🧠 WEEKLY CRYPTO RECAP: MONEY IS FLOWING IN, BUT WHAT ARE THE WHALES DOING?

A pretty crazy week in crypto.
If we only look at the chart, we can see the market recovering very strongly. But when you peel back layer by layer of the data, the story is much more interesting:
Cash flow is coming back. ETFs are attracting capital. Some sectors have risen by more than 40%. Whales are continuously restructuring their positions. But at the same time, the pressure to take profits and to liquidate leveraged positions is also increasing very strongly.
In simple terms:
The market is pumping, but not everyone is bullish. 👀
Below is a recap of the most notable things from the past 7 days.
🚀 1. WHICH SECTOR IS LEADING?
According to the data, this week almost all major groups have strongly recovered.
7D Performance:
🟢 PayFi: +43.78%

🟢 Meme: +34.58%

🟢 DeFi: +30.57%

🟢 MAG7: +23.90%

🟢 Layer 1: +23.42%

🟢 Layer 2: +22.09%

🟢 AI: +11.08%
PayFi is the monster of the week, up nearly 44%.
Meme is also not losing ground with nearly 35% gains, showing the market’s speculative appetite is still extremely strong.
Even more noteworthy is DeFi +30.57% over 7 days, and YTD performance is still around +42.8%.
This shows that money is not only running into memes.
Part of the money is coming back to sectors with actual products, liquidity, and real revenue.
But…
In the last 24 hours, most sectors have adjusted:
Layer 2: -8.69%
AI: -10.60%
PayFi: -7.17%
Meme: -5.43%
DeFi: -5.35%
This could simply be taking profit after a week of a hot rally.
💰 2. WHAT IS THE ETF SAYING?
This week, crypto gave us a very interesting picture:
Only the most recent trading day in the data:
Bitcoin ETF: +$606M
Ethereum ETF: +$219M
Total net inflows into crypto ETFs:
+ $859M in one day.
In the last 5 trading days, total inflows were about:
+ $2.1B
This shows that demand from the traditional market is still quite clearly present.
And this is the point I’m paying special attention to:
BTC ETF +$606M
ETH ETF +$219M
Meanwhile, the derivatives market saw an enormous amount of positions being wiped out.
💀 3. LIQUIDATIONS: THE MARKET IS SWEEPING BOTH ENDS
In the last 24 hours:
249,179 traders were liquidated
Total value:
🔥 $1.25B
Longs were liquidated:
$738.2M
Shorts are being liquidated:
$512M
And the total short liquidation over the last two days has moved close to:
$5B
This is exactly the kind of market I call:
“You choose a direction, the market chooses the opposite.” 💀
Longs were wiped out.
Shorts were also wiped out.
One side is being liquidated because they think the market will fall.
The other side is being liquidated because they thought the market would rise.
Market maker:
“Thank you for your liquidity.” 😂
The largest liquidation order recorded on Hyperliquid-BTC is worth nearly $24.96M.
🐋 4. WHALES START MOVING
This is the most worth-watching part if you care about big money flows.
Wintermute
Wintermute was reported to have moved about $57M BTC and SOL to Binance and Coinbase.
Including:
129.5K SOL + 169.5 BTC → Binance
and
407.47 BTC → Coinbase
Moving assets to an exchange doesn’t necessarily mean they will be sold.
But in the context that the market has just had a strong rally, this is clearly data worth watching.
🐋 Hyperliquid whales
A whale once opened:
Long 1,000 BTC
and
Long 10,000 ETH
47 days ago.
Right now, unrealized profit is about:
🔥 +$21.4M
Among them:
BTC: +$14.8M
ETH: +$6.58M
This is the kind of trade where all you want to say is:
“Bro knew something.” 😂
But also remember: unrealized profit isn’t realized profit.
If you haven’t closed the position, you haven’t truly pocketed the gains.
🏦 5. OTHER WHALES ARE ALSO REDUCING LEVERAGE
F2Pool co-founder, Wang Chun, was credited with having transferred:
12,765 ETH ≈ $28.73M
to Binance.
At the same time, it withdrew about:
$87.68M USDC
to repay on Spark.
This is a signal that’s quite different from simply “buying the dip.”
It shows that some big players are reducing leverage and managing risk amid rising volatility.
