The period of the crypto business being seen as a two-asset city is formally over on the world’s largest derivatives market. On Jan. 15, CME Group introduced plans to launch futures contracts for Cardano (ADA), Chainlink (LINK), and Stellar (XLM) on Feb. 9, pending regulatory assessment. This transfer represents a calculated sign from the Chicago-based…
Bitcoin is now buying and selling round close to $96,000 as spot ETF inflows and choices market positioning exert opposing mechanical forces on price habits. The present price sits simply exterior a variety between roughly $90,000 and $94,000, a band that has continued regardless of intermittent surges and declines in spot demand via US-listed Bitcoin…
The very first thing you study if you spend too lengthy round Bitcoin is that everybody has a chart that “at all times works”, and everybody has a scar from the final time it didn’t. This week’s chart is making the rounds once more, it’s the one which tracks Bitfinex margin longs, and it’s flashing…
Prior to the US market opening this week, Bitcoin is buying and selling across the low $90,000s once more after the unprecedented weekend macro exercise. You can really feel the acquainted shift within the room: much less celebration, extra checking telephones, extra chart screenshots. More persons are asking the identical query in numerous methods: “Are…
When the futures market opened Monday, the screens advised a story that felt backward. The U.S. had just captured Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, in a weekend operation that jolted geopolitics and dominated headlines. And but oil did not spike. It slipped. At the similar time, Bitcoin held its floor, then pushed greater. It traded round…
Bitcoin has spent the previous a number of weeks going nowhere quick, and that isn’t as a result of merchants have run out of opinions. It is as a result of the market is quietly boxed in by wild forces most individuals by no means see. New Binance order-book strain knowledge from CoinGlass exhibits a market held…
Crypto derivatives buying and selling accelerated sharply in 2025 as merchants more and more turned to onchain perpetual futures, pushing month-to-month volumes previous the $1 trillion mark, in line with evaluation from Coinbase researcher David Duong. Key Takeaways: Onchain perpetual futures topped $1T month-to-month quantity as merchants chased leverage in 2025. Decentralized platforms led the…
Forced liquidations in the crypto derivatives market reached about $150 billion in 2025, in line with CoinGlass information. On its face, the determine seems to be like a 12 months of persistent disaster. For many retail merchants, watching worth feeds flip purple grew to become shorthand for chaos. In follow, it captured one thing extra…
Bitcoin’s ETF knowledge is doing that annoying factor the place it seems terrifying in the event you solely learn the headline. Big chunks of ETF patrons are sitting on losses, and each purple stream day will get framed as the begin of a stampede. But in the event you look intently at the numbers, they…
Bitcoin surged $3,000 in an hour on Dec. 17, reclaiming $90,000 as $120 million briefly positions vaporized, then collapsed to $86,000 as $200 million in longs liquidated, finishing a $140 billion market-cap swing in two hours. The motion was pushed by leverage, making it appear that leveraged positions are uncontrolled. However, Glassnode’s information tells a…