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March 20th — Data from Greeks.live shows: - 23,000 BTC options expire today, with a Put-Call Ratio (PCR) of 0.88, max pain at $70,000, and a notional value of $1.6 billion. - 176,000 ETH options expire today, with a PCR of 1.04, max pain at $2,150, and a notional value of $370 million. Greeks.live analyst Adam noted: - The crypto market’s latest rebound has ended, as Bitcoin briefly fell below the key $70,000 level. - $75,000 was frequently cited as a critical resistance area over the past week, with 5% of end-of-month options stacked at this price. The final breakout attempt failed, pushing BTC back toward $70,000. Ahead of next Friday’s quarterly settlement: - Options data shows $75,000 is the most concentrated open interest (OI) level — an absolute resistance zone. - Below this, $65,000/$62,000/$60,000 are clustered OI areas acting as downside support. - Implied Volatility (IV) and Realized Volatility (RV) for major-term options held steady this week: BTC’s major

On March 20, on-chain data from Lens shows a whale dormant for two months opened a ~$21 million long position in Brent crude oil on Hyperliquid, using 7x leverage. The entry price is $106.91, with a liquidation price of $89.05.

Mantle(@Mantle_Official)'s lending and borrowing market has hit a new all-time high of $1.35B, ranking #3.

March 20 — Per HyperInsight monitoring, the whale “Ultimate Short” (address 0x5d2) — who had been shorting for over a year — continued adding to its XYZ100 (Nasdaq 100) long position overnight and this morning. The position now totals $13.6 million, with an average entry price of $24,534 and a liquidation level of $22,063. Thanks to today’s downturn in the three major U.S. indices, the whale is currently sitting on a small unrealized loss of $96,000 (-6.5%). Previously, the address had amassed a BTC short position of up to $136 million at an average price of $111,500. Starting in November 2023, it closed out the position in batches to lock in profits, and has fully exited recently — accumulating a total profit of $61.4 million over the period. This Nasdaq long is the whale’s first long position since cashing out its BTC gains, marking its first tens-of-millions-sized long: a shift from shorting crypto to going long on the U.S. tech stock index.

On March 20, data from The Data Nerd shows a whale address received 36.75 million USDT seven hours ago and swapped it for 17,084 ETH.