5 days ago
By James Van Straten (All times ET unless indicated otherwise)
The past 24 hours person been among the astir hectic successful the crypto manufacture for years, and this was reflected successful Thursday's bitcoin (BTC) price, which whipsawed 2% to 3% aggregate times successful a substance of minutes. Still, it managed to enactment supra the intelligence $100,000 level and is is presently astir $105,000.
President Trump's rhetoric is continuing to assistance weaken the dollar, which mostly boosts hazard assets specified arsenic cryptocurrencies. The DXY index, a measurement of the U.S. currency against a handbasket of large commercialized partners, has dropped to the lowest since Dec. 17, truthful that should springiness risk-on assets a feel-good boost. U.S. enslaved yields and WTI crude lipid are besides heading down, with lipid beneath $75 a barrel, the lowest successful 2 weeks.
On the different broadside of the world, the Bank of Japan (BoJ) delivered connected its committedness with another interest-rate increase, taking the argumentation complaint to 0.50%, the highest successful much than 16 years. That followed a precise blistery ostentation print, with header ostentation of 3.6% from the erstwhile year, the fastest since January 2023. The question is whether we volition get a 2nd iteration of the yen transportation commercialized unwind that occurred successful August of past year. Time volition tell. Stay alert!
What to Watch
Crypto:
Jan. 25: First deadline for SEC decisions connected proposals for 4 spot solana ETFs: Bitwise Solana ETF, Canary Solana ETF, 21Shares Core Solana ETF and VanEck Solana Trust, which are each sponsored by Cboe BZX Exchange.
Jan. 29: Ice Open Network (ION) mainnet launch.
Feb. 4: MicroStrategy Inc. (MSTR) Q4 FY 2024 net report.
Feb. 4: Pepecoin (PEPE) halving. At artifact 400,000, the reward volition driblet to 31,250 pepecoin.
Feb. 5, 3:00 p.m.: Boba Network's Holocene hard fork web upgrade for its Ethereum-based L2 mainnet.
Macro
Jan. 24, 4:00 a.m.: S&P Global releases January 2025 eurozone HCOB Purchasing Managers' Index (Flash) reports.
Composite PMI Est. 49.7 vs. Prev. 49.6.
Manufacturing PMI Est. 45.3 vs. Prev. 45.1.
Services PMI Est. 51.5 vs. Prev. 51.6.
Jan. 24, 4:30 a.m.: S&P Global releases January 2025's U.K. Purchasing Managers' Index (Flash) reports.
Composite PMI Est. 50 vs. Prev. 50.4.
Manufacturing PMI Est. 47 vs. Prev. 47.
Services PMI Est. 50.9 vs. Prev. 51.1.
Jan. 24, 9:45 a.m.: S&P Global releases January 2025's U.S. Purchasing Managers' Index (Flash) reports.
Composite PMI Prev. 55.4.
Manufacturing PMI Est. 49.6 vs. Prev. 49.4.
Services PMI Est. 56.5 vs. Prev. 56.8.
Jan. 24, 10:00 a.m.: The University of Michigan releases January U.S. user sentiment data.
Index of Consumer Sentiment (Final) Est. 73.2 vs. Prev. 74.
Token Events
Governance votes & calls
Frax DAO is discussing a $5 cardinal concern successful World Liberty Financial (WLFI), the crypto task backed by the household of President Donald Trump.
Jan. 24: Arbitrum BoLD's activation vote deadline. BoLD allows anyone to enactment successful validation and support against malicious claims to an Arbitrum chain's state.
Jan. 24: Hedera (HBAR) is hosting a assemblage telephone astatine 11 a.m.
Unlocks
Jan. 31: Optimism (OP) to unlock 2.32% of circulating proviso worthy $52.9 million.
Jan. 31: Jupiter (JUP) to unlock 41.5% of circulating proviso worthy $626 million.
Conferences:
Day 12 of 12: Swiss WEB3FEST Winter Edition 2025 (Zug, Zurich, St. Moritz, Davos)
Day 5 of 5: World Economic Forum Annual Meeting (Davos-Klosters, Switzerland)
Day 1 of 2: Adopting Bitcoin (Cape Town, South Africa)
Jan. 25-26: Catstanbul 2025 (Istanbul). The archetypal assemblage league for Jupiter, a decentralized speech (DEX) aggregator built connected Solana.
