📊 The 30-day simple moving average of net flows into US spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs has turned negative, indicating institutional investors are disengaging from crypto markets, according to Glassnode.
🔒 Gnosis executed a hard fork on Monday to recover funds from a November Balancer exploit that saw $116M in digital assets stolen, with the funds now out of the hacker's control.
🇬🇭 Crypto trading is now legal in Ghana after its parliament passed the Virtual Asset Service Providers Bill, with the Bank of Ghana now authorized to regulate and license digital asset providers.
📉 CryptoQuant analysts say Bitcoin is in a bear market, with demand growth falling below trend since October and downside risk toward $70,000 or potentially even $56,000 in the second half of 2026.
📊 XRP ETFs surpassed $1 billion in assets this week, with CF Benchmarks CEO Sui Chung attributing the milestone to investor familiarity with the cryptocurrency and its historical price performance.
🇪🇺 European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde says the institution has finished its technical preparations for a digital euro and that it now awaits legislative approval.
🚀 Bitcoin will see a base-case price of $1.4 million by 2035, according to CF Benchmarks, which used traditional capital market models to project BTC at $637,000 in the bear case and nearly $2.95 million in the bull case.
🔋 Shares of Trump Media, which holds over $1 billion in Bitcoin, surged after it announced it would merge with nuclear fusion company TAE Technologies in an all-stock deal valued at more than $6 billion.
📊 The Bank of Japan is expected to announce its second interest rate hike of the year on Friday, with analysts cautioning that the move could unwind the yen carry trade that has fueled liquidity in risk assets like Bitcoin.
