BTC flash-crashed on Sunday as an early-holder sold 24K BTC ($2.7 billion), wiping ~$500 million in leverage. Current support sits at $111K to $109K, with resistance at $115K to $116.8K.
BTC ETFs logged a 6-day outflow streak worth $1.2 billion in total while ETH ETFs logged a $238 million weekly outflow. However, ETH saw continued institutional inflows with Bitmine adding $45 million worth of ETH to raise its holdings to $7 billion and the ETH/BTC cross broke 0.04, as the rotation narrative intensifies.
Altcoin futures OI surged +$9.2 billion in one day to a record $61.7 billion, with leverage piling up, raising fragility risk.
Bhutan has hired 3iQ to earn yield on part of its Bitcoin and given Gelephu a central bank that can hold crypto, while disclosing less and less about the coins themselves.
A royal decree turns the Gelephu Financial Services Office into the Gelephu Central Bank, with monetary policy, reserve and payments powers and a path to a city currency. The timetable and its relationship with Bhutan's national central bank are unclear
Withdrawals reopened Sunday with a $3.6 billion net outflow and a proof-of-reserves snapshot is out, but Binance has not published its technical post-mortem or said how attackers got in beyond a compromised laptop
The bank says Hong Kong is the first market in its group to get the product for corporate clients, which settles between banks in central bank money around the clock. Blockhead reported a Singapore launch with Ant International in December
