Significant volatility hit the U.S. Treasury market during today’s trading session. The yield on the 30-year Treasury surged to 5.4583%, breaking the highest level in nearly 22 years; meanwhile, the yield on the 2-year Treasury—more sensitive to monetary policy—also rose by 0.85 basis points to close at 4.904%. The acceleration of yields on the long end directly reflects that the fixed-income market is deeply repricing longer-term macro growth expectations and the fiscal risk premium.

From a macroeconomic standpoint, changes in the spread between long- and short-end yields not only broke through key technical resistance levels, but also indicate that the market is gradually absorbing persistent long-term inflation and the pressure from elevated supply. Notably, when long-end yields surge, it is often accompanied by the release of the term premium. In technical terms, this typically represents a “bearish exhaustion” pattern, suggesting the signal of interest rates finding a temporary top is becoming clearer, and the momentum for further sharp upside is nearing exhaustion.

In traditional financial markets, extreme readings of Treasury yields, while in the short term raising the cost of dollar liquidity and exerting a technical drag on the S&P 500, often—when long-end yields touch multi-decade historical major peaks—indicate that the Treasury sell-off may be approaching a point of exhaustion. Discount-rate pressure on risk assets is then likely to enter a marginal improvement window.

For crypto assets, especially $BTC , this extreme technical impulse has not triggered liquidity panic; instead, it has demonstrated very strong bottoming resilience. As long-end rates gradually form a technical top pattern, improving marginal liquidity expectations will become the key catalyst for the next phase of risk-asset rebounds. After the crypto market stabilizes at critical support levels, it may see a stronger return of buying.📈

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