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BREAKING: #TRUMP JUST SIGNALED THE US MAY BE WITHDRAWING FROM THE IRAN WAR. "The U.S.A. won't be there to help you anymore." He told allies to "build up some delayed courage, go to the Strait, and just TAKE IT."
BREAKING: #TRUMP JUST SIGNALED THE US MAY BE WITHDRAWING FROM THE IRAN WAR.

"The U.S.A. won't be there to help you anymore." He told allies to "build up some delayed courage, go to the Strait, and just TAKE IT."
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So Bitcoin Is Dead?Short answer: yes. But… What happened This week wasn’t driven by a single event or headline. It was the result of several pressures lining up and then releasing at the same time. Macro conditions were already fragile. • Liquidity is still being drained. • Rate expectations haven’t eased. • Tech stocks started to soften again, and crypto continues to react to that environment faster and more violently than most other assets. That part isn’t controversial. It’s been the backdrop for months. What changed this week was the structure. Bitcoin didn’t drift lower. It moved quickly, through levels that usually slow price down. That kind of move doesn’t come from people calmly changing their minds. It usually comes from positions being closed because they have to be. The clearest signal showed up in IBIT. This was the highest IBIT options volume day ever recorded, almost double the previous peak. That tells you institutions weren’t sitting on their hands. They were actively trading downside and protection at size. Heavy volume like that doesn’t mean panic, and it doesn’t mean one sided selling. It means large players were willing to transact at lower prices, immediately. At the same time; • leverage came out of the system fast. • Funding rates turned deeply negative. • Long positions were liquidated in a short window. That’s the signature of forced selling. It’s not about conviction. It’s all about margin. There’s a plausible explanation for why this unwind looked the way it did. A meaningful share of IBIT exposure sits inside single-asset funds, many of them outside the US, particularly in Asia. These structures isolate margin by design. They don’t cross-collateralize with other strategies. When something breaks inside them, the response isn’t gradual. Positions get cut. The timing was important. This happened while other leveraged trades were already under stress. • Japan’s carry trade has been unwinding. • Silver collapsed sharply. • China tightened its stance around stablecoins and tokenization. • Liquidity across several markets thinned at once. When that happens, the most liquid venues tend to absorb the shock first. Crypto did exactly that. By the end of the week, sentiment reflected the damage. Fear readings dropped to levels usually associated with crisis periods, not routine corrections. That doesn’t tell you what comes next. It only tells you that a lot of people stopped feeling comfortable very quickly. That’s the sequence of events. Where we are? After a forced unwind, markets behave differently. • Leverage is lighter now. • Funding has stabilized after turning sharply negative. • Most of the easy liquidations have already happened. That doesn’t mean the market is “safe.” It means fewer participants are being pushed out mechanically. Several institutional desks described this move as momentum driven liquidation rather than a reassessment of long term fundamentals. That distinction important, because it changes how capital responds after the fact. Selling driven by margin tends to end when margin is gone. ETF behavior fits that picture. Volume stayed elevated even as price fell. That’s not disengagement. That’s basic repositioning. Capital didn’t leave. It adjusted. Ethereum is the quiet counterpoint. Price remains weak, but usage doesn’t show stress. • Monthly active addresses just reached a new high. • The validator entry queue is the largest it’s ever been. • For every one ETH trying to exit staking, well over a hundred are waiting to enter. That kind of imbalance doesn’t show up in price immediately, but it says something about how long term holders are behaving. Institutional activity around Ethereum hasn’t slowed either. BlackRock, Fidelity, JPMorgan are still building and expanding real products. That work isn’t speculative and it isn’t sensitive to short term price moves. Regulatory progress continues in the background. It’s slow and procedural, but the tone is materially different from previous cycles. Less adversarial, more technical. That doesn’t create rallies yes, but it does change the environment over time. Bitcoin itself is sitting near long-observed historical reference levels that tend to appear after forced selling phases. These areas have never felt obvious in real time. They didn’t in past cycles either. They felt uncertain, often frustrating, and usually earlier than most people were comfortable with. So… Is bitcoin dead? Long answer: It’s officially in the dead zone now (look at the rainbow chart). Remember, long term holders start selling when everybody screams that it will go to the moon, right? So, when do they start buying? • • • • • • Price could still move lower. It could also spend time going nowhere. Markets often do that after stress events. What has changed is the quality of the selling. It looks less deliberate and more exhausted. • Fear is high (all time record “5” at Feb 6. It’s crazy). • Confidence is thin. • Narratives are scattered. That’s not a signal. It’s just context. And context is usually the only useful thing when certainty disappears… That was the week. Talk again soon… Follow me for more educational content 🫶

