Cheap volatility before the biggest expiry of the year

Bitcoin vol is cheap heading into a $10.5B options expiry Friday. Korea’s market circuit-broke. SpaceX shed $600B. BTC is holding the 200-week SMA. ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ SPONSORED BY Tuesday, June 23, 2026   Bitcoin volatility looks cheap heading into Friday’s $10.5 billion quarterly options expiry — and that matters because cheap vol is an invitation. Deribit’s DVOL index sits at 41.5%, well below February’s peak of 90%, which means the market is pricing small swings precisely when large ones may be coming. South Korea’s Kospi circuit-broke for the fourth time this year, down 10% as Samsung and SK Hynix plunged on AI spending doubts. SpaceX has shed $600 billion in market value over three days. QQQ futures are down 3%. BTC is slipping toward $63,000 — but it’s holding the 200-week moving average better than anything else in risk assets today. Read today’s full report → Market snapshot As of 8am EST Asset Price 24h BTC $62,445 −2.71% ETH $1,649 −5.49% SOL $68.93 −6.48% XRP $1.10 −2.66% Prices approximate. Visit coindesk.com/price for live data. A message from Grayscale Grayscale Solana Trust ETF: 100% Staking Grayscale Solana Trust ETF (ticker: GSOL) is now delivering enhanced value to investors, including 100% staking.* Solana staking rewards have historically averaged 6-8% a year.2 GSOL, an exchange traded product, is not registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (“40 Act”), and therefore is not subject to the same regulations and protections as 40 Act registered ETFs and mutual funds. GSOL is subject to significant risk and heightened volatility. GSOL is not suitable for an investor who cannot afford to the loss of the entire investment. 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Learn more CoinDesk Disclosure: The information contained in this newsletter, and any information linked through the items contained herein, is not intended to provide sufficient information to form the basis for an investment decision. You should seek additional information regarding the merits and risks of investing in any cryptocurrency or digital assets. L1.co Disclosure: This material is for informational purposes only, and the content contained herein should not be considered investment advice or a solicitation, offer, or recommendation to sell or buy any asset, strategy, or product. Investing in digital assets involves a high degree of risk, including the loss of principal. What matters today Markets   Story 1 of 3 Bitcoin volatility looks cheap as a $10.5 billion options settlement nears. Deribit’s bitcoin volatility index, DVOL, is trading at 41.5% — well below February’s peak of 90% and slightly above May’s lows — heading into Friday’s $10.5 billion quarterly options expiry, the largest of the year. “Vol is cheap relative to its own history but no longer at fire-sale levels,” Deribit CCO Jean-David Péquignot told CoinDesk. The significance: cheap implied volatility means options premium is low, making it inexpensive to buy directional exposure — particularly on the bullish side — right before a catalyst event. The quarterly expiry on Friday is one of the largest scheduled volatility events of the year. Most of the open call interest is now underwater as spot has fallen through the quarter. An altcoin season signal also flashed this week: BTC has declined faster than alts, causing the BTC dominance ratio to briefly drop — the classic mechanical trigger. But in this case it was set off by BTC weakness rather than alt strength, a distinction that matters for reading the signal correctly. Read more → Markets   Story 2 of 3 An altcoin season signal flashed — but it was bitcoin’s slide that set it off. South Korea’s Kospi triggered its fourth circuit breaker of the year, closing down 10%, as Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix each fell more than 12% and foreign investors dumped over $2.5 billion of Korean shares. The catalyst: AI spending doubt. Samsung and SK Hynix are global proxies for AI chip demand, so their slide is the same trade hitting SpaceX — down another 15% Tuesday — and the Nasdaq, where QQQ futures are off nearly 3% in pre-market. Leveraged ETFs tracking the chip names amplified the Korean selloff, with one fund targeting twice SK Hynix’s daily return losing more than 25%. Korea’s volatility gauge spiked toward 90. Bitcoin absorbed the backdrop and fell less than 1% over three days while SpaceX lost $600 billion in market cap. The average crypto RSI sits at 39.05, in oversold territory — a condition that has historically preceded short-term relief rallies but requires a catalyst to sustain. Read more → Markets   Story 3 of 3 Bitcoin slips toward $63,000 as a tech selloff drags risk assets lower. Bitcoin fell to $62,840 on Tuesday, down 1.1% over 24 hours and 3.5% on the week, as a rotation out of AI and chip stocks bled into crypto. The Coinbase premium remains negative — signalling absent U.S. institutional spot demand — and Strategy’s STRC preferred stock is under renewed pressure, adding a company-specific headwind to the macro backdrop. BTC is holding above the 200-week moving average, currently sitting just above $64,000, which has served as key support throughout this bear phase. Analysts identify $59,000–$60,000 as the next significant support zone if current levels break; a move into that range would likely represent the deepest test of the bull thesis since the October 2025 peak. Micron earnings and the core PCE print later this week are the two macro catalysts that could either extend the selling or trigger the relief rally the oversold RSI readings are hinting at. Read more → CoinDesk Disclosure: The information contained in this newsletter, and any information linked through the items contained herein, is not intended to provide sufficient information to form the basis for an investment decision. You should seek additional information regarding the merits and risks of investing in any cryptocurrency or digital assets. L1.co Disclosure: This material is for informational purposes only, and the content contained herein should not be considered investment advice or a solicitation, offer, or recommendation to sell or buy any asset, strategy, or product. 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Is the bitcoin ETF bleed finally slowing?

