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The terms and conditions buried in the Official Trump memecoin website say the president “may not be able to attend” a luncheon planned for April 25 — and that the event could be called off for any reason.

That disclaimer has done little to stop organizers from aggressively promoting the event around Trump’s potential presence.

Senators Fire Off A Letter

Three Democratic senators — Elizabeth Warren, Richard Blumenthal, and Adam Schiff — sent a letter to Bill Zanker, the man behind the TRUMP memecoin launch, demanding to know whether the president actually plans to show up.

Based on reports by Politico, the senators accused organizers of using Trump’s name to push coin purchases that generate transaction fees for him and his family, all while his attendance remained uncertain. The event is set for Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property in Florida.

The senators put it plainly. They wrote that organizers were promoting the conference by holding out the prospect of a presidential appearance to potential attendees — and that doing so was encouraging people to buy the coin.

What makes the situation thornier is that April 25 is already taken. Trump announced on March 2 that he planned to attend the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in Washington, DC — his first time going since boycotting it throughout his first term.

Two major events. One day. One president. The White House did not respond to requests for comment on his schedule.

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— TrumpMeme (@GetTrumpMemes) March 12, 2026

A Coin With A Schedule Problem

This is not the first time Trump has shown up — or been expected to show up — at a crypto event. Reports indicate he attended the Bitcoin 2024 conference and a separate dinner for TRUMP memecoin holders back in May 2025. The April 25 event would be the second such gathering for holders of the coin.

The conflict has drawn attention beyond just scheduling. Critics say it raises questions about whether access to the president is being tied to participation in a financial product that benefits him directly. Organizers have not publicly addressed whether Trump will appear or whether the event will go ahead as planned.

Crypto Legislation Caught In The Crossfire

The controversy lands at a difficult moment for crypto regulation in the US. The CLARITY Act — a bill aimed at setting a legal framework for digital assets — passed the House in July 2025.

The Senate agriculture committee moved it forward in January, but the banking committee put a halt to further action. Concerns over tokenized equities, stablecoin yield, and ethics stalled the process. As of Thursday, no new markup date had been set.

The White House weighed in Wednesday, saying a proposed ban on stablecoin yield in the bill would do little to protect bank lending — a claim aimed at cooling opposition from both the banking and crypto industries.

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В Шелеховском районе Иркутской области сотрудники Росгвардии задержали 36-летнего замгендиректора местной компании, занимающейся недвижимостью. Мужчина организовал фермы для майнинга в помещениях производственной базы и трех частных домах, заявили силовики.

Исполнительный председатель компании Strategy, крупнейшего публичного корпоративного держателя биткоинов, Майкл Сэйлор (Michael Saylor) заявил, что катализатором роста первой криптовалюты станет развитие рынка криптозаймов.

Правительство Японии одобрило поправки к Закону о финансовых инструментах и биржах, согласно которым цифровые валюты классифицируются как финансовые инструменты. Новые правила также ужесточают требования к эмитентам криптоактивов.

К 2035 году объем транзакций в стейблкоинах может превысить $719 трлн, заявили аналитики компании Chainalysis.

Cardano has been one of the worst-hit altcoins in the crypto market, barely getting a rally in the last run and dropping fast once momentum shifted. Over the last year, the cryptocurrency’s performance remained muted as it seemed like investors were focused on offloading their coins in order to avoid more losses. But with the new year, this trend seems to be changing, especially as investors seem to be coming back to the table.

Cardano Sees Renewed Activity

According to the on-chain tracking platform, Santiment, the Cardano network is beginning to see some much-needed change when it comes to participation. The network saw a major surge in activity as reported earlier in the week, suggesting that sentiment toward the altcoin is beginning to move again.

Santiment’s data focused on Cardano wallets holding at least 10 million ADA, meaning these are the whale wallets. This large investor cohort had begun to make more moves, rapidly adding to their already massive holdings as the ADA price continued to struggle.

As the tracker reports, the number of wallets holding at least 10 million ADA has now moved up to 424. This means that it is the first time in more than one month that this metric is moving, and it translates to a 5.92% increase in whale wallets.

