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.
The investment migration industry's flagship crypto report leads with Singapore topping its adoption index, but the more revealing numbers are a client base that may have shrunk by a fifth since 2024 and a quiet admission that onchain history alone can't prove where crypto wealth came from.
The group-wide framework scales a model RBI's chief executive first rolled out at a regional Austrian Raiffeisen bank in 2024, though no countries, assets or launch dates have been named.
The deal gives the NYSE's yet-to-launch 24/7 digital trading venue a second major crypto exchange as a distribution partner after OKX, with regulatory approval and a launch date still outstanding.
The altcoin market has crossed a key technical threshold, but weak relative performance against Bitcoin suggests the long-awaited rotation has yet to arrive.
