Bitcoin Rips Toward $70K as $1.3B Short Squeeze Erupts
Bitcoin raced to $69,749 on Aug. 19 as falling Treasury yields and a cascade of forced short liquidations turned weeks of quiet trading into a sudden run toward $70,000. The…
BitMEX the End of an Era
On my first day, I stood in front of a shark tank while a crypto price ticker snaked along the ceiling of the entire office, and wondered where I had…
VanEck: Bitcoin’s Summer Lull Masks a Tightening Supply Base
Bitcoin Magazine VanEck: Bitcoin’s Summer Lull Masks a Tightening Supply Base Bitcoin spent the past month in a holding pattern around $63,700, and VanEck’s latest Bitcoin ChainCheck reads the setup…
CME Puts Dominate Bitcoin Options as Traders Bet Against $60K Floor
Bitcoin’s derivatives markets delivered a pointed message this weekend: the $60,000 level is not just a psychological line in the sand; it is the number the options market has been…
No More Venue Hopping: Kraken Pro Adds US Perpetual Futures for Eligible Clients
Kraken just handed eligible U.S. crypto traders access to perpetual futures, bringing one of the industry’s most heavily used trading tools onto a CFTC-licensed venue through Kraken Pro. The Cheyenne,…
Binance Grabs 60% of SpaceX Derivatives Market With $5.6B in Daily Volume
Binance disclosed that it now controls more than 60% of all SpaceX derivatives trading across centralized and decentralized exchanges, the company said Friday, after recording over $5.6 billion in SPCXUSDT…
Bitcoin Futures Hit $42.6B Across 11 Exchanges — Here Is What Open Interest Signals for June
Bitcoin’s derivatives markets are pricing in a significant move as $40 billion in options open interest and another $40 billion-plus in futures contracts sit across major exchanges while the leading…
NEAR Protocol Jumps 54% Weekly as Short Sellers Cover and AI Rotation Accelerates
NEAR Protocol traded around $2.41 Sunday, up roughly 54% over seven days and 13% in the past 24 hours, as a short squeeze, artificial intelligence (AI)-sector rotation, and a chain…
Bitcoin’s May Rally Toward $80K Ignites Fastest BTC Perpetual Futures Open Interest Growth of 2026
Bitcoin’s push toward $80,000 earlier this month has sparked the fastest growth in BTC perpetual futures open interest recorded so far in 2026, with Binance capturing the largest share of…
VanEck Flags Dual Bullish Signals for Bitcoin as Funding Turns Negative, Hash Rate Slips
Bitcoin Magazine VanEck Flags Dual Bullish Signals for Bitcoin as Funding Turns Negative, Hash Rate Slips Bitcoin’s latest onchain and derivatives data point to a constructive setup, with VanEck highlighting…