BTC, ETH options expire at $7.5B as max pain drags below spot
The 84,000 BTC and 639,000 ETH contracts that expired May 29 cleared with bearish put-call ratios and max-pain levels under current price — June OI now carries 40% of the book.
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The 84,000 BTC and 639,000 ETH contracts that expired May 29 cleared with bearish put-call ratios and max-pain levels under current price — June OI now carries 40% of the book.
The spread between the two perpetual preferreds is doing the talking: STRC's cash coverage just collapsed to roughly six months of dividend obligations while Strive's SATA stays pinned to $100 with a…
Ventuals, the platform offering pre-IPO perpetual contracts on Hyperliquid, has announced it will compensate traders…
Whale and dolphin balances are flashing bear-market structure while long-term holders sit at peak supply, shifting the marginal buyer burden onto ETFs and a thinner retail bid.
Paxos has secured registration with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as a clearing and settlement agency —…
The <$10-per-address framing is the procedural hook, not the substance: a default win would produce a quiet-title weapon, not Bitcoin's private keys — and the Patoshi-pattern wallets tied to Satoshi…
Premium paid versus premium received gives a cleaner read on sentiment than raw options volume — call buyers chasing upside and put sellers underwriting risk tell different stories about the regime.
Jeff Dorman says Strategy raised $2B in stock to ease default fears, then used the cash to buy back 2029 bonds rather than fund the ~$1.5B annual preferred dividend — and a forced seller may emerge…
Six large-cap tokens have already walked through their full investor unlocks — Optimism is the next notable name to cross the line, with its final investor tranche due May 31, 2026.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has granted Paxos, a blockchain-native financial infrastructure company…
932 $BTC (≈68.7M) moved from #Binance to #Ceffu.
Survivors will face violent price swings as the sector consolidates the way every prior capital-intensive wave has, with fresh entrants replacing the casualties.
NYSE parent ICE already works with OKX on oil perps and has a Polymarket stake — Sprecher's open framing of the talks reframes the lobbying as market-entry prep rather than a regulatory ambush.
The SEC has granted Paxos approval to operate as the first blockchain-native clearing agency in the United States…
OKX has confirmed a $53 million investment to acquire a 20% stake in Coinone, one of South Korea's established licensed…
Ethereum's largest holders are making a decisive move against the trend. Wallets holding at least 100,000 ETH have…
Spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $229 million in net outflows on May 28, extending a relentless nine-day streak of…
The 24-hour rebound broke a run of lower lows, yet XRP remains pinned below the $1.40 and $1.65 resistance zones that have rejected every rally this year — the larger triangle is still the trade.
Bitcoin and ether barely budged while global equities printed all-time highs and Brent crude had its worst month since March 2020 — institutional buyers have rotated from macro headlines to…
Long-term holder balance just printed a record 15.8M BTC, but CryptoQuant reads that as thin turnover — not conviction — as short-term supply drops 2.2M and ETF flows fade.