Crypto Options Unplugged

We’re excited to share Crypto Options Unplugged during TOKEN2049 Singapore, featuring conversations with leading figures from across crypto and finance. In this episode, Yoann and CJ explore how the world’s largest market makers stay ahead in fast-moving markets. They unpack the intricacies of providing liquidity in volatile conditions and offer insights on how traders can gain an edge. Deribit FZ...

We’re excited to share Crypto Options Unplugged during TOKEN2049 Singapore, featuring conversations with leading figures from across crypto and finance. In this episode, Jimmy and Geoffrey explore the intersection of token-price forecasting and bespoke derivatives. They discuss how institutional research and market sentiment shape forecasts—and how those insights feed into the pricing of exotic op...

We’re excited to share Crypto Options Unplugged during TOKEN2049 Singapore, featuring conversations with leading figures from across crypto and finance. In this episode, Imran and David are joined by Luuk Strijers to explore what lies ahead for options markets and what these developments could mean for traders. Luuk also shares his perspective on Deribit’s integration into Coinbase and how this mi...

We’re excited to share Crypto Options Unplugged during TOKEN2049 Singapore, featuring conversations with leading figures from across crypto and finance. In this episode, Imran and David are joined by Seth Ginns and Jason Urban to discuss how the bridging of traditional finance and digital assets has fundamentally reshaped crypto and what the next era may hold. Together, they explore the accelerati...

We’re excited to share Crypto Options Unplugged during TOKEN2049 Singapore, featuring conversations with leading figures from across crypto and finance. In this episode, Imran Lakha is joined by macro investor Raoul Pal, OSF and Taiki to explore how liquidity, macroeconomic indicators and risk appetite are shaping crypto markets. They discuss what could trigger the next liquidity wave and how trad...

We’re excited to share Crypto Options Unplugged during TOKEN2049 Singapore, featuring conversations with leading figures from across crypto and finance. In this episode, Imran Lakha and David Brickell sit down with Arthur Hayes and Usman Naeem to discuss the evolution of crypto derivatives and the forces shaping the market today. They talk about how macro conditions, liquidity, interest rates and...

This week on Crypto Options Unplugged, Imran Lakha and David Brickell are joined by Santiago Roel Santos, founder of Inversion, for a wide-ranging conversation on AI, crypto and where the biggest investment opportunities could emerge from the next wave of technological disruption. Santiago argues that we are still extremely early in the AI adoption cycle. Rather than focusing purely on frontier mo...

In this week’s Crypto Options Unplugged, Imran Lakha and David Brickell unpack the market reaction to the Fed’s latest rate hike, the bigger forces driving global markets, and Bitcoin’s breakout through the key $80–85k area. The Fed may have delivered another hike, but Dave argues monetary policy is increasingly becoming a sideshow compared with the much larger story of fiscal dominance. Persisten...

In this week’s Crypto Options Unplugged, Imran Lakha and David Brickell are joined by Mark Sischka, Global Head of OTC Trading at Blockchain.com, to discuss the evolution of institutional crypto trading and whether Bitcoin’s recent breakout signals the beginning of a new market regime. Mark shares what he is seeing across the OTC market as traditional finance increasingly moves on-chain. The discu...

In this week’s Crypto Options Unplugged , Imran Lakha and David Brickell examine the growing stress in global bond markets and why it could ultimately become the catalyst for Bitcoin’s next major move. Despite increasingly hawkish Fed rhetoric and rising expectations of a September hike, long-end yields continue to push higher—raising questions over whether policymakers are losing control of the b...

In this week’s Crypto Options Unplugged , Imran Lakha and David Brickell are joined by Chris Perkins, Head of Franklin Crypto , to discuss whether crypto is entering a new regime as improving liquidity, institutional adoption and stronger market structure finally begin to translate into price action. The episode opens with the Treasury’s expanded bond buyback programme and the prospect of drawing...

In this week’s episode of Crypto Options Unplugged, Imran Lakha is joined by Jake, Head of OTC Trading at Wintermute, for a deep dive into the macro and volatility forces shaping crypto markets. The conversation starts with rising US long-end yields, uncertainty around the Fed’s reaction function, and the growing importance of Japan and coordinated FX intervention. They discuss why the bond market...

