Bitcoin is barely holding $110,000 support after falling to about $111,000, down 11.8% from last week’s all-time high.
Short-dated options show heavy put buying. Bulk puts exceeded $1.15 billion and omprised 28% of trade flow while call interest remains concentrated at $115k–$130k.
Whales trimmed exposure (10–10k BTC cohort sold 17,554 BTC), though that cohort has still added 318,610 BTC year-to-date; distribution is selective, not panic.
Ethereum slipped under $4,000 and SOL and BNB both retreated; total crypto market cap fell to about $3.77 trillion and the Fear & Greed index sits at 32.
Macro flashpoints: tariff threats and an ongoing U.S. government shutdown are amplifying headline sensitivity and forcing short-term de-risking.
Bitcoin shrugged off a failed Senate crypto bill and the Fed’s first rate hike since 2023. With ETF inflows returning, $82,500 is now the level that matters.
The Japanese financial group is backing dtcpay through two investment vehicles as it looks to build digital-asset links between Japan and Southeast Asia, adding to a round Vertex Ventures led in March.
Coinbase, Strategy and Robinhood all jumped more than 9% Friday on Wall Street's read of the SEC's tokenized-stock framework, while Hyperliquid, Zcash and NEAR led a broader altcoin surge that pushed the total market back above $2.8 trillion.
A new study using real EU regulatory data finds that the multi-input heuristic can be highly accurate in some cases and completely wrong in others, raising serious questions about its use as forensic evidence.
