Bitcoin perpetual funding rates on major exchanges have flipped negative, signaling that short sellers now dominate the derivatives market and are paying to keep their positions open. While negative funding typically reflects bearish sentiment, one analyst is interpreting the current extreme as a potential setup for a short squeeze, arguing that excessive short positioning often […]
Around 115,500 Bitcoin options contracts will expire on Friday, Feb. 27, with a notional value of roughly $7.8 billion. This event is much larger than usual because it is the end of the month, so there could be a little volatility on spot markets. Crypto markets have seen a little daylight with a mid-week lift, […]
The total fees paid on the Binance Smart Chain (BSC) recently fell to approximately $593,000, marking the network’s lowest usage cost since at least August 2025. This collapse in transaction activity on one of crypto’s busiest highways is reviving memories of a similar demand drought last summer that immediately preceded a 95% rally in Bitcoin […]
Bitwise’s Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan believes there is a fundamental disconnect between perception and reality in the crypto market. He argued that investors often misinterpret what is truly happening because behavioral biases, particularly anchoring bias, distort their view. Anchoring bias, the tendency to fixate on the first piece of information encountered, shapes how people […]
Bitcoin’s Stablecoin Supply Ratio (SSR) has dropped to 9.36, a level historically associated with significant buying power waiting on the sidelines, but on-chain data shows this metric is flashing a false signal. According to analyst Axel Adler Jr., the decline is being driven by capital leaving the ecosystem rather than stablecoin accumulation, which fundamentally alters […]
Ripple CTO David Schwartz has said that the XRP Ledger (XRPL) was deliberately designed so that neither the company nor any single entity could control it. His remarks came hours after Cyber Capital founder Justin Bons argued that XRPL is effectively permissioned and centralized, with the exchange cutting to a long-running debate in crypto over […]
The Ethereum Foundation announced that it has begun staking a portion of its treasury funds, following the Treasury Policy it released last year. The latest move represents a formal step into direct participation in Ethereum’s proof-of-stake consensus. Treasury Staking As part of this initiative, the Foundation deposited 2,016 ETH on Tuesday and stated that it […]
As Bitcoin markets fail to improve, analysts have been looking into the behavior of the different investor cohorts in the market. “One of the cornerstone cohorts in this framework is long-term holders (LTH), known to be less sensitive to short-term price fluctuations,” said CryptoQuant analyst ‘Darkfost’ on Tuesday. Currently, long-term holders are sitting on an […]
In a bid to calm investor nerves after confirming that it has sold all of its Bitcoin holdings, Bitdeer Technologies framed the move as a deliberate liquidity decision rather than a bearish signal on the asset itself. In a recent statement, the Singapore-based miner stated that converting newly mined Bitcoin into cash is a pragmatic […]
Terraform Labs’ bankruptcy administrator has filed a lawsuit against Jane Street, alleging the company used insider information to profit from and accelerate the collapse of Terra-Luna. The lawsuit claims that these trades came at the expense of investors and creditors who lost billions in the crash. Jane Street Denies Accusations A Wall Street Journal (WSJ) […]