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Bitcoin options traders are dropping their hedges going into the Fed meeting
The put/call ratio has fallen to about 0.52 from 0.76 in late June, and one-week downside protection has collapsed in price. The options market is positioned for a quiet week that contains an FOMC decision.
Ballooning U.S. debt sends investors to bitcoin, gold to shelter from dollar devaluation
Your day-ahead look for July 27, 2026
Crypto steadies as Iran-U.S. pause sends oil tumbling, lifts risk assets
Brent crude plunged 7% after the U.S. and Iran paused Strait of Hormuz strikes, lifting equities and DeFi tokens while bitcoin held near $65,000 ahead of a pivotal Fed decision Wednesday.
Live updates: Bitcoin gives up early gains, holds near $65,000 as AI stocks skid
CoinEx's Jeff Ko sees bitcoin staying range-bound near $65,000 while retreating oil, a 4.7% 10-year yield and a week of mega-cap earnings set the tone.
Crypto is the canary in the coal mine for the quantum computing threat, experts say
As estimates for “Q-Day” move closer, experts warn that crypto’s slow governance, not its cryptography, may be the biggest obstacle to defending against quantum attacks.
Bitcoin is back above $65,000 as U.S. and Iran hold fire. Oil drops 5%
ETH outperforms BTC, hinting at potential altcoin rally, as the U.S. and Iran hold fire and oil drops.
Democratizing weather derivatives through tokenization could be crypto's most important real-world use case
Main Street, which faces the most significant climate-related financial risk, currently lacks an avenue to hedge weather-related risks, argues CoinDesk’s Omkar Godbole.
Crypto's institutional influx has killed the memecoin craze
Your day-ahead look for July 24, 2026
A $5 billion cluster has formed in bitcoin options. It tells a bullish story
Bitcoin's $70,000 and $72,000 call strikes on Deribit have accumulated nearly $5 billion in open interest, with calls outnumbering puts by a significant margin.
