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- A futures contract is an agreement between two parties to buy or sell an asset (in this case Bitcoin) at a predetermined price at a specific future date. These are used for hedging risk or speculating on price changes.
- Open interest is the total number of these contracts that are currently “open” — that is, contracts that have been created but have not yet been exercised, offset, or delivered.
- In the past 24 hours, we have seen a 7% surge in futures open contracts, currently at 449,000 Bitcoin, equivalent to roughly $500 million, according to Coinglass data.
- This surge in open interest is coming from Binance, which currently has 158,000 Bitcoin in open interest contracts.
- This suggests volatility could be on the horizon, which the crypto market has been short of lately. According to Kaiko research, Bitcoin long-term volatility has been steadily declining since November 2022 and hit its lowest level in more than two years.
- In addition, SEC sues Binance for breaching securities law. Following the news, the market has seen $50 million in liquidations in 1 hour. Liquidations over the past 24 hours are over $100 million.

Futures Open Interest: (Source: Coinglass)

Volatility: (Source: Kaiko)
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