Ethereum price drops below $3K, but ETH options data reflects optimism
$430 million in ETH options expire on Friday and derivatives data shows that bulls are in control and planning to push prices higher in the short term. Ether's (ETH) 81% rally over the last three weeks caught professional traders off-guard, and this week's upcoming options expiry reveals that of the $430 million in contracts set to expire, only 7% of the neutral-to-bearish put options will be available if Ether holds above $3,200 on Aug. 13.Ether price in USD at Coinbase. Source: TradingViewCuriously, the crypto market is holding its recent strength despite the Senate's 'crypto-critical'....
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There are currently 38 projects deployed on the Ethereum layer-2 network. More are expected as attention shifts to scalability. Automated market maker and decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Balancer has officially deployed on Optimism, the highly touted Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution, in a move designed to enhance user functionality by increasing scalability and reducing fees. Balancer’s Optimism deployment was carried out in conjunction with Beethoven X, a decentralized investment platform on the Fantom Network that forked from Balancer v2. Together, both teams are said to have....
Despite $40 million in Ethereum options expiring on Friday, multiple indicators favor bulls as ETH 2.0 approaches. In the last few days Bitcoin (BTC) price rallied within a hair of the $14,000 level and Ether (ETH) followed with a similarly strong performance but the altcoin failed to hold above the $400 physiological support. Bitcoin and Ethereum year-to-date performance. Source: Digital Assets DataAlthough Ether price is below $400, data show traders are not worried about Friday’s options expiry. Investor optimism has been kept intact despite the recent decentralized finance (DeFi)....
Optimism price registered a spike of 25% after its opening at $1.9890. The OP/USD pair currently trades at $1.9510, with a high of $2.2150 and a low of $1.9390. The current price movement of Optimism is going with the flow as far as the Ethereum layer-2 protocol is concerned. It makes use of rollups that enable quicker and low-cost Ethereum transactions. OP Labs of Optimism protocol has announced this week that the planned update will happen this quarter 4 of 2022. And when that happens, this will be a game-changer. Early Friday, OP has spiked by 11.43% and the sentiments show that it....
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