Guys, $BTC is facing strong selling pressure after getting rejected from the higher zone...!! The structure is turning bearish, and the chart is showing room for another drop toward $81,600...!! Keep an eye on this breakdown...!!
Bitcoin is testing whether institutional accumulation can absorb a fresh macro-driven pullback. Strategy disclosed another 1,665 BTC purchase for roughly $143 million, while BTC slipped toward $83,000 as oil and Treasury yields pressured risk assets.
The five-day chart shows a rejection near $85,000 followed by a sharp move into the $82,700-$83,000 demand area. Buyers have responded, but price still needs to reclaim the short-term breakdown zone before the structure improves.
I am watching $83,000 as immediate support and $84,000-$84,500 as the recovery test. Holding the lower range could turn this into a controlled reset after last week's advance. Losing $82,700 would keep the risk-off pressure in control. Corporate buying remains a strong long-term signal, but short-term price still answers to liquidity and macro conditions..
Spot traders are clearly rotating into alts like SONT right now.
Total spot volume is running close to 4x $BTC Bitcoin's, the highest we've seen since September 2025. That kind of chase for higher-risk assets has often lined up with local tops in BTC. Feels worth paying attention to.
SBTC closed last week about 4% higher and is trading near $84k again after monday faded from the $87k high and pulled price back to the lower end of that range. the four gauges show who paid for the lift and who sold into it.
spot etfs were the bid, with us funds taking in $2.39 billion last week and this weekly netflow chart marking $2.69 billion, the strongest intake since october 2025, heavy on monday and tuesday then slower as price rolled over, while perpetual cvd sits near -$261 million, so leveraged traders sold that same rally.
realized profit/loss is 1.43, meaning more $BTC moved at a gain than a loss, still well below the 3-handle spikes of late 2024 and 2025, and price momentum is 70 after tagging the 80s, firm but no longer stretched.
etfs carried the week, perps and some profit-taking sold the high, and monday is the range asserting itself again. the next tell is whether etf flows stay green while cvd stops leaking, because another large inflow week with perps still selling is a hold of the range, not a break of it.
Short-term $BTC holders are starting to feel the pain.
Nearly 23,000 BTC was sent to exchanges at a loss after BTC dropped roughly $3,000, while only about 14,300 BTC moved in profit, according to CryptoQuant data.
That gap matters.
It suggests a decent chunk of recent buyers are choosing to exit underwater instead of waiting for a recovery.
The question now is whether this is simple panic selling or the kind of forced cleanup that eventually leaves the market with stronger hands.
Bitcoin ETFs Bought ~28,000 BTC in 5 Days. Miners Made ~3,150
US spot $BTC ETFs pulled in $2.39B last week, positive every single session. In coins, not dollars:
~28,200 BTC → absorbed by ETFs at ~$84.5K average
-3,150 BTC mined in a full 7-day week
~9x→ ETF demand vs new supply
25,000 BTC in one week Strive's entire treasury. ETFs beat it
Who did the buying:
IBIT $1.16B, ~49% of the week
FBTC $701.6M, ~29%
ARKB→ $294.7M, ~12%
Everyone else ~$230M, with Bitwise's BITB
even seeing an outflow on Friday
BlackRock and Fidelity alone took 78% of the flow. The ETF market is basically a two-horse race now.
Yet $BTC went $81.2K $87.36K $83K. Nine times the new supply got absorbed and price still gave back half the move. That means the selling came from existing holders taking profit into the ETF bid, and that bid is the only reason the pullback stopped at $83K instead of lower.
LINK pushed to $14.89, marking its highest level of the year as the token continues its recent rally.
But there's an interesting signal underneath the move, wallet activity has started to cool, with smaller holders appearing to take some profits after the recent surge.
That doesn't necessarily mean the rally is over. In fact, larger holders have reportedly continued accumulating LINK, while the token is now approaching the $15 resistance zone.
The setup is getting interesting: price is making new highs, but participation from smaller wallets is becoming less aggressive.
America Already Tried "Every Bank Issues Its Own Dollar". It Was Called 1837
During the Free Banking Era (1837-1863), US banks printed their own notes. A dollar from one bank wasn't quite a dollar at another, and a whole industry lived on converting them.
SoFi just launched the digital version: SoFIUSD, a bank-issued stablecoin now settling $258+ in annual card volume on Mastercard.
If more banks follow, the $BTC digital dollar splits into three species:
Bank-issued stablecoins → SoFIUSD
Independent regulated stablecoins → RLUSD, USDC
Tokenized deposits one per bank
The difference from 1837: all three are 1:1 regulated, so the risk isn't a discount on your dollar. It's friction. Dozens of dollar tokens that don't talk to each other.
That's where the Ripple story flips. As a settlement coin, RLUSD just lost a big potential customer. As an interoperability layer between bank tokens, Ripple is building exactly the plumbing a fragmented system needs, and $XRP was originally pitched as a bridge asset between currencies.
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Zcash co-founder Eli Ben-Sasson says ZEC can reach $5,000 by the end of 2026. His last call, above $1,200 by September 25, landed with room to spare. So let's price the new one properly.
