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The US may need to refund $175B in tariffs. Fund managers have built the largest short USD position since 2012. A weak dollar backdrop has historically favored risk assets and crypto.

Institutional flows declined for a fifth straight day. Grayscale GBTC lost $120M while BlackRock IBIT posted a modest $30M inflow. Historically, 5+ days of outflows often preceded a rebound.

The index is near historic extremes. In June 2022 it hit 6 when BTC was $17.6K, but today BTC is above $63K with fear still at 8, a rare price-sentiment divergence. ITC Risk remains low at 0.31.

Vitalik has kept transferring ETH to exchanges this month. He says the funds support Ethereum ecosystem projects, but the moves may add around 0.5% of short-term sell pressure.

Mike Novogratz pushed back on market FUD, saying quantum computing is still decades away from breaking SHA-256. IBM-related quantum names rose premarket, but the move is not directly tied to crypto security.

Trading revenue dropped below the $1B mark. CEO Brian Armstrong said the company added BTC to its balance sheet, calling it a high-conviction long-term move.

Rate-cut expectations and a weaker dollar are reinforcing each other. The DXY is down 8% this year, and historically BTC has averaged a 45% gain over six months once DXY breaks below 100.

Tokenization of traditional assets is accelerating. Users can trade tokenized mega-cap tech stocks directly with USDT, while total RWA TVL has now surpassed $12B.

After Texas, Wyoming, and Arizona, Missouri has become the fourth US state to push forward a Bitcoin reserve bill, reinforcing the state-level adoption trend.

WhatsApp and Instagram are set to support USDC transfers. With a user base above 3B, this could become a major catalyst for stablecoin adoption and the Ethereum ecosystem.

Aave, Lido, and MakerDAO are leading the decline. Users continue rotating capital out of DeFi and into stablecoins or cash while waiting for better entries.

Hash rate keeps climbing despite weaker price action. New highs in mining power are often read as a long-term bullish signal, with miners effectively voting with capital.

Anthropic alleges that some Chinese AI companies replicated Claude-like capabilities through API distillation. AI-related fear also hit equities, with IBM dropping 11% as trust concerns widened.

Middle Eastern banks and sovereign wealth funds are evaluating BTC allocations. Abu Dhabi’s ADIA is reportedly already done building its framework for Bitcoin exposure.

Lightning channels have surpassed 80,000. Cross-border and micropayment use cases are accelerating, especially in Latin America and Africa.