U.S. benchmark 10-year Treasury yields surged sharply to 5.04% in today’s trading, officially breaking through a key psychological level and hitting the highest level since 2007. The appearance of this landmark milestone not only reflects the ongoing intensification of the bond market selloff, but also signals a fundamental reshaping of macro capital’s expectations for long-term interest rates.

From a deeper logic standpoint, yields returning to the pre–global financial crisis peak has completely dashed the market’s earlier fantasy of the Fed quickly pivoting to rapid easing. Strong economic resilience, persistent inflation stickiness, and the pressure from massive Treasury issuance supply force the market to confront the harsh reality of “higher for longer.” The repricing of the macro risk-free return is now irreversible.

This abnormal move poses extremely severe disruptions to the broader traditional financial markets. A systematic rise in borrowing costs will directly feed through to real-economy mortgage lending and corporate bond yields, while also strengthening the U.S. dollar index and strongly suppressing overvalued equity assets. Capital is accelerating back into low-risk fixed-income products, and the global liquidity environment is tightening further.

For the cryptocurrency market led by $BTC , this is by no means a time for blind optimism. When risk assets face competition from risk-free assets that can offer more than 5% of assured annualized returns, their appeal will be materially drained. Blocked incremental liquidity means short-term market rebounds will rely more on bouts of zero-sum positioning; investors need to be highly vigilant about the risk of a second downside test brought on by macro liquidity depletion.📉

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