So Bitcoin Is Dead?

Short answer: yes. But…
What happened
This week wasn’t driven by a single event or headline. It was the result of several pressures lining up and then releasing at the same time.
Macro conditions were already fragile.
• Liquidity is still being drained.
• Rate expectations haven’t eased.
• Tech stocks started to soften again,
and crypto continues to react to that environment faster and more violently than most other assets. That part isn’t controversial. It’s been the backdrop for months.
What changed this week was the structure.
Bitcoin didn’t drift lower. It moved quickly, through levels that usually slow price down. That kind of move doesn’t come from people calmly changing their minds. It usually comes from positions being closed because they have to be.
The clearest signal showed up in IBIT. This was the highest IBIT options volume day ever recorded, almost double the previous peak. That tells you institutions weren’t sitting on their hands. They were actively trading downside and protection at size.
Heavy volume like that doesn’t mean panic, and it doesn’t mean one sided selling. It means large players were willing to transact at lower prices, immediately.
At the same time;
• leverage came out of the system fast.
• Funding rates turned deeply negative.
• Long positions were liquidated in a short window.
That’s the signature of forced selling. It’s not about conviction. It’s all about margin.
There’s a plausible explanation for why this unwind looked the way it did. A meaningful share of IBIT exposure sits inside single-asset funds, many of them outside the US, particularly in Asia. These structures isolate margin by design. They don’t cross-collateralize with other strategies. When something breaks inside them, the response isn’t gradual. Positions get cut.
The timing was important. This happened while other leveraged trades were already under stress.
• Japan’s carry trade has been unwinding.
• Silver collapsed sharply.
• China tightened its stance around stablecoins and tokenization.
• Liquidity across several markets thinned at once.
When that happens, the most liquid venues tend to absorb the shock first.
Crypto did exactly that.
By the end of the week, sentiment reflected the damage. Fear readings dropped to levels usually associated with crisis periods, not routine corrections.
That doesn’t tell you what comes next. It only tells you that a lot of people stopped feeling comfortable very quickly.
That’s the sequence of events.
Where we are?
After a forced unwind, markets behave differently.
• Leverage is lighter now.
• Funding has stabilized after turning sharply negative.
• Most of the easy liquidations have already happened.
That doesn’t mean the market is “safe.” It means fewer participants are being pushed out mechanically.
Several institutional desks described this move as momentum driven liquidation rather than a reassessment of long term fundamentals. That distinction important, because it changes how capital responds after the fact. Selling driven by margin tends to end when margin is gone.
ETF behavior fits that picture. Volume stayed elevated even as price fell. That’s not disengagement. That’s basic repositioning. Capital didn’t leave. It adjusted.
Ethereum is the quiet counterpoint. Price remains weak, but usage doesn’t show stress.
• Monthly active addresses just reached a new high.
• The validator entry queue is the largest it’s ever been.
• For every one ETH trying to exit staking, well over a hundred are waiting to enter.
That kind of imbalance doesn’t show up in price immediately, but it says something about how long term holders are behaving.
Institutional activity around Ethereum hasn’t slowed either. BlackRock, Fidelity, JPMorgan are still building and expanding real products. That work isn’t speculative and it isn’t sensitive to short term price moves.
Regulatory progress continues in the background. It’s slow and procedural, but the tone is materially different from previous cycles. Less adversarial, more technical. That doesn’t create rallies yes, but it does change the environment over time.
Bitcoin itself is sitting near long-observed historical reference levels that tend to appear after forced selling phases. These areas have never felt obvious in real time. They didn’t in past cycles either. They felt uncertain, often frustrating, and usually earlier than most people were comfortable with.
So…
Is bitcoin dead?
Long answer: It’s officially in the dead zone now (look at the rainbow chart).
Remember, long term holders start selling when everybody screams that it will go to the moon, right?
So, when do they start buying?
• • • • • •
Price could still move lower. It could also spend time going nowhere. Markets often do that after stress events.
What has changed is the quality of the selling. It looks less deliberate and more exhausted.
• Fear is high (all time record “5” at Feb 6. It’s crazy).
• Confidence is thin.
• Narratives are scattered.
That’s not a signal. It’s just context.
And context is usually the only useful thing when certainty disappears…
That was the week.
Talk again soon…
Follow me for more educational content 🫶
Thank you CZ for the exposure. I use trust wallet alot and it's so seamless.
Thank you CZ for the exposure. I use trust wallet alot and it's so seamless.
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Too many people try to over-interpret “what does it mean?”

