Spot ETFs continued a second day of outflows on Tuesday: Bitcoin ETFs −$104 million, Ethereum ETFs −$141 million (all nine ETH funds reported no inflows).
Price action: BTC holding $112,000, ETH ~$4,100, SOL < $210; total crypto market cap ~$3.86 trillion, 24-hour volume down 24 percent.
Macro: M2 jumped to $22.2 trillion with US SEC approving generic ETF listing standards and the CFTC floating tokenized stablecoins for derivatives. This could serve as structural tailwinds for spot product growth.
Leverage reset: futures OI fell to $42.8 billion from $44.8 billion, lowering forced-liquidation risk; but long-term holders have realized 3.4 million BTC, a historically large distribution.
Bitcoin has absorbed a barrage of macro shocks without breaking $77,000. With ETF flows recovering and on-chain signals remaining relatively healthy, $84,000 has become the market’s key battleground.
In a new essay, Buterin sets out a roadmap in which zero-knowledge proofs, faster finality, multi-party block building and formal verification turn Ethereum into what he calls a cryptographic world computer by around 2030.
Crypto held steady through a weekend in which Washington turned down Tehran's seven-day proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, before selling off in Asian trading on Monday as reports pointed to renewed US strikes after the midterms.
