Bitcoin is trapped between $75,000 and $80,000 ahead of a massive Friday derivatives settlement

Bitcoin is trading between $80,000 and $78,000, and faces two option strikes that could shape dealer hedging into Friday.  Related Asset Bitcoin #1 BTC · $78,653.71 24-hour change: down 0.19% 24H Down 0.19% 7D Up 13.54% 30D Up 24.57%  Reported call exposure at $75,000 and $80,000 creates a test of whether those positions dampen Bitcoins next move or add force to a break.  Roughly 81,700 Bitcoin options representing about $6.4 billion in notional are scheduled to settle on Deribit at 08:00 UTC on Aug. 28.  A refresh of Deribits BTC options data placed its Bitcoin reference price near $78,514. Applied to 81,700 one-Bitcoin contracts, that gives about $6.415 billion in notional.  Related Company Deribit Cryptocurrency Futures & Options Trading  The $75,000 call strike carried about $236 million in reported notional, while the $80,000 call strike held about $157 million. Those are call-side open-interest concentrations, worth a combined $393 million or 6.1% of the reported $6.44 billion expiry.  Deribit data shows 81,700 Bitcoin options contracts expiring Aug. 28, with more than $500 million concentrated near the $75,000 and $80,000 call strikes.The Bitcoin hedge path can split two ways  Options dealers adjust hedges as Bitcoin moves and an options sensitivity to the underlying price changes. Near expiry, those adjustments can

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Avalanche Treasury doubles down on its strategy to build shareholder value after a $44 million hit

Avalanche Treasury Corp approved a $10 million Class A share-repurchase program after reporting a $44.7 million second-quarter loss, with about $35.7 million attributed to losses linked to AVAX.  Related Asset Avalanche #26 AVAX · $7.34 24-hour change: down 0.54% 24H Down 0.54% 7D Up 8.61% 30D Up 14.84%  Management described the program as one tool to create shareholder value while it sees a market disconnect.  The companys Aug. 26 results release discloses the boards approval and contains no disclosure of completed purchases, and its immediate effect is a statement of management intent.  The company said the $35.7 million reflected fair-value changes, realized digital-asset losses, and impairments. That mix includes accounting adjustments and realized losses, making it distinct from a measure of cash expenditure during the period.  Fair-value and impairment charges can move reported earnings without carrying the same cash effect as a realized loss.  At June 30, AVAT held 15,312,363 AVAX with a reported fair value of $99,989,818, according to its quarterly filing. Subsequent price moves and treasury activity can change both the value and the balance, while the filing establishes the scale of the exposure behind AVATs earnings volatility.  Avalanche Treasury Corp infographic shows a $44.7 million Q2 net loss, 15.3 million AVAX treasury holdings, and

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How a $35M AVAX hit sent one companys earnings into a tailspin

Avalanche Treasury Corp approved a $10 million Class A share-repurchase program after reporting a $44.7 million second-quarter loss, with about $35.7 million attributed to losses linked to AVAX.  Related Asset Avalanche #26 AVAX · $7.46 24-hour change: up 1.16% 24H Up 1.16% 7D Up 7.97% 30D Up 16.11%  Management described the program as one tool to create shareholder value while it sees a market disconnect.  The companys Aug. 26 results release discloses the boards approval and contains no disclosure of completed purchases, and its immediate effect is a statement of management intent.  The company said the $35.7 million reflected fair-value changes, realized digital-asset losses, and impairments. That mix includes accounting adjustments and realized losses, making it distinct from a measure of cash expenditure during the period.  Fair-value and impairment charges can move reported earnings without carrying the same cash effect as a realized loss.  At June 30, AVAT held 15,312,363 AVAX with a reported fair value of $99,989,818, according to its quarterly filing. Subsequent price moves and treasury activity can change both the value and the balance, while the filing establishes the scale of the exposure behind AVATs earnings volatility.  Avalanche Treasury Corp infographic shows a $44.7 million Q2 net loss, 15.3 million AVAX treasury holdings, and

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World Liberty Financial launches USD1 natively on Canton Network