In this week's episode of Crypto Options Unplugged, Imran Lakha and David Brickell unpack the biggest macro developments driving markets following the latest Fed decision. They examine why policymakers chose to leave rates unchanged, whether the market is questioning the Fed's credibility, and why rising term premiums—not inflation expectations—may be telling the more important story. The...

In this week’s Crypto Options Unplugged, Imran Lakha and David Brickell welcome back Greg Magadini for a wide-ranging discussion on the macro forces shaping global markets. The conversation begins with the Federal Reserve, inflation, and why markets may be overestimating the likelihood of further rate hikes despite softer underlying inflation data and easing energy prices. The discussion then turn...

In this week’s Crypto Options Unplugged, Imran Lakha and David Brickell are joined by Stan Havryliuk, CEO of SATS Terminal, to discuss the rapidly evolving world of Bitcoin-backed lending and why borrowing against Bitcoin may become one of crypto’s biggest growth markets. Stan shares his journey from building crypto startups to launching SATS Terminal, a platform that aggregates Bitcoin lending op...

This week on Crypto Options Unplugged, Imran Lakha and David Brickell break down the latest macro developments following a softer-than-expected US CPI report and discuss why markets may have overestimated the chances of another Federal Reserve rate hike. They examine Kevin Warsh's evolving approach to monetary policy, what it means for inflation, and why the next Fed move is still more likely...

In this week’s Crypto Options Unplugged , Imran Lakha and David Brickell are joined by Andrew Theodosiou, Director of Sales at Talos, to discuss how institutional adoption is accelerating and why digital asset infrastructure is rapidly converging with traditional finance. Andrew explains how banks, hedge funds, ETF providers, and trading firms are moving beyond simply offering crypto exposure and...

In this week’s Crypto Options Unplugged, Imran Lakha and David Brickell break down the latest macro developments following the Federal Reserve meeting, examining why markets may have overreacted to the Fed’s seemingly hawkish stance and what falling oil prices, declining inflation expectations, and shifting real yields could mean for Bitcoin and risk assets. The discussion explores the rotation ta...

In this week’s Crypto Options Unplugged, Imran Lakha and David Brickell sit down with Andrew Melville, Head of Research at Block Scholes, to explore one of the most important shifts happening in crypto today: the acceleration of institutional adoption and the emergence of prediction markets as a new financial primitive. Andrew shares how Block Scholes has become a leading provider of crypto deriva...

In this week’s Crypto Options Unplugged, Imran and David are joined by Jonathan Issan, Co-Head of Crypto Trading at Marex, for an institutional deep dive into how crypto markets have evolved from a retail-driven ecosystem into a mature asset class attracting hedge funds, pension funds, banks, and global asset managers. Jonathan shares his journey from equity derivatives and high-frequency trading...

In this week’s Crypto Options Unplugged , Imran and David are joined by Jamie Knowles, Head of Capital Markets at Smarter Web, for a deep dive into one of the biggest emerging themes in crypto: Bitcoin treasury companies and the financial engineering now driving corporate Bitcoin accumulation. Jamie explains how Smarter Web evolved from a traditional web design and digital marketing company into t...

In this week’s Crypto Options Unplugged, Imran and David are joined by special guest Andreja Cobeljic, Head of Derivatives at Amina Bank, for a wide-ranging discussion on crypto market structure, institutional flows, macro regime shifts, and why crypto still feels stuck despite a structurally bullish long-term backdrop. Andrea shares his journey from JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs proprietary trading...

In this episode of Crypto Options Unplugged, Imran and David break down the macro forces driving crypto markets before diving into a deep conversation with Max Gokhman, Head of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Assets at Franklin Templeton. The team explores how geopolitical tensions, elevated oil prices, inflation expectations, bond market volatility, and central bank policy uncertainty are tig...

Imran and David explore the recent "slow grind higher" of Bitcoin as it digests overhead supply, contrasting crypto’s low volatility with the explosive, retail-driven gamma frenzy currently fueling AI and semiconductor stocks. They argue that despite "sticky" price levels, a highly supportive macro environment marked by surging bank repo liquidity, declining bond volatility, an...

In this episode of Crypto Options Unplugged , Imran Lakha (Options Insight) and David Brickell (FRNT) are joined by James Brownlee, CEO of T-0 Network, to discuss the massive shift in how money moves across borders. We kick off with a look at Bitcoin’s "grindy" price action as it targets the $85,000 level, exploring why institutional inflows and negative real yields are fuelling this out...