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GM. This is Milk Road. We track crypto trends like your nosy neighbor - always watching (and occasionally gossiping).
Here’s what we got for you today:
- Prices are 50 shades of green 🤑
- Will BTC hit a new all-time before or after the Halving? 🤔
- Graph of the Day: Stablecoins are on the rise 📈
- 3 reasons ETH has outpaced BTC this year 🍪
Prices as of 12:00 PM ET. Click here for our Fear & Greed Index
PRICES ARE 50 SHADES OF GREEN 🤑
Sometimes in life… you just gotta let the money do the talking.
So today we’re gonna do exactly that. No witty intro. No funny story. Nada.
Instead, enjoy the view:
Beautiful, innit?
- BTC moonwalked past $57K for the first time since November 2021.
- ETH cha-cha slid past $3,200 for the first time in 22 months.
- Many altcoins are seeing double-digit gains, with some jumping over 50% in a day.
- The fear & greed index is almost at 80, for the first time in 2+ years.
So what’s behind the recent pump? Two words…
Institutional flows (which, btw, would also be a great name for a rap album).
- The 9 Bitcoin ETFs hit $2.4B in trading volume yesterday, a new all-time high.
- Institutional crypto funds saw $598M in total inflows last week, the 4th straight week of inflows.
- Not to mention… Michael Saylor’s been eating BTC for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. His firm (MicroStrategy) recently bought another $155M in BTC.
The bottom line: the Bitcoin ETFs changed the crypto game.
Matt Hougan (Chief Investment Officer at BitWise) summarized it best in his latest memo…
“Previously, only a fraction of the world’s investors could access Bitcoin—mostly self-directed retail investors and technologists. That group drove the price above $40,000. Now, thanks to the ETFs, every investor in the world—financial advisors, family offices, institutions, endowments, and others—can access Bitcoin. It’s like we went from 10 normal people bidding on a house to 100 very wealthy people bidding on a house, overnight. Not surprisingly, the price is going higher.
How big a deal is this?
Globally, asset and wealth managers control $115 trillion of capital, according to PWC. Almost none of this money could access Bitcoin in 2023. Today it can. If we see a 1% allocation to Bitcoin, that’s more than $1 trillion of buying … a figure that exceeds Bitcoin’s current market capitalization.
To put it differently, it’s like Bitcoin had its initial public offering and the market is now finding its true price.”
- Matt “Mr. CIO” Hougan
So, how’s the crypto community been reacting to the rally? The only way they know how…
Memes. A whole lot of them.
Here are some of our favorites:
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WILL BTC HIT A NEW ALL-TIME HIGH BEFORE THE HALVING? 🤔
The Bitcoin Halving is right around the corner... T-54 days.
(Btw, you can track the countdown here).
The big event usually leads to 2 things:
1/ Grumpy Bitcoin miners. Just imagine if every 4 years your boss came up to you and said your pay was going to double get cut in half.
I’d be pretty mad too.
2/ BTC hits a new all-time high (ATH) price. This usually happens after the Halving.
Well, check it out.
BTC is A LOT closer to its ATH than usual…
So we got curious… what do you think?
Will BTC hit a new all-time high BEFORE or AFTER the halving?
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Click on your answer above to vote! We’ll share the results tomorrow.
GRAPH OF THE DAY: STABLECOINS ARE ON THE RISE 📈
The stablecoin market cap just hit $140B+ for the first time since December 2022.
Why this matters: Some analysts view the changes in stablecoin supply as a “thermometer” for whether money is flowing in or out of crypto.
Here’s a quick cheat sheet you can scribble on your hands (you’re welcome):
- Increase in stablecoin supply = market heating up.
- Decrease in stablecoin supply = market cooling down.
Right now, the temperature’s heating up like Sean Paul’s hit single.
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ETH has outpaced BTC so far this year. There are 3 big reasons… 1) an ETH ETF is expected to launch later this year, 2) Ethereum’s next big upgrade is in a few weeks, and 3) ETH held on exchanges is at an all-time low.
Memecoins like PEPE and WIF jumped 50% yesterday. According to CoinGecko, the “memecoin industry” saw an average gain of 13% on the day.
Uniswap launched 3 new tools to make token swapping easier. The tools include a Uniswap extension tool, a function for limit orders on its web app, and a new data and insights web page.
Lido’s total value locked (TVL) jumped to over $30B. The liquid staking protocol now controls 32% of staked ETH.
OKX is launching a new localized version of the platform in Turkey. OKX will offer USDT/TRY, BTC/TRY, and ETH/TRY trading pairs for its local customers.
Hut 8 announced it will use its BTC reserves in a “new treasury strategy.” According to the company’s press release, “Bitcoin held in reserve may be deployed through direct sales, option strategies or other approaches.”
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