Bitcoin's futures market saw a significant 19.5% drop in Open Interest from $26 billion to $20.89 billion in June, outpacing the 11.4% price decline. This suggests traders are reducing leveraged positions, leading to a healthier market structure with less speculative risk. The shift indicates that future price moves may rely more on spot demand rather than futures speculation. Traders are watching if Bitcoin can rise without a sharp increase in futures exposure, which would confirm stronger spot market support.
In a three-hour span ending Oct. 30, $515.2 million in cryptocurrency was moved in five large transfers, with $370.8 million flowing into exchanges and $144.4 million moving out. The largest single transfer was $261.9 million USDC sent to Coinbase fr...
On October 30, XRP experienced the largest decline in open interest among five major crypto perpetual futures, dropping 12.31% to $329.1 million. Bitcoin maintained the highest positive funding rate at 0.0100% every eight hours, equivalent to 10.9% a...
Aave froze its v3 and v4 markets after a Binance Ethereum hot wallet sent large amounts of ETH and ERC-20 tokens to an exploiter address, halting new supply and borrow positions to contain damage. This incident triggered a bearish reaction across the...
Ledger CTO Charles Guillemet highlighted two recent cryptographic breakthroughs that could pose future risks to Bitcoin's security. One involves a new subexponential algorithm that might theoretically solve elliptic-curve cryptography problems more e...
Bitcoin is on track for its second consecutive negative October, down about 8.4% as of late October 2026, trading near $76,000. This breaks a long-standing seasonal trend where October usually sees gains, with an average 19% rise since 2013. The pric...
