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By James Van Straten (All times ET unless indicated otherwise)
Macroeconomic factors proceed to thrust bitcoin's (BTC) short-term terms volatility arsenic it holds dependable supra $80,000, with a question of important quality emerging implicit the past 24 hours.
Still, there's a risk-off feeling successful the aerial arsenic the divergence betwixt bitcoin and the broader crypto marketplace grows. Bitcoin dominance has surged to 62%, approaching a year-to-date high, portion the ether-to-bitcoin (ETH-BTC) ratio has turned antagonistic connected a four-year compound yearly basis, meaning ETH is underperforming.
Meanwhile, Trump’s commercialized wars persist arsenic different interest reining successful optimism successful the market. That's not conscionable with Canada, but besides successful the signifier of metallic tariffs, prompting retaliatory measures from the European Union.
One of the astir intriguing developments comes from Canada, wherever recently appointed Prime Minister Mark Carney has filed to merchantability U.S. dollar bonds. While the size of the merchantability remains undisclosed, it's worthy noting the state is the sixth-largest holder of U.S. Treasuries, possessing $379 cardinal arsenic of the extremity of 2024. If the merchantability proceeds, it could enactment upward unit connected yields, which is the other of what Trump wants.
The Treasury output communicative is paramount due to the fact that astir $9 trillion worthy of U.S. debt is acceptable to mature oregon necessitate refinancing this twelvemonth alone. This is 1 of the cardinal reasons wherefore the U.S. medication is anxious to bring down Treasury yields.
More immediately, marketplace attraction is turning to today's Consumer Price Index (CPI) report, with risk-asset bulls hoping for a softer ostentation print. The S&P 500 is hovering astir correction territory, down astir 10%. If ostentation comes successful hotter than expected, hazard assets could look further downside. Stay Alert!
What to Watch
Crypto:
March 12: Hemi (HEMI), an L2 blockchain that operates connected some Bitcoin and Ethereum, has its mainnet launch.
March 15: Athene Network (ATH) mainnet launch.
March 15: Reploy volition adjacent its V1 RAI staking programme to caller users arsenic it transitions to a afloat automated revenue-sharing protocol.
March 17: CME Group launches solana (SOL) futures.
March 18: Zano (ZANO) hard fork web upgrade which activates “ETH Signature enactment for off-chain signing and plus operations.”
March 20: Pascal hard fork web upgrade goes unrecorded connected the BNB Smart Chain (BSC) mainnet.
Macro
March 12, 8:00 a.m.: The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) releases February user terms ostentation data.
Inflation Rate MoM Est. 1.3% vs. Prev. 0.16%
Inflation Rate YoY Est. 5% vs. Prev. 4.56%
March 12, 8:30 a.m.: The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) releases February user terms ostentation data.
Core Inflation Rate MoM Est. 0.3% vs. Prev. 0.4%
Core Inflation Rate YoY Est. 3.2% vs. Prev. 3.3%
Inflation Rate MoM Est. 0.3% vs. Prev. 0.5%
Inflation Rate YoY Est. 2.9% vs. Prev. 3%
March 12, 9:45 a.m.: The Bank of Canada announces its interest-rate decision followed by a property league (livestream link) 45 minutes later.
Policy Interest Rate Est. 2.75% vs. Prev. 3%
March 12, 12:00 p.m.: Russia's Federal State Statistics Service releases February user terms ostentation data.
Inflation Rate MoM Est. 0.8% vs. Prev. 1.2%
Inflation Rate YoY Est. 10.1% vs. Prev. 9.9%
March 13, 8:30 a.m.: The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) releases February shaper terms ostentation data.
Core PPI MoM Est. 0.3% vs. Prev. 0.3%
Core PPI YoY Est. 3.6% vs. Prev. 3.6%
PPI MoM Est. 0.3% vs. Prev. 0.4%
PPI YoY Est. 3.3% vs. Prev. 3.5%
Earnings (Estimates based connected FactSet data)
March 12 (TBC): TeraWulf (WULF), $-0.03
March 14: Bit Digital (BTBT), pre-market, $-0.05
March 24 (TBC): Galaxy Digital Holdings (TSE: GLXY), C$0.38
Token Events
Governance votes & calls
Uniswap DAO is discussing continuing treasury delegation to support governance stableness and clasp progressive delegates, including a renewed model and operation expiration and allocation mechanisms.
March 13, 10 a.m.: Mantra to host a Community Connect telephone with its CEO and Co-Founder to sermon assorted large updates.
March 13, 10 a.m.: Mantle Network to clasp a Surge Ask Me Anything (AMA) session.
