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According to the joint report released by Glassnode and Bybit on the current state of the crypto derivatives market, the proportion of options notional open interest in the native Bitcoin derivatives market has risen from approximately 25% to nearly 50%. At the same time, term futures continue to shift toward perpetual contracts. Report data shows that Bybit’s share of Bitcoin options trading volume among the four tracked exchanges has increased from under 10% to 28%, nearly tripling. Bybit’s options market size has also grown from $529 million in its first month online to $2.33 billion, increasing more than fourfold. For Ethereum options, Bybit recorded the highest trading volume among the four tracked exchanges, maintaining its lead for 143 consecutive days. Over the past 90 days, Ethereum accounted for approximately one-third of Bybit’s total options trading volume. In tokenized gold derivatives, Bybit’s tokenized gold perpetual contract market, measured in ounces, has remained the largest among tracked crypto exchanges for 476 consecutive days; regarding gold options, Bybit accounts for 97.1% of the open interest across tracked exchanges. Frederik Theissen, Head of Research at Glassnode, stated that term futures trading volume has decreased by approximately 97% compared to 2021, as market leverage gradually shifts to perpetual contracts while risk pricing increasingly moves toward options. Sean Ballard, Head of Derivatives and Institutional Business at Bybit, stated that traders are increasingly
According to an official announcement, Bitget has listed three stock perpetual contracts: QLD (ProShares Ultra QQQ), IBIT (iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF), and CLSK (CleanSpark). These contracts settle in USDT, support up to 20x leverage, and enable 24/7 trading. As of now, Bitget supports a total of 313 stock contract underlyings.
Odaily News: France's Conseil d'État, the country's top administrative court, has rejected an emergency application filed by crypto companies Bull Bitcoin and Paymium, refusing to immediately suspend the enforcement of the French decree implementing the EU's Eighth Directive on Administrative Cooperation (DAC8).The applicants argued that centralized collection of personal and financial data of digital asset users could expose them to risks of data breaches, extortion, and physical safety threats. The court held that the applicants failed to demonstrate the existence of an urgent situation sufficient to justify an emergency suspension.Bull Bitcoin's lawsuit seeking a full annulment of the decree is still pending. DAC8 took effect in the EU on January 1, 2026, and registered service providers must complete their first reporting for the 2026 fiscal year by September 30, 2027. (Bitcoin.com News)
According to The Block, Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan has revised his previous assessment regarding the impact of the Clarity Act's failure. The bill secured only 49 votes in a procedural Senate vote, falling short of the 60-vote threshold needed to advance. While Hougan had previously forecasted that a failed bill would trigger several weeks of crypto market weakness, he noted in his latest client report that Bitcoin has continued to rise after bottoming out around $57,950 on July 1, surpassing $80,000 on September 4. In the same period, Polymarket’s implied probability for the bill’s passage within the year dropped from 39% to 14%. Price action moving contrary to these expectations suggests that the bull market does not rely on legislative passage. Hougan also pointed out that initiatives such as Robinhood launching its own blockchain, Morgan Stanley listing a Solana ETF, and DTCC completing the settlement of the first batch of tokenized stocks demonstrate that Wall Street institutions are already positioning themselves ahead of regulatory clarity. He noted that proactive rulemaking by the SEC and CFTC can partially fill legislative gaps, but acknowledged that executive regulations carry the risk of being overturned by future administrations. Consequently, congressional legislation remains the sole path to providing lasting regulatory certainty.
Bitget 上线新一期 CandyBomb，总奖池 0.3 枚 BTC。本期活动为合约新用户专享，参与时间为 9 月 17 日 16:00 至 9 月 27 日 16:00（UTC+8）。活动期间，用户完成净充值和指定合约交易任务，单人最高可得 0.003 枚 BTC。详细规则已在 Bitget 官方平台发布，符合条件的用户点击「立即加入」完成报名后方可参与活动。
Russia's largest stock exchange, the Moscow Exchange (MOEX), will list index perpetual futures for BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, and TRX on September 22, available exclusively to qualified investors. The contracts will be quoted in USD and cash-settled in RUB, with no delivery of underlying assets. Since the launch of digital asset futures, over 72,000 qualified investors have participated, with cumulative trading volume exceeding 600 billion RUB.
