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Bitcoin (BTC) options positioning leaned bullish in both the medium and near term on Tuesday, with total open interest rising and call contracts maintaining a clear lead. Still, put activity remained robust, underscoring a market that is pricing upside potential while continuing to hedge against sharp swings.
Crypto
Ionic Digital Inc. (NASDAQ: IOND) climbed more than 25% from its $50 opening price to nearly $63 in its Nasdaq debut Tuesday, July 28. The move gave the Bitcoin miner an implied valuation of roughly $2.75 billion.
Market caution seems to have moved from business failures to institutional flows.
The agreement covers tokenized securities, blockchain-based market infrastructure and the potential use of USDT as a settlement layer.
The Claude Mythos Preview model from Anthropic identified an attack that accelerates the breaking of reduced seven-round versions of the AES algorithm by 200 to 1,000 times. The artificial intelligence tool halved the key strength in HAWK, a candidate signature scheme for NIST's post-quantum standardization.
Long positioning among top crypto futures traders showed a mixed but notable shift on Tuesday ET, with Dogecoin (DOGE) and Ethereum (ETH) seeing the sharpest declines in the share of accounts holding long exposure in the dollar-margined market—a potential sign of cooling retail-style risk appetite even as overall positioning ratios remained relatively stable. According to CoinGlass data captured at 8:15 p.m.
Bitcoin dropped 3% on Monday, briefly touching ,000, and the dip didn't scare off the big money.
Michael Saylor has renewed his warning over Bitcoins proposed BIP-110 upgrade as Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) pauses its aggressive Bitcoin accumulation and instead builds a $3.75 billion cash reserve. According to blockchain intelligence firm Arkham, the companys latest moves highlight two major developments that could shape Bitcoin and Strategys future.
Leading cryptocurrencies rose slightly on Tuesday as investors weighed renewed tensions in the Middle East and the Federal Reserve's upcoming decision on interest rates. Cryptocurrency 24-Hour Gains +/- Price (Recorded at 9:25 p.m.
Bitcoin traded near $64,000 on Tuesday, recovering from earlier losses as investors prepared for one of the most uncertain U.S. Federal Reserve meetings in years. While AI-driven technology stocks extended their recent decline, the leading cryptocurrency remained relatively stable, reinforcing expectations that Bitcoin may be less sensitive to the upcoming interest rate decision than traditional risk assets.
Audiera soared 21.33% to $3.48, topping the gainers list. MemeCore fell 5.69% to $1.12, leading the losers.
Near Protocol (NEAR) has lost the technical structure that supported its recovery over the past two months, raising concerns that the cryptocurrency could face additional downside. After weeks of consolidating above major moving averages, NEAR has broken below critical support, signaling a shift in momentum from buyers to sellers.
Ethereum (ETH) remains on a steady recovery path despite a minor pullback, with the second-largest cryptocurrency trading just below the $1,900 mark as investors watch for another attempt to break above the key $2,000 resistance level. The recent price action suggests buyers continue to control the trend, even as ETH struggles to overcome a significant technical barrier.
XRP is approaching one of its most important psychological support levels as bearish momentum continues to dominate the market. After failing to sustain its latest recovery, the cryptocurrency has broken below a tightening symmetrical triangle pattern and is now trading near $1.06, placing the key $1.00 support level in focus.
Large blockchain networks including Ethereum (ETH), Solana (SOL), and Avalanche (AVAX) have recorded notable increases in on-chain activity and reductions in transaction costs over the past year, even as the prices of their native tokens experienced substantial declines.
A sweeping wave of forced liquidations ripped through crypto derivatives markets over the past 24 hours, with Bitcoin (BTC) alone seeing roughly $15.44 billion in positions wiped out—an event that traders framed less as a simple price dip and more as a rapid unwinding of overcrowded 'leveraged long' bets. The liquidation shock was not confined to BTC.
Strategy Inc. (NASDAQ:MSTR), the Bitcoin-focused firm formerly known as MicroStrategy and led by Executive Chairman Michael Saylor, has prolonged its break from acquiring the cryptocurrency for a fifth consecutive week.
TD Cowen has significantly revised downward its price objective for Nakamoto Inc., the bitcoin-focused treasury firm associated with David Bailey, in response to an updated assessment of the cryptocurrency's trajectory.
Lido, a liquid staking protocol on Ethereum, has commenced a significant infrastructure update that involves consolidating more than 8 million ETH—valued at approximately $16 billion to $16.5 billion—into larger validators.
The current circulating supply of the Hyperliquid protocol is approximately 270 million HYPE tokens. Core project contributors release nearly 550,000 units monthly through their allocation schedule. The Aligned Quote Asset version 2 integration establishes Coinbase as the official issuer for the USDC treasury on the network.
