Open Interest In XRP Skyrockets To Record $1 Billion Amid Excitement Over Ripple’s Upcoming Stablecoin Launch

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Bitcoin Options Open Interest At Near 2021 Peaks, Will BTC Break Above $31,300?

The total Bitcoin Options open interest, the number of open call and put orders, recently rose to $14. 87 billion on June 30 before falling to $10. 74 billion on July 4, on-chain data on July 5 shows.

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Bitcoin Futures Attract Biggest Bets Since Terra's Collapse

Open interest has surged to $11 billion to its highest level in over a year.

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Ex-Ethereum developer calls Open AI founder’s Worldcoin project ‘unrealistic and scary’

Piggybacking off the success of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, its founder Sam Altman is reportedly close to snagging $100 million in funding for his crypto project Worldcoin. The project had already raised $100 million at a valuation of $3 billion last year from marquee investors including Andreessen Horowitz and the venture capital arm of Coinbase.

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Bitcoin Bloodbath: Market Volatility Sparks Panic, Wipes Out $1 Billion In Open Interest

In the last 24 hours, Bitcoin (BTC) has experienced a sharp increase in volatility, with prices fluctuating between $29,000 and $27,000, given the lack of liquidity in the market. This sudden price action has had a significant impact on bulls and bears.

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False Alarm: Did Erroneous Bitcoin Alert Lead to 8% Price Crash?

An 8% plunge in Bitcoin's price, triggered by a false alert, has wiped out $1.3 billion in aggregate open interest in the cryptocurrency

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Dragonfly Capital invests $10M in Bitget amid industry recovery

The exchange currently facilitates cryptocurrency derivatives trading with an open interest of $2.4 billion and has plans to expand its spot trading, launchpad and Bitget Earn products.

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Three Arrows Capital Founders Launch Exchange Where You Can Trade 3AC Bankruptcy Claims

Named Open Exchange, the platform aims to be a home for trading what it says is a $20 billion market of claims against bankrupt crypto firms, including those of 3AC.

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Ethereum: Derivatives see 2-year high - where does this put ETH?

Ethereum Open Interest in Perpetual Futures Contracts crossed one billion. Its price has tried to maintain the $1,500 region as support. Bulls have been working hard to keep Ethereum [ETH] aThe post Ethereum: Derivatives see 2-year high - where does this put ETH? appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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StarkWare to Open Source Its Ethereum Scaling System

The tech company was valued at $8 billion during a funding round last year.

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Bitcoin futures open interest at CME reaches 20% of overall BTC futures OI

Quick Take Cryptoslate reported on January 24 that the CME exchange saw 84,000 Bitcoin, or $2 billion, allocated in futures contracts in the last 24 hours. The post Bitcoin futures open interest at CME reaches 20% of overall BTC futures OI appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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Bitcoin bears well positioned for Friday's $2.5 billion options expiry

BTC bears are outnumbered based on open interest volume, but bulls' hopes of $20,000 before 2023 have already been hampered.

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Bitcoin Open Interest Falls 8%, Can BTC Still Finish Strong?

Bitcoin open interest has been on a steady decline since last week. After hitting a peak of $10.2 billion in early December, a swift reversal has seen open interest fall to monthly lows. Now, the decline in less than a week has put some pressure on the price of the pioneer cryptocurrency. Bitcoin Open Interest […]

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Dogecoin Futures Rack Up Nearly $90M in Liquidations Over Weekend in Unusual Move

There’s $647 billion of open interest on dogecoin futures as of Monday.

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Ethereum OI Hits $7.7 Billion, Why A Rally Might Be In The Works

Ethereum open interest (OI) had seen a meteoric rise in the weeks leading up to the Ethereum Merge. Even after the Merge, the open interest has not declined, given all of the new interest from institutional investors following the network’s move to a proof of work mechanism.

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Crypto Lender BlockFi Had $1.8B in Open Loans at End of June and $600M of Exposure

Crypto lender BlockFi has $1.8 billion in open loans and $600 million in exposure, suggesting that loans are collateralized at a ratio of 2:3.

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How DAOs Open Doors for the Unbanked

It’s a new, borderless world, and DAOs hold the key to economic opportunity for billions of people, including the world’s 1.7 billion unbanked adults.

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Solend pays users to vote on proposal to liquidate whale wallet OTC and avoid “bad debt”

Solend, a Solana-based lending platform with over $1 billion in deposits, has voted on a governance proposal to take over a whale’s account so that funds can be withdrawn instead of automatically liquidated on the open market.