March 13, 11:30 a.m.: Jupiter to clasp a Planetary Call.
Unlocks
March 12: Aptos (APT) to unlock 1.93% of circulating proviso worthy $58.26 million.
March 14: Starknet (STRK) to unlock 2.33% of its circulating proviso worthy $10.67 million.
March 15: Sei (SEI) to unlock 1.19% of its circulating proviso worthy $10.35 million.
March 16: Arbitrum (ARB) to unlock 2.1% of its circulating proviso worthy $31.53 million.
March 18: Fasttoken (FTN) to unlock 4.66% of its circulating proviso worthy $79.60 million.
March 21: Immutable (IMX) to unlock 1.39% of circulating proviso worthy $12.70 million.
Token Listings
March 31: Binance to delist USDT, FDUSD, TUSD, USDP, DAI, AEUR, UST, USTC, and PAXG.
Conferences
CoinDesk's Consensus is taking spot in Toronto connected May 14-16. Use codification DAYBOOK and prevention 15% connected passes.
Day 3 of 3: AIBC Africa (Cape Town)
Day 2 of 2: VanEck Southern California Blockchain Conference 2025 (Los Angeles)
March 13-14: Web3 Amsterdam ‘25
March 16, 6:00 p.m.: Solana AI Summit (San Jose, Calif.)
March 18-20: Digital Asset Summit 2025 (New York)
March 18-20: Fintech Americas Miami 2025
March 19-20: Next Block Expo (Warsaw)
March 24-26: Merge Buenos Aires
March 25-26: PAY360 2025 (London)
March 25-27: Mining Disrupt (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.)
March 26: Crypto Assets Conference (Frankfurt)
March 26: DC Blockchain Summit 2025 (Washington)
March 26-28: Real World Crypto Symposium 2025 (Sofia, Bulgaria)
March 27: Building Blocks (Tel Aviv)
March 27: Digital Euro Conference 2025 (Frankfurt)
March 27: WIKI Finance EXPO Hong Kong 2025
March 27-28: Money Motion 2025 (Zagreb, Croatia)
March 28: Solana APEX (Cape Town)
Token Talk
By Shaurya Malwa
The freshly issued BMT tokens of Bubblemaps, a crypto transparency and on-chain investigation tool, are down much than 50% since going unrecorded connected Tuesday.
Bubblemaps uses clustering to radical wallet addresses into bubbles, revealing whale concentrations, insider power oregon suspicious patterns (e.g. a deployer with 76% of supply), helping investors measure risks done ocular ownership maps.
BMT tin beryllium utilized to entree an "Intel Desk" for community-driven scam investigations and premium analytics features, and enactment successful governance.
People are slamming BMT for a nearly 90% proviso concentration successful 1 wallet, a mintable declaration risking inflation, an elitist airdrop excluding many, and unlocked liquidity raising rug-pull fears, which is alternatively ironic for a transparency-focused project.
Derivatives Positioning
Cumulative unfastened involvement successful ETH modular and perpetual futures has risen to 9.75 cardinal ETH, the highest since Feb. 3. The number has accrued from 8.4 cardinal ETH 4 weeks ago, which shows traders person been selling into the falling market.
Open involvement successful BTC perp and modular futures remains light, with backing rates marginally positive. SOL, ADA, TRX and LINK inactive spot antagonistic perpetual backing rates.
Deribit-listed BTC and ETH options proceed to grounds a bias for puts retired to May expiry, with meaningful constructive outlook for calls emerging from the 3rd quarter.
Overnight artifact flows featured selling higher onslaught BTC and ETH calls and acquisition of short-tenor puts.
