VOLATILITY IS NOISE. INSTITUTIONS ARE STILL ACCUMULATING.

Binance CEO Richard Teng pushed back on the panic narrative.

He pointed to institutional holdings sitting around 1.3 million $BTC -- stable -- with another 43,000 Bitcoin added globally in January alone. That’s not weak hands. That’s deployed capital adding on volatility.

While headlines focus on short-term price swings, institutions are looking at structure: stablecoin usage reportedly tripled last year, total market cap rose roughly 50%, crypto payments are expanding, and real-world asset tokenization is accelerating. Teng says nearly every major financial institution he meets is exploring how to tokenize assets and move trading on-chain for 24/7 access.

Traditional exchanges like the NYSE and Nasdaq are pushing toward extended trading hours. Crypto already operates 24/7. The direction of travel is clear: markets are adapting toward crypto’s model, not the other way around.

Zoom out four years and Bitcoin has multiplied several times over. Zoom in three months and you get volatility. Institutions aren’t trading three-month charts. They’re positioning for infrastructure-level change.

Short-term fear, long-term deployment. That’s a structural bid under this market. 🔥