SpaceX Paid $10 Billion for a Call Option on Cursor. That's a Great Deal.
Yesterday SpaceX announced a partnership with Cursor, the AI coding tool. The headline number was $60 billion. That is not the interesting number.
Yesterday SpaceX announced a partnership with Cursor, the AI coding tool. The headline number was $60 billion. That is not the interesting number.
For the last two weeks, the loudest trade on crypto Twitter has been a short on oil. The big static discount on xyz:CL is mostly gone. The wallet that built the trade has exited. The copycat crowd that piled in behind is still there.
HIP-4 extends way beyond prediction markets. We are building real vanilla options on Hypercall with native HIP-4 thresholds underneath them and portfolio margin that can finally credit the whole writer hedge stack.
Semis are crashing. Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz. New tariffs just landed. Oil ripped 20% in a week. And everyone is asking the same question: is the AI trade over?
We went looking for the answer in the options market. What we found is more interesting than yes or no.
Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz. New tariffs dropped. Oil ripped 20% in a week. And the most crowded trade in crypto is protection: $433M in BTC put premium, 3.2x put/call ratio on ETH, zero funding, Fear and Greed at 8. Everyone is hedged. History says that is where bottoms form.
The S&P 500 rallied 3% into the close today, driven by a single trade: JPMorgan's $22.7 billion quarterly collar roll. We break down the mechanics of how one options position creates a market-wide gamma event, what dealers had to do, and why it matters for the next quarter.