BTC jumped to roughly $115,500, as risk appetite returns with broad market cap rising to over $3.9 trillion.
A short squeeze produced roughly $392 million of liquidations and wiped out ~101,591 traders, with Bitcoin shorts accounting for about $87 million.
Macro catalysts including a good spin in the U.S.–China trade rhetoric and a dovish Fed outlook drove the move. Powell and the Trump–Xi headlines remain primary regime drivers.
Derivatives structure is mixed: funding stays muted/negative and open interest elevated which signals that rallies are real but fragile, subject to quick deleveraging.
Tactical posture: reduce headline sensitivity with staggered sizing; favor core BTC exposure, selected ETH and SOL risk, and maintain cash buffer for volatility.
A misleading 800,000 BTC wallet shuffle is distorting on-chain signals just as Bitcoin struggles below $80,000, leaving traders to parse real demand from accounting noise.
The Georgian government and National Bank are working with Tether to issue a sovereign lari-pegged stablecoin – the first of its kind for any country in the region.
Allman founded Ondo in 2021 and grew it into one of the largest tokenised real-world asset platforms; the company says his successor has been running day-to-day operations for over two years.
Indonesia's Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs classified Polymarket as illegal online gambling after a wager on President Prabowo's political survival drew $46,000 in volume and official scrutiny.