I was testing Trust Wallet today. And saw too many meme coins in the wallet clustering the interface, to the point it was hard for me to find BNB, so I tried to burn some tokens. Even that caused many community discussions.

Then I realized that I will never be able to “clean out” meme coins on the address. The more I burn them, the more people will send meme coins to the address.

The natural transparency of the blockchain means any interaction with this address will be over-interpreted by the community.

I even thought of requesting the Trust Wallet team to implement an “Ignore Coin” feature to avoid the clutter, but that feature will not be needed by 99.99% of people.

Here is the plan: I will donate/send the BNB and 币安人生 (that was bought using BNB) tokens to Giggle Academy. Then I will stop using this address. It will effectively be a burn address.

Too many people try to over-interpret “what does it mean?"

I was testing @TrustWallet today. I found that there were too many meme coins in the wallet—so many that it was even hard for me to find BNB—so I tried to burn some tokens. Even this action triggered a lot of community discussions.

I realized that I will never be able to “clean out” the meme coins on this address. The more I burn, the more people will send meme coins to the address.

The transparency of the blockchain means that any actions involving this address will be over-interpreted by the community.

I even considered asking the Trust Wallet team to add a feature called “Ignore Coin” to avoid the clutter in the interface, but this feature is something that 99.99% of people won’t need at all.

So the plan is as follows: I will donate/send the BNB and the “币安人生” tokens (bought with BNB) to Giggle Academy. After that, I will stop using this address, turning it into a burn address.
3 MAJOR NEWS EVENTS COULD MOVE GLOBAL MARKETS THIS WEEK 🇺🇸Monday, US Foreign Portfolio Flows: Heavy foreign Treasury buying supports bond prices, pushes yields lower and can help stocks. 🇺🇸Wednesday, FOMC Minutes: More support for holding or cutting rates could lower yields while supporting stocks, and #crypto . 🇯🇵Thursday, Japan #cpi : Cooler inflation reduces the urgency to hike.
3 MAJOR NEWS EVENTS COULD MOVE GLOBAL MARKETS THIS WEEK

🇺🇸Monday, US Foreign Portfolio Flows:
Heavy foreign Treasury buying supports bond prices, pushes yields lower and can help stocks.

🇺🇸Wednesday, FOMC Minutes:
More support for holding or cutting rates could lower yields while supporting stocks, and #crypto .

🇯🇵Thursday, Japan #cpi :
Cooler inflation reduces the urgency to hike.
🇮🇷🇺🇸BREAKING: Iran’s Army Chief sets a $30,000 bounty for the killing or capture of U.S. forces. Iranian Army chief Amir Hatami announced the reward for anyone who kills or captures an “invading” American service member, with the bounty reportedly doubled if carried out by an Iranian woman. The announcement comes after President #TRUMP declared the U.S. Navy has “full control” of the Strait of Hormuz. #IsraelStrikesLebanonKillsHezbollahCommander
🇮🇷🇺🇸BREAKING: Iran’s Army Chief sets a $30,000 bounty for the killing or capture of U.S. forces.

