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BTC slid toward its 2024 range lows this week, but capital didn't leave the market so much as concentrate. BTC trades near $58.5K, down from ~$64K a week ago, with DeFi tokens hit hardest. SOL held green over seven days against a red tape, pulled up by tokenized RWA trading and Ansem’s efforts to revive Solana.
Since the October top, crypto market cap has fallen from $4.3T to $2.0T, a 54% drawdown, ~$10B a day for 8 months.
US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded a historic over $4B in net outflows in June
HYPE ETFs saw strong inflows this month with cumulative net inflow just shy of $300M.
On Monday, Saylor announced a “Digital Credit Capital Framework” which saw sales of $1.1bn worth of MSTR shares to replenish the USD reserve, which now covers almost 1.5 year worth of dividends.
Michael Saylor@saylor
Strategy announces a Digital Credit Capital Framework designed to strengthen Digital Credit, enhance liquidity, preserve long-term Bitcoin exposure, and support long-term value creation. $MSTR $STRC
strategy.com
Strategy Announces Digital Credit Capital Framework, USD Reserve Policy, STRC Dividend Policy, Digital Credit and MSTR Repurchase Authorizations, and BTC Monetization Program
12:03 PM · Jun 29, 2026 · 3.77M Views
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They pointed out that BTC sales could happen for all sorts of purposes, but still only sold MSTR and not BTC last week even at depressed mNAV.
The perp DEX names with buyback flywheels held or ran while everything relying on pure beta sold off with BTC.
Lighter (LIT) rose ~40% in the last 30-days, outperforming BTC and HYPE.
Solana ecosystem also saw an uptick in volumes as Ansem started a movement to revive Solana and the trenches. $ANSEM ran to $160M amidst an overall depressed market which saw ecosystem coins and memes catching a bid as well.
This resurfaced theories and speculation about a potential Pumpfun airdrop.
xiaoming@xiaomingishere
i got a theory @Pumpfun hired @blknoiz06 to hype up the platform + bring back liq to the SOL ecosystem hype up airdrop news by making traders provide their pumpfun profiles instead of giving wallets + edging pumpfun employees about airdrop airdrop coming soon? let me be
4:51 AM · Jun 28, 2026 · 18.1K Views
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The flavour of the week is onchain options. Both Synapse ($SYN) and Derive ($DRV) are up ~40% on the week.
Arthur Hayes bought $2.2M of SYN and publicly backed Hypercall as a Deribit challenger. The thesis being buybacks where Hypercall would use revenue to buy back SYN once live. The catch is there’s no product yet and Synapse’s Q2 revenue is about $3K against a $120M+ cap, so this is a bet on the flywheel existing, not evidence it does.
Arthur Hayes@CryptoHayes
I still want to be long the Hyperliquid ecosystem but I need some asymmetry. It’s time for an options dex to properly take on Deribit. Hypercall, owned by $SYN, is that challenger. Let’s see if they can cook.
12:26 AM · Jun 29, 2026 · 403K Views
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Derive ($DRV) runs a live options and perps venue with growing fee share and trades at a ~$76M market cap, versus Synapse's valuation on a pre-product testnet.
Nick Forster | Derive@nickforster
Onchain options are inevitable. Options are always the last vertical to mature in finance because of their complexity and the sophistication, long term and institutional nature of the cornerstone trading activity required to bootstrap a two-way market. On the flip side,
9:15 AM · Jun 29, 2026 · 22.7K Views
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Aggregate perp DEX open interest is now at $17B, ~50% off the $12-13B lows in early February. As mentioned in the prior week’s brief, the current OI base looks stickier, although majors are now testing multi-year supports. BTC and ETH slid toward key support with options traders paying up for downside protection.
BTC 25 delta skew is positive across every tenor from +8.2pts at 1W to +5.6pts at 1Y. This shows the options market is paying up for puts over calls at every horizon. The downward slope shows the fear is front-loaded where traders are hedging the immediate support test rather than a long-term breakdown.
On Hyperliquid, HIP-3 has reached roughly $3.2B of open interest and 29.3% of 30-day perp volume, yet TradeXYZ controls more than 95% of HIP-3 volume and open interest.
Once again, prediction market volumes have been driven by the 2026 FIFA World Cup, with the World Cup Winner contract at ~$3.5B in total trading volume.
Polymarket’s hit a new record $8M revenue last week (vs $7.5M prior) and $432M in TVL. Trading volume remains elevated at $1.1B.
Meta also recently announced intentions to enter the prediction market scene, with its experimental app called “Arena”.
Bobby Allyn@BobbyAllyn
NEW: Meta considered buying Kalshi before developing its own prediction market app
npr.org
Meta considered buying Kalshi before developing its own prediction market app
8:36 PM · Jun 30, 2026 · 53K Views
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BTC slid toward its range 2024 lows while capital rotated into Solana rather than leaving the market. SOL ecosystem tokens outran majors on RWA and tokenized-stock demand, with JTO leading on the Market Layer launch. Perp DEX tokens with buyback flywheels held while beta names corrected, and Arthur Hayes reopened the onchain options trade with a revenue-thin but sharply bid SYN. Options desks paid up for downside protection as BTC skew stayed puts-bid, and the World Cup kept generating the deepest prediction market in the platform's history as Meta moved to enter the category.
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