Leveraged funds moved 1,599 contracts further net short in CME Bitcoin futures in the week to Sept. 22. Asset managers moved the other way, adding 411 contracts to their net long.
The funds’ shift represents 7,995 BTC-equivalent of futures exposure. It does not establish an outright bearish bet: the CFTC report does not show whether funds held offsetting Bitcoin or ETF positions.
Ethereum finality still takes minutes. Puffer has configured its system for 50-millisecond preconfirmations, promising a transaction result before the chain settles it. That speed has not been established with paying customers.
Google Cloud would operate a gateway. Puffer says a failed promise would cost a gateway 1 ETH, but has not established when that penalty becomes enforceable or how affected users would be compensated.