Iranian Army chief Amir Hatami announced the reward for anyone who kills or captures an “invading” American service member, with the bounty reportedly doubled if carried out by an Iranian woman.

The announcement comes after President #TRUMP declared the U.S. Navy has “full control” of the Strait of Hormuz.

#IsraelStrikesLebanonKillsHezbollahCommander
$ETH IS BACK ABOVE $1,900 🚀
$ETH IS BACK ABOVE $1,900 🚀
#DXY consolidated over the major support area. Still holding over it. Index falling lower is good, but we need to see a candle close below the area. Then we can expect a bullish move in the market.
#DXY consolidated over the major support area. Still holding over it.
Index falling lower is good, but we need to see a candle close below the area.

Then we can expect a bullish move in the market.
#BTC /USDT ANALYSIS Bitcoin is trading above the horizontal demand zone of the descending triangle, maintaining key support. The Ichimoku cloud is acting as a resistance barrier above the current price action. We need to wait for a solid breakout or breakdown to confirm the next directional move.
#BTC /USDT ANALYSIS

Bitcoin is trading above the horizontal demand zone of the descending triangle, maintaining key support.

The Ichimoku cloud is acting as a resistance barrier above the current price action.

We need to wait for a solid breakout or breakdown to confirm the next directional move.
#USDT DOMINANCE ANALYSIS USDT Dominance is trading below the resistance trendline of the symmetrical triangle, indicating continued consolidation. The Ichimoku cloud is acting as support below the current price action. We need to wait for a solid breakout or breakdown to confirm the next directional move. It’s important to note that USDT Dominance often exhibits an inverse correlation with the broader #crypto market.
#USDT DOMINANCE ANALYSIS

USDT Dominance is trading below the resistance trendline of the symmetrical triangle, indicating continued consolidation.

The Ichimoku cloud is acting as support below the current price action.

We need to wait for a solid breakout or breakdown to confirm the next directional move.

It’s important to note that USDT Dominance often exhibits an inverse correlation with the broader #crypto market.
It has been a bad week for #crypto - $85 Billion wiped from total Crypto mcap - BTC fell to a 31-day low of $62,500 - $BTC ETFs saw $389M in outflows, biggest in 6 weeks - Saylor's Strategy sold another $108M worth of BTC - Altcoin mcap hit its lowest weekly close in nearly 3 years - SEC cancelled its crypto regulation meeting
It has been a bad week for #crypto

- $85 Billion wiped from total Crypto mcap

- BTC fell to a 31-day low of $62,500

- $BTC ETFs saw $389M in outflows, biggest in 6 weeks

- Saylor's Strategy sold another $108M worth of BTC

- Altcoin mcap hit its lowest weekly close in nearly 3 years

- SEC cancelled its crypto regulation meeting
#bitcoin is trading in the biggest cost-basis zone, around $62K–$68K. It is split almost evenly between short-term and long-term holders. Long term holders provide support, while short-term holders are more likely to sell on a bounce. The key level is $69K, with major supply above at $83K–$86K.
#bitcoin is trading in the biggest cost-basis zone, around $62K–$68K. It is split almost evenly between short-term and long-term holders.

Long term holders provide support, while short-term holders are more likely to sell on a bounce. The key level is $69K, with major supply above at $83K–$86K.
$BTC WEEKLY TF UPDATE: #BTC had a rejection from the weekly resistance straight back to the weekly support, with that the range continues to go further for next week. This month we don't have any strong news events, so breakout chances are pretty low. Nothing much to happen; just keep waiting.
$BTC WEEKLY TF UPDATE:

#BTC had a rejection from the weekly resistance straight back to the weekly support, with that the range continues to go further for next week.

This month we don't have any strong news events, so breakout chances are pretty low. Nothing much to happen; just keep waiting.
$LUMIA /USDT ANALYSIS LUMIA is rebounding from the support trendline of the symmetrical triangle, showing signs of strength. A solid breakout above the triangle resistance would provide bullish confirmation and could trigger a strong rally. Keep a close eye on the upcoming price action.
$LUMIA /USDT ANALYSIS

LUMIA is rebounding from the support trendline of the symmetrical triangle, showing signs of strength.