ADA Investors Are Very Bullish

While the Cardano whales are coming back to the table, the sentiment is beginning to turn toward the positive again. An earlier report from Santiment shows that ADA investors are still heavily bullish despite most being underwater. The data comes out to around 79% of all investors still bullish and expecting the cryptocurrency’s price to actually move upward.

In addition to this, the month of April has usually been rather bullish for the Cardano price, with more green closes than red for this month throughout history. CryptoRank’s data puts the average ADA price returns for April at 14.1%, suggesting that there could be some positive movement for the cryptocurrency.

The rise in whale volume is also a net positive as these large buys go toward reducing the available supply on the market. Thereby, introducing scarcity and pushing the price upwards. However, the direction of the general crypto market still comes into play, meaning that if the market does go bullish, the likelihood of the ADA price going up becomes higher.

Новый спотовый биржевой фонд Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust (MSBT), паи которого привязаны к курсу биткоина, привлек около $32 млн в первый день торгов на бирже NYSE Arca. Объем торгов превысил 1,6 млн акций.

Банк России не исключает в будущем создание государственного крипторезерва, однако для этого цифровая валюта должна перестать быть высокорискованным финансовым инструментом. Об этом в эфире радио РБК заявил зампред Центробанка Владимир Чистюхин.

Старший стратег Bloomberg Intelligence Майк Макглоун (Mike McGlone) сравнил доходность биржевых фондов (ETF) на биткоин и золото и выразил сомнение в том, что спотовые биткоин-ETF способны обеспечить устойчивый рост первой криптовалюты.

On-chain data shows crypto trading volume on centralized exchanges has fallen to $4.3 trillion, a decline of nearly 50% from the October Bitcoin peak.

Crypto Exchange Volume Has Witnessed A Significant Drop

According to data from on-chain analytics firm CryptoQuant, the crypto trading volume of the centralized exchanges has been cooling down. The “trading volume” here refers to an indicator that keeps track of the total amount of a given asset or group of assets becoming involved in trading activity on exchanges.

Below is the chart shared by CryptoQuant that shows the trend in this metric for the entire crypto sector over the last few years.

As is visible in the graph, the crypto trading volume shot up to a peak level during the last quarter of 2024, suggesting traders were at their most active on exchanges. In 2025, a second peak aligned with Bitcoin’s rally to its new all-time high (ATH).

Both of these highs coinciding with price surges isn’t surprising, as bullish price action tends to attract hype, which naturally results in higher trading activity. In contrast, bearish or sideways phases tend to scare investors away. From the chart, it’s visible that the latter effect has followed with the bearish reversal that crypto has seen since the last quarter of 2025.

Compared to the peak in October, crypto trading volume is today down 48%. Out of the $4.3 trillion volume that exchanges are observing right now, just $0.8 trillion is occurring on spot platforms. Thus, it would appear that perpetual futures markets are seeing most of the activity.

In terms of the individual exchanges, Binance continues to be the most dominant platform.

From the graph, it’s visible that Binance occupies the largest share of the exchange trading volume. Though, its dominance has actually shrunken over the years. At its peak back in the previous cycle, Binance controlled the majority of the market.

In some other news, the latest Bitcoin price surge has led to a break above a key Trader Realized Price level, as CryptoQuant has highlighted in an X post. The “Trader Realized Price” here refers to the average cost basis of the recent BTC buyers.

As displayed in the chart, the lower band of the Trader Realized Price was acting as an upper bound for BTC during the past few weeks, but the latest rally has taken the coin beyond the line. “If it holds, $79K is next—the key bear market ceiling and test for structural recovery,” noted the analytics firm.

BTC Price

At the time of writing, Bitcoin is floating around $71,800, up more than 7.5% in the last seven days.

Владелец контрольного пакета криптобиржи Binance Чанпэн Чжао (Changpeng Zhao) заявил, что к 2031 году криптовалюты и блокчейн могут стать незаметной частью повседневной инфраструктуры — подобно интернету сегодня.

Банк России сможет самостоятельно расширять список криптовалют, доступных для неквалифицированных инвесторов. Соответствующую поправку планируется внести ко второму чтению законопроекта о регулировании криптоактивов, заявил первый зампред ЦБ Владимир Чистюхин.