Bybit today announced the official launch of Bybit Odds. This is a brand-new trading product that allows users to express directional views on the price movements of Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH), and complete trades with fixed potential returns and zero liquidation risk.Bybit Odds is designed to eliminate the complexity and uncertainty commonly found in crypto derivatives trading. Users allocate USDT to a specific price outcome. If the prediction is correct, they receive a pre-displayed fixed payout at settlement; if the prediction is incorrect, they only lose the allocated amount, with no additional losses. The maximum return and maximum loss of each trade are clearly visible before confirmation.Bybit Odds offers three contract structures to suit different timeframes and risk preferences:Up/Down — Predict whether the price will rise or fall relative to the entry price, with settlement in 5 minutes or 15 minutes.Price Target — Predict whether the price will be above or below a specified level at expiry, with contract terms of up to 7 days.Price Range — Predict whether the price will remain within or break out of a specified range at expiry, with contract terms of up to 7 days.The minimum participation amount per trade is 5 USDT. Bybit Odds is deeply integrated with the Unified Trading Account (UTA), allowing users to directly use existing funds without additional transfers. Product pricing is supported by institutional market makers, ensuring competitive quotes and ample liquidity across all contract types.
According to the official announcement, Upbit will list PYUSD and JPYC against KRW, BTC, and USDT.
According to Odaily, Bitcoin News posted on the X platform that users can borrow up to 1000 USDT using BTC as collateral at a 40% collateral ratio, and price fluctuations will not trigger liquidation during the initial 30-day period. The loan has a one-time promotional fee rate of 0.5%, with no additional interest charged during the term; overdue repayment will incur a daily penalty and may ultimately trigger liquidation.
Uniswap has announced that Uniswap v2, v3, v4, and UniswapX have integrated Arc, Circle's Layer 1 network built for stablecoin finance, and will serve as its preferred DEX from day one of Arc mainnet launch. Users can swap tokens, provide liquidity, and build applications on Arc through the Uniswap web app, wallet, and API.cirBTC, issued by Circle and backed by its custody-held Bitcoin, is now live on Uniswap. Institutions can mint and redeem it through Circle Mint, while other users can trade cirBTC or provide liquidity for it. Pools has become Arc's official token launch platform. Tokens launched through Pools will enter Uniswap v4 liquidity pools paired with USDC, with liquidity permanently locked and no launch platform fees charged; projects can choose instant launch or a 1-hour Crowd Launch. Developers can also integrate Arc trading functionality into applications or agents through the Uniswap API.
According to CoinDesk, Bitcoin Core 32.0 entered its final testing phase on September 14, with its official release scheduled for October 10. This update adds a transaction fee estimator based on real-time mempool status, enabling fee estimates to be lowered more quickly once network congestion subsides. It also enables multi-threaded parallel reading of transaction data to speed up node blockchain synchronization, defaulting to 8 threads. Security-wise, it resolves a wallet naming vulnerability on non-Windows systems since version 24.0 that allowed attackers to execute arbitrary commands on the node host via a specially crafted wallet name. Additionally, it patches an out-of-memory vulnerability in the newly added built-in web server; testing indicates that 16 unauthenticated connections can spike node memory usage from 46MB to roughly 3GB in approximately one minute. This update does not include any changes to Bitcoin's consensus rules.
Odaily News: Bitcoin Core 32.0 entered its final testing phase on September 14, with the official version planned for release on October 10.This version will improve fee estimation, speed up block processing, and make PSBT version 2 the default option for multiple wallet commands, without changing Bitcoin's consensus rules.Developers also fixed a command execution vulnerability affecting certain wallet configurations, as well as a memory exhaustion vulnerability in the new web server. (CoinDesk)
According to CoinDesk, digital asset financial services firm Two Prime has launched the Bitcoin lending vault Axiom WBTC Yield Vault on Pareto, offering institutional investors annualized returns of 1.5% to 2%. It accepts wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) deposits, with a minimum deposit threshold of 5 WBTC (approximately $400,000). Two Prime has committed to injecting approximately $10 million in proprietary capital to cover initial losses, with target borrowers including publicly listed companies, credit rating agencies, and diversified financial institutions. Asset custody is managed by ICE Digital Trust and Copper Technologies, while the underlying private credit infrastructure is powered by Pareto.
