ETF redemptions accelerated with ETH spot ETFs seeing a $429 million exit (3rd day of outflows) while BTC spot ETFs also registered a $327 million outflow yesterday.
Price momentum faded after the strong Monday one. BTC dropped 2.2% to $112,455; ETH 2.1% to $4,050; BNB down 7% to $1,215; SOL flat at $198.
Market structure: Open interest turned down sharply (≈ −77k BTC and −1.67 million ETH), indicating low return of leveraged traders.
Macro pressure: Gold hit a new ATH of $4,130 and S&P 500 +1.5% with China vowing to “fight trade war to the end.”
VC & product demand: Fundraising surged to a record $3.48 billion in one week, as venture appetite returns even as spot sentiment cools.
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