Jan. 30, 12:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.: International DeFi Day 2025 (online)
Jan 30-31: Plan B Forum (San Salvador, El Salvador)
Jan. 30 to Feb. 4: The Satoshi Roundtable (Dubai)
Feb. 3: Digital Assets Forum (London)
Feb. 5-6: The 14th Global Blockchain Congress (Dubai)
Feb. 6: Ondo Summit 2025 (New York).
Feb. 7: Solana APEX (Mexico City)
Feb. 13-14: The 4th Edition of NFT Paris.
Feb. 18-20: Consensus Hong Kong
Feb. 19: Sui Connect: Hong Kong
Feb. 23 to March 2: ETHDenver 2025 (Denver)
Feb. 25: HederaCon 2025 (Denver)
Token Talk
By Shaurya Malwa
A humorous caller decentralized autonomous organization, FartStrategy (FSTR) DAO, is investing idiosyncratic funds into FARTCOIN.
The DAO is leveraging borrowed SOL to get the token, offering investors a accidental to summation vulnerability to its terms movements done FSTR.
If FSTR trades beneath its FARTCOIN backing, token holders tin ballot to dissolve the DAO, redeeming their stock of FARTCOIN proportionally aft settling immoderate outstanding debts.
The VINE memecoin jumped to a $200 cardinal marketplace capitalization little than 48 hours aft issuance.
It was launched connected the Solana blockchain by Rus Yusupov, 1 of the co-founders of the archetypal Vine app, and introduced arsenic a nostalgic tribute to the eponymous level known for its six-second looping videos. Vine was a important taste improvement earlier closing successful 2017.
There person been caller discussions astir perchance reviving the app, with Yusupov and technocrat Elon Musk expressing involvement successful its return.
Derivatives Positioning
TRX leads maturation successful perpetual futures unfastened involvement successful large coins.
Funding rates for majors stay beneath an annualized 10%, a motion the marketplace isn't overly speculative contempt BTC trading adjacent grounds highs connected optimism astir Trump's crypto policies.
BTC and ETH telephone skews person firmed up, with artifact flows featuring outright longs successful higher onslaught BTC calls and a bull telephone dispersed successful ETH, involving calls astatine strikes $5K and $6K.
Market Movements:
BTC is up 2 % from 4 p.m. ET Thursday to $105,450.57 (24hrs: +3.43%)
ETH is up 4.96% astatine $3,409.62 (24hrs: +6.18%)
CoinDesk 20 is up 2.4% to 3,988.16 (24hrs: +4.79%)
CESR Composite Staking Rate is up 1 bp to 3.16%
BTC backing complaint is astatine 0.0069% (7.58% annualized) connected Binance
DXY is down 0.48% astatine 107.53
Gold is up 0.68% astatine $2,775.28/oz
Silver is up 1.21% to $30.86/oz
Nikkei 225 closed unchanged astatine 39,931.98
Hang Seng closed +1.86% to 20,066.19
FTSE is down 0.33% astatine 8,537.12
Euro Stoxx 50 is up 0.73% astatine 5,255.47
DJIA closed connected Thursday +0.92% to 44,565.07
S&P 500 closed +0.53 astatine 6,118.71
Nasdaq closed +0.22% astatine 20,053.68
S&P/TSX Composite Index closed +0.48% astatine 25,434.08
S&P 40 Latin America closed +0.57% astatine 2,310.35
U.S. 10-year Treasury was down 13 bps astatine 4.64%
E-mini S&P 500 futures are down 0.13% astatine 6,143.75
E-mini Nasdaq-100 futures are down 0.56% astatine 22,005.50
E-mini Dow Jones Industrial Average Index futures are unchanged astatine 44,709.00
Bitcoin Stats:
BTC Dominance: 58.51 (-0.11%)
Ethereum to bitcoin ratio: 0.032 (0.68%)
Hashrate (seven-day moving average): 784 EH/s
Hashprice (spot): $61.0
Total Fees: 6.8 BTC/ $104,070
CME Futures Open Interest: 191,645
BTC priced successful gold: 38.1 oz
BTC vs golden marketplace cap: 10.83%
Technical Analysis
Ether seems person chalked retired a falling wedge pattern, characterized by 2 converging trendlines, representing a bid of little highs and little lows.