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With UST's depegging 'LUNA-cy' out in the open, regulators begin to get jittery

“You get regulated!” “You get regulated!” “Everybody gets regulated!” The Terra LUNA crash that led to the bleeding cryptocurrency market of $830 billion in market value has led rThe post With UST's depegging 'LUNA-cy' out in the open, regulators begin to get jittery appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Dubai Issues Crypto Business License to Bybit. Operations to Begin April

Bybit, the world’s third-largest cryptocurrency derivatives exchange with a peak daily trading volume of $76 billion has announced plans to move its global headquarters to Dubai after receiving the green light to open shop in the region.

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The Mosque NFTs to mint 12,000 Shariah Compliant Digital Mosques on Ethereum

In 2021, over $40 billion of NFTs changed hands, marking a 20X increase from 2022, thrusting NFTs into the limelight, demonstrating the use cases of yet another blockchain innovation. NFTs bear similarities with cryptocurrencies in that both deploys from a public chain and their transactions are open and, thus, can be traced.

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Bitcoin Futures Overheat With $1.5 Billion Jump As BTC Breaks $44k

On-chain data shows Bitcoin futures open interest has jumped up more than $1. 5 billion in just a few hours as the crypto’s price breaks past $44k again. Bitcoin Futures Open Interest Adds More Than $1.

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Bitcoin Gains $20 Billion After Russia Mulls Accepting BTC For Natural Resource Sales

This resurgence comes after Pavel Zavalny, the chairman of the Energy Committee of the State Duma of the Russian Federation said that Russia was open to accepting Bitcoin in addition to currencies by its allies when purchasing its natural resources.

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Ripple to give out 1 billion XRP in developer grants

The first two waves of the XRPL grant have offered $6 million in funding to 50 open source projects built on the XRP ledger.

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DEX Unlimited: How Ray.sX Builds an Open Apps Marketplace for the World of Decentralized Finance

The DeFi market capitalization in 2021 reached $170 billion. At the same time, the opportunities of many decentralized platforms are still limited. Currently, DEXs have only a basic set of services for users, such as growing liquidity or lending.

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Decentralized Derivatives Exchange SynFutures Crosses $3 Billion in Cumulative Trading Volume

Next-generation derivates trading platform SynFutures has surpassed $3 billion in cumulative trading volume and 55,000 total users, data from Dune Analytics shows. SynFutures Continues to Witness Rising Adoption SynFutures’ $3 billion cumulative trading volume milestone comes merely four months after the platform’s open beta launch.

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Animoca Brands raises $358 million to grow the open metaverse

In the latest round of funding, Australian metaverse company Animoca Brands raises over $358 million, 358,888,888 to be exact – 8 being considered a lucky number in many parts of Asia and the crypto community at large – at a slightly beyond $5 billion pre-money valuation.

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Bitcoin's $6.1 billion options expiry was not enough to break the bearish sentiment

Bulls had a 90% higher open interest coming into Dec. 31 options expiry but bears managed to balance the scales at $47,175.

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Stablecoins Are Becoming Increasingly Key To The Bitcoin Economy

As an increasing part of the bitcoin economy, stablecoins are collateralizing $7.21 billion of bitcoin futures open interest.

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Data: Bitcoin Crash Flushed Out $5.4B In Futures Within Hours

Data shows the Bitcoin crash from a few days ago flushed out $5.4 billion from futures open interest within the matter of hours. Cascade Of Long Liquidations Lead To 24.5% Reduction In Futures Open Interest As per the latest weekly report from Glassnode, when the price of Bitcoin crashed down to $42k a few days […]

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DEX aggregator 1inch closes $175 million funding round, wants to 'open doors to DeFi'

DEX aggregator 1inch Network closed a $175 million Series B round of funding, as per reports. With that, the liquidity sourcing business is now valued at a massive $2.25 billion. Hong Kong-based AmberThe post DEX aggregator 1inch closes $175 million funding round, wants to 'open doors to DeFi' appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Coinbase shares to open lower after 75% drop in net income in Q3

Coinbase posted total net revenue of $1.235 billion in Q3 falling 30% short of FactSet estimates of $1.614 billion.

