Kraken launches USD-settled BTC, ETH options for global traders
The pitch isn't stealing share from Deribit or CME. It's that crypto options is an underpenetrated segment and product design, not demand, has been the bottleneck.
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The pitch isn't stealing share from Deribit or CME. It's that crypto options is an underpenetrated segment and product design, not demand, has been the bottleneck.
The teaser lands a week after Strategy disclosed its latest purchase, reinforcing the firm's status as the largest corporate BTC holder and the price-insensitive bid under the market.
The setup is a fatigue rally, not a reversal: BTC still has to absorb supply from both early and recent buyers before $4.5B of call open interest between $70K and $80K comes back into play.
2K $BTC (≈129.2M) moved from unknown wallet to unknown wallet.
2.2K $BTC (≈145.2M) moved from unknown wallet to unknown wallet.
Heath Tarbert's core argument rests on network effects that $73B in circulation and 34-chain native support make structurally difficult for the 140-company Open USD consortium to replicate quickly.
Cheaper gasoline gave BTC a bid into a stacked Tuesday: CPI at 8:30 ET and Fed Chair Warsh's House testimony 90 minutes later, where his read of the print will likely move markets more than the…
Aggregate long exposure on Hyperliquid's top-trader cohort has now exceeded levels seen during the November push toward $83K, a setup that historically precedes either a clean continuation or a sharp…
The $1.10 area has flipped to resistance and open interest is fading, so the next leg hinges on whether the psychologically important $1.00 zone holds or breaks.
A single address holds a hyper-leveraged $107M long with unrealized PnL of $1, meaning the position is a hair from being force-closed and could trigger outsized spot volatility on either side.
Private credit was sold as the steady-yielding answer to bank loans, but a slow unwind is testing whether the shadow book was ever actually priced.
Berkshire's chairman told CNBC that truly attractive opportunities arrive once every few years, and that a financial industry incentivized to feed gamblers makes the wait longer.
CoinGecko's top 10 sits unchanged as of 09:00 UTC on 19 Jul 2026, with no tokens crossing the boundary in either…
KOSPI's outsize weighting in Samsung and SK Hynix has turned it into a proxy for AI infrastructure demand. When global investors want to read the AI cycle in real time, they now watch Seoul.
Funding the bet with fresh BTC, not stablecoins, is the part worth watching: whales rotating spot bitcoin into 20x ether perps is a directional tilt, not a hedge.
A single address stacking a nine-figure leveraged long through chop is a signal worth watching. The $63,123 liquidation price sets the line in the sand for the trade.
2.2K $BTC (≈145.5M) moved from unknown wallet to unknown wallet.
Three of the last three midterm years printed their equity top in August or September after a shallow June dip and a July rally, a pattern the S&P looks on track to repeat heading into late Q3.
The Hyperliquid co-founder argues the AI boom is pulling top founders away from on-chain finance, just as the sector is being rebuilt from first principles.
191.2M $USDC (≈191.3M) moved from Unknown Whale 1 to #Aave.