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Markets Today: The Bitcoin, Ether Hold Gains while Etha hit $ 11.9B TVL, Pudgy Penguins Race to F1

The Global Crypto Market Cap rose 2% in the past 24 hours up to $ 4.03 trillion while major cryptocurrencies have posted the acquisitions.
Bitcoin (BTC) added 2.3% to $ 118,527, rising the ether of 0.7% to $ 4,293. Solana and XRP each moved by 4.4% while Dogecoin gained 4.7%.
The rallies come next to the heavy short -term, with a dangerous sentiment that improves after a relatively calm Macro session.
Derivatives positioning
- Futures that are open interest (OI) in the main tokens have been reduced in the last 24 hours, indicating a capital flow. It also indicates price losses driven by not loving long positions rather than clear short sales.
- Perpetual Futures of XMR appear to be extremely hot, with annual funding rates of over 200%. The super high figure can prompt arbitrageurs to take a simultaneous -long position in the marketplace and a short position in futures, allowing them to pocket safe funds.
- Funding rates for other major tokens remain turned around 10%, reflecting a moderate bullish bias.
- In CME, the open interest in Eth Futures rose to 1.70 million from 1.51 million ETH.
- The BTC Open Interest has remained stable near 138k BTC, the lowest since April.
- In the derivit, BTC options until August expiry show a slight bias towards putting, or protective, options. ETH options have shown a bullish bias to all tenors.
- The indicated volatility of the ETH (IV) structure is steep as the BTC remains unchanged. The OTC desk paradigm flows featured a long position at BTC $ 115K expiry on August 13 and asked for a $ 150k call that expired on September.
- Volumes are large, with $ 3.3 billion being exchanged for paradigm.
Token talk
- Eden Exceeded $ 11.89B on TVL, which became the sixth defi protocol that crossed $ 10B and the second non-staking model after a do it. Susde Apa is sitting at 4.72%, which attracts yield -focused investors.
- The protocol scale emphasizes the growing appetite for non -staking defi models and may influence future designs. The market reaction is widely positive, with industry numbers notice the importance of milestone.
- USDE maintains a $ 1 peg with a $ 10.48B market cap and $ 371.97M in 24 -hour volume.
- Polymarket Moving the Oracle of Uma from oov2 to Moov2 after approved management, restricting market resolution proposals to a whitelist of Vetted participants.
- The change aims to reduce market disputes and manipulation by ensuring measures are submitted by experienced users, while keeping the dispute rights open to all.
- The initial Whitelist includes 37 addresses, with a shift framed as a transfer from open debates to a more controlled council-style resolution process.
- Pudgy Penguins Secured Formula 1 Branding at the Singapore Grand Prix after winning Kraken’s Memecoin Trading Contest. Pengu’s branding will appear in the FW47 car of Williams Racing.
- The token gained 55.1% over the past 30 days while sinking 11.8% to 24 hours, slightly rebounding with 1.4% intraday gain.
- Exposure is expected to boost the visibility of major audiences and strengthen Kraken’s push for sports -related promotions.