UNICORN⚡️🦄|Feb 27, 2026 02:29
10 o'clock smash: How Jane Street suppresses Bitcoin prices
Bitcoin should be at least $150000 now
A federal lawsuit filed in Manhattan
Explained why it didn't reach that location
The whole thing can be broken down into three lines
An insider trading lawsuit surrounding the private chat group Bryce's Secret
A programmatic selling model starting at 10am Eastern Time in late 2024 and running through 2025
And a 13F document that disclosed a huge ETF position but did not disclose derivative hedging
Three clues all point to the same name
Jane Street Capital
Terraform and May 7th, 2022
Bryce Pratt interned at Terraform Labs
Joined Jane Street in September 2021
May 7, 2022
Terraform withdraws 150 million USTs from Curve 3pool
About 10 minutes later
A wallet related to Jane Street withdrew 85 million USTs from the same pool
Within a few days
UST detachment from anchor
Luna enters the death spiral
About $40 billion market value evaporated
Lawsuit claims
Jane Street reduced its holdings hours before the collapse of the ecosystem
Avoiding risk exposure exceeding $200 million
Jane Street denies allegations
Under the same background
There is also a $4 billion lawsuit against Jump Trading
2/10am decline pattern
Starting from the end of 2024
And intensify in 2025
Almost every trading day
Near 10am Eastern Time
Bitcoin will experience a rapid decline
For example, on a certain day in December
The price dropped from $89700 to $87700 in just a few minutes
Approximately $171 million of long positions have been liquidated
This behavior persists for several months
After the Terraform lawsuit was made public
This mode stopped for a while
Subsequently, it will resume in Q3 2025
Frequent occurrence again in December
Disclosure of 13F in Q4 2025
Jane Street disclosed in Q4 13F of 2025
Holding 20315780 shares of IBIT
Worth approximately 790 million US dollars
7105206 new shares were added in this quarter
Increased holdings of approximately 276 million US dollars
The previous year
Its IBIT position once approached $2.5 billion
simultaneously
Its MSTR holdings increased by 473%
Reached 951187 shares
Approximately 121 million US dollars
Jane Street is one of the four authorized participants of IBIT
The other three are Virtu Americas
JP Morgan Securities
Marex
Blind spot of 4/13F
13F discloses long positions in stocks
Non disclosure of options
futures
swap
When the file shows a $790 million IBIT position
Unable to see if there are equivalent put options or short futures
If there is a short hedge of $790 million
Net exposure is 0
If the scale of derivatives exceeds 790 million US dollars
Net exposure may be negative
External cannot know
5/Structural Logic
If an organization
Simultaneously possessing
ETF redemption authorization
Scale of derivatives
Inventory scheduling capability
So in the 10am liquidity switching window
Centralized selling
Trigger liquidation
Subsequently, it will be replenished in a lower price range
Profit in the derivative layer
form a closed loop
6/Regulatory precedents
2025
Indian regulatory agency SEBI releases 105 page enforcement document
Accused Jane Street of manipulating the BANKNIFTY index options market
The report states that
Profit of 3650.2 billion rupees within two years
Daily profit of 73.5 billion rupees
Approximately 4.3 billion US dollars in scale
7/21000000 and synthetic supply
The upper limit of Bitcoin is 21000000 coins
This is a protocol layer constraint
But derivatives can create unlimited price exposure
When the contract size of the financial layer is much larger than the circulation scale on the chain
Price discovery may come more from the derivatives market
The problem ultimately turned into a numerical issue
What is Jane Street's true net Bitcoin exposure
Under the current disclosure framework
This number is not publicly available
And the few minutes at 10am every day
Becoming the most intuitive signal outside of all numbers
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