Bitcoin's stuck at $64K as ETF outflows hit a sixth week. Ether's biggest holders are funding a new research hub. And the crypto industry opens a second D.C. front — tax reform. ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ SPONSORED BY Monday, June 22, 2026 Bitcoin is stuck near $64,000 as ETF outflows reach a sixth week Bitcoin is trading around $64,000, still searching for a catalyst strong enough to break the range it has held for weeks. Selling from spot bitcoin ETFs has eased from earlier this month, but fresh institutional demand has yet to return. U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs have now posted a sixth straight week of net outflows, with only a sparse few days of green. The six-week total stands at $5.94 billion — the longest consecutive weekly outflow streak on record — though the pace has slowed sharply, from $1.72 billion in the first week of June to just $226.8 million in the week ended June 18. The rebounding dollar is a significant weight. After the June FOMC, the Fed's cautious message weakened expectations for near-term rate cuts, lifting the Dollar Index to the 100.6–100.8 range while keeping Treasury yields high. Bank of America now expects the Fed to raise interest rates three times before year-end — in September, October, and December — which would lift the Federal Funds rate to 4.25%–4.5%. On the constructive side, Bitcoin supply controlled by long-term holders has reached an all-time high of 16.64 million BTC — roughly 83% of current circulating supply — signaling that conviction among patient holders remains intact even as ETF investors pull back. Strategy bought 520 more BTC last week, raising its cash reserves to $1.4 billion. Read live updates → A message from Fidelity Careers Drive your crypto career forward at Fidelity It's an exciting time to be working in crypto, and Fidelity provides the resources and platform you need to truly grow and scale your impact. At Fidelity, we've been building our digital assets ecosystem since 2014 with the same rigor and long-term commitment as our traditional asset classes. Our builders work with a unique "scan, try, scale" approach, giving you the experimental nature of a startup backed by the reach and depth of a large institution. This is how we turn groundbreaking ideas into reality. Whether your background is in UX, product management, tech, or operations, we want your help to discover what's next. Let's turn the promise of digital assets into a reality, together. Learn more about crypto careers at Fidelity Business Ether's biggest corporate holders back new Ethereum research hub Ethlabs — a new independent Ethereum research organization — has launched with backing from SharpLink, Bitmine, and Consensys CEO Joe Lubin, positioning itself as an alternative development and coordination center at a moment when the Ethereum Foundation is actively stepping back from its stewardship role. The formation reflects a broader power shift that has been building since early 2026: corporate treasury holders of ETH — led by Bitmine with nearly 5.4 million ETH and SharpLink with roughly 480,000 ETH — now collectively control a far larger share of the network than the Foundation does, and are increasingly funding the ecosystem through staking rewards rather than relying on EF grants. Ethlabs is intended to fill the coordination vacuum left by the Foundation's wave of high-profile departures this year, including the exits of Tim Beiko, Trent Van Epps, Barnabé Monnot, and Carl Beek. Lubin, whose Consensys has been a central developer of Ethereum tooling since the network's launch, said the new hub will focus on protocol research, developer tooling, and ecosystem funding — the functions the Foundation has historically performed but is now deliberately scaling back. Read more → Policy Crypto's second U.S. lobbying front — tax policy — sees industry push on mining, staking The crypto sector's leading U.S. advocacy groups asked the House Ways and Means Committee to advance Rep. Mike Carey's bill without changes — legislation that would give miners and staking reward recipients the option to defer taxation on newly created assets, rather than treating them as taxable income at the moment of receipt. The push marks crypto's second active legislative front in Washington alongside the CLARITY Act, and reflects a coordinated industry view that the CLARITY Act alone — however it passes — won't unlock mainstream adoption without parallel tax reform. Democrats on the committee have raised concerns about how deferral could be used in practice, and outside critics have argued that crypto mining firms — including American Bitcoin, in which President Trump's sons have a significant stake — could defer taxes indefinitely. The industry letter countered that the bill does not permit unlimited deferral. Submissions for the record are due June 23 — meaning the final arguments land tomorrow. Read more → Know someone who should be reading this? Share this newsletter See all of CoinDesk’s newsletters    CoinDesk, Inc., 61 9th Avenue, 5th Floor, New York,NY,10011,USA, Unsubscribe Manage Preferences   Copyright © 2026 CoinDesk, All rights reserved.