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BlackRock IBIT Options Hit $1.9 Billion in First Day of Trading, Grayscale Begins Trading on November 20th.

Bloomberg ETFs analyst James Seyffart reports via X that “Options volume on BlackRock's bitcoin spot ETF IBIT, which began trading today (Nov. 19), was about $1.9 billion. A total of 35.4 million contracts were active, of which 28.9 million were calls (82%) and 65,000 were puts (18%). The ratio is 4.4:1. These options trades may have contributed to the new all-time high for Bitcoin.”

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Meanwhile, Grayscale has announced that options trading on GBTC and BTC will begin today (Feb. 20) via Official X. The company says this will allow for the first time ever for a U.S.-listed cryptocurrency. “We expect this to further develop the ecosystem centered around Bitcoin ETPs listed on the US markets,” the company said. Earlier, crypto asset manager Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley also said that options trading on its product BITB was expected to begin on the 20th.

Trump nominates 'Crypto Proponent' Howard Lutnick as Commerce Secretary, while US SEC chairman struggles to narrow down candidates to four.

US President-elect Donald Trump has nominated US investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick to serve as Secretary of Commerce, according to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ). Lutnick is an avid supporter of Bitcoin and Tether (USDT), with Cantor Fitzgerald reportedly serving as Tether's U.S. Treasury bond

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Aethir Partners with XPLA to Support $10 Million in Web3 Game Development

Aethir, a decentralized GPU infrastructure platform, announced today that it has launched a program to support the development of AI-powered triple-A games in collaboration with Comatus Holdings' blockchain mainnet XPLA. The program is worth a total of $10 million and is designed to discover web3 games that leverage AI

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Half of the top 10 protocols by fee volume are Solana-affiliated...“meme coin craze impact”

“Half of the top 10 cryptocurrency protocols by transaction fee (gas fee) volume in the last 24 hours were on Solana (SOL) related platforms,” crypto analyst Patrick Scott said, citing data from DeepRama, according to Cointelegraph. The top protocol by transaction fees in the past 24 hours was Ethereum (ETH)

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