The U.S. Treasury has cut MEXC off from the U.S. financial system, while retail traders still think the regulatory net is only going to get tighter.

The Cheese King is here 🧀 Today’s cheese index: 3/10. The market is freezing cold, and the Fear & Greed Index has fallen to 25. Retail traders are all waiting for a safe-haven signal ❄️.

The U.S. Treasury’s FinCEN has cut MEXC off from the U.S. financial system, citing its involvement in $16 billion in illicit funds. Yet on the same day, it withdrew a regulatory proposal to expand the Travel Rule 🔍. For retail traders, this isn’t an all-out crackdown; regulators are shifting from “indiscriminate oversight” to “targeted action against high-risk exchanges.”
“Law enforcement wants to precisely sever the points of entry and exit—not extend its regulatory reach into everyone’s private keys.”

BTC open interest currently stands at a massive 3.44 million coins, the funding rate is steady at +0.0040%, and the volume-to-open-interest ratio is 1.48. The market is gripped by extreme fear, but derivatives positions show absolutely no sign of retreat 📊.
📚 Cheese Class: A Fear & Greed Index reading of 25 means the market is in the extreme fear zone. It’s much colder than last week, but that doesn’t mean prices will bounce back tomorrow.

(The above is solely my personal observation and is not investment advice.)

With regulators precisely targeting second-tier platforms, would you still dare to keep your small-cap coins on an unregulated exchange?
The Cheese King posts updates every day—let’s figure out what the market is telling us 🧀

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