Crypto Derivatives Trading Hits $86 Trillion in 2025
The report shows that cryptocurrency derivatives trading totaled approximately $85.7 trillion for the year, averaging around $264.5 billion in daily volume.
The report shows that cryptocurrency derivatives trading totaled approximately $85.7 trillion for the year, averaging around $264.5 billion in daily volume.
Arthur Hayes argues that quiet liquidity expansion by the Federal Reserve and Japan’s central bank could push Bitcoin beyond $124,000 and toward $200,000 in 2026, while fueling selective altcoin rotation.
“Post-quantum crypto oftentimes it’s about 10 times slower, 10 times larger proof sizes, and 10 times more inefficient,” Hoskinson said. “If you adopt it, what you’re basically doing is taking the throughput of your blockchain and reducing it by cutting off a zero.”
The proposed consent judgments, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, pertain to former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison, former FTX Chief Technology Officer Gary Wang, and former FTX Head of Engineering Nishad Singh.
Strategy, the largest corporate holder of Bitcoin, submitted a formal objection describing the threshold as “discriminatory, arbitrary, and unworkable,” warning that it would redefine operating companies as investment funds based solely on balance sheet composition rather than business activity.