BTC structure: BTC’s price continues to consolidate between $107.3K - $110.6K with firm resistance at $111K, while support lies at $107.4K. Daily timeframe confirms current lower highs/lows, pointing to a short-term bearish trend, with risk toward $104K on breakdown.
Whale Flows: Whale flows highlight rotation with one whale selling 2K BTC (~$215 million) and buying 49K ETH, while another shifted $1.1 billion worth of BTC and accumulated $2.5 billion worth of ETH.
Derivatives Stress: RSI fell to 33.6 (oversold), while 25-day skew spiked to 10.2%, signaling defensive hedging. Futures OI softened to $45.0 billion, while spot CVD improved modestly, showing waning sell pressure.
New token debut: WLFI launched near $0.30 (~$30B FDV), with Justin Sun holding ~$891 million and vowing no sales. Disruptive potential for near-term altcoin flows.
A failed Senate vote has killed hopes for near-term crypto market-structure rules, opening the door to more agency enforcement and a costly political fight heading into the midterms.
USB sticks loaded with USDT changed hands in Caracas hotels and restaurants as a chain of intermediaries multiplied, according to a Financial Times investigation that has already produced criminal charges against former executives at the Polish energy group's Swiss trading arm.
Coinbase led the selloff with a decline of roughly 10%, and total crypto market capitalization fell more than 3%, as the bill's defeat closes off, for now, the market-structure framework the industry had lobbied for over several years.
