Bitcoin ticks higher, but remains range-bound as traders keep short bias

BTC rises to $77,000 after holding $75,000 support, but negative funding, unchanged open interest and cautious positioning signal a lack of conviction.

What to know:

• Bitcoin has been stuck between $75,000 and $80,000 since April 19, with negative funding rates indicating that traders are still shorting any rallies.
• Derivatives data reflects weak conviction: Open interest is steady at $19 billion and basis remains subdued at 1.5% annualized.
• Options markets lean bullish, with call-heavy flows and easing downside hedging demand despite broader macro uncertainty.

The crypto market ticked higher on Friday. Bitcoin BTC$77,248.38 rose 1.25% since midnight UTC to trade at $77,250, and the CoinDesk 20 Index (CD20) added 0.7% with 14 members in the green.

The increase comes after bitcoin found support at $75,000, a price it had earlier found difficult to climb above, on Wednesday. It has now been trapped between $75,000 and $80,000 since April 19. Negative funding rates on futures exchanges indicate that traders are generally positioned for a decline.

U.S. equity index futures were little changed. Nasdaq 100 futures cooled after the week's Big Tech earnings, while S&P 500 futures are marginally in the black, up 5 points.

Precious metals fell, with gold and silver losing 1% and 0.7%, respectively, and the altcoin market is a mixed bag; AXS and HYPE rose by around 3%, but DeFi tokens MORPHO and AAVE are both in the red.

Derivatives positioning

• Open interest in bitcoin futures holds at $19 billion, roughly unchanged week-over-week, with speculative activity showing little conviction.
• Funding rates are broadly negative across multiple venues at around -2% annualized, except on Deribit, which saw a spike to 37%. The three-month annualized basis sits at 1.5%, also flat on the week, pointing to continued institutional caution.
• Options sentiment leans bullish: put/call volume over the past 24 hours is 58% in favor of calls, and the one-week delta skew has eased to 8.6% from 9.5%, indicating moderating demand for downside protection.
• The implied volatility term structure is in contango, with the front-end around 29% rising to ~45% at the March '27 tenor, suggesting the market is pricing longer-dated uncertainty rather than immediate tail risk.
• CoinGlass data shows $149 million in 24-hour liquidations, with a 30-70 split between longs and shorts. BTC ($50 million) and ETH ($29 million) led in terms of notional liquidations.
• The Binance liquidation heatmap indicates $75,400 as a core liquidation level to monitor in the event of a price drop.

Token talk

• The CoinDesk Memecoin Index (CDMEME) was the best-performing benchmark, surging by 1.8%, followed by the CoinDesk Computing Select Index (CPUS), which added 1.4%.
• CoinDesk's DeFi Select Index (DFX) lagged its peers, and was recently unchanged despite broader market optimism.
• Monad (MON) led the altcoin market on Friday, rallying by 6.7% over 24 hours. There were also notable gains for PENDLE, RAY and TAO, all up between 4.2% and 5.35%.
• The same can't be said for WLFI$0.05687, the DeFi token linked to President Donald Trump's family. That dropped by more than 2.6% since midnight following a governance vote on token lock-ups. It has now lost more than 77% since it was introduced in September.
• CoinDesk's Overnight Rate (CDOR), which tracks lending and borrowing rates on Aave, has returned to normal market conditions after the KelpDAO hack, a sign of strength in the DeFi sector.

Plus pour vous

BTC rises on steady volume and strong technical structure, but surging put interest and muted prediction market odds point to defensive positioning.

Ce qu'il:

• Bitcoin (BTC) rose more than 1.2% during the European morning to reach just shy of $77,500, capping an advance of about 1.7% in the last 24 hours.
• Derivatives markets may tell a cautious story. Open interest in the June 26 $76,000 put option surged almost 23%, pointing to increased...

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