Отсутствие государственного надзора за криптобиржами создает риски для инвесторов, заявил зампредседателя Совета министров и министр цифровизации Польши Кшиштоф Гавковский (Krzysztof Gawkowski). Особое внимание он обратил на ситуацию вокруг крупнейшей криптоплатформы страны Zondacrypto.

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Paul S. Atkins on Thursday used social media to press Congress to approve the long‑awaited CLARITY Act, the bill intended to create a formal market‑structure framework for crypto in the United States. 

Atkins’ post on X (formerly Twitter) echoed recent comments by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and framed the legislation as necessary to replace “regulation by enforcement” with clear statutory rules that will allow federal agencies to implement consistent oversight of digital assets.

Atkins Urges Congress To Pass CLARITY Act

“At project Crypto is designed so once Congress acts, @SECGov & @CFTC are ready to implement the CLARITY Act,” Atkins wrote, adding that “It’s time for Congress to future‑proof against rogue regulators & advance comprehensive market structure legislation to President Trump’s desk.” 

His remarks came a day after Bessent published an op‑ed in the Wall Street Journal warning that the United States risks losing its leadership in financial innovation if lawmakers fail to pass the bill. 

Bessent urged durable legislation that would give entrepreneurs and developers the confidence to “reshore” digital‑asset activity to American markets, arguing that decisive legal standards have historically made the US the world’s financial center.

Atkins’ appeal references Project Crypto, the coordinated SEC–CFTC effort to create a unified approach to token classification and to streamline how on‑chain trading, custody, and settlement are treated under federal law. 

That initiative culminated in a joint interpretation in March clarifying how securities laws apply to certain crypto assets and transactions — a milestone that many described as the first meaningful step toward the kind of legal clarity the sector has sought for years.

The push for the CLARITY Act, however, is occurring amid stalled negotiations and a high‑stakes dispute between the banking and crypto industries over a provision of the already passed GENIUS Act, the country’s stablecoin legislation. 

Banks Vs. Crypto

That earlier legislation included a measure prohibiting permitted stablecoin issuers from paying interest or yield to customers simply for holding tokens. 

Banks argue the rule left a gap that third parties could exploit by offering rewards to stablecoin holders and have demanded that the market‑structure bill close that loophole. The crypto sector counters that the ability to provide rewards is crucial for stablecoins to compete effectively as payment instruments.

Despite multiple White House meetings intended to bridge the divide, no public compromise has yet been announced. Senators Angela Alsobrooks and Thom Tillis appeared to find bipartisan common ground late last month, but it remains unclear whether their proposal satisfies both the banking and crypto lobbies.

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Власти США, Канады и Великобритании заморозили на криптовалютных кошельках около $12 млн, которые, по их оценке, принадлежат жертвам фишинговых атак.

Polymarket’s five-minute and 15-minute crypto markets have passed $4 billion in total volume, while the first week of trading brought in more than $200 million, according to reports tied to a Chainlink post. The same data put average daily volume at $153 million after the integration.

Short Trades Draw Fast Turnover

The jump followed Polymarket’s use of Chainlink data feeds in its short-duration crypto markets. The platform now relies on those feeds to support live pricing in markets that move every five or 15 minutes.

Chainlink said in a post on April 8 that Polymarket’s average daily volume had climbed to $153 million, or roughly 3x the level seen before the integration. The post also pointed to more than $4 billion in total volume across the short-term markets and more than $200 million in the first week of the 5-minute products.

Since adopting Chainlink to power 5 & 15 min crypto markets, @Polymarket has seen:

• $153M+ avg daily volume, up 3x • $4B+ volume across 5 & 15 min markets • $200M+ in week one of 5-min markets

The Chainlink effect is real. pic.twitter.com/YwDluD6vWS

— Chainlink (@chainlink) April 8, 2026

Chainlink Data Sits At The Center

The report ties that activity to the need for quick, reliable market data. It says Chainlink’s role is to supply secure outside information so outcomes can be settled against live prices instead of stale feeds. In that setup, speed matters. So does trust.

The coverage also says the faster markets have pulled in both retail and institutional traders. Larger participation has helped liquidity, and the short windows appear to have made the product feel more active for users watching small price moves in real time.

