BTC held $105,500, consolidating near critical inflection after rebounding from $100K.
ETH stayed steady at $3,500, while SOL and BNB dipped 1–2%, showing selective rotation into majors.
Spot volumes up 22.6% to $14.1 billion, signaling improving market participation and liquidity. Futures open interest fell 2.6%, confirming ongoing deleveraging and cleaner positioning.
ETF demand remains mixed, but spot accumulation is picking up, led by Strive’s $162 million BTC purchase, Strategy’s $50 million BTC addition, and Bitmine’s 34% increase in ETH holdings.
Macro backdrop stabilizes: U.S. government reopens, tariff deals progress, and Treasury offers clarity on crypto staking regulation.
Momentum building, but upside capped near $108.5K–$111K unless inflows accelerate.
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
