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- How Bitcoin Options Traders Are Positioning Amid the Crypto Market Rout Bitcoin extended weekend losses on Monday, triggering one of the largest liquidation events this year. Options traders are now positioning with a bearish skew in anticipation for a continuation of the downtrend. The top crypto fell less than 4% on Monday, but the resulting liquidation cascade was the biggest this year, wiping out roughly $1.65 billion in longs and $145 million in shorts. Despite the scale of the recent fallout, implied volatility, which tracks the future expectations of options traders, showed little change and remains muted, Adam Chu, chief researcher at GreeksLive, told Decrypt. There was, however, a significant uptick in put-buying...

- Dan Ives Compares Sam Altman's World Network To Tesla, Nvidia, Palantir In Their Infancy: 'An AI Meets Crypto Intersection' Wall Street tech analyst and Eightco Holdings Inc. Chair Dan Ives reiterated on Monday his belief in the World Network's potential to become the leading authentication technology in the AI revolution. AI Meets Crypto During an interaction with stock market commentator Amit Kukreja, Ives viewed the Sam Altman-founded initiative as more of an infrastructure tech play than a cryptocurrency play, predicting it to become the “single sign-on for AI” in the future. “To me, it’s really like when I look out into the future between bots, robotic, you need human proof. This is really like an AI meets crypto...

- Anthony Scaramucci, strategic advisor of AgriFORCE Growing Systems Ltd. (NASDAQ:AGRI), expressed optimism about Avalanche (CRYPTO: AVAX), labeling it as the “Swiss army knife” among Layer-1 networks. Scaramucci’s Big Bet On Avalanche Skybridge Capital founder Anthony Scaramucci, now serving as the company’s strategic advisor, stated they made a “big bet” on Avalanche due to its tokenization potential. “Lots of big corporate CTOs are picking up Avalanche as part of their story to tokenize their funds or potentially even tokenize their assets,” he mentioned. Scaramucci further emphasized the significance of subnets, which are interoperable networks within Avalanche’s ecosystem that can be customized for specific use cases. He...

- Coinbase Extends $100 Million Bitcoin-Backed Credit to Miner CleanSpark Bitcoin miner CleanSpark said Monday it has secured a new $100 million credit line from Coinbase Prime, extending its existing financing arrangements with the exchange. The credit is backed by the miner’s Bitcoin holdings and is intended to strengthen liquidity while the firm pursues “accretive growth using non-dilutive financing,” Gary A. Vecchiarelli, Chief Financial Officer and President at CleanSpark, wrote in a statement. The funds will support energy expansion, mining growth, and new high-performance computing projects, with the move building on earlier steps, the company said. In an earlier earnings call for its second-quarter results released in May...

- Former White House Exec Invests in 'Swiss Army Knife' of Crypto Anthony Scaramucci, known for his short tenure as White House communications director in 2017, has become a strong advocate for digital assets. Scaramucci highlighted Avalanche (AVAX) as a leading platform for tokenization and reiterated his ambitious prediction of Bitcoin reaching $150,000 by the year's end. In a CNBC interview on Sept. 22, Scaramucci described Avalanche as a versatile "Swiss Army knife of layer one," emphasizing its ability to support enterprises in building blockchains for tokenized funds and assets. Companies like BlackRock and Visa using Avalanche were cited as evidence of its competitiveness with Ethereum and Solana. More News Scaramucci...

- Why Bitmine Immersion Technologies Sank by 10% on Monday Key Points Bitmine Immersion Technologies (NYSEMKT: BMNR) faced unfavorable timing with its latest capital raising effort. The cryptocurrency mining and holding company, primarily focused on Ethereum, saw its share price drop by over 10% on Monday following the announcement of a share sale. This occurred on a trading day when the S&P 500 index ended with a 0.4% gain. A Big Share and Warrant Sale That morning, Bitmine disclosed that it had signed a purchase agreement with an institutional investor to acquire slightly over 5.2 million shares of its common stock. This unnamed investor agreed to a purchase price of $70 per share. Furthermore, the investor received warrants to...

