Author: John Smith
Grayscale has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to launch the Grayscale HYPE ETF, a proposed spot exchange-traded fund tied to Hyperliquid’s native token, HYPE. Summary Grayscale filed for a Nasdaq-listed HYPE ETF tied to Hyperliquid’s native token price movement. The proposed fund may add staking later, though it will not offer staking initially. Hyperliquid remains the largest onchain perps venue despite slower volumes and growing competition from rivals. If approved, the fund would trade on Nasdaq under the ticker GHYP and would give investors listed market access to the token without holding it directly. Meanwhile, the filing…
Bitcoin is holding just below $70k after a hawkish FOMC, ETF outflows, and a shift to Fear, with weak long conviction but easing miner selling and difficulty. Summary BTC slipped roughly 5% post-FOMC, from near $74k to testing $70k, as the Fed signaled fewer 2026 cuts, ETFs flipped from $1.1b inflows to a $129m outflow, and the Fear & Greed Index fell to 28. Bitcoin’s 30-day correlation to the S&P 500 has climbed to 0.74, while CoinGlass data show shorts built into the $68,750 dip but open interest barely moved on the rebound, implying range-bound, low-conviction trade. Miner net outflows…
Bhutan has sold over $110m in Bitcoin in 2026, cutting sovereign holdings by about 65% from their peak as Druk Holding shifts from mining-led accumulation to steady liquidation. Summary Druk Holding & Investments has offloaded more than $110m in BTC this year, including a 973 BTC transfer worth about $72.3m on March 17–18 routed partly through QCP Capital and Binance. Bhutan’s stash has shrunk from roughly 13,000 BTC (over $1.4b and 40% of GDP at peak) to around 5,400 BTC worth about $374m, with no inflows over $100k in more than a year, implying mining has largely stopped. The kingdom’s…
Pi Network’s PI token trades around 0.17–0.19 dollars, 94% below its peak, with most serious models clustering around a 0.15–0.35 dollar, high‑risk, low‑conviction range for the next 12–18 months. Summary PI changes hands near 0.17–0.19 dollars with a roughly 1.7–1.8 billion dollar market cap and about 9.8 billion coins in circulation, down around 94% from its 2.99‑dollar all‑time high. Gate and CoinCodex forecasts cluster around a 2026 band of roughly 0.15–0.30 dollars, while CoinStats’ more optimistic scenarios push into the 0.40–0.60‑dollar range only if adoption and sentiment improve sharply. A sober journalistic call puts the defensible 12–18‑month corridor at 0.15–0.35…
Robert Kiyosaki says an imminent “biggest financial bubble in history” will end in a crash that sends Bitcoin to $750k and Ethereum to $95k within a year, even as critics doubt his methods. Summary Kiyosaki argues a financial bubble inflated since 2008 will soon burst and forecasts Bitcoin at $750,000 and Ethereum at $95,000 within one year of that crash, alongside gold at $35,000 and silver at $200. He frames BTC, ETH, gold, and silver as scarce “escape hatches” from fiat, noting he recently bought another 1 BTC around $67,000 and claims he would still buy more even if price…
While ETF outflows grabbed attention, about $13b quietly moved into crypto via OTC, prime brokerage, and private funds, showing institutional demand runs deeper than ETF dashboards. Summary A Daily Chain briefing highlights roughly $13b in capital flowing into crypto this week via prime brokers, OTC desks, structured products, and private vehicles that never show up in ETF flow reports. Finery Markets data show institutional crypto spot OTC volumes jumped 109% year-over-year in 2025, far outpacing the 9% growth in top-20 CEX spot trading as large players favor discreet block execution. BlackRock’s recent $140m transfer of 47,728 ETH and 544 BTC…
Gold has slipped from above $5,200 while crypto bleeds and silver dumps, exposing “store of value” as a question of volatility, leverage and time horizon, not memes. Summary Gold has dropped about 10–15% from its early‑March spike above $5,200 to around $4,560, but remains structurally elevated and keeps finding dip buyers near the mid‑$4,500s. Silver has been hit harder, sliding roughly 20% this month back toward the low‑$70s per ounce, underscoring its role as the high‑beta “altcoin” of the metals complex. Crypto is mirroring the direction with more violence: BTC stuck in the high‑$60,000s to low‑$70,000s, total market cap around…
Bitcoin’s latest recovery toward $69,700 is unfolding with almost no change in futures open interest, a pattern CoinGlass says fits a range-bound, leverage-heavy market rather than the start of a durable bullish trend. Summary CoinGlass notes that open interest rose as Bitcoin fell to about $68,750, signaling shorts adding into weakness, then barely changed during the rebound near $69,700. BTC now trades between a long-liquidation pocket below $66,827, where roughly $1.878b in longs sit, and a short-squeeze zone above $73,757 holding about $1.062b in shorts. Macro headwinds, a VIX spike to 25.44, Middle East tensions, and BlackRock’s $140m Coinbase Prime…
Investors sue Gemini, alleging its IPO hid plans to abandon core crypto trading for a prediction market pivot, after shares crashed and layoffs followed. Summary Investors allege Gemini concealed a preplanned pivot to a Gemini 2.0 prediction-market model in its IPO filings. The suit follows a 77% stock plunge, mass layoffs, and withdrawals from key international markets after the IPO. Plaintiffs say these post-IPO shocks were foreseeable outcomes of a strategy Gemini chose not to disclose. Cryptocurrency exchange Gemini and its co-founders Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss are facing a securities class action lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for…
Ripple said a new 2026 survey shows digital assets are moving closer to the center of financial services strategy. Summary Ripple found stablecoins lead demand as finance firms seek faster treasury tools and working capital efficiency. Banks and asset managers ranked custody and secure storage among top tokenization infrastructure priorities. Most respondents said security certifications and trusted providers matter most when choosing digital asset partners. Meanwhile, the company polled more than 1,000 finance leaders across banks, asset managers, fintechs, and corporates, with 72% saying firms must offer digital asset solutions to stay competitive. Ripple said stablecoins ranked as the top…