World Liberty Financial has launched its USD1 stablecoin natively on the Canton Network, allowing institutions to use it to settle transactions involving tokenized real-world assets.  The stablecoin can be used as the cash leg for transactions including derivatives collateral, institutional lending, asset issuance and redemptions, according to a Tuesday announcement.  Native issuance allows USD1 to settle alongside tokenized assets in the same transaction while using Cantons privacy and permissioning controls.  USD1 has a market capitalization of about $4.05 billion, making it the sixth-largest stablecoin, according to DeFiLlama data. The stablecoin is issued by BitGo Bank & Trust, which manages its reserves and processes mints and redemptions, according to World Liberty.  World Liberty Financial is a Trump family-backed crypto venture launched in 2024. USD1 debuted in March 2025 and is backed by reserves including short-term US Treasurys, government money market funds and dollar deposits, according to the company.  Canton, a public, permissionless blockchain designed for institutional finance, says it processes and issues more than $9 trillion in tokenized assets each month, with more than $350 billion in onchain US Treasurys moving across the network daily.  The integration follows another Canton expansion announced last week, when Digital Asset and former US House Speaker Paul Ryans American Idea Foundation

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Thailand is rewriting its stock exchange rules to trap billions in Bitcoin ETF wealth strictly inside its own borders

Thailand is proposing a crypto exchange-traded fund (ETF) framework that would give domestic fund managers, the Stock Exchange of Thailand and locally regulated custodians a structural advantage as the country opens the market to Bitcoin and Ethereum products.  Related Asset Bitcoin #1 BTC · $78,721.04 24-hour change: up 0.15% 24H Up 0.15% 7D Up 12.72% 30D Up 21.58%  On Aug. 24, Thailands Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) opened public comment on rules that would initially allow passive, single-asset funds focused on Bitcoin or Ethereum. Each fund would need to maintain an average net exposure of at least 80% of net asset value to its chosen asset over an accounting year.  The proposed products would enter a market already validated by the success of crypto ETFs in the United States, where funds have attracted more than $60 billion in net inflows since launch.  Related Asset Ethereum ETH · $2,494.59 24-hour change: up 2.16%  Bitcoin ETFs dominate with about $54 billion, followed by Ethereum products with roughly $12 billion, while newer crypto ETF offerings account for the balance.  Thailands proposal would bring that model onshore while keeping much of the first-wave value chain inside the country.  Local Thai firms would get the first advantage  Locally established crypto ETFs would trade

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Nvidia Shares Surge in After-Hours Trading After Record $96.2 Billion Revenue

In briefNvidias quarterly revenue rose 106% year over year to $96.2 billion.Data Center revenue increased 117% to $89 billion.The company disclosed $366 billion in future commitments.  Nvidia shares rebounded in after-hours trading Wednesday after initially falling following the chipmakers fiscal second-quarter earnings report.  The stock closed regular trading down 1.59% at $209.66 before recovering to about $217 after hours, roughly 3.5% above its closing price.  Myriad: How high will Nvidia go? Click to make your prediction.  Nvidias quarterly revenue more than doubled to $96.2 billion, exceeding the $92.27 billion average analyst estimate reported by the Associated Press. Data Center revenue rose 117% to $89 billion, while adjusted earnings of $2.22 per share beat the $2.09 estimate. Gross margins held at 75%.  Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang attributed the quarters growth to accelerating demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure:  “AI has reached its inflection point. Its doing useful work. Its tokens are productive and profitable. Now, compute is revenue, and demand is accelerating,” Huang said in a statement. “This time last year, one lab alone was driving the buildout; today, we have a golden age of new AI labs and startups, multiple frontier labs scaling in parallel, a thriving open-model ecosystem and physical AI coming online—with strong

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US government moves Bitcoin seized from Alameda