- Visa Inc. (V) Highlights Continued Growth Momentum at the Goldman Sachs Communicopia + Technology Conference With significant upside potential, Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) secures a spot on our list of the Top 15 Stocks to Buy in 11 Different Sectors for the Next 3 Months. At the Goldman Sachs Communicopia + Technology Conference on September 9, 2025, Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) highlighted continued growth momentum. The company reported an 11% rise in cross-border transactions and a 25% increase in Visa Direct transactions. Stablecoin settlements reached a $1 billion run rate, reflecting Visa’s foray into digital assets. Tap-to-pay adoption has reached 63% in the U.S. and 78% globally, fueling further expansion. Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) is a global...

- Google Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) and PayPal announced a multiyear strategic partnership on September 17, 2025. The collaboration aims to advance commerce solutions across Google’s platforms and devices. Under this deal, PayPal’s payment tools will get integrated into Google Cloud, Google Ads, and Google Play, while leveraging Google’s AI to enhance PayPal’s services and security. Furthermore, both companies also claimed that they will co-develop an “agentic commerce” standard and promote Google’s Agent Payments Protocol as a secure future transactions framework. Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL), the parent company of Google, also develops a range of immersive and virtual reality products under its AR/VR segment. It is one of the...

- Coinbase Global, Inc. (COIN) ended the recent trading session at $331.95, demonstrating a -3.07% change from the preceding day's closing price. The stock trailed the S&P 500, which registered a daily gain of 0.44%. At the same time, the Dow added 0.14%, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq gained 0.7%. Coming into today, shares of the company had gained 7.07% in the past month. In that same time, the Finance sector gained 3.79%, while the S&P 500 gained 4.03%. The upcoming earnings release of Coinbase Global, Inc. will be of great interest to investors. It is anticipated that the company will report an EPS of $1.04, marking a 67.74% rise compared to the same quarter of the previous year. Our most recent consensus estimate is calling for...

- Scaramucci-Backed Crypto Treasury Company Launches With $550 Million Fundraising Plan Anthony Scaramucci and crypto investment firm Hivemind Capital are investing in a new company that intends to buy digital tokens issued on the Avalanche blockchain, the first of its kind. The Details AgriFORCE Growing Systems, a tiny agriculture-tech company that switched gears to become a bitcoin miner, said it plans to raise about $550 million from outside investors to acquire AVAX tokens. Scaramucci, the adviser-turned-antagonist to President Trump and founder of SkyBridge Capital, is among the new investors and will lead AgriFORCE’s advisory board. He will help with capital raising and marketing. Hivemind Capital, led by former Citigroup...

- Streamer Drained of $31K in Solana Raised for Cancer Treatment After He Downloads Game A crypto-focused livestreamer raising money to help fund treatment for his stage 4 cancer was drained of more than $31,000 in crypto after he downloaded a malicious game on popular PC platform Steam. Fortunately, the crypto community has rallied behind the content creator, pumping his token, sending him replacement funds, and tracking down the hackers. Latvian streamer Raivo “Rastaland” Plavnieks created a Solana-based token on Pump.fun on Friday called Help Me Beat Cancer (CANCER), and started to play video games for viewers. Token creators on the platform earn a percentage of all trades made on a token, which Plavnieks was going to use to help...

- XRP faces brutal wipeout within 4 hours XRP is once again at the center of a heated market debate, with some analysts forecasting the token could reach $5 by the end of this month. However, as of writing, the token has seen over $1.3 million in liquidation in the last four hours, according to the data. CryptoBull, a crypto influencer and market commentator, shared a chart indicating that XRP has formed a breakout structure with potential for explosive upside to $5 over the next few weeks. Davie Satoshi mentioned a possible cup-and-handle pattern on XRP's weekly chart, too, which is a classic bullish continuation pattern. The analysis suggests a decisive breakout over the $3.20 - $3.30 handle resistance could follow, with it...

- New rout in bitcoin ripples through crypto world Nearly all crypto assets are seeing red on Monday, with the total market capitalization for all crypto assets falling below $4 trillion since Sunday evening. Bitcoin (BTC-USD) fell 3%. The second-largest cryptocurrency, ether (ETH-USD), fell 6%. Solana’s (SOL-USD) token is down 7%. Dogecoin (DOGE-USD) and World Liberty Financial (WLF) are each down 10%. Over Sunday night, a total of $1.7 billion in trading positions in the crypto derivatives market were liquidated, according to data provider Coinglass. Of those positions, 94% came from bullish trades with the single largest whip out — valued at $12.7 million — occurring on crypto exchange OKX. Traders taking bullish bets on ether...