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The Multi-Chain XSWAP on ABEYCHAIN is Open to Users, 1 Billion XT Available For Liquidity Providers and Stakers

XSWAP, a decentralized exchange on ABEYCHAIN, is now available to users. According to the ABEY Foundation, this is after a successful limited release testing. This good news follows two prestigious nominations by AIBC Malta for ABEY — Blockchain Solution of the Year and DeFi Project of the Year.

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Data shows Polkadot crashes after reaching $1B open interest — Will it happen again?

Polkadot (DOT) price crashed both times its futures open interest clipped $1 billion. Should traders expect a correction now that open interest is over this figure?

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Why a 6-month-high Bitcoin open interest could spell trouble

Data from blockchain intelligence firm IntoTheBlock shows Bitcoin perpetual swap open interest (PSOI) hit close to $18 billion on Monday – a level not seen since mid-April, marking a 26 week high.

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CME Bitcoin futures open interest hits 8-month high, greater than when BTC price was at $65K

Open Interest surged to $3.22 billion on. Oct. 14 to levels not seen since February.

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Crypto Punks, Axie Infinity, and Open Sea have done more than $10.35 billion in sales combined

The NFT market is outperforming the majority of crypto tokens right now. People are starting to view non-fungible tokens as a new asset class that derives value in a  completely different way.

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Derivatives data suggests Solana has reached a short-term top

SOL's futures open interest recently hit $1 billion and while the recent price swing liquidated leveraged longs, data suggests the short-term top is not a bearish trend reversal.

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Open Interest For Ethereum Sees Sharp Resurgence, Hits New All-Time Highs

Ethereum has registered a new all-time high of $7. 8 billion on open interest in perpetual futures contracts as the entire crypto market continues to witness an increased interest in crypto derivatives.

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$500B German Asset Manager is Considering Adding Bitcoin to A ‘Handful’ of Private Funds

Union Investment, a $500 billion Germany-based asset manager, is testing a pilot program with Bitcoin exposure certificates. If the program becomes a success, it will also open Bitcoin exposure to other funds.

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Over $4 Billion In Bitcoin Open Interest Has Just Been Cleared Amid Sell-Off — New Data Unveils Where Crypto Market Is Headed

The Bitcoin sell-off that recently caused the price of the big bull to slump saw Bitcoin lose over $4 billion in open interest. On-chain analytics platform Glassnode has branded the event as “the most significant leverage flush out since the sell-off in mid-May.

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Ethereum (ETH) Leads the Way as Crypto OI Spikes to $37 Billion

Open interest (net value of unsettled derivatives contracts) on crypto markets is back to May levels

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Crypto Whales Move $1 Billion in Ethereum, While ETH Open Interest Soars to $8 Billion

Large wallets shift over $1.4 billion worth of Ethereum as ETH perpetual OI soars and ETH keeps holding at the recent high

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Bitcoin Options Open Interest Hits $7 Billion While Traders Are Betting on $50,000 Strike

More traders are opening $50,000 call options. But how will it reflect on the current market?

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Tether in ‘Open Dialogue’ with DOJ, says Company on Report of its Executives Being Under Probe for Bank Fraud

The dominant stablecoin with 62. 15 billion circulating supply also blasted Bloomberg’s report as “repackaging stale claims” from years ago to “generate clicks,” adding that it is business as usual for the company.

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What to Expect as $2.1 Billion Worth of Bitcoin Options Expire Tomorrow

At this time when the cryptocurrency market is continuously nursing losses, a rerun could go a long way in softening the bearish blows. A short term Bitcoin bull run might be underway With 55,000 Bitcoin options expiring this Friday, leading to a $40,000 open position at a $130 million spot price, the market could be […]

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CME Bitcoin Open Interest Increases by 850 Contracts This Week

Black Wednesday ended up wiping out more than $7. 5 billion in Bitcoin open interest and is currently at levels last seen in early February. With almost all the 2021 uptrend retracted by the market and billions of dollars cleared out in liquidations, it makes sense that the OI would also get more than halved.

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Chance of a price crash increases as Cardano (ADA) futures near $1B

ADA's price crashed the last time its futures open interest reached $1 billion, leading traders to question whether or not it is about to happen again.

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Exeedme’s Launches OPEN BETA Competition with Over $10,000 in Prizes

Exeedme, a Portugal-based gaming company, has announced that their Play2Earn platform is now open to the wider public. The company has a stated goal of redirecting the global gaming market (worth 170 Billion USD) from a model that profits from gamers to one that allows gamers of all skill sets to earn money while playing. […]

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