Crypto

Bitcoin rebounded to roughly $62,600-$63,000, up 4.5% on the week, after touching a 21-month low near $58,000 on Wednesday.

June nonfarm payrolls printed just +57,000 versus 115,000 expected, closing the door on a near-term rate hike and reviving cut odds.

US spot Bitcoin ETFs snapped a 10-day, $2.73 billion outflow streak with a $221.7 million inflow, and Ethereum ETFs turned positive after nine straight outflows.

Bitcoin closed near $60,000, down 6.3% on the week and roughly 52% from the October 2025 all-time high.

May PCE printed 4.1% headline and 3.4% core on June 25, the hottest read since April 2023, triggering $1.26 billion in liquidations.

Strategy’s enterprise mNAV broke below 1.0 on June 26 for the first time, severing the equity accretion channel for its 847,363-BTC treasury.

Bitcoin closed at $64,012, down 0.6% as the Fed went hawkish and Digital Credit cracked.

June 17 FOMC delivered a hawkish dot plot: 9 of 18 officials now project a 2026 hike; median dot rose to 3.8% from 3.4%.

New Fed Chair Kevin Warsh dismantled forward guidance and announced five task forces to overhaul Fed operations.

Bitcoin closed the week at $64,385, up 4.0%, snapping a four-week losing streak after Trump declared the US-Iran war ended and the BTC ETF outflow streak broke.

May headline CPI hit 4.2%, the highest reading since April 2023, and PPI surged to 6.5%, but markets shrugged off the in-line CPI print.

US spot Bitcoin ETFs absorbed $85.85 million on June 12, ending a 5-day outflow streak with BlackRock’s IBIT leading inflows.

Bitcoin closed the week at $61,892, down 16.4%, after Strategy disclosed its first net BTC sale since 2022 and Iran-Lebanon tensions reignited.

Strategy sold 32 BTC at $77,135 average to fund preferred-stock dividends, breaking its never-sell doctrine and dragging MSTR shares 14% lower.

US spot Bitcoin ETFs extended outflows to 13 sessions, with roughly $4.4 billion withdrawn since May 15.

Bitcoin closed the week near $74,054, down 4.0% after U.S. airstrikes near the Strait of Hormuz triggered one of 2026’s largest liquidation events.

U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs bled $2.8 billion across nine consecutive sessions, the longest outflow streak since their January 2024 launch, with $733 million leaving on May 27 alone.

Treasury disclosed that $1 billion in Iranian crypto has been seized under Operation Economic Fury.

Bitcoin closed at $78,109, down 3.2%, as hot CPI and rising global yields erased the prior week’s gains.

The Senate Banking Committee passed the CLARITY Act 15-9 on Thursday, the first US market-structure bill ever to clear that committee.

Charles Schwab began rolling out direct spot Bitcoin and Ethereum trading on May 13, opening crypto inside an $11.8 trillion brokerage.

Bitcoin closed at $80,704, up 2.4%, after reclaiming $80,000 mid-week and testing $82,300.

Senate Banking confirmed the CLARITY Act markup for May 14, the first real legislative step on the US crypto market structure since January.

Strategy posted a $12.5B Q1 loss on May 5 and pivoted from ‘never sell’ to active Bitcoin balance-sheet management.