Token Metrics Daily Pulse

Strategy bought 24,869 BTC for $2B last week. Then BTC slid to $77k anyway. $672M in crypto liquidations hit as bond yields spiked. The biggest corporate buyer on earth can't hold the line right now. Today's key developments: • Strategy bought 24,869 BTC for $2B last week, pushing its total holdings above 4% of the entire Bitcoin supply. The company now holds more BTC than any entity on earth outs...

SBI Securities and Rakuten Securities are launching crypto investment trusts. Nomura is next in line. Millions of Japanese retail investors are about to get crypto access. TradFi isn't coming. It's already here. Today's key developments: • The Clarity Act cleared the Senate Banking Committee in a bipartisan 15-9 vote, but analysts are flagging significant hurdles before it becomes law. • Lombard F...

$500M in crypto longs wiped out today. BTC slides to $78k. Fear & Greed craters to 31, down 12 points overnight. The market just reminded everyone who's in charge. Today's key developments: • $500M in crypto longs liquidated as BTC slides to $78k, SOL and XRP fall 5%. • The Crypto Market Structure (Clarity Act) cleared the Senate Banking Committee, but analysts say significant hurdles remain befor...

Saudi Arabia is tokenizing a multi-trillion dollar economy. BTC slides to $79k. Fear & Greed climbs to 43 from 34. The biggest RWA bet in history just landed while markets bleed. Today's key developments: • The crypto market structure bill cleared a key Senate committee hurdle in a bipartisan 15-9 vote, but an ethics fight over Trump-linked crypto interests is threatening the floor vote. • Lombard...

Bitcoin ETFs shed $630M in one day. Fear & Greed dropped to 34: Fear. On-chain data shows the rally past $80k had zero US spot demand. The buying was borrowed, not real. Today's key developments: • Bitcoin ETFs just logged their largest single-day outflow since January: $630M left in one session as corporate treasury demand dried up and resistance built near $80k. • JPMorgan bought BlackRock's IBI...

Charles Schwab just flipped on spot crypto for retail. JPMorgan tokenized a money market fund on Ethereum. Fear & Greed dropped to 42: Fear. TradFi is building while sentiment slides. Today's key developments: • Charles Schwab has begun rolling out spot crypto trading for retail customers, marking the firm's first direct crypto offering. • JPMorgan is launching a second tokenized money market fund...

Hot inflation data just pushed rate cuts further out. BTC barely flinched at $81K. Fear & Greed sits at 49: Neutral. The macro headwind is real. The market's not panicking. One of those is wrong. Today's key developments: • Hot inflation data lands, and the Fed's rate cut timeline just got pushed back again. • DTCC taps Chainlink for its tokenized collateral platform, launching in Q4. • Senate Ban...

$858 million flowed into crypto funds last week. Six straight weeks of inflows. Strategy bought again days after hinting at sales. Sui surged 14% while BTC barely moved. Institutions are loading up. Altcoins are waking up. Today's key developments: • Crypto funds logged $858 million in inflows last week, the sixth straight positive week and part of a $4.9 billion six-week streak. • Strategy bought...

Bored Ape NFTs are staging a comeback. Sui up 6% while BTC barely moves. Fear & Greed jumped from 38 to 47. Risk appetite is quietly returning to the edges of the market. Today's key developments: • BAYC floor prices are moving while broader NFT volume metrics show the first sustained weekly uptick since late 2024. • The CLARITY Act gets a Senate markup date. Crypto's market structure bill is fina...

The Senate Banking Committee set a markup date for the CLARITY Act. Trump Media reported a $406 million Q1 loss tied to BTC and CRO markdowns. Fear & Greed sits at 38. Today's key developments: • The Senate Banking Committee has set a markup date for the CLARITY Act, the most sweeping crypto market structure legislation the US has attempted. • Aave Labs plans to overhaul collateral and listing sta...

Atkins eyes on-chain market rules. ECB panics over Tether. SOL up 4%. Today's key developments: - Kraken's parent Payward just applied for a national trust bank charter with the OCC, putting it in the same regulatory category as BNY Mellon and JPMorgan's trust arms. - SEC Chair Atkins signaled the agency is weighing new rulemaking for on-chain market structures and AI-driven finance, marking the c...

TradFi is moving into tokenization. BTC is sliding. Two different stories. Today's key developments: - Bitwise acquires Superstate's $267 million tokenized carry fund - the asset manager's first direct move into tokenized real-world assets. - Bitcoin ETFs just posted a 5-week buying streak as institutional appetite returns and hedge positions unwind. - Kraken is buying stablecoin payments firm Rea...

