{"id":48242,"date":"2025-09-18T12:46:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T12:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=48242"},"modified":"2025-09-18T12:46:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T12:46:50","slug":"crypto-markets-today-bnb-avax-and-dot-lead-futures-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=48242","title":{"rendered":"Crypto Markets Today: BNB, AVAX and DOT Lead Futures Trends"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Major cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin (BTC), ether (ETH), XRP (XRP), solana (SOL) and others, are trading on the front foot following Wednesday&#8217;s interest-rate cut by the Federal Reserve. <\/p>\n<p>Still, some analysts are maintaining a cautious bias. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Fed rate cut gave crypto a near-term lift, but the rally is not yet clean,&#8221; Timothy Misir, head of research,\u00a0BRN, said in an email. &#8220;Institutional flows are supportive overall, yet exchange inflows and a single-day ETF outflow signal distribution into strength.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Misir suggested traders use a bitcoin price band of $115,000\u2013$115,500 as the guardrail for tactical risk management.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Derivatives Positioning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>by Omkar Godbole<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>BNB, AVAX, and DOT have all seen double-digit increases in futures open interest (OI) in the past 24 hours, reinforcing their price gains of 5% to 9%.<\/li>\n<li>BTC&#8217;s cumulative OI in USD and USDT-denominated perpetual futures continues to drop, diverging from the ascending price. Perhaps derivative traders are not participating in the rally. (Check out the Technical Analysis section.) <\/li>\n<li>BCH, TRX, BNB, BTC, XMR, AVAX, and SUI stand out with a positive open interest-adjusted cumulative volume delta, indicating strong buying pressure.<\/li>\n<li>There are no signs of overheating even in the further corners of the crypto market, as annualized funding rates for smaller speculative tokens remain at around 10%.<\/li>\n<li>On the CME, OI in ether futures is again closing on the 2 million ETH mark, while positioning in BTC futures remains considerably light. The annualized three-month basis for both tokens remains below 10%, offering significantly lower yield to carry traders than SOL&#8217;s 17% return.<\/li>\n<li>On Deribit, 25-delta risk reversals reveal a neutral to bearish (put) bias in options out to March expiry. In contrast, ether options are bullish across all tenors.<\/li>\n<li>Block flows on OTC network Paradigm featured demand for the $116K call expiring on Sept. 19 and the $100K put expiring on Oct. 31. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Token Talk<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By Oliver Knight<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The altcoin market staged a strong rebound following Wednesday&#8217;s oversold RSI readings, with several tokens posting gains in excess of 10%.<\/li>\n<li>Leading the rally is ether.fi (ETHFI), up 12% in the past 24 hours to $1.64, the highest since January.<\/li>\n<li>BNB also notched a milestone, breaking through $1,000 for the first time as momentum accelerates toward fresh record highs.<\/li>\n<li>The bullish backdrop comes as bitcoin creeps up toward $117,300, consolidating above critical support at $110,000.<\/li>\n<li>Meanwhile, bitcoin dominance slipped to 56% at CoinMarketCap, its lowest since early January, highlighting investors\u2019 growing appetite for more speculative investments.<\/li>\n<li>The decentralized finance (DeFi) sector has been one of the largest beneficiaries of Thursday&#8217;s move higher, with total value locked (TVL) across all protocols <a href=\"https:\/\/defillama.com\/\">hitting $170 billion<\/a>, the highest point since April, 2022.<\/li>\n<li>Hyperliquid&#8217;s layer-1 blockchain notched a record high of $2.77 billion having risen by 3.88% in 24 hours, while Sui&#8217;s TVL is up by 3% to $2.1 billion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin (BTC), ether (ETH), XRP (XRP), solana (SOL) and others, are trading on the front foot following Wednesday&#8217;s interest-rate cut by the Federal Reserve. Still, some analysts are maintaining a cautious bias. &#8220;The Fed rate cut gave crypto a near-term lift, but the rally is not yet clean,&#8221; Timothy Misir, head of [&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-48242","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\/48242","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=48242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}