutes since U.S. stocks closed for the session. According to Israeli Channel 12, a one-month ceasefire could soon be announced as part of a package being negotiated by White House envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. Other terms of the deal reportedly include a…
Robinhood’s (HOOD) board has approved a new $1.5 billion share repurchase program, according to an 8-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. It adds more than $1.1 billion to existing buyback capacity. The company said it expects to carry out the plan over about three years starting in the first quarter of 2026,…