Odaily News: Bybit today added three stock perpetual contracts — iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBITUSDT), GraniteShares 2x Long Coinbase ETF (CONLUSDT), and Direxion 2x Long Microsoft ETF (MSFUUSDT) — with leverage of up to 25x.During the launch period, limited-time fee discounts are available: 0% maker fee and 50% off taker fee.
According to Bloomberg, Deutsche Bank has announced the launch of digital asset custody services, enabling institutional and corporate clients to securely hold and transfer Bitcoin, Ethereum, and selected stablecoins. The service is expected to officially go live later this year, pending regulatory approval. This marks Deutsche Bank's first large-scale entry into the digital asset sector, with future plans to further expand the range of supported assets, which could include tokenized financial instruments.
According to the official announcement from HTX, HTX Earn has officially launched the ETH SVIP Flexible product. Users at Prime Level 5 and above are eligible to subscribe, with higher Prime levels unlocking greater APY rates and quotas, reaching a maximum APY of 3%. The HTX Earn SVIP Flexible product is a high-yield flexible savings solution tailored exclusively for high-tier clients at Prime Level 5 and above, offering advantages such as exclusive customization, high yields, and high flexibility. In addition to ETH, the SVIP Flexible lineup also supports USDT and BTC flexible products, with the USDT SVIP Flexible reaching a maximum APY of 9%, and the BTC SVIP Flexible reaching a maximum APY of 1%. Users can log into the HTX App, navigate to the "Earn" section on the homepage, enter the aforementioned cryptocurrencies in the search bar, and select "VIP Flexible" to participate.
According to CoinDesk, approximately 2.4 million ZEC tokens participated in the privacy governance vote for Zcash's next major network upgrade, NU7, accounting for roughly two-thirds of the eligible supply. Of these, 99.9% supported reducing the block time from 75 seconds to 25 seconds, while 98.9% backed retaining the existing Bitcoin-style halving mechanism. Additionally, 99.3% favored deploying NU7 as soon as it is ready. The vote served solely to determine the direction of the upgrade; the associated features still require development, testing, and integration into the final release.
Odaily News: Approximately 2.4 million ZEC participated in the privacy-protection vote for Zcash's next major network upgrade, NU7, accounting for about two-thirds of the tokens eligible to vote.Voters supported shortening the block time to 25 seconds, retaining the Bitcoin-style halving schedule, and launching NU7 as soon as possible; they also supported postponing the reissuance of fees collected by the network sustainability mechanism until February 2031 and disabling transactions related to the deprecated Sprout privacy system. (CoinDesk)
Block CEO Jack Dorsey has expressed support for review, independent evaluation, and planning of frontier AI, but opposes governments and leading AI companies negotiating industry-wide development restrictions.He advocates for an open-release approach that allows outside parties to reproduce results, identify problems, and develop alternatives, and supports providing models, computing power, and public infrastructure to independent researchers and safety researchers.Block is developing open-source AI tools and provides Bitcoin-related services across products including Square and Cash App. The company has also launched the open-source AI agent goose, and is developing Bitcoin mining hardware Proto and hardware wallet Bitkey. (Bitcoin.com News)
Odaily reports: Hunter Biden's Meme coin LAPTOP fell to as low as $0.192 on Tuesday, then rebounded nearly 10% to around $0.24, with an intraday high of $0.2789. The token is down 99% from its September 9 peak of $199.51.On-chain intelligence platform Bubblemaps has launched a curated Meme coin research feed that identifies insider clusters and bundled transactions before tokens reach the user interface, and provides a Bubblemaps score and integrated swap functionality for each token. (Bitcoin.com News)