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Key takeaways:Diagonal and butterfly spreads benefit from BTC near $160,000.$200,000 year-end call options imply less than 3% chance of profit.Bitcoin (BTC) traders are gearing up for the year-end $8.8 billion options expiry, scheduled for Dec. 26 at 8:00 am UTC. More than $1 billion in Bitcoin options would become active if the price surpasses $200,000. But does that signal that traders are expecting a 72% rally?Calls dominate, but bears comfortable with Bitcoin below $120KCurrently, total open interest for call (buy) options stands at $6.45 billion, while put (sell) options trail at $2.36 billion. This data indicates a clear advantage for…
On Friday afternoon, after powering up to 970 exahash per second (EH/s) the day prior, Bitcoin’s computational force cranked even further, hitting 976 EH/s—just 24 EH/s shy of the colossal 1 zettahash per second (ZH/s) threshold. Bitcoin’s Mining Might Continues to Flex The hashrate kept pushing upward and, a mere ten blocks before the network’s […]
Stablecoin rails are on pace to challenge incumbent cross-border networks by 2026, as monthly on-chain dollar settlement already runs in the trillions and merchant access widens through mainstream processors.Per RWA.xyz’s live dashboard, stablecoins moved about $3.3 trillion on chain in July, with roughly 39.7 million monthly active addresses, while total stablecoin value sits near $259 billion.The crossover case rests on three levers. First, payments access is improving. Stripe said it has reintroduced crypto payments, starting with USDC on Solana, Ethereum, and Polygon, putting stablecoins back into standard checkout flows with further feature rollouts in 2025.Coinbase and PayPal followed by waiving fees…
Key takeaways:XRP (XRP) has risen by over 10% since Thursday, when Ripple and the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) agreed to dismiss their legal appeals against one another. XRP/USD daily price chart. Source: TradingViewXRP futures volume surpasses SolanaXRP futures trading volume spiked over 200% in the past 24 hours to $12.4 billion, overtaking Solana’s $9.6 billion, according to onchain data resource Glassnode. XRP vs other cryptocurrencies’ futures data as of Friday. Source: GlassnodeRising futures volume often reflects heightened trader interest and speculative positioning, especially after major news events. In XRP’s case, it’s the end of the long-running SEC vs…
SharpLink Gaming has announced a $200 million capital raise aimed at expanding its Ethereum treasury. As ETH solidifies its role as programmable money and a yield-bearing asset through staking, SharpLink is betting big on its long-term potential. The raise positions the company among a rising class of corporates reshaping capital strategy around blockchain-native assets. Why SharpLink Is Going All-In On Ethereum In an X post, SharpLink Gaming shared an update stating that the company has secured $200 million capital raise through a direct offering priced at $19.50 per share, and has been backed by four global institutional investors. According to…
Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm’s legal defense fund is seeing an influx of donations as the software creator’s defense team preps for a possible retrial on charges of money laundering and sanctions violations. The Ethereum Foundation on Thursday said it will match up to $500,000 in donations to Storm’s defense fund.Source: Ethereum The jury in Storm’s trial was deadlocked — unable to reach a unanimous verdict — on two of the three counts against him, finding the developer guilty of running an unlicensed money transmitter.“Mistrials by hung juries do not trigger double jeopardy, so the defendant can be tried again,”…
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While everyone is staring in amazement on December 1st, 12pm UTC anticipating the Eth 2.0 Beaconchain genesis, within the JavaScript team we quietly prepared our own little genesis release in the shadows. Being very much around the good ol’ Eth 1.0 chain we are nevertheless very much excited on this too. 😀 Some background story: the EthereumJS ecosystem around the VM consists of a very modular set of libraries (vm, blockchain, merkle-patricia-tree, tx,…), each encapsulating its own dedicated set of functionality. While this is great for the user, it turned out to be not so great for development since it…
Key Takeaways DOGE may be on the verge of a major breakout, with on-chain indicators and sentiment showing early signs of a potential bull run—despite past exits by long-term holders. As the weekend approaches, Dogecoin [DOGE] appears to be taking center stage among memecoins, with investor sentiment shifting in its favor. The asset has climbed 8.98% in the past day, bringing its weekly gain to 30.37%, at press time. Analysis shows that rising demand and key on-chain metrics have played crucial roles in this surge. AMBCrypto’s latest analysis explores why DOGE may outperform other memecoins and even go parabolic this…
The know-your-customer (KYC) threat isn’t coming. It’s already here, and it didn’t arrive through a nationwide ban or an emergency executive order. It quietly showed up with a checkbox and a Terms of Service agreement. While the influencers make noise about CBDCs and paper bitcoin, the real control system has already been deployed: Know Your Customer. Not dramatic. Not dystopian. Just regulated, normalized and accepted. But compliance isn’t neutral. It’s the infrastructure of financial control, and if you’re still handing over your ID to stack sats, you’re not buying freedom. You’re financing your own cage. The Real Attack Vector from…