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The narrower net short came from faster short reductions, not an increase in aggregate longs or evidence of fresh spot buying.
The contracts track the CME CF Bitcoin Volatility Index and let institutions express a pure view on four-week BTC turbulence without picking a direction, broadening the regulated crypto hedging…
The bounce is shallow and the $60K level is the trip-wire: a break there likely cascades liquidations toward $54K, while BTC's record futures OI signals the bearish side hasn't crowded yet.
With 24/7 crypto futures going live May 29, the CME Bitcoin gap that defined every weekend for years is being retired — and a different kind of dislocation risk may take its place.
CME's shift to round-the-clock futures trading removes a structural inefficiency institutional desks have arbitraged for years — yet $30B of IBIT options open interest still dwarfs CME's crypto book.
The mean rate across exchanges is back in positive territory after a short-biased April — a directional shift, but a modest one, and still well below the euphoria thresholds that historically…
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