According to the Glassnode report, influenced by the market's expectations for the sharp fluctuations in bitcoin at the end of the year, the cryptocurrency derivatives market continued to heat up, and the amount of bitcoin perpetual contracts not positioned squaring rebounded. Glassnode released data on Monday saying that as the bitcoin spot price briefly hit the $90,000 mark on the day, its perpetual contract unpositioned squaring has increased from 304,000 bitcoins.

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1. The government shutdown has prompted funds to take a safe haven, and traders are betting that US bond yields will continue to fall. 2. SoftBank seeks to issue about $2 billion in bonds to bet on AI development. 3. New World Development: The company does not have any debt management projects on its perpetual and other debt securities. 4. Traders step up bets on the Bank of England to cut interest rates, and the yield on two-year British bonds has fallen to a 14-month low. 5. Hong Kong Securiti...
Traders are starting to bet that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates sharply at least once before the end of the year, setting policy that could be more aggressive than other market watchers currently expect. Recent trading activity in options tied to the guaranteed overnight funding rate (SOFR) suggests that the market is ramping up plans for a half-percentage-point rate cut, possibly at the meeting later this month or in December. This expectation exceeds the two 25-basis point cuts al...
Options traders upped their bets after bitcoin surged to record highs over the weekend, with the largest cryptocurrency expected to rise to $140,000. Unpositioned squaring contracts for short-term bitcoin options contracts expiring at the end of the year are concentrated around this strike price for call options, according to data from Deribit, a crypto derivatives exchange owned by Coinbase. There was also a modest increase in demand for put options, as traders sought downside protection after ...

SOFR traders continue to bet that the Fed will cut rates by 50 basis points in September.
Traders spent more than $2 million on Ethereum call options expiring at the end of June, betting that the price of ETH will rise from the current $2,460 to $3,200-3,400, an increase of more than 30%. Analysts believe that the Pectra upgrade implemented by Ethereum in early May has improved network scalability and validator flexibility, coupled with SharpLink Gaming's announcement that it will use $425 million as an Ethereum reserve asset, and market expectations that US regulators may approve a ...
On February 13, short-term interest rate futures in the United States rose, and the market bet on the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates in July increased, but the market still believes that a rate cut in September is more likely.