Market buyers stepped in heavily as $BTC edged above $64k.

This buy-side aggression then helped to fuel the breakout and kept volume delta consistently positive until $76k.

That buy pressure remains strong at these levels.

$5 billion of IBIT options expire on September 18.

Most of that is calls: $3B vs $2B in puts.

Max pain sits at $40, which corresponds to a $BTC price of approximately $71k.

Bitcoin Vector's impulse flipped positive from the lows.

$BTC has advanced roughly 20% since.

The strategy is currently fully allocated and in profit, and the next upside target sits at $82.8k.

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Squeeze into Supply: The Week On-chain 34 is live.

What stands between this recovery and the January high is one band of supply between $81K and $86K.

Bitcoin ran 26% off its mid-August low on a record short flush, and real money followed it up.

After large market moves, staying objective and level-headed is difficult.

Our latest weekly report walks you through the data: the liquidation cascade, who bought the squeeze, and the supply now sitting overhead.

https://twitter.com/glassnode/status/2092605995356966938

1.05M $BTC of long-term holder supply sits between $83K and $86K, the first heavy cost-basis shelf above spot at $79K.

Effectively all of it has held through the entire drawdown, making that band the test of whether patient supply sells at breakeven.

👉 https://research.glassnode.com/the-week-onchain-week-34-2026/