Crypto enters CPI day at significant price zones for BTC and ETH, with ETH’s breakout above $4K fueling a broad risk-on tone.
Institutional positioning remains net long, although ETF MVRV’s rise to 2.43 points to elevated unrealized profits and potential profit-taking risk. ETF flow resilience and on-chain accumulation signal structural demand remains intact, even if short-term volatility spikes post-data.
On-chain and derivatives data confirm seller exhaustion and measured re-leveraging, but CPI is now the critical short-term trigger.
A confidential SEC filing and a Cantor mandate put the institutional prime broker back in the spotlight. Since its 2022 peak valuation, FalconX has quietly rebuilt itself into something broader – and harder to price.
Three Samsung affiliates will jointly acquire a 4% stake in Dunamu, operator of South Korea's largest cryptocurrency exchange Upbit, from Kakao affiliates in an all-cash deal worth 612.8 billion won (~$408 million), the companies said Thursday (May 28). The transaction is scheduled to close June 19.
The dual investment gives South Korea's fourth-largest crypto exchange a TradFi partner pursuing STOs and a global operator with reach across 120 million users.
The ETF channel that anchored bitcoin's 2025 rally has flipped to distribution for five straight sessions. The Hormuz headlines accelerated what had been building for weeks.