What The Numbers Show

The five-minute market appears to have been the sharpest draw. Reports say it generated more than $200 million in its first week, a burst that helped push the wider short-duration segment past the $4 billion mark.

The piece frames Chainlink’s role as a technical one: keeping prices accurate and the market running smoothly as volume rises. It says the oracle network helps Polymarket handle fast trades without losing reliability, which is central to any market built around short deadlines.

Even so, the report does not separate out exactly how much of the rise came from Chainlink itself, new users, or broader interest in fast crypto betting. It presents the integration as the clear catalyst, but the numbers are still shown as a simple before-and-after change rather than a full breakdown.

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The US Department of the Treasury announced Thursday a new initiative designed to reduce the growing cybersecurity risks facing the crypto industry. 

The program, led through the Department’s Office of Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection (OCCIP), is intended to give eligible US digital asset firms practical cybersecurity information. The goal is straightforward: help companies spot threats, strengthen prevention efforts, and respond effectively when incidents occur.

Treasury’s Crypto Cybersecurity Push 

In remarks accompanying the announcement, Luke Pettit, Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions, emphasized that digital asset firms now play an increasingly important role in the US financial system. 

By extending access to the same quality cybersecurity information used by traditional financial institutions, Pettit said Treasury is working to support a more secure and responsible digital asset ecosystem.

Treasury also framed the announcement as part of a broader push to ensure that cybersecurity is treated as a foundation for the next stage of digital finance, rather than an afterthought. 

Tyler Williams, Counselor to the Secretary for Digital Assets, said the initiative reflects the principles behind the country’s stablecoin bill, the GENIUS Act, by encouraging innovation supported by cybersecurity and operational resilience. 

Williams added that as digital assets become more integrated into the financial system, providing timely and actionable threat information becomes essential to protecting consumers and safeguarding US financial markets.

Additionally, Treasury officials said the initiative builds on recommendations from the President’s Working Group on Digital Asset Markets report, Strengthening American Leadership in Digital Financial Technology. 

Stablecoin Compliance Gets Clearer 

Officials involved in cybersecurity oversight also highlighted that the threat environment is changing quickly. Cory Wilson, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Cybersecurity, noted that cyber threats targeting crypto platforms are rising in both frequency and sophistication. 

According to Wilson, the new initiative expands access to actionable threat intelligence intended to help firms strengthen defenses, reduce risk exposure, and handle incidents more effectively when they happen.

The announcement arrives alongside other regulatory steps Treasury and related agencies have been pursuing. On Wednesday, the Department also released a joint proposed rule from the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). 

That proposal is intended to provide a more detailed framework for the GENIUS Act, translating statutory requirements into clearer anti-money-laundering (AML) and sanctions-compliance obligations for permitted payment stablecoin issuers (PPSIs).

Treasury said the draft rule outlines how stablecoin issuers would be expected to detect, report, and block unlawful activity while still maintaining the tools required to comply with lawful orders. 

In combination with the new OCCIP cybersecurity initiative, the actions signal a broader direction: tighter operational standards, greater regulatory clarity, and continued cooperation with digital asset firms to help the crypto industry operate with stronger safeguards.

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Crypto exchange Bithumb is pursuing legal action to freeze nearly $500,000 in Bitcoin (BTC) unrecovered from the $40 billion payout error in February, signaling that the platform will turn to the courts to reclaim the assets.

Bithumb Launches Legal Action

On Thursday, local news media outlet Chosun Biz reported that the South Korean crypto exchange Bithumb had begun legal proceedings to recover part of the Bitcoin that had not been returned after a recent error.

On February 6, Bithumb accidentally distributed 620,000 Bitcoin, worth over $40 billion, to 249 users participating in the crypto exchange’s “random box” promotional event due to a “fat-finger” error.

The exchange quickly canceled the payments and recovered most of the assets. However, some customers immediately sold or exchanged the BTC for cash or other cryptocurrencies, leaving approximately 0.3% of the Bitcoin unrecovered.

According to the report, Bithumb filed for a provisional seizure this week to reclaim 7 Bitcoin it had failed to recover after the erroneous payout incident. This is a legal measure to temporarily freeze a debtor’s assets, preventing their concealment or disposal before a lawsuit to recover the money is filed.