-$1,550 where ZEC trades now
+223% → the move needed to hit $5,000
~94 days time left in 2026
+1.25% → required gain PER DAY, every day, compounded
~$80B → ZEC market cap at $5,000
~$71B → Solana's market cap at $119
So the target means a privacy coin that was worth ~$25B last week overtaking SOL in one quarter
The part that makes it less crazy than it sounds:
Grayscale's ZEC ETF collected ~$915M in its first month. That's already ~3.7% of $ZEC market cap, more than SOL ETFs hold relative to Solana.
$BTC My read: $5,000 is a bull-case ceiling on the market, not a base case. What it needs isn't hype but a second leg of ETF demand. so it's not price prediction
Crypto Firms Can Now Park Idle Cash in a $100B Goldman Fund
Goldman Sachs made one of its biggest Treasury funds accessible to crypto $BTC firms. FTIXX -roughly $100B in size is being added to Lynq, a settlement network already used by firms like Wintermute, Galaxy, FalconX, Crypto.com, B2C2 and Fireblocks.
Institutional crypto firms constantly move large amounts of cash between trades, and now instead of leaving that money idle, they can:
→ park it in a Goldman Treasury fund
→ earn yield while waiting
→ pull it back when they need liquidity again
→ do it through infrastructure they already use
BlackRock created BUIDL as a tokenized fund.
Franklin Templeton put its money-market fund onchain through BENJI. Goldman is taking the opposite route: keep the fund traditional, but bring access to where crypto firms already operate
Lynq itself runs on a permissioned Avalanche $AVAX network, so the blockchain part sits underneath the workflow rather than turning FTIXX into a new token.
Which means that TradFi doesn't really need to rebuild its products for crypto plug them into the infrastructure crypto firms already use is also a good solution.
Bitcoin has now closed its first weekly candle above the May highs, and this is also the second consecutive weekly candle above the 50W Moving Average.
Technically, this is a strong signal that has always shown the end of the bear market.
Now, I'm watching the 50W MA closely to see whether it turns into support. Historically, after $BTC breaks above this level, price often comes back to retest it before continuing higher.
That's why I'm watching the $78K-$77.6K area closely. I want to see how BTC reacts if we get that retest.
And there's another interesting factor, if $BTC continues moving sideways, the 50W MA will keep moving higher, meaning the potential support zone could rise with it.
Today is my Monday, so I'm in no rush to enter a position. I'll let price come to me and wait for confirmation.
The price is advancing toward the next major resistance areas while the larger structure remains part of the broad sideways range in place since the 2021 high.
Leading Scenario: The white scenario tracks a larger
1-2 setup, with the June low potentially completing wave 2. The 5-wave advance from that low supports the possibility of further upside into wave 3, as long as the price holds above $6.99.
Barclays, HSBC UK, Lloyds, Monzo, Nationwide, NatWest and Santander just completed the first live customer payments with tokenized sterling. The obvious question: if banks can program pounds, why would they need stablecoins?
Side by side
Who owes you
Deposit your bank, like any normal balance
Stablecoin a separate issuer holding $BTC
reserves
Interest
Deposit keeps earning even while funds are locked
Stablecoin under the US GENIUS Act, issuers can't pay holders yield
Protection
Deposit → regular deposit protections stay
Stablecoin → only as good as the issuer and its reserves
Where it moves
Deposit → between banks on a shared platform
Stablecoin → any $BTC wallet, any chain, any country, 24/7
Inside the banking system, banks don't need stablecoins. Tokenized deposits do the job better, with interest and protection attached. The moment money has to leave that perimeter, cross a border or touch DeFi, stablecoins still have no competition.
China is sending a pretty clear message to crypto users
China's Ministry of State Security says the idea that crypto provides guaranteed anonymity is an illusion. The ministry points to something crypto researchers have known for years.
Most public blockchains leave a permanent trail.
Wallet addresses may not directly reveal a person's identity, but transactions can still be traced across the chain. Once funds interact with exchanges, payment services or other identifiable points, additional information can potentially connect the wallet to a real person.
Personally, I think the interesting part isn't China's warning itself.
It's the reminder that pseudonymous doesn't mean anonymous.
Bitcoin doesn't hide the transaction. It records it forever.
That's also why blockchain analytics has become such a big industry. The same transparency that makes crypto attractive can also make certain types of financial activity easier to investigate. Of course, privacy focused networks and privacy tools are a different conversation. Not every crypto transaction is equally traceable.
But the idea that you can simply move money onchain and become invisible?
That's becoming harder to defend.
Crypto gives you a public ledger.
The real question is how much of your identity can eventually be connected to it.
A $XRP at a Turning Point? Why Peter Brandt Says the Chart Alone Is Enough for a Bet
XRP is trading near $1.52 after gaining almost 8% this week, and veteran trader Peter Brandt says the chart itself is enough to keep him interested. His latest view is simple: you don't need to be an XRP superfan to see a potential setup. While $BTC sets the broader market tone, Brandt is focused purely on XRP's long-term price structure.
Two Key Takeaways:
The Chart Setup: Brandt highlights repeated periods where XRP traded in narrowing ranges before strong moves higher, and he sees the current structure as worth watching.
The $5.40 Projection: Earlier this month, Brandt shared a long-term chart pointing toward $5.40, which would be roughly 250% above the $1.54 area at the time.
What Matters Now:
Brandt's newest post does not repeat $5.40 as a fresh target or give a timeline. His main point is that the historical chart remains interesting enough for him to consider a trade without buying into the hype around the token.
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