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Bitcoin Options Expiry Removes $80,000 Support

A $6.44B monthly options expiry settled this morning and switched off the hedging flows that held bitcoin near $80,000 all week, Fed chair Kevin Warsh delivers his first Jackson Hole keynote at a symposium themed on payments innovation, Strategyraised roughly $2B selling stock and bought no bitcoin, and bitcoin heads into Monday's month-end close with its best August since 2017. Stay up on the crypto news that matters with "Crypto Currents," from The Fly. Check out ourfor our weekly Crypto Fly By recap.EXPIRY REMOVES $80,000 PIN:Roughly 81,700 bitcoinoptions contracts worth about $6.44B in notional settled on Deribit at 08:00 UTC Friday, split between 44,639 calls and 37,061 puts, with 62% of the book on track to expire worthless,. The print landed at $79,682.33, leaving the $80,000 calls worthless by $318 and removing the dealer hedging that had acted as a magnet,. A sell wall of about 1,052 bitcoin at $80,500 had thinned to roughly 101 bitcoin across Kraken and Coinbase by 11:24 UTC. Other coverage of the same expiry put the max pain zone nearer $68,000 to $70,000,. The September 25 expiry already holds 155,393 open contracts, about 40% of all Deribit bitcoin open interest and nearly double the batch that just cleared,  The heaviest strike is $70,000 and calls outnumber puts two to one. It settles nine days after the Fed's September decision.WARSH HEADLINES JACKSON HOLE:Warsh speaks Friday morning at a Kansas City Fed symposium titled "Financial Innovation, Implications for Payments and Policy," the first Jackson Hole theme built around digital payments, with stablecoins and tokenized deposits at the organizing center,. Prior chairs have used the slot to lay out broad frameworks, and Warsh has stood up five task forces covering inflation, the balance sheet, data, technology and communications,. Bitcoin's median move around Jackson Hole over the past eight years is roughly 1%.STRATEGY HALTS BITCOIN BUYING:Strategy sold 18,261,118 shares for about $2.01B net between August 17 and August 23 and bought no bitcoin, creating a $1.59B "USD Cash" account alongside a $5.1B USD Reserve,. It spent $136.4M repurchasing 1,431,212 STRC preferred shares and expanded its monetization program to permit up to $5B of bitcoin sales. Holdings stand at 840,447 bitcoin at a $75,385 average price. The company raised about $3.28B in August and bought no bitcoin with any of it, leaving $6.69B of dollar reserves against $6.75B of debt, a gap near $60M,STRC preferred carries a 12% dividend on roughly $10B of notional. Shares still gained 12% Thursday to $138.38.AUGUST CLOSES RECORD MONTH:Bitcoin traded as high as $81,237.94 this week, its best level since mid-May, capping whatas the biggest monthly gain since November 2024 on a soft dollar and debasement positioning. As of August 25 the month was up about 26%, the strongest August since 2017, with BTIG's Jonathan Krinsky comparing the burst to January 2023, A hot 3.7% July PCE print knocked bitcoin back below $78,000 Wednesday,.ETF STREAK HITS NINE:Spot bitcoin ETFs took $1.92B of net inflows in the August 17 to 21 week, the largest since early October 2025,. The streak reached nine straight sessions worth about $3.0B and lifted complex assets to roughly $98.56B, while iShares Bitcoin Trust call volume set a record 1.58m contracts.BERNSTEIN RESETS BITCOIN TARGETS:Bernstein built its case around fiscal debasement, calling for $150,000 by mid-2027 and $300,000 by 2029. The firm cut its price target on Strategy to $350 from $450 while keeping an Outperform rating.IREN EXITS BITCOIN MINING:IRENposted FY26 revenue of $707.0M and a ($702.6M) net loss including $638.8M of non-cash impairments from decommissioning mining hardware, with AI Cloud revenue rising to $128.8M from $16.4M,. It cited $4B of contracted 2026 annualized recurring revenue with $1B already operating. New GPU financings total $2.8B, including a $2.4B facility led by Blue Owl and PIMCO-advised investors at a 9.0% fixed rate.CORE SCIENTIFIC ADDS LIQUIDITY:Core Scientificclosed $600M of committed senior secured facilities, a $100M revolver at adjusted term SOFR plus 1.75% and a $500M letter-of-credit facility,. Management said the deal releases about $300M of restricted cash. JPMorgan is administrative agent.BITDEER LIFTS JULY OUTPUT:Bitdeermined 1,190 bitcoin in July against 990 in June and 282 a year earlier, a 322% annual increase,Self-mining hashrate reached 76.7 EH/s. The AI cloud pipeline stands at 141.4 IT megawatts with 4,248 GPUs deployed at 95% utilization.BITMINE NEARS ETHER TARGET:Bitmine Immersionsaid etherholdings reached 5,847,611 tokens, roughly 4.8% of the 120.7m supply and 97% of the way to its 5% goal,. Total crypto and cash reached $14.9B with 5,067,309 ether staked. Projected annualized staking revenue runs $330M and rises to $381M at full scale.TREASURY BUYERS KEEP ADDING:DeFi Developmentresumed buying with about 19,000 solanaat an average $98.14, taking its treasury to roughly 2,333,432 solana and equivalents,. Strivebought 1,110 bitcoin at roughly $73,409 each to reach 21,356, and Hyperliquid Strategiesreported 29.28m hypemarked at $1,904.1M with zero debt.EVERNORTH ADVANCES XRP LISTING:Evernorth said the SEC declared its Form S-4 effective, moving the Ripple-backed XRPtreasury vehicle toward a Nasdaq listing,. The shareholder vote is set for September 30. Ripple contributed 126,791,458 XRP in a private placement.COINBASE TOKENIZES THIRTEEN STOCKS:Coinbaseselected Chainlinkto secure price feeds for tokenized stocks on Base, issued under the B20 standard and backed one-for-one,. Thirteen U.S. equities went live with nine DeFi protocols integrated and $10.8m of day-one volume. Kraken's rival xStocks has $25B of cumulative volume.TOKENIZATION DEALS KEEP COMING:Franklin Resourcesbrought its on-chain US government liquidity fund to Asian investors through HashKey Exchange,Tradeweb Marketsand Virtu Financialcompleted what they called the first fully on-chain repo using a Marshall Islands sovereign digital bond, settling in under 10 minutes,. WisdomTreeadded two more tokenized funds for business cash through Stable Sea.SCHWAB EXPANDS CRYPTO MENU:Charles Schwabplans to add solana, avalancheand chainlink to Schwab Crypto accounts,. Pricing is 75 basis points per trade with 24/7 support. Availability covers every U.S. state except New York and Louisiana.BITGO BUYS NYDIG DESK:BitGoacquired NYDIG's institutional trading business, adding derivatives and financing capabilities and moving about 30 employees,. Consideration is $7M cash plus roughly $35.5M of stock with up to $15M of contingent earn-outs. NYDIG keeps a power pipeline above 3 GW.PRICE ACTION:As of time of writing, bitcoin was trading at $79,554.99, while ether was trading at $2,516.08,,

