Caroline Mauron, co-founder of encryptionDerivativesLiquidity provider Orbit Markets, said, 'The huge psychological level of $100,000 is within reach.' She added that the bets in the BTCOptions market suggest 'market expectations for a rapid pump in prices.' The current optimism has overshadowed people's memories of the big dump in the crypto world in 2022, which exposed fraud and other risks, leading to the closure of platforms including Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX exchange and his own imprisonment. This turmoil has triggered a series of tough enforcement actions by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and the industry expects that such suppression will gradually disappear under the Trump administration. (Bloomberg)