🇺🇸 6. COINBASE PREMIUM IS GETTING ATTENTION
A somewhat thought-provoking data point:
Coinbase Premium Index has been negative for 97 days in a row.
The previous record was only about:
40 days.
The most recent premium was recorded around:
-0.0266%
This suggests that demand in the U.S. market is relatively weaker compared to some international markets.
And here’s a pretty interesting contradiction:
U.S. ETFs are still pulling in hundreds of millions of dollars.
But:
Coinbase Premium is still negative.
So I won’t simply oversimplify the story into:
Institutional is going all-in.”
The current data is more complex than that.
🧨 7. POLYGON IS WANTING TO CHANGE TOKENOMICS
Polygon also has a notable story.
Sandeep Nailwal said Polygon is planning tokenomics and staking reforms.
The goal is to increase staking rewards nearly twofold by relying more on actual network fees, rather than depending on token inflation.
Polygon’s reported revenue has increased about 10x this year.
If this model truly shifts incentives from token inflation → network revenue, this would be a story worth watching.
🟠 8. BITCOIN + HASHI + SUI
Sui announced that the Hashi test program has surpassed:
2 million times deposits
Hashi is moving toward allowing Bitcoin to remain on the Bitcoin network while also being able to become programmable collateral on Sui.
If the mainnet is deployed according to plan, this would be a notable story for the narrative:
Bitcoin DeFi.
Bitcoin isn’t just sitting in cold wallets.
It could become collateral for DeFi applications.
🐱 9. MEMECOIN IS STILL CRAZY AS USUAL
YOMOGI is being noticed by the meme community.
Tokens related to the new cat of Kabosu’s owner appeared on:
Solana: about $1.41M market cap
BSC: about $410K market cap
This is exactly why the Meme sector is up nearly 35% this week.
The narrative appears.
The community is rushing in.
Liquidity is chasing.
And then…
If ai is exit liquidity, then the market decides. 😂
🧠 10. BUT DON’T FORGET: TRUMP MEMECOIN ALSO HAS FAKE NEWS
Eric Trump has officially denied rumors that the Trump family is preparing to launch a new meme coin.
Once again, the crypto market proves:
Not everything on X is alpha.
Sometimes it’s just… a market-cap’d shitpost. 💀
🌎 SO WHAT IS THE MARKET REALLY SAYING?
In my view, this week’s picture has 4 very clear layers.
1️⃣ Money is coming back.
ETFs continue to record large inflows.
BTC ETF:
+ $606M
ETH ETF:
+ $219M
Sector performance is also rising across the board.
2️⃣ Speculation is still alive.
Meme:
+34.58%
PayFi:
+43.78%
These numbers show that risk appetite hasn’t disappeared.
3️⃣ Whales are not sleeping.
Wintermute moved assets to an exchange.
Hyperliquid whales are holding tens of millions of dollars in unrealized profit.
Wang Chun reduced leverage.
In other words:
Smart money is moving.
4️⃣ Volatility is getting crazy.
$1.25B liquidation in 24h.
Nearly $5B in short liquidation over 2 days.
Many sectors dropped 5–11% within just 24 hours after a strong surge.
This isn’t a market for entering trades without a plan.
🔥 CONCLUSION
This week, crypto gave us a very interesting picture:
PayFi +43.78%
Meme +34.58%
DeFi +30.57%
BTC ETF +$606M
ETH ETF +$219M
Liquidation $1.25B/24h
Short liquidation near $5B/2 days
Whales are repositioning
Coinbase Premium at record negativity
All this data exists at the same time.
So I don’t think this is the time to be overly confident that:
“Bull market confirmed, easy money.”
It’s also not time to jump to conclusions:
“The market is going to dump.”
Today’s market feels more like a pressure cooker.
Money is flowing in.
Leverage is high.
Whales are moving.
Retail is FOMOing.
And when all that stuff shows up at the same time…
volatility is only starting now. 🧠💀
I’ll continue to track ETF flows, whale movements, the liquidation map, and Coinbase Premium in the coming week.
And which side are the folks rooting for?
BTC keeps breaking out, or the market is preparing to sweep again? 👀
DYOR. Not investment advice.
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