GameStop faces a crucial test as its Bitcoin covered-call options strategy with a $70,000 strike price could mean giving up roughly $31 million in potential upside amid soaring crypto prices.

The Moscow Exchange is launching five crypto perpetual futures linked to Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, XRP, and Tron for qualified investors, settling in Russian rubles without delivering underlying digital assets.

Strategy and Strive collectively purchased roughly $183 million in Bitcoin last week as a renewed cryptocurrency rally past $85,000 helped corporate balance sheets recover previous unrealized losses.

Bitcoin surpassed $80,000 after a $148 billion US Treasury cash build and a Federal Reserve rate hike failed to disrupt overnight funding markets or cause widespread financial instability.

President Donald Trump's new Russia sanctions law establishes an October 18 deadline for tariffs on Russian energy trade, creating potential inflation and Treasury yield impacts that Bitcoin traders are closely monitoring.

The Moscow Exchange is launching five crypto perpetual futures linked to Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, XRP, and Tron for qualified investors, settling in Russian rubles without delivering underlying digital assets.

ZetaChain's governance has approved Proposal 68 to retire its standalone layer-1 blockchain and migrate the ZETA token to Solana, shifting the project's focus entirely toward private artificial intelligence applications such as Anuma.