By Omkar Godbole (All occasions ET except indicated in any other case)
Bitcoin’s
continued uneven buying and selling close to January’s highs of round $110,000 has some observers drawing parallels with 2021, when the bull market ended with twin peaks nearer to $70,000. Not everybody agrees.
“The market dynamics between 2021 and in the present day are utterly completely different,” Jeff Anderson, head of Asia at STS Digital, instructed CoinDesk. “BTC is evolving right into a treasury asset, so it is extremely tough to extrapolate chart patterns onto an asset present process huge structural modifications.”
The worth motion over the weekend was “encouraging,” Anderson mentioned, noting bitcoin’s stability at round $105,000 whilst Iran and Israel traded blows. Because the outdated saying goes: If a market doesn’t fall an excessive amount of on unhealthy information, it signifies large gamers are most likely going lengthy.
In line with Singapore-based QCP Capital, BTC’s resilient value is underpinned by continued institutional adoption.
“The market appears to have rediscovered its footing, significantly after BTC held above the important thing psychological threshold of $100K regardless of the preliminary shock,” QCP mentioned. “Crucially, Friday’s modest 3% pullback paled compared to April final yr, when BTC fell greater than 8% amid related Iran-Israel turmoil.”
The market composure is clear from Volmex’s 30-day implied volatility index (BVIV), which has declined to an annualized 42.7%, reversing Friday’s spike to 46.12%.
In the meantime, the spread between ether and bitcoin implied volatilities continues to widen, an indication that ether choices have gotten costlier relative to bitcoin on Deribit. The relative richness of ether choices presents a very good alternative for ether holders to generate further yield by writing or promoting choices, in response to Anderson.
Hong Kong-listed firm Meme Technique’s share value surged over 20% after the corporate introduced the acquisition of two,440 Solana (SOL) tokens for about HK$2.9 million ($370,000). Company adoption of cryptocurrencies is quickly shifting past bitcoin and into different cash, reminiscent of ether
, sol , and XRP . Nevertheless, final week, shares in Nasdaq-listed SharpLink dropped sharply after the corporate disclosed that it had purchased ether.
The outlook for the broader altcoin market doesn’t look so rosy as giant unlocks loom.
“Within the subsequent 7 days, tokens with giant one-time unlocks (over $5 million) embrace FTN, ZK, ARB, S, ID, APE, MELANIA, LISTA, and ZKJ. Tokens with giant day by day linear unlocks (over $1 million per day) embrace SOL, WLD, TIA, DOGE, TAO, AVAX, SUI, DOT, IP, MORPHO, ETHFI, and JTO,” e-newsletter service LondonCryptoClub mentioned.
In conventional markets, futures tied to the S&P 500 signaled a gradual begin to the week with beneficial properties as oil costs stabilized following Friday’s surge. According to Barchart.com, credit score markets are pricing in a six-level credit score downgrade for the U.S., equating to a ranking of BBB, only a notch above funding grade. Keep alert!
What to Watch
- Crypto
- June 16: 21Shares executes a 3-for-1 share break up for the ARK 21Shares Bitcoin ETF (ARKB) on NYSE Arca; ticker and NAV stay unchanged.
- June 16: Brazil’s B3 trade launches USD-settled ether (0.25 ETH) and solana (5 SOL) futures contracts, accredited by Brazil’s securities regulator, the Comissão de Valores Mobiliários (CVM) and benchmarked to Nasdaq indices.
- June 18: At about 9:28 p.m. IoTeX L1 v2.2.0 arduous fork will activate at block 36,893,881. It’ll halve block time to 2.5s and launch System Staking v3.
- June 20: Proof-of-stake blockchain BlackCoin (BLK) activates SegWit on mainnet, enhancing safety and efficiency; obligatory improve to node and pockets v26.2.0 required.
- Macro
- Day 2 of three: G7 2025 Summit (Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada)
- June 16, 11 p.m.: Financial institution of Japan declares financial coverage determination.
- Key Price Est. 0.5% vs. Prev. 0.5%
- June 17, 8:30 a.m.: The U.S. Census Bureau releases Could retail gross sales knowledge.
- Retail Gross sales MoM Est. -0.7% vs. Prev. 0.1%
- Retail Gross sales YoY Prev. 5.2%
- June 17, 10 a.m.: Nationwide Affiliation of Dwelling Builders (NAHB) releases U.S. housing market knowledge for June.
- NAHB Housing Market Index Est. 36 vs. Prev. 34
- June 17: The U.S. Senate will vote on the ultimate passage of the invoice Guiding and Establishing Nationwide Innovation for US Stablecoins (the GENIUS Act of 2025).
- Earnings (Estimates primarily based on FactSet knowledge)
- June 23 (TBC): HIVE Digital Applied sciences (HIVE), post-market, $-0.12
Token Occasions
- Governance votes & calls
- Compound DAO is about to vote on a proposal to create the Compound Foundation, a non-profit to drive protocol development and technique. It requires an 18-month plan and requests $9 million in COMP, with voting set to start in someday. Voting ends June 20.
