Crypto Chaos: Market Turmoil, Regulatory Battles, and Resilient Innovation
If you checked your portfolio this evening and briefly forgot how to breathe, you’re not alone. Markets across crypto had a rough one, with Bitcoin (BTC) at the center of the storm. Over the weekend and into today, BTC slid hard, mirroring risk assets like SaaS stocks as a U.S. liquidity crunch, geopolitical tensions, and funding pressures all collided at once. The move blew open a rare CME futures gap, triggered billions in liquidations, and dragged the total crypto market cap down toward the $2.5 trillion mark. Analysts are clear on one thing: this sell-off looks a lot more like a macro story than a “crypto is broken” story. Raoul Pal is pinning the downturn on a temporary U.S. liquidity shock and policy gridlock, arguing the broader Bitcoin cycle remains intact. Others note that shrinking liquidity and overleveraged traders turned what could have been a pullback into a full-blown “short-term market emergency.” BTC has now logged four straight months of losses, and sentiment ...