{"id":45276,"date":"2025-09-02T12:32:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T12:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=45276"},"modified":"2025-09-02T12:32:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T12:32:48","slug":"crypto-markets-today-futures-see-capital-outflows-as-wlfi-looks-to-shore-up-confidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=45276","title":{"rendered":"Crypto Markets Today: Futures See Capital Outflows as WLFI Looks to Shore Up Confidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Gold rose to a record high of over $3,500 per ounce early Tuesday as bitcoin (BTC) continued to trade in a lackluster fashion. <\/p>\n<p>Data tracked by Lookonchain showed that a whale address 0xFf15 offloaded 425 BTC, worth $46.5 million, in exchange for over 10,500 ETH in the past four days.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Glassnode said that long-term holders have stepped up profit-taking, spending 97,000 BTC on Friday. <\/p>\n<h2>Derivatives Positioning<\/h2>\n<p>By Omkar Godbole<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Crypto futures bets worth $370 million have been liquidated by exchanges in the past 24 hours as the bitcoin price bounced, confounding expectations for a move lower.<\/li>\n<li>The liquidation led to a decline in open interest (OI) in futures tied to most of the top 10 tokens, excluding BTC. Open interest in BTC increased by over 1%, a sign of fresh capital inflows.<\/li>\n<li>XRP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2025\/09\/02\/xrp-s-spinning-bottom-hints-at-recovery-rally-as-btc-takes-out-descending-trendline\">printed a &#8220;spinning bottom&#8221;<\/a> candle on Monday, hinting at a potential bull reversal. However, OI in USD and USDt-denominated perpetuals on major exchanges fell by 5.69% alongside anemic spot trading volume. The action weakens the case for a sustained recovery.<\/li>\n<li>Perpetual funding rates on an eight-hour basis for BTC, ETH, and other major cryptocurrencies are hovering just above zero, indicating a slight bias toward longs.<\/li>\n<li>On the CME, positioning in BTC futures remains light, alongside a near-record OI of 2 million ETH in ether futures.<\/li>\n<li>On Deribit, BTC options reflect downside concerns, with puts trading at a premium to calls out to December expiry. Ether options also exhibit a put bias, but not as pronounced as those of BTC. Options tied to SOL and XRP signal stronger demand for upside exposure.<\/li>\n<li>BTC block flows have been slightly bearish, with traders picking up the September expiry $105K put and writing the $135K call in the October expiry, alongside put calendar spreads. In ETH&#8217;s case, puts at $3,800 and $4,200 were lifted.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Token Talk<\/h2>\n<p>By Shaurya Malwa<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>World Liberty Financial (WLFI), the Trump-affiliated DeFi project, is floating a buyback-and-burn program to shore up confidence after its rocky launch. <\/li>\n<li>Under the proposal, fees from WLFI\u2019s liquidity positions on Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain and Solana would be used to buy tokens on the open market and permanently burn them.<\/li>\n<li>The design shifts the token\u2019s framing from oversupply to engineered scarcity. More trading volume equals more fees, which in turn fuels more burns. <\/li>\n<li>Team members say it aligns long-term holders with protocol growth, though skeptics call it optics over substance.<\/li>\n<li>WLFI trades at 23 cents with a $6.39 billion market cap, down 24% on the day and far below the futures-market valuations above $40 billion seen at launch.<\/li>\n<li>A community-backed governance proposal is also circulating to stake 80% of WLFI\u2019s locked supply into pools, with rewards drawn from a 20% community reserve. Proponents say it turns idle tokens into productive assets; critics say it&#8217;s token recycling.<\/li>\n<li>WLFI\u2019s debut has been marred by security issues. Hackers exploited Ethereum\u2019s EIP-7702 \u201cdelegate contract\u201d feature to drain tokens from unsuspecting wallets in what security researchers called a phishing-style exploit.<\/li>\n<li>Victims describe losing most of their allocations. One investor said they salvaged only 20% of their holdings before attackers siphoned the rest. <\/li>\n<li>SlowMist founder Yu Xian warned the exploit triggers as soon as compromised users attempt transfers, redirecting funds to attacker wallets.<\/li>\n<li>Scams multiplied alongside the exploit: Bubblemaps flagged WLFI \u201cbundled clones,\u201d while phishing links spread across Telegram and X, further trapping early retail buyers.<\/li>\n<li>The dual shock of price collapse and technical exploits underscores WLFI\u2019s fragile launch dynamics, with insider-driven supply, governance controversies and external security risks converging to test the project\u2019s viability.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gold rose to a record high of over $3,500 per ounce early Tuesday as bitcoin (BTC) continued to trade in a lackluster fashion. Data tracked by Lookonchain showed that a whale address 0xFf15 offloaded 425 BTC, worth $46.5 million, in exchange for over 10,500 ETH in the past four days. Meanwhile, Glassnode said that long-term [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-45276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}