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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,,

Major Averages Broadly Lower as Bond Market Pressure Increases

The major averages were broadly lower as investors assess renewed pressure in the bond market and higher oil prices.The 30-year Treasury yield has climbed back above 5.2%, near its highest level in roughly two decades, as investors worry about rising government debt and persistent inflation pressures. The Treasury moved to double its purchases of longer-dated government bonds, helping yields pull back from their recent highs, although the move does not address the underlying fiscal concerns driving the selloff.Oil is adding to the inflation concerns, with Brent crude rising for a fifth consecutive session as tensions surrounding Iran and the Strait of Hormuz remain unresolved. President Donald Trump vowed "economic warfare" on Iran and penalties for its supporters, as the United Arab Emirates reported it was ceasing trade with Tehran.Get caught up quickly on the top news and calls moving stocks with these five Top Five lists.1. STOCK NEWS:Walmartprovided areport for Q2Alibabareportedbut upbeat revenueDeerereportedand narrowed its FY26 net income guidancePresident Donald Trump asked Congress to pass the Clarity Act, arguing the legislation is a top priority for the industry and is critical to keeping the U.S.'s edge in emerging technologies,Anthropic anticipates matching or even surpassing the size of SpaceX'srecord-setting IPO as plans for the AI firm's public debt pick up speed,2. WALL STREET CALLS:BofAEtsyto Buy from NeutralSeaport ResearchAnalog Devicesto Buy from NeutralRBCMerckon 'unprecedented valuation' after vaccine dataAllstateto Underperform from Market Perform at Keefe BruyetteCitiCactusto Neutral on valuation after rally3. AROUND THE WEB:The NFL's Atlanta Falcons are in talks to sell a 10% interest in the team to KKR'sArctos Partners, Bloomberg reportsVirtu Financialis considering a sale of its agency brokerage and technology division, Bloomberg saysYouTubeis offering millions of dollars to popular channels on its platform if they upload videos exclusively to the site for a period of time, Bloomberg reportsOpenAI CFO Sara Friar told employees that the AI lab "will be a public company in 2027," CNBC reportsAustralia recently passed legislation that would force tech giants, including Meta, Google, TikTok, and Microsoft'sLinkedIn, to pay millions if they don't enter commercial deals with local media outlets for news on their platforms, Reuters reports4. MOVERS:Bitdeerincreased in New York after Barclayscoverage of the stock with an Overweight ratingAndersen Groupgained after announcing aWebullwas higher after, with EPS higher year-over-yearCotyfell after RBC Capitalthe stock to Sector Perform following Q4 resultsFluence Energywas lower after GLJ Researchthe stock to Hold5. EARNINGS/GUIDANCE:Advance Auto Partsand raised its outlook for FY26LSI Industries, with EPS and revenue beating consensusTicketplus, with EPS and revenue higher year-over-yearNetEase, with EPS missing consensusNavios Maritime Partners, with EPS and revenue beating consensusINDEXES:The Dow fell 703.84, or 1.32%, to 52,759.21, the Nasdaq lost 263.92, or 1.00%, to 26,067.17, and the S&P 500 declined 66.82, or 0.87%, to 7,641.16.

Piper Sandler: Virtu Financial May Sell Brokerage Business

Piper Sandler analyst Patrick Moley notes that media reports suggest Virtu Financial is weighing the sale of its Brokerage Business. The speculated valuation range implies 6.0 to 6.8-times next twelve months sales or 20 to 23-times next twelve months adjusted EBITDA. Hypothetically speaking, if all net proceeds were diverted to trading capital to support the Market Making business, the low end of the valuation range would represent a 70%-plus increase in trading capital after tax, Piper says. Further, assuming net proceeds were fully deployed by year-end 2026 and incremental return on invested capital in 2027 is just half of Virtu's last twelve months ROIC, the firm believes a potential sale at this valuation could be 40% accretive to 2027 EPS. Piper has an Outperform rating on the shares with a price target of $70.