Headlines from leading crypto outlets with a short Blockdeck Brief and how the market moved since. Every story credits its publisher.
About $11 billion in Bitcoin options are set to expire on Deribit, roughly a third of its open contracts, one day after the Federal Reserve kept rates unchanged with two officials favoring a hike. Bitcoin was trading near $81,174 when the story ran and has since moved -2.06%.
Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller made his first post on X, disclosing an indirect investment of about $23 million tied to Trade[XYZ], a venture linked to the Hyperliquid platform. The move comes as the platform works with the parent company of the NYSE, and his family office had earlier reported shares in a HYPE-focused treasury company. HYPE was priced near $96.30 when the story ran and has since moved down about 1.6%.
Bitcoin rose to about $81,500 after strong US GDP figures, returning to a weekly resistance level that the excerpt highlights. The coin has since slipped 2.81% from its price at the time of the story.
The U.S. Treasury has sanctioned ten individuals and one entity, including two Russian crypto intermediaries, over money laundering tied to North Korean schemes that place fake IT workers abroad. The proceeds are said to help fund the country's weapons programs. BTC was $80,855 when the story was published; in the first hour after it was up 1.1%; since the story it is down 1.8%.
The US Treasury has sanctioned 11 people tied to a North Korean IT worker scheme that moved millions in crypto. Two Russian nationals allegedly converted more than $5 million in crypto for North Korean networks, and the Treasury's sanctions office listed their wallet addresses. BTC was down 0.9% since the story was published.