Stable Sea Expands Strategic Relationship with WisdomTree

Stable Sea announced it is expanding its strategic relationship with WisdomTree by adding two new tokenized funds to Stable Sea Terminal, including the WisdomTree Short-Duration Income Digital Fund and the WisdomTree Floating Rate Treasury Digital Fund. The new funds build upon current access to the WisdomTree Treasury Money Market Digital Fund on Stable Sea Terminal that began in April. U.S. businesses collectively hold more than $5T in cash and cash-equivalent accounts that generate minimal to no interest. Tokenized real-world assets, led by U.S. Treasury and money market products, have grown from roughly $6B in early 2025 to more than $31B by mid-2026, according to industry tracker RWA.xyz. Tokenized Treasury and money market products alone now account for more than $15B of that total. The WisdomTree Treasury Money Market Digital Fund is an SEC-registered money market fund investing in short-term U.S. Treasury securities, with a 0.25% expense ratio, $1 minimum and SEC yield 7-day of 3.46%. The WisdomTree Floating Rate Treasury Digital Fund is an SEC-registered fund that seeks to track an index of floating-rate US Treasury obligations, with a 0.05% expense ratio, $25 minimum, and SEC yield 30-day of 3.75%. The WisdomTree Short-Duration Income Digital Fund is an actively managed fund seeking income consistent with preservation of capital, with a 0.40% expense ratio, $25 minimum, and SEC yield 30-day of 4.41%. Eligible Stable Sea Terminal users establish a relationship with WisdomTree Securities, an SEC-registered broker-dealer, to place orders to buy or sell funds from the Stable Sea dashboard.