Legal experts believe that customers who did not return the mistakenly paid Bitcoin would likely lose the lawsuit. Head of the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) and a former attorney, Lee Chan-jin, has said that those customers are “clearly subject to the return of unjust enrichment. Those who sold and converted them into money (cash out) face disaster (as they could be drawn into lawsuits).”

An industry source told Chosun Biz that some of these clients argued they should not be responsible for the exchange’s mistake, but under South Korean law, mistakenly received assets are usually classified as unjust enrichment and must be returned in kind.

The report noted that if BTC’s price falls by the time of return, the customer could benefit, but if the price surges, the customer could face losses if the court rules in the exchange’s favor.

‘Ghost Bitcoin’ Error Reshapes Industry Practices

Although 99.7% of the BTC were recovered, the incident raised serious concerns about the crypto exchange’s internal controls. As reported by Bitcoinist, Bithumb held 175 BTC in its own books and less than 50,000 BTC between its own assets and customer-held assets at the time of the incident.

This meant that Bithumb’s system failed to block the irregular transaction, distributing assets that did not actually exist and distorting market prices. As a result, the FSS, alongside the Korean Financial Intelligence Unit (KoFIU) and the Digital Asset eXchange Alliance (DAXA), formed an emergency task force to organize follow-up measures and review industry-wide practices, including domestic exchanges’ virtual asset reserves, management practices, operational conditions, and internal control systems.

In March, the KoFIU preliminarily notified Bithumb of a six-month partial suspension of its business for alleged violations of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Know-Your-Customer (KYC) regulations.

Earlier this week, the Financial Services Commission (FSC) found that domestic crypto exchanges’ trade-halting systems, also known as kill switches, are unreliable when a massive asset mismatch occurs.

Therefore, the regulator ordered all domestic crypto exchanges to switch from the 24‑hour reconciliation cycles most exchanges currently have to a 5‑minute asset‑matching regime by the end of May. In addition, they asked all platforms to disclose their asset-matching balance daily.

A three-word tweet from 2023 became one of the most scrutinized posts in Bitcoin history — and cryptographer Adam Back says it meant nothing close to what people think.

Back Says ‘We Are All Satoshi’ Was About A Film

Back’s old post, which read “We Are All Satoshi,” was flagged by analysts as a possible hidden admission after the New York Times published its investigation identifying him as Bitcoin’s anonymous creator.

Back rejected that reading. He said the phrase came directly from a short film called *Block 170, The First Transaction*, which features the words carved into stone as part of its artistic concept. His tweet, he said, was simply a reference to the film.

The clarification came in response to a sweeping NYT investigation published April 8, 2026. The newspaper’s team, led by John Carreyrou — the journalist who exposed the Theranos fraud — spent more than a year combing through over 134,000 posts by 620 candidates on cryptography mailing lists dating back to 1992.

Bitcoin’s founder, Satoshi Nakamoto, has remained hidden for 17 years. A trail of clues — and a year of digging by our reporter, John Carreyrou — led us to a 55-year-old computer scientist in El Salvador named Adam Back. https://t.co/s6Jy00IDdk

— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 8, 2026

Using linguistic analysis, researchers identified Back as the closest match to the writing style of Satoshi Nakamoto, the person or group behind Bitcoin’s creation in 2008.

A Gap In The Data The Times Found Hard To Ignore

The numbers were specific. Researchers catalogued 325 hyphenation quirks found in Satoshi’s writing. Back matched 67 of them. The second closest candidate matched only 38.

Investigators also noted shared writing habits — British spellings, consistent hyphenation patterns, double spacing between sentences, and alternating use of “e-mail” and “email.”

Then there was the timeline. Back had been an active, visible presence in digital cash discussions for well over a decade. When Satoshi publicly announced Bitcoin in late 2008, Back’s participation in those forums went quiet. Reports say investigators viewed the timing as significant.

Back pushed back on all of it. He acknowledged his long history on the mailing lists but argued that heavy participation naturally produced more data points for any analyst to find patterns in.

