Bitcoin Options Open Interest Hit Record $42.5B on Deribit as Traders Eye Next Bull Target for BTC

“Don’t be surprised if buying activity picks up across the spectrum of products tied to BTC,” CoinDesk said in Tuesday’s edition of the Crypto Daybook Americas, presenting a bullish case for bitcoin. As bitcoin’s (BTC) price jumped to new lifetime highs above $111K during Thursday’s Asian trading hours it spurred record activity in the Deribit-listed … Read more

Bitcoin ‘Pizza’ Day is Now a $1.1B Celebration

Bitcoin (BTC) Pizza Day is here and it just got its most fitting tribute yet: a new all-time high. Bitcoin surged past $111,800 early Thursday, setting a fresh record. 15 years ago on this day developer Laszlo Hanyecz paid 10,000 BTC for two Papa John’s pizzas, then worth roughly $40. The May 22, 2010, purchase … Read more

Bitcoin’s Rally to Record Highs Puts Focus on $115K Where an ‘Invisible Hand’ May Slow Bull Run

Bitcoin’s (BTC) price has surged to record highs, sparking optimism among investors. However, expected hedging activities of market makers/dealers, often an invisible force, at certain price levels, may slow the ascent. The leading cryptocurrency topped the $111,000 mark during the Asian hours, with analysts anticipating stronger demand. “The OTC supply may be drying up, driving … Read more

SHIB Holds Strong Above Key Support as Volume Spikes Nearly 4x

SHIB’s remarkable resilience during the recent trading session demonstrates growing investor confidence despite market turbulence. The token’s ability to recover from a sudden drop to 0.0000143 with extraordinary volume support suggests institutional accumulation rather than retail panic. With the psychological support at 0.000015 holding firm and multiple tests of upper resistance, SHIB appears poised for … Read more

Not ECDSA. Not Schnorr. Meet DahLIAS.

Bitcoin MagazineNot ECDSA. Not Schnorr. Meet DahLIAS. Aggregate signatures aren’t new. They’ve been around since the early 2000s. But building one that actually works in Bitcoin’s security model, with Bitcoin’s elliptic curve, has never been proven. Developers speculated it might be possible. They shared hand-wavy sketches and said, “maybe it’d work like MuSig2, but across … Read more

KindlyMD, Nakamoto, and Anchorage Digital Form Strategic Bitcoin Treasury Alliance

Bitcoin MagazineKindlyMD, Nakamoto, and Anchorage Digital Form Strategic Bitcoin Treasury Alliance Nakamoto Holdings Inc., KindlyMD, Inc., and Anchorage Digital today announced a strategic partnership that will see Anchorage become a trading partner for KindlyMD’s Bitcoin treasury. The partnership will officially take effect upon the close of KindlyMD’s merger with Nakamoto, expected in Q3 2025. NEW! … Read more

U.S. CFTC’s Johnson Says She’ll Also Exit, Leaving an Empty House for Incoming Chair

The U.S. crypto industry’s potential primary watchdog, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, has a staffing problem at the top, with the last of its sitting commissioners announcing her departure plans before the arrival of the agency’s chairman picked by President Donald Trump. Democrat Kristen Johnson has now joined the other three sitting commissioners in making … Read more

The Protocol: Solana To Get Major Design Overhaul

Welcome to The Protocol, CoinDesk’s weekly wrap-up of the most important stories in cryptocurrency tech development. I’m Margaux Nijkerk, the Ethereum protocol reporter on CoinDesk’s Tech team. In this issue: Solana To Get Major Design Overhaul Proposal For New Ethereum Nodes to Make Them Easier to Run World Network’s $135 Million Token Sale Solana Seeker … Read more