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Bitcoin price struggles over the last week were also in its ETF market, as the Bitcoin spot ETFs posted their first net outflows in a month. Before this trading session, these investment funds had experienced a 4-week bullish streak, resulting in a combined net inflow of $2.21 billion. Bitcoin ETFs See Red Again, While Potential New Member Awaits  According to data from SoSoValue , the combined trading activity across the 12 Bitcoin Spot ETFs resulted in a negative inflow of $296.18 million over the past week. This development represents the seventh weekly outflow of 2026, and the fifteenth since the crypto bear market commenced in October 2025. A daily analysis shows the net withdrawal performance is highly linked to consecutive outflows on Thursday and Friday, combinedly valued at over $396 million. For context, the $225.48 million outflow registered on Friday represents the market’s largest net outflow since March 3rd.  Looking at individual fund performance, BlackRock I...

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse laid out a sweeping vision for the company’s future during a Fox Business interview at a conference in Miami, touching on acquisition performance, the role of XRP as a ‘North Star’ within the company, the opportunity for stablecoins, and the regulatory path forward for the crypto industry in the United States. XRP Utility Is Ripple’s ‘North Star’ Garlinghouse made it clear that XRP is the guiding principle behind its strategic moves. According to the Ripple CEO, improving the real-world use cases of XRP, trust, and utility are now the main factors as to how the company approaches product development and expansion. “That is our North Star of how we think about it all,” he said. This utility outlook of XRP has been central to Ripple’s acquisitions, which, according to Garlinghouse, are all already exceeding expectations. Garlinghouse mentioned that both of Ripple’s major acquisitions from last year have surpassed the company’s internal projections. Ripp...

Over the past two months, the Bitcoin (BTC) price has tried in vain to reclaim an $80,000 valuation, with prices in this period peaking at approximately $76,000. Interestingly, a market analyst has recently explained that this is due to a significant price level acting as resistance. Adjusted Realized Price Poses Resistance To Recovery Attempts  In an X post on March 28, On-chain analyst Darkfost highlighted the underlying dynamics behind Bitcoin’s recent troubles. This analysis is based on readings from the BTC Realized Price Excluding >7Y Supply, a metric that reflects the cost basis of circulating supply,  but with the exclusion of those aged seven years or older, aimed at filtering out diamond hands (that is, both lost and unmoving BTC).   BTC is still unable to move back above the realized price that excludes inactive supply. This chart presents a cost basis that excludes supply aged more than 7 years in order to better reflect the supply that is actually ...

Canada’s federal government introduced legislation Thursday that would bar political parties and third-party election groups from accepting crypto , money orders, and prepaid cards as political donations. The bill, called the Strong and Free Elections Act , targets payment methods that officials say are difficult to trace and could be used by foreign actors to funnel money into Canadian politics without detection. Steven MacKinnon, the government’s House leader, said the measures are designed to keep elections “free, fair and secure.” The penalties under the proposed law are significant. Anyone caught violating the rules could be forced to return or destroy the funds — or hand them over to the chief electoral officer. On top of that, individuals could face fines of up to $25,000, while corporations could be hit with penalties as high as $100,000. In both cases, violators would also owe up to twice the original amount contributed. Today, we are taking concrete steps to better pro...

In the latest development, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), announced that it has completed a fresh $600 million direct cash investment in Polymarket. This move aligns with the firm’s earlier commitment to invest up to $2 billion in one of the world’s largest prediction market platforms. ICE Investment In Prediction Markets Rises To $1.6 Billion On Friday, March 27th, NYSE’s parent company, Intercontinental Exchange, revealed that it has completed a new $600 million direct cash investment in crypto prediction market platform Polymarket. This cash investment comes as the firm’s participation in an equity capital fundraising round by the prediction market platform. According to the announcement, ICE also expects to complete the acquisition of up to $40 million of Polymarket securities from certain existing holders. As mentioned earlier, this equity injection ties into the $2 billion investment arrangement that the Intercontin...

The Bitcoin market is often analyzed through price charts and macro trends, but a growing approach that focuses on something deeper is taking the spotlight. This approach is designed to track whether alignment between miners, investors, traders, and institutions is holding together or beginning to break down. How Game Theory Applies To Bitcoin’s Market Structure The Bitcoin Game Theory framework offers a different lens on market structure, one that focuses on price and on participants that are acting in alignment or drifting apart. Its core purpose is to track coordination across the network and identify when that balance begins to break down. According to a Delphi Digital post on X, in May 2022, the framework detected early signs of coordination fracturing and signaled a move to cash at $33,988. In the following months, BTC declined by an additional 54%. Meanwhile, a similar pattern emerged in October 2025, with the model exiting at $115,321, preceding a 45.5% drawdown. In both...

Morgan Stanley’s 16,000 financial advisors manage $6.2 trillion in client assets. That number has been sitting in the background of a major filing — and it explains a lot about why the bank set its proposed Bitcoin ETF fee where it did. A Fee Built For Advisors, Not Just Investors The bank filed an updated S-1 registration statement with the SEC on Friday, setting the fee for its proposed Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust at 0.14%. If approved, that would make it the lowest fee of any spot Bitcoin ETF currently trading in the US market. Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas said the fee was set with advisors in mind — at that price point, no one on the firm’s sales floor would feel awkward recommending the product to clients. That is a practical calculation. Advisors who push high-fee products into client portfolios face questions. At 0.14%, those questions go away. BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust charges 0.25%. The Grayscale Bitcoin Mini Trust sits at 0.15%. Morgan Stanley is go...