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Why the options boom is changing what investors actually buy

Investors are moving from owning assets to buying probability, and options are beginning to shape how prices form.

Options trading is increasingly overtaking outright ownership across crypto, equities, prediction markets, and tokenized assets.

02That shift is reshaping price discovery and capital flows as dealers hedge, retail chases short-dated bets, and institutions hedge risk.

03The trend looks broad, but gross volume may overstate exposure, and Bitcoin faces a major June 26 expiry test.

Bitcoin dropped below $60,000 by mid-June after a punishing start to the month, but the figure drawing the most attention across trading desks is the June 26 Bitcoin options expiry, with over $10 billion of contracts set to expire and roughly 80% currently sitting out of the money.
In equity markets, zero-days-to-expiry options now make up well over half of daily S&P 500 index options volume, up from around 5% in 2020.

Those two numbers come from very different corners of finance, but they describe the same underlying development: an options trading boom that has pushed contracts on what assets might do next into the most active part of modern markets, while ownership of those assets has slipped into a supporting role.
Finance as we know it is drifting from an economy built on ownership toward one built on optionality, where investors place a growing premium on flexibility, asymmetric payoffs, and exposure to probability itself.

Options, perpetual futures, prediction contracts, and tokenized derivatives are now the instruments through which markets discover prices and route capital.

Crypto reached this point first, which is why the strongest evidence for the supremacy of options first appears in Bitcoin and Ethereum before it surfaces in traditional assets.




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Crypto Mom' Hester Peirce Announces Exit From SECHester Peirce, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) official affectionately dubbed "Crypto Mom" by the digital asset industry, has confirmed her upcoming departure from the agency during her appearance on the "Rollup" podcast.

Peirce will be leaving the SEC this November and "moving to the beach" after nearly three decades in Washington, D.C.

Peirce's final priorities include pushing for regulatory changes that allow more companies to go public earlier, eliminating the trade-through rule, and, most notably, clearing the runway for a comprehensive regulatory crypto framework.

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Hester Peirce was initially sworn into office back in January 2018. She was then renominated in 2020 and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in August 2020.

Her term officially expired on June 5, 2025, but U.S. law allows SEC commissioners to continue serving in their roles for up to 18 months if a successor has not been named and confirmed.

The extension allowed Peirce to remain at the agency until early December 2026. However, her recent announcement confirms she will cut this extension slightly short. She will join Regent University School of Law as an associate professor.$

Crypto Mom' Hester Peirce Announces Exit From SECH

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On June 18, 2026, a security that was designed to be boring did something deeply un-boring.

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MicroStrategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor Hints at Buying Bitcoin Again After Calling for Community Unity

On Sunday, MicroStrategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor hinted at buying Bitcoin (BTC) again. This came just hours after he called for unity among Bitcoin holders.

The timing is somewhat unusual. Recent filings by MicroStrategy show that the company sold a small amount of Bitcoin, rather than bought any, and it hasn't disclosed any new purchases in three weeks.

A chart shared by Saylor depicts the amount of Bitcoin MicroStrategy has held since 2020 and its average purchase price. Each orange dot represents a single purchase.

According to regulatory filings, as of press time, MicroStrategy holds 846,842 BTC. The average cost is $75,658, and the current holding price is about 10% below cost.

On Sunday, Bitcoin traded near $64,082, up 1.31% for the day. This brings the value of MicroStrategy's Bitcoin holdings to approximately $54.2 billion.

Saylor's move has sparked speculation about a new wave of Bitcoin purchases, similar to his previous acquisition strategy. The company (formerly MicroStrategy) has been acquiring Bitcoin since 2020 and remains the largest corporate shareholder, holding a significant lead.

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Tether’s Bitcoin Mining Development Kit has been advanced to version 0.2.0 in the record preserved for this story, with the narrow evidence trail running through https://mos.tether.io/mining-sdk/ and the matching GitHub release listing at https://github.com/tetherto/mdk/releases/tag/v0.2.0. Because the research brief preserved no extracted release notes, this report confines itself to what those public endpoints and the repository path https://github.com/tetherto/mdk.git establish about the upgrade and its open-source packaging.

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