- According to the National Financial Educators Council, a lack of financial literacy cost Americans an average of $1,015 per person and over $243 billion collectively in 2024. On a separate note, research from Gallup found that 62% of Americans own stocks. While investing is becoming more popular, it’s evident that there’s plenty of confusion surrounding the topic. If you’re a regular retail investor with a middle-class income, you likely want to take investing seriously but may not be sure about where to begin. It’s understandable if you’re cautious because you may not be in a position where you can afford to take on significant risks with your investments. The good news is that you don’t have to take substantial risks to start...

- Solana Meme Coin Mew Secures Binance.US Listing Binance.US has announced the listing of Solana (CRYPTO: SOL)-based meme coin Mew (CRYPTO: MEW). M. Kyoko, Director of Mew, said the listing will “help the brand increase accessibility within the U.S. crypto market.” The meme coin expects the partnership to “bring further global brand exposure as a leading meme coin in the regional U.S. market.” Kyoko mentioned that while tokenomics for Mew remain unchanged, there may be new incentives for holders, such as additional initiatives and rewards. Since its launch in late March of 2024, the "cat in a dog's world" coin has walked the line of cultural relevance and “degen appeal”, following in the path of Pudgy Penguins and Bored Ape Yacht...

- Bitcoin Could Join Gold on Central Bank Balance Sheets in the Future, Deutsche Bank Says Gold and crypto are performing very differently in the short term — but one firm says the two could thrive side by side in the years ahead. "There is room for both gold and Bitcoin to coexist on central bank balance sheets by 2030," Deutsche Bank analysts Marion Laboure and Camilla Siazon wrote in a recent note. That bullish outlook comes after bitcoin fell sharply on Monday, slipping below $113,000 after briefly topping $123,500 in August. Meanwhile, gold surged to a fresh all-time high of $3,703 per ounce, posting its biggest yearly gain in over four decades. The contrasting moves highlight the short-term divergence between riskier assets...

- Coinbase Exec Calls Bitcoin a 'Release Valve' During Weekend Shocks, When Wall Street Sleeps The future of finance may not run through Wall Street’s traditional rails but across blockchain networks, according to Usman Naeem, Global Head of Derivative Sales and Agency Trading at Coinbase (Nasdaq: COIN). Speaking with Imran Lakha, founder of Options Insight on Deribit's Crypto Options Unplugged podcast, Naeem pointed to tokenization of real-world assets (RWAs) as blockchain’s most immediate and transformative use case. From real estate to equities, he said, the ability to represent traditional assets on-chain opens up liquidity, transparency, and around-the-clock trading. “The biggest use case of blockchain will probably be the...

- Market structure bill risks creating an ‘illicit finance superhighway’ for DeFi, warns expert Sanctions on crypto protocols work. Really well, in fact. That’s the conclusion from new research led by Professor John M. Griffin at the University of Texas at Austin. His 85-page report examined the impact of sanctions and anti-money laundering policies on the Tornado Cash crypto mixer. The findings are startling. Following the Office of Foreign Assets Control’s 2022 sanctioning of the privacy-preserving protocol for facilitating over $7 billion in illicit funds, monthly volumes on Tornado Cash decreased by 60%. Likewise, exchanges reacted quickly too, and thwarted interactions with addresses associated with the tumbler. “Our...

- UK Regulator Ramps Up Crypto Approvals As Applications Drop The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority has reduced the time it takes to approve crypto registration applications by 69% since 2023, although data from the regulator also show that there has been a 43.5% decline in applications over the past two years. The FCA has released the data following a freedom of information request from London-based international law firm Reed Smith, which sought clarification on the number of applications sent by cryptoasset service providers (such as exchanges) since the 22/23 financial year. The data reveal that successful applications have declined in consecutive years, from eight in 22/23 to six in 23/24 and then three in 24/25. This coincides...

- What Happened? Shares of digital infrastructure provider Applied Digital (NASDAQ:APLD) jumped 6.6% in the morning session after the stock extended its impressive winning streak, driven by positive momentum from recent major contracts in the artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure space. The rally marked the tenth consecutive day of gains, pushing the stock's cumulative return to 47% over that period. This surge followed recent announcements of expanded data center lease agreements with cloud provider CoreWeave. These deals increased Applied Digital's total contracted capacity to 400 megawatts and were expected to secure roughly $11 billion in future lease revenue. The developments highlighted the company's pivot towards...