The converging quality of trendlines indicates that sellers are dilatory losing grip.
A breakout is said to correspond a bullish inclination reversal.
Crypto Equities
MicroStrategy (MSTR): closed connected Thursday astatine $373.12 (-1.11%), up 2.55% astatine $382.62 successful pre-market.
Coinbase Global (COIN): closed astatine $296.01 (+0.05%), up 2.16% astatine $302.39 successful pre-market.
Galaxy Digital Holdings (GLXY): closed astatine C$33.94 (+3.44%)
MARA Holdings (MARA): closed astatine $19.95 (+1.32%), up 1.8% astatine $20.31 successful pre-market.
Riot Platforms (RIOT): closed astatine $12.99 (-1.14%), up 2.62% astatine $13.33 successful pre-market.
Core Scientific (CORZ): closed astatine $16.34 (+2.32%), up 1.04% astatine $16.51 successful pre-market.
CleanSpark (CLSK): closed astatine $11.41 (+2.42%), up 2.19% astatine $11.67 successful pre-market.
CoinShares Valkyrie Bitcoin Miners ETF (WGMI): closed astatine $25.65 (+0.47%), up 1.75% astatine $26.10 successful pre-market.
Semler Scientific (SMLR): closed astatine $61.15 (-1.55%), down 10.89% astatine $54.49 successful pre-market.
Exodus Movement (EXOD): closed astatine $44 (+7.32%), up 0.75% astatine $44.33 successful pre-market.
ETF Flows
Spot BTC ETFs:
Daily nett flow: $188.7 million
Cumulative nett flows: $39.42 billion
Total BTC holdings ~ 1.169 million.
Spot ETH ETFs
Daily nett flow: -$14.9 million
Cumulative nett flows: $2.79 billion
Total ETH holdings ~ 3.663 million.
Source: Farside Investors
Overnight Flows
Chart of the Day
The marketplace capitalization of Tether's USDT, the world's largest dollar-pegged stablecoin, has flattened adjacent $138 billion.
The USDC proviso continues to summation and has risen to astir $52 cardinal this week, the highest since September 2022.
While You Were Sleeping
Bitcoin Steady Near $104K After Bank of Japan Delivers Hawkish Rate Hike (CoinDesk): Bitcoin held dependable supra $104,000 successful aboriginal Asian hours Friday contempt the Bank of Japan’s complaint hike arsenic markets eyed President Trump’s Thursday enforcement bid connected crypto and imaginable U.S. argumentation changes.
Trump Issues Crypto Executive Order to Pave U.S. Digital Assets Path (CoinDesk): President Trump issued a pro-crypto enforcement order, directing the instauration of a integer plus framework, banning CBDC improvement and considering a nationalist integer plus reserve.
Vitalik Buterin Calls for Added Focus connected Ether arsenic Part of the Network's Scaling Plans (CoinDesk): In a Thursday post, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin outlined strategies to boost the worth of ether including utilizing it arsenic collateral, implementing fee-burning incentives and expanding impermanent transaction information called blobs.
Japan Hikes Rates, Solidifying Exit From Rock-Bottom Borrowing Costs (Bloomberg): The Bank of Japan raised its cardinal complaint by 25 ground points to 0.5% connected Friday, the highest successful 17 years, strengthening the yen and lifting 10-year enslaved yields to 1.23%.
U.S. Stocks astatine Most Expensive Relative to Bonds Since Dotcom Era (Financial Times): Stocks successful the S&P 500 deed grounds valuations, with the equity hazard premium turning antagonistic for the archetypal clip since 2002 driven by soaring request for ascendant tech companies.
Trump 2.0 Is Going Well for China So Far. Can the Honeymoon Last? (CNN): In a Thursday interview, President Trump called tariffs a “tremendous power” but suggested deals could avert tougher measures. Beijing cautiously welcomed the reprieve, eyeing negotiations portion bracing for aboriginal tensions.
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