Many researchers were exploring digital cash concepts at the same time, he said, so overlapping technical ideas are not evidence of a shared identity. He also stated clearly that he does not know who Satoshi is.

Back Argues That Satoshi’s Unknown Identity Protects Bitcoin

One part of Back’s response went beyond self-defense. He argued that keeping Satoshi’s identity unknown actually benefits Bitcoin as a system.

According to Back, a founderless currency is more likely to be treated as a standalone asset class rather than the project of a single person. The mystery, in his view, is a feature rather than a problem.

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Bitcoin is holding above $71,000 in a market facing serious volatility. Most participants are watching the price. A CryptoQuant report is watching something else — and what it is seeing has only appeared four times in the last decade.

The report identifies a confluence of two on-chain indicators that together are producing what it describes as one of the most compelling risk-reward setups in recent cycle history. The first and most historically significant is the Short-Term Sharpe Ratio, which has plunged deep into negative territory and is now touching the -40 threshold.

That level is not arbitrary. It is the precise reading that preceded every major accumulation window of the past ten years — 2015, 2019, 2020, and 2023. Four instances. Four subsequent substantial re-ratings of the asset. Zero exceptions.

The current moment marks the fifth time Bitcoin has entered that territory.

To be precise about what that means: the Sharpe Ratio measures risk-adjusted returns. When it reaches -40, investors are bearing extreme risk for deeply negative returns — the exact condition that historically exhausts sellers and precedes the kind of structural reset that produces the next major move higher.

Bitcoin above $71,000 is navigating volatility. The on-chain data suggests it may be navigating something else entirely.

The Flush Has Happened, But The Opportunity Has Not Opened Yet

The report’s second indicator adds the dimension that transforms a data point into a framework. Durable Bitcoin bottoms, the analysis establishes, are not events — they are processes. And that process has a consistent, observable sequence that the Buy/Sell Pressure Delta maps in real time.

The sequence begins with maximum sell pressure: the orange and red spikes below -0.05 that mark the moment when forced sellers and panic capitulators exhaust themselves simultaneously. That phase has occurred. The flush is confirmed. What follows is a gradual normalization — supply thinning, selling pressure receding, the delta crawling back toward neutral. That transition is underway. The delta is moving in the right direction.

What has not yet arrived is the asymmetric signal — the moment the delta reclaims blue Buy Pressure territory, confirming that demand is genuinely re-emerging rather than simply stabilizing in the absence of selling. That reclaim is the threshold the report identifies as historically offering the highest risk-reward entry. Every prior durable bottom produced it. The current chart has not yet.

The gap between where the delta sits now and where it needs to go is not a warning. It is a waiting period — and the report is precise about what lives inside it. Historically, the space between capitulation confirmed and demand reignited is where the most asymmetric capital deployment has occurred. Not after the blue reclaim. Before it.

The risks are real and named. Macro headwinds, liquidity constraints, and sentiment fragility could extend the transition. But the data describes a market that is closer to the beginning of an opportunity than the end of one — and that distinction, for cycle-aware investors, is the only number that matters right now.

Bitcoin Holds Range as Downtrend Momentum Fades

Bitcoin is stabilizing above $70,000 after a sharp breakdown that defined the February move lower. The chart shows a clear shift from trend to range: a prolonged decline from late 2025 gave way to a high-volume capitulation event, followed by consolidation between roughly $66,000 and $72,000. This range now defines the short-term structure, with $70,000 acting as a pivot level.

Despite the stabilization, the broader trend remains unresolved. Bitcoin continues to trade below its 50-day (blue), 100-day (green), and 200-day (red) moving averages, all trending downward. This alignment signals that bearish momentum has not fully reversed. Recent attempts to push higher have stalled near the 50-day average, indicating overhead supply remains active.

Volume provides additional context. The spike during the February sell-off reflects forced liquidations, often associated with local bottoms. Since then, volume has normalized, suggesting that the market is no longer under stress but has not yet transitioned into strong accumulation.

Structurally, this is a compression phase following a deleveraging event. A break above $72,000–$75,000 is required to shift momentum and confirm recovery. Until then, Bitcoin remains range-bound, with price action driven more by positioning than sustained directional demand.

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