Key takeaways: CME’s futures open interest in the top four cryptocurrencies reached $28.3 billion, surpassing Binance’s $23 billion and Bybit’s $12.2 billion. Despite CME’s lead in open interest, unregulated exchanges still dominate trading volumes, especially in altcoin and perpetual futures. Friday’s cryptocurrency market crash wiped out a record $74 billion in leveraged positions across the…
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Tuesday reiterated the central bank’s delicate balancing act, stressing that policymakers are trying to navigate between their price stability and employment mandates following last week’s interest rate cut. “Recent data show that the pace of economic growth has moderated,” Powell said in prepared remarks at the Greater Providence Chamber…
Key takeaways: More than 70% of the Ether supply is staked, underpinning a longer-term bullish environment. Ether whales added more than 411,000 ETH in August. Binance ETH futures open interest remains above $8.4 billion despite the $4,300 retest. Ether (ETH) surged to an all-time high of $4,950 in August, fueled by broad market momentum and…
Key takeaways: Altcoins account for 71% of Binance Futures trading volume, marking a clear shift in trader interest from Bitcoin. Over 32,000 BTC entered exchanges, suggesting profit-taking and potential altcoin rotation amid rising volatility. TRX leads altcoin momentum with early decoupling from BTC, indicating a fragmented altseason focused on strong or hyped tokens. An altseason…
Bitcoin (BTC) exchanges are getting a key “deleveraging event,” which should shape future gains, new research says. In one of its “Quicktake” blog posts on March 17, onchain analytics platform CryptoQuant revealed a $10 billion capitulation on Bitcoin futures markets. Bitcoin sees “essential” event for BTC price rebound Bitcoin derivatives traders have flipped firmly risk-off…
Solana (SOL) futures traded for the first time on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group’s US derivatives exchange on March 17 as the cryptocurrency’s mainstream adoption gains momentum. In February, CME tipped plans to list two types of SOL futures contracts: standard contracts representing 500 SOL and retail-friendly “micro” contracts representing 25 SOL each. They…
The upcoming launch of Solana (SOL) futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), a US derivatives exchange, signals that the first US SOL exchange-traded fund (ETF) listings are coming soon, Chris Chung, founder of Solana-based swap platform Titan, told Cointelegraph. On March 17, CME is preparing to launch SOL futures contracts. They will be among…