On August 18, the U.S. Treasury debt size officially surpassed the $40 trillion mark. The news was briefly exposed only in the financial media and soon faded from public view, but the signal it sends is something the entire crypto market should take seriously.

U.S. debt levels reached the $40 trillion threshold ahead of schedule. Many institutions and analysts have pointed out that the current U.S. debt system will very likely rely on a moderate depreciation of the U.S. dollar to ease the pressure. Looking at history, when credit money undergoes sustained expansion, scarce assets are often more likely to see favorable market moves; gold has already demonstrated this through years of price action.

Today, gold has already completed a value re-evaluation and has become an important reserve asset for global central banks. Under the same anti-inflation logic, Bitcoin, as a digital scarce asset with a fixed total supply, has a total market capitalization of only about 5% of gold’s. The huge gap has been discussed repeatedly by many participants in the crypto community.

The previous generation, when fighting against currency depreciation, preferred gold; for today’s investors, Bitcoin has been placed on the shortlist of assets that hedge against depreciation. This point has also been repeatedly validated by market fluctuations over the past few years.

From the real-world perspective of the crypto world, changes in U.S. Treasury yields and the credit of the U.S. dollar will continue to affect the crypto market’s long-term cycle from a macro level. If the market keeps worrying that the dollar’s purchasing power will be diluted, funds will continuously seek assets with scarce attributes. Bitcoin will be the first to benefit, and it will also indirectly drive sentiment across the entire crypto sector.

But you also can’t be blindly optimistic. The macro narrative is only one of the variables driving market action. The worsening debt problem is a long process, and along the way there will be interspersed data disruptions—such as rate hikes, employment, and inflation. The market won’t move straight upward. A positive narrative doesn’t mean an immediate rally.

For ordinary participants, it’s important to distinguish narrative from reality. Don’t enter with heavy positions just based on macro stories. The big-picture logic is worth paying attention to, but in the short term, the market still remains full of volatility risk. Macro trends point the way, but trading must still respect the possibility of market pullbacks.

Going forward, changes in the size of the U.S. Treasury and related dynamics of U.S. dollar credit will all become key observation indicators that crypto investors can’t ignore, and they will long-term shape the valuation logic of crypto assets.

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