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Wintermute saw retail clients sell Bitcoin to fund altcoin bets, while US spot Bitcoin ETFs drew $2.4 billion over five sessions of shrinking daily inflows.
A soft August PCE print could lift BTC before September factory inflation forces traders to rethink the Fed path.
Making Ethereum payments feel instant requires someone to promise the money is there before the network finishes settling it.
The NFT boom made digital ownership sound like a problem we'd solved for good, but keeping the art alive means paying bills and doing the maintenance nobody wanted to hear about at the launch party.
Tether turned demand for digital dollars into demand for US debt and Washington has plenty of reasons to want more of both.
Cash is disappearing from everyday payments but becoming more useful as insurance against the systems replacing it.
Bitcoin has held near $84,000 even as US borrowing costs hit multi-decade highs and $1.7 billion of derivatives exposure disappears.
Ethereum, Solana, XRP and Zcash attracted almost $800 million as institutional crypto demand expanded across five major ETF markets.
Bitcoin’s $84,000 support faces mounting pressure as US Treasury yields hit 5.11%, with Glassnode identifying $77,000 as the next major downside level.
