Bitcoin recovered to $109,780 after Powell’s hawkish tone sent it briefly to $107,000. Ethereum and BNB remained range-bound, while Solana dipped 3% to $186. Total crypto market cap remains stable at $3.7 trillion despite weak U.S. ETF flows.
Bitcoin ETFs saw $488 million in outflows; Ethereum ETFs lost $184 million. Solana ETFs bucked the trend, posting $37.33 million in inflows, its third straight day of gains.
President Trump’s meeting with President Xi yielded trade, energy, and fentanyl agreements.
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Bitcoin looks calm on the surface, but ETF inflows, thin liquidity, leverage and geopolitical risk are building a market primed for a sharp move in either direction.
The prediction market built its name calling elections. Two days after closing a funding round above a $21 billion valuation, it turned itself into a leveraged trading venue with a real order book.
The model is the first from OpenAI to cross its own "critical" threshold for cybersecurity risk, and its launch sharpens a parallel question about how autonomous AI agents will actually pay for what they do.
The two treasuries fund their accumulation in very different ways, and a filing shows Strive holding a stake in Strategy's own preferred stock, so the two are not just parallel bets on bitcoin. They hold each other's paper.