Market Movements:
BTC is down 0.55% from 4 p.m. ET Tuesday astatine $82,577.14 (24hrs: +0.87%)
ETH is down 2.6% astatine $1,892.41 (24hrs: -1.58%)
CoinDesk 20 is down 1% astatine 2,556.70 (24hrs: +0.52%)
Ether CESR Composite Staking Rate is up 32 bps astatine 3.43%
BTC backing complaint is astatine 0.007% (2.54% annualized) connected Binance
DXY is down 0.31% astatine 103.52
Gold is unchanged astatine $2,914.29/oz
Silver is up 0.69% astatine $33.01/oz
Nikkei 225 closed unchanged astatine 36,819.09
Hang Seng closed -0.76 astatine 23,600.31
FTSE is up 0.43% astatine 8,532.17
Euro Stoxx 50 is up 1.19% astatine 5,373.08
DJIA closed connected Tuesday -1.14% astatine 41,433.48
S&P 500 closed -0.76% astatine 5,572.07
Nasdaq closed -0.18% astatine 17,436.10
S&P/TSX Composite Index closed -0.54% astatine 24,248.20
S&P 40 Latin America closed +0.44% astatine 2,307.52
U.S. 10-year Treasury complaint is unchanged astatine 4.28%
E-mini S&P 500 futures are up 0.54% astatine 5,607.25
E-mini Nasdaq-100 futures are up 0.67% astatine 19,529.25
E-mini Dow Jones Industrial Average Index futures are up 0.37% astatine 41,627.00
Bitcoin Stats:
BTC Dominance: 62.13 (-0.16%)
Ethereum to bitcoin ratio: 0.02290 (-0.06%)
Hashrate (seven-day moving average): 815 EH/s
Hashprice (spot): $46.1
Total Fees: 6.03 BTC / $490,764
CME Futures Open Interest: 142,725 BTC
BTC priced successful gold: 28.3 oz
BTC vs golden marketplace cap: 8.04%
Technical Analysis
The dollar index, which represents the greenback's speech complaint against a handbasket of fiat currencies, has dropped beneath the 61.8% Fibonacci retracement enactment of the precocious September to January rally.
The breakdown means a imaginable brushed U.S. CPI merchandise could easy nonstop the scale sliding to 102.31, the 78.6% retracement support.
A deeper descent successful the dollar could bode good for hazard assets, including BTC.
Crypto Equities
Strategy (MSTR): closed connected Tuesday astatine $260.59 (+8.91%), down 0.58% astatine $259.09 successful pre-market
Coinbase Global (COIN): closed astatine $191.69 (+6.95%), unchanged successful pre-market
Galaxy Digital Holdings (GLXY): closed astatine C$17.27 (-1.09%)
MARA Holdings (MARA): closed astatine $13.32 (-0.67%), down 0.68% astatine $13.23
Riot Platforms (RIOT): closed astatine $7.72 (+2.12%), down 0.26% astatine $7.70
Core Scientific (CORZ): closed astatine $8.63 (+7.74%), down 0.46% astatine $8.59
CleanSpark (CLSK): closed astatine $8.26 (+3.51%), down 0.73% astatine $8.20
CoinShares Valkyrie Bitcoin Miners ETF (WGMI): closed astatine $15.08 (+4.14%)
Semler Scientific (SMLR): closed astatine $32.80 (+0.18%)
Exodus Movement (EXOD): closed astatine $24.50 (-0.41%), up 0.94% astatine $24.73
ETF Flows
Spot BTC ETFs:
Daily nett flow: -$371 million
Cumulative nett flows: $35.47 billion
Total BTC holdings ~ 1,121 million.
Spot ETH ETFs
Daily nett flow: -$21.6 million
Cumulative nett flows: $2.66 billion
Total ETH holdings ~ 3.571 million.
Source: Farside Investors
Overnight Flows
Chart of the Day
The illustration shows regular trading measurement connected Hyperliquid, the starring perpetual-focused decentralized exchange.
Despite the marketplace swoon, volumes person held remarkably steady, contrasting the crisp slowdown connected different avenues similar Solana's Raydium.
While You Were Sleeping
EU Retaliates After Donald Trump’s Steel and Aluminum Tariffs Take Effect (Financial Times): The European Commission’s archetypal retaliatory tariffs connected whiskey, jeans and motorcycles instrumentality effect April 1 with further levies connected concern and cultivation exports expected by mid-April.
Bitcoin CME Futures Spread Slides to $490, Undoing the 'Trump Bump' successful BTC (CoinDesk): Traders are scaling backmost expectations that Trump's presidency volition boost crypto.
BOJ Unfazed by Rising Bond Yields, Signals Resolve to Keep Hiking Rates (Reuters): The politician of the Bank of Japan indicated nary plans to intervene arsenic markets expect further complaint hikes, driven by wage maturation and higher prices.
Franklin Templeton Joins XRP ETF Rush, Files Preliminary Application With SEC (CoinDesk): The American plus absorption elephantine filed a registration connection Tuesday for a spot XRP ETF that would commercialized connected the Cboe BZX Exchange.
Metaplanet Increases Bitcoin Holdings With $13.5M Purchase and Bond Issuance (CoinDesk): The Japanese institution bought 162 BTC and issued 2 cardinal yen successful zero-interest bonds to grow its bitcoin reserves.
Japanese Tech Giants Sony and LINE Join Forces successful Blockchain Deal (CoinDesk): Sony's blockchain part is partnering with the Japanese societal media elephantine to bring 4 mini-apps to the Soneium blockchain. The purpose is to facilitate features similar in-game rewards and purchases.
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