The U.S. government has transferred a small amount of Bitcoin seized from Alameda Researchs Binance.US accounts three years ago, renewing attention on how federal agencies will handle the remaining assets.  Arkham Intelligence reported the transaction on Aug. 26, describing the amount as small and tracing the Bitcoin to Alameda accounts on Binance.US that U.S. authorities seized three years earlier.  The blockchain analytics firm did not publish the amount in its indexed post or identify the receiving address. Arkham also did not say that officials had sold the Bitcoin, leaving the transactions purpose unconfirmed.  “The US Government just moved a small amount of Bitcoin that had been seized from Alameda accounts on Binance US, 3 years ago,” Arkham said.  Arkham then asked whether the government would begin liquidating the remaining Bitcoin connected to Alameda. The question was not tied to an announcement from the Department of Justice, the Treasury Department, or another federal agency.  The Bitcoin transfer does not confirm a sale  Moving Bitcoin between addresses records a change in custody or location on the blockchain, but the transaction alone does not show whether the asset has been sold. A transfer to another government wallet may involve custody, accounting, or security management, while movement to an exchange

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Bitcoin Cores hidden database just shrank by 40 GB – if you know how to trigger it

Bitcoin Core has merged a redesign of its optional transaction index that cut about 40 GB from the database in one contributors mainnet test. Operators using -txindex retain their existing indexes through an upgrade; capturing the full saving requires recreating the database.  Related Asset Bitcoin #1 BTC · $79,754.94 24-hour change: up 1.14% 24H Up 1.14% 7D Up 11.34% 30D Up 25.87%  Pull request #35531, merged into Bitcoin Cores master branch on Aug. 15, reduced the authors rebuilt mainnet txindex from about 66 GB to 26 GB. The roughly 61% reduction is confined to this optional index. Bitcoins blockchain and the rest of a nodes data directory remain outside the measurement.  Related Product Bitcoin Core An open source project which maintains and releases Bitcoin client software  The code is merged upstream. Stable binaries follow a separate release process, and Bitcoin Cores release index leaves the first version containing the change unspecified. Operators will need the migration notes for the release that ships it.  How the smaller index works  Bitcoin Cores -txindex option maintains a database for retrieving transactions by their full transaction ID. The old format stored each 32-byte transaction ID as a database key alongside transaction disk-position data.  The redesign stores a much shorter lookup key:

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Protocol upgrade decouples consensus from execution to solve scaling bottlenecks

High-performance blockchains often run into the same architectural limit, where the execution sits directly in the path of consensus. In a conventional synchronous model, validators must first execute the transactions inside that block to confirm the resulting state transitions are valid.  The design keeps the network deterministic, but it also turns computation into a shared bottleneck. Whether they involve richer smart contract logic, cross-system coordination, or heavier state updates, the more complex the transactions are, the more the networks speed depends on how quickly validators can process them.  The slowest computation on that path can end up constraining the pace of the entire system. Many networks have already spent years improving finality, networking efficiency and block propagation.  Execution has become the next architectural constraint. Rather than only optimizing how quickly validators reach agreement, newer designs are starting to ask whether execution needs to remain inside the consensus loop at all.  Shifting to an asynchronous computation pipeline  CTDG Dev Hub participant MultiversX removes that constraint with Supernova, now live on testnet, by decoupling consensus from execution so the network can agree on blocks before processing their transactions.  Before Supernova, block production followed a sequential pattern. A proposer selected transactions, executed them locally and proposed a block with

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Better launches Bitcoin-backed mortgages powered by Coinbase

Better Mortgage and Coinbase have made their Bitcoin-backed mortgage product generally available, allowing US homebuyers to pledge Bitcoin as collateral for a down payment without selling it, the companies announced Wednesday.  According to Coinbase‘s Help Center, the product pairs a Fannie Mae-backed home loan with a separate down payment loan secured by Bitcoin (BTC). Borrowers must pledge BTC worth at least 250% of the down payment loan, with the pledged BTC transferred to Better’s custodial account on Coinbase Prime.  The two loans carry the same interest rate and amortization term and are repaid through a single monthly payment, Coinbase said. The pledged BTC is returned once the mortgage is fully repaid or refinanced, subject to the loan terms.  Bitcoin price declines alone do not trigger margin calls or changes to the mortgage terms. However, Better can liquidate the pledged BTC if a borrower becomes 60 days delinquent on payments, according to Coinbase.  Borrowers must be US residents with a verified Coinbase account, and remain subject to Betters credit, income and other underwriting requirements. Coinbase One members are also eligible for a 1% rebate from Better, subject to a $10,000 cap, that can be used toward closing costs and fees.  Better and Coinbase first announced the

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