Bitcoin Tops $81K as Options Desks Flip to Long-Bias on Breakout
A decisive break above $80K is set to flip BTC's risk reversal positive — the first signal options markets have shifted from pricing fear of a drop to pricing demand for upside.
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A decisive break above $80K is set to flip BTC's risk reversal positive — the first signal options markets have shifted from pricing fear of a drop to pricing demand for upside.
The breakdown was real but the lack of follow-through is the story — XRP is now pinned between $1.38 support and $1.41 resistance with neither side in control, and the next $0.04 of price will likely…
Tokenized $STRC — Strategy's perpetual preferred stock carrying an 11.5% annual dividend — is now live on Ethereum, BNB…
GSR hasn't taken an external strategic investor since founding in 2013 — and the back-to-back trades with SC Ventures' Libeara tokenization arm point to a deeper bid on institutional crypto plumbing.
Bitcoin has pushed back above $80,000, but the on-chain picture tells a more cautious story: network activity has…
A dense morning across markets — Western Union's USDP stablecoin goes live on Solana, Tom Lee's Bitmine adds a nine-figure ETH position, and the CLARITY Act clears a key stablecoin-yield hurdle as…
Bitmine has now staked 4.55M ETH — nearly 88% of its total holdings — extending one of the largest corporate ETH treasury positions on public record.
The real signal isn't the failed breakout — it's that Western desks are now carrying the rally alone, with U.S. ETFs swinging to $783M of weekly outflows and Asia's ETFs effectively dormant.
Telegram is replacing the TON Foundation as the ecosystem's primary driver — and staking itself as the chain's biggest validator, with technical upgrades and developer tooling queued for the next 2–3…
The counter-suit, filed in Florida, claims the TRON founder secretly shorted $WLFI while publicly promoting it — the latest escalation in a two-way legal fight between the Trump-family project and…
The 200-country remittance giant just chose Solana for its US bank-issued dollar — not for retail, but to settle and clear across its own agent network, with consumer payouts following in 2026.
The accusation from one of crypto's most-watched on-chain investigators puts a top DEX by volume in the crosshairs — and signals a wider enforcement net may be forming.
IB1T has accumulated roughly 14,200 BTC since its March 2025 launch — the fastest pace BlackRock's spot BTC franchise has scaled outside the US.
The bank already issues its own spot Bitcoin ETP — now the strategy head is publicly framing BTC as a standard sleeve inside diversified portfolios, a posture that pulls wirehouse advisors toward the…
Saylor frames Bitcoin as the absorbing asset for private-credit liquidity now searching for a home — the same supply-shock thesis he has been running on since the first Strategy buy.
Tokyo's listing review and Moscow's first dedicated crypto tax code land the same week, while Colombia's largest pension fund opens a Bitcoin book via BlackRock's IBIT.
The bipartisan duo is closing the door on further bank-lobby rewrites of the yield language — but the fight moves to the House, where banking pressure on the compromise is far from over.
Prediction markets are now pricing a 64% probability that President Trump signs comprehensive crypto market structure…
A wave of short liquidations swept crypto markets over the past 60 minutes, with $150 million in short positions…
Senate Banking Committee member Tim Scott publicly stated that Congress is making 'real progress' on crypto market…