BTC hits a 3-month high above $82K. Zcash up 34% on Multicoin backing. Fear & Greed slipped 4 points to 46. The market is moving up while sentiment moves sideways. Today's key developments: • Bitcoin cleared $82K for the first time in three months, driven by reports of a US-Iran nuclear agreement - a direct geopolitical risk-off unwind. • Zcash surged 34% to $574 after Multicoin Capital disclosed...

BTC holds $81K after absorbing $200M in profit-taking. Fear & Greed jumped 10 points to 50. TON up 36% after Telegram seized control of its own chain. The rally that wasn't supposed to happen is still happening. Today's key developments: • TON surged 36% in 24 hours after Telegram announced it will take direct control of the network, becoming its largest validator and replacing the TON Foundation....

BTC crossed $80K for the first time since January. Then an Iran missile report hit the wire. It's back at $79K. Fear & Greed dropped 7 points to 40. The rally was real. The ceiling still isn't. Today's key developments: • BTC crossed $80K for the first time since January - then an Iran missile report erased the move in hours, sending ETH, SOL, and DOGE sharply lower. • Kraken's parent Payward clos...

Clarity Act yield deal is done. BTC sits at $78K, barely breathing. Fear & Greed climbed to 47 - Neutral for the first time in weeks. Big win for crypto law. Muted reaction from the market. Today's key developments: • The Clarity Act stablecoin yield deal just cleared its biggest Senate hurdle - and for the first time, paying interest on stablecoins is on the table. • The Ethereum Foundation sold...

The Senate just cleared the Clarity Act yield hurdle. BTC sits at $78K, barely moving. Fear & Greed jumped 13 points overnight. Big legislation. Muted reaction. Someone's not impressed. Today's key developments: • The Senate cleared a key hurdle on the Clarity Act, advancing crypto's most significant legislative package in years - including a provision letting crypto firms offer stablecoin yield w...

Bitcoin closed April up 12% - best month in a year. BTC ETFs hauled in $2 billion in April. Fear & Greed sits at 26. Institutions are buying what retail is scared to touch. Today's key developments: • Bitcoin ETFs recorded $2 billion in net inflows in April - the biggest ETF month of 2026 so far. • MegaETH TVL surged 277% in seven days after its token went live - the biggest L2 debut of 2026. • SB...

April just became the worst hack month since February 2025. $630 million gone. North Korea accounts for 76% of all 2026 crypto theft. BTC sits at $76K in Fear territory. The market has a security problem it keeps pretending is solved. Today's key developments: • Across 68 incidents so far in 2026, crypto hackers have pulled more than $1 billion in total theft - with DPRK-linked actors accumulating...

Paul Tudor Jones just called Bitcoin the strongest inflation hedge alive. BTC sits at $76K, barely down on the day. Fear & Greed sits at 29 in Fear territory. The legend is buying what the crowd is selling. Today's key developments: • Paul Tudor Jones publicly called Bitcoin the strongest inflation hedge available. A statement that lands differently when it comes from someone who manages billions...

Bitcoin ETFs snapped a 9-day inflow streak. BTC sits at $76K, down 2%. FOMC looms. Macro just called the bulls' bluff. Today's key developments: • Jack Dorsey's Block now holds nearly 9,000 BTC after adding to its treasury in Q1, disclosing $2.2 billion in holdings via proof-of-reserves. • Israel approved its first regulated stablecoin, a digital shekel, marking a significant shift in sovereign di...

Crypto ETFs just hit their highest AUM since February. $933 million flowed in a single day. Meme tokens up 31% in 7 days. BTC sits at $77K — calm while everything else runs. Today's key developments: • $933 million flowed into crypto ETFs in a single day — pushing total AUM to the highest level since February, extending a four-week inflow streak. • BTC reclaimed its 21-week trend line for the firs...

BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF just hit a milestone that didn't exist 18 months ago. Meme tokens are up 35% in 7 days. Rollups up 31%. BTC sits at $78K — barely moving while everything around it runs. Today's key developments: • BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF just crossed a milestone that proves crypto went mainstream — and Coinbase is positioning itself as the only full-service prime broker that can actually s...

Bitcoin is on track for its best month in a year. Spot ETFs just logged a 9-day inflow streak. Yet traders are eyeing $73K as the next key level. The bulls and the chart are in a standoff. Today's key developments: • Bitcoin is on track for its best monthly performance in a year, fueled by $5 billion in new USDT minted and a 9-day spot ETF inflow streak. • Prediction markets are under siege global...

A US soldier used classified intel on the Maduro raid to win $409K on Polymarket. Now he's facing five felonies. Bitcoin stalls at $78K as leverage unwinds. Two very different kinds of risk on display today. Today's key developments: • A US Army soldier faces five felony charges after allegedly using classified intelligence about the Maduro raid to bet $409K on Polymarket — and win. • Aave is rall...