$BITCOIN traded around $64,000 — down 0.6% since midnight UTC — after rallying from $62,600 on Monday, as Nasdaq 100 futures slipped 1.1% and Treasury yields rose ahead of Wednesday's FOMC July meeting minutes release. Brent crude rose back to $94 per barrel after the 60-day US-Iran ceasefire expired Monday without a deal, reviving the oil-inflation headwind that has capped Bitcoin all summer. BTC perpetual funding rates surged to a 20-month high according to — the strongest expression of bullish futures bias since the current bear market began — while BTC's positive CVD showed buyer leadership even as $ETH $SOL , LTC, LINK, and DOGE all registered negative CVD, suggesting the bullish sentiment is concentrated in Bitcoin rather than broadly distributed. Also due Wednesday: US President Trump is expected to attend a meeting with crypto CEOs at the White House — a policy catalyst that has been identified as a key driver of Bitcoin's stop-start range-bound performance.