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Bitcoin slips below $88,000 as traders brace for $28.5 billion Deribit options expiry
Crypto continues to lose ground ahead of this week's record options expiration, while defensive positioning and thinning liquidity suggest caution into 2026.
Crypto prices again muted as gold surges to new record, U.S. stocks advance
Bitcoin for the moment was unable to hold the $90,000 level reached prior to the U.S. market open.
ETHZilla sells $74.5 million of ether in effort to trim debt load
This is the company's second sale of part of its ETH treasury, following a $40 million sale in October to fund share repurchases.
CME loses top spot to Binance in bitcoin futures open interest as institutional demand wanes
Behind the move is a sharp narrowing in the profitability of the basis trade, in which traders attempt to capture a spread by buying spot bitcoin while selling BTC futures.
Hut 8’s AI data center deal is bigger than meets the eye: Benchmark lifts price target to $85
Shares of the bitcoin miner jumped higher last week on its $7 billion pact with Google-backed Fluidstack.
Aptos Gains 4.5% to $1.63, outpacing broader crypto market
The APT token has support at $1.59 and resistance at $1.65.
Strategy pauses bitcoin buys, boosting cash reserve by $748 million last week
Led by Executive Chairman Michael Saylor, the company raised the funds entirely by sales of common stock.
Bitcoin reclaims $90,000, but risk of U.S. trading day awaits
Futures open interest rose steadily as BTC pushed higher, climbing toward $60 billion across major venues.
Bitcoin isn’t under quantum threat yet, but upgrade could take 5-10 years
Even if quantum machines capable of breaking Bitcoin’s cryptography are decades away, the work required to update software, infrastructure and user behavior would be measured in years, not months.
Fed’s Hammack tilts hawkish on rates, questions CPI drop as distorted
"My base case is that we can stay here for some period of time," Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack told the WSJ.
