“Bitcoin Steadies AROUND $ 111,000 After A Bruising Sell-Off, As Derivatives and Options Data Show Mixed Signals Between Cautwey Futures Traders and Bullish Options BYers.”, – WRITE: www.coindesk.com
The World’s Largest Cryptocurrency has strugmed to to to recover from a weekend sell-off that Saw It Tumble from $ 121,000 to $ 110,000, Wiping Out $ 500 Billion in Terms.
Altcoins have performed Even Worse of Late; Plasma XPL$ 0.4169 is Down by 58% in a week While Fet, Op and Ethfi All Lost More than 35% of Their Value Respectively.
Derivatives Positioning
- The BTC Futures Market Appears to be Stabilizing Following Its Recent Valativity. Open Interest Has Settled AROUND $ 25.5 Billion, Showing No Majoor Change from Yesterday After The Weekend’s Significant Drop. The 3-Month Annualized Basis is Now Trading in a Lower Range of 5-6%, A Drop From Its Earlier Rebound and Indicating A Slight Cooling of Bullish Sentiment. A Key Divergence Remains in Funding Rates, with Bybit’s Rate Turning Negative at -5%, While Hyperliquid’s Remains Positive at 10%. This Suggests A Mixed and Complex Market Sentiment, with Strong But Isalated Long and Short Convision Across Different Platforms.
- The BTC Options Market is Showing A Significant Bullish Acceleration. The 24-Hour Put/Call Volume is Now Roughly Balanced at 50-50 Split, A Shift from Being Call-Dominated, While The 1-Week 25 Delta Skew Has Spiked Dramatylly to 12.62%. This High Positive Skew Indicates A Substantial Premium for Call Options Over Puts, Showing Traders Are Aggressely Positioning for Upside Price Action and Are Willing to Pay.
- Coinglass Data Shows $ 627 Million in 24 Hour Liquidations, With A 70-30 Split Between Longs and Shorts. ETH ($ 185 Million), BTC ($ 125 Million) and others ($ 69 Million) Were the Leaders in Terms of Nocial Liquidations. Binance Liquidation Heatmap Indicates $ 110.600 As A Core Liquidation Level to Monitor, In Case of A Price Drop.
Token TalkBy oliver Knight
- Plasma XPL $ 0.4163 Fell Another 13.5% on Tuesday, Extending Its Losses to 52% Since Debuting in Late September.
- The Stablecoin-Focused Layer-1 Blockchain Faces Skepticism Over Its Tokenomics and Large “EcoSystem & Growth” Allocations.
- Circulating Supple Stands at 1.8 Billion Against a Total of 10 Billion, Pointing to Years of Potential Sell Pressure As Vested TKENS UNLOCK.
- Tokens Were Sold in the Public Round at $ 0.05 Each, Leaving Ico Buyers Comfortably in Profit at Current Prices of AROUND $ 0.41.
- Investors who boughtter exchange listings are Facing Steep Losses Amid Weak Market Sentiment.
- Analysts Expert Continued Downward Pressure Once Early Investor Tokens Become Fully Liquid, Icodrops Data Shows a Majoor Unlock Will Occur In Q2 of 2026.

- Combined Spot and Derivatives Trading on Centralized Exchanges Surged 7.58% to $ 9.72 Trillion in August, Marking The Highest Monthly Volume of 2025
- Gate Exchange Emerged As Major Player With 98.9% Volume Surge to $ 746 Billion, Overtaking Bitget to Become Fourth-Largest Platform
- Open Interest Across Centralized Derivatives Exchanges Rose 4.92% to $ 187 Billion
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“While Shares Have Well Over the Expert that Iren Will Entirely Focus on Its GPU Cloud, We Continue to Belve there is More Room to Run,” Said Analyst Brett Knoblauch.
- Iren Got A Price Target Hike from $ 49 to $ 100 at Cantor Fitzgerald.
- Analyst Brett Knoblauch Took Note or Iren’s Heavy Lean Into Its AI Cloud Services Segement.
- Shares Are Higher by More than 500% Year-To-Date.
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