BTC continued to trade between the $100,000–$105,000 range, opening the day at the lower band of $101,900.
Renewed ETF outflows saw Bitcoin lose –$278 million, while Ethereum lost –$184 million. Solana continues to outperform with an addition of +$18.06 million.
Futures positioning: open interest slipped by –3.58% to $66.14 billion with liquidations worth $186.47 million, majority of them, long liquidations.
Whales accumulation continues with over 45,000 BTC added this week, the second-largest accumulation of 2025.
Macro tailwinds: U.S. government officially reopens after House passes spending bill with China–U.S. trade tone continuing to soften; aiding global liquidity.
A four-hour trial with 40 major Wall Street firms puts real securities on blockchain rails ahead of an October rollout — just as transfer agents lobby the SEC and the IMF warns tokenization could speed up the next financial crisis
More than 50 tokens, zero trading fees, and an AI-generated explainer tool arrive in Robinhood's main app — the payoff from a $200 million Bitstamp acquisition made specifically to unlock markets like this one
MARA and CleanSpark both posted double-digit revenue declines this earnings season, but Bernstein split their ratings — and new research shows the market's honeymoon with AI-pivot announcements is fading fast
The custody bank used the same earnings call to demo a tokenized-stock lending structure built to avoid the trade-offs of offshore synthetic tokens and transfer-agent models.