A solid breakout above the triangle resistance would provide bullish confirmation and could trigger a strong rally.

Keep a close eye on the upcoming price action.
$BTC is making small, new lower lows, and the price has nearly reached the middle of the range. Expecting more downside ahead, we will see how everything unfolds based on price action. #trading
$BTC is making small, new lower lows, and the price has nearly reached the middle of the range.

Expecting more downside ahead, we will see how everything unfolds based on price action.

#trading
The second channel is more mechanical. Three-month futures basis, the yield on the cash and carry trade that anchors institutional participation in #crypto , has been paying less than a 2-year Treasury since February. Only one other stretch on record has run this long, from August 2022 into January 2023, and it ended at the cycle low. When Treasuries out-yield the basis, the desks that supply leverage, depth and volume to this market have little reason to be here. Much of what follows in the off-chain section looks downstream of that one spread.
The second channel is more mechanical. Three-month futures basis, the yield on the cash and carry trade that anchors institutional participation in #crypto , has been paying less than a 2-year Treasury since February.

Only one other stretch on record has run this long, from August 2022 into January 2023, and it ended at the cycle low.

When Treasuries out-yield the basis, the desks that supply leverage, depth and volume to this market have little reason to be here. Much of what follows in the off-chain section looks downstream of that one spread.
$XPL /USDT ANALYSIS XPL is consolidating within the descending triangle pattern, with the Ichimoku cloud acting as a resistance barrier above the current price action. We need to wait for a solid breakout or breakdown of the pattern to confirm the next directional move. #TradingSignals
$XPL /USDT ANALYSIS

XPL is consolidating within the descending triangle pattern, with the Ichimoku cloud acting as a resistance barrier above the current price action.

We need to wait for a solid breakout or breakdown of the pattern to confirm the next directional move.

#TradingSignals
#US DOLLAR ANALYSIS The US Dollar has broken down from the ascending triangle pattern, signaling increasing bearish pressure. The Ichimoku cloud is acting as a resistance barrier above the current price action. A sustained close below the breakdown level could confirm further downside in the US Dollar. Since DXY moves inversely to #crypto , this setup could heavily impact upcoming market direction.
#US DOLLAR ANALYSIS

The US Dollar has broken down from the ascending triangle pattern, signaling increasing bearish pressure.

The Ichimoku cloud is acting as a resistance barrier above the current price action.

A sustained close below the breakdown level could confirm further downside in the US Dollar.

Since DXY moves inversely to #crypto , this setup could heavily impact upcoming market direction.
TOTAL MARKET CAP ANALYSIS Total market cap has broken down from the ascending triangle pattern, signaling increasing bearish pressure. Currently, it is trading above the lower boundary of the Ichimoku cloud, which is acting as the key support. A breakdown below the cloud would confirm further correction across the crypto market. #crypto
TOTAL MARKET CAP ANALYSIS

Total market cap has broken down from the ascending triangle pattern, signaling increasing bearish pressure.

Currently, it is trading above the lower boundary of the Ichimoku cloud, which is acting as the key support.

A breakdown below the cloud would confirm further correction across the crypto market.

#crypto
$ZK /USDT ANALYSIS ZK is holding above the support trendline of the falling wedge pattern, maintaining its bullish structure. A solid breakout above the wedge resistance would provide bullish confirmation. Keep an eye on the price action for further breakout developments. #trading
$ZK /USDT ANALYSIS

ZK is holding above the support trendline of the falling wedge pattern, maintaining its bullish structure.

A solid breakout above the wedge resistance would provide bullish confirmation. Keep an eye on the price action for further breakout developments.

#trading
#BTC .D failed to move anything and also the new Higher High. The index goes sideways after the break of the triangle pattern, but moving higher is still probable, so altcoins might dip again.
#BTC .D failed to move anything and also the new Higher High.

The index goes sideways after the break of the triangle pattern, but moving higher is still probable, so altcoins might dip again.
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