- Arbitrum DAO is voting on a proposal to launch DRIP, an $80M incentives program concentrating on particular DeFi exercise. Managed by a foundation-led committee, DRIP would reward customers immediately and permit the DAO to close it down by way of vote. Voting ends June 20.
- ApeCoin DAO is voting on whether or not to sunset the decentralized autonomous organization and launch ApeCo, a brand new entity established by Yuga Labs with a mission to “supercharge the APE ecosystem.” Voting ends June 24.
- June 17, 12 p.m.: Lido to hist its 29th Node Operator Community Call.
- Unlocks
- June 16: Arbitrum (ARB) to unlock 1.91% of its circulating provide price $31.45 million.
- June 17: ZKsync (ZK) to unlock 20.91% of its circulating provide price $39.55 million.
- June 17: ApeCoin (APE) to unlock 1.95% of its circulating provide price $10.73 million.
- June 18: Fasttoken (FTN) to unlock 4.65% of its circulating provide price $16.81 million.
- June 30: Optimism (OP) to unlock 1.83% of its circulating provide price $19.08 million.
- July 1: Sui (SUI) to unlock 1.3$ of its circulating provide price $136.39 million.
- Token Launches
- June 16: Advised deadline to unstake stMATIC as a part of Lido on Polygon’s sunsetting course of ends
- June 26: Coinbase to delist Helium Cellular (MOBILE), Render (RNDR), Ribbon Finance (RBN) and Synapse (SYN).
Conferences
The CoinDesk Policy & Regulation conference (previously referred to as State of Crypto) is a one-day boutique occasion held in Washington on Sept. 10 that permits normal counsels, compliance officers and regulatory executives to satisfy with public officers answerable for crypto laws and regulatory oversight.
Token Speak
By Oliver Knight
- The launch of AI blockchain Polyhedra’s ZKJ token was steeped in controversy over the weekend after the token misplaced 80% of its worth shortly after going dwell.
- The token was rolled out on the Binance Alpha platform, with the trade saying that it “skilled important value volatilities” that was attributable to giant holders eradicating on-chain liquidity to spark a liquidation cascade.
- Greater than $100 million price of ZKJ spinoff positions had been liquidated following the sell-off, together with six particular person merchants who misplaced greater than $1 million every, in response to Coinglass data.
- Polyhedra mentioned in a tweet that the basics of the venture stays sturdy and that it’s “carefully reviewing the scenario.”
- ZKJ presently trades at $0.40 after debuting on the $2.00 mark, in response to CoinMarketCap.
Derivatives Positioning
- BTC, ETH perpetual funding charges have stabilized above zero over the weekend, signaling renewed confidence in bullish value prospects.
- Annualized foundation within the BTC CME futures stays locked within the 5%-10% vary.
- On Deribit, short-term and near-term places traded at a premium to calls, signaling instant draw back fears.
- BTC front-end (short-term) implied volatilities stay beneath 40, whereas the S&P 500 VIX hovers close to 20, each hinting at market calm regardless of the unstable scenario within the Center East.
Market Actions
- BTC is up 2.12% from 4 p.m. ET Friday at $106,800 (24hrs: 1.56%)
- ETH is 4.75% at $2,612.88 (24hrs: 3.62%)
- CoinDesk 20 is up 3.5% at 3,116.85 (24hrs: +3.5%)
- Ether CESR Composite Staking Price is down 22 bps at 2.87%
- BTC funding fee is at 0.0055% (6.0367% annualized) on Binance
- DXY is down 0.21% at 97.98
- Gold futures are down 0.46% at $3,437.00
- Silver futures are up 0.37% at $36.49
- Nikkei 225 closed up 1.26% at 38,311.33
- Hold Seng closed up 0.70% at 24,060.99
- FTSE is up 0.40% at 8,886.23
- Euro Stoxx 50 is up 0.46% at 5,314.97
- DJIA closed on Friday down 1.79% at 42,197.79
- S&P 500 closed down 1.13% at 5,976.97
- Nasdaq Composite closed down 1.30% at 19,406.83
- S&P/TSX Composite closed down 0.42% at 26,504.35
- S&P 40 Latin America closed up NA NA
- U.S. 10-12 months Treasury fee is up NA NA
- E-mini S&P 500 futures are up 0.48% at 6,007.75
- E-mini Nasdaq-100 futures are up 0.55% at 21,762.50
- E-mini Dow Jones Industrial Common Index are up 0.41% at 42,381.00
Bitcoin Stats
- BTC Dominance: 64.6 (-0.18%)
- Ethereum to bitcoin ratio: 0.02454 (1.70%)
- Hashrate (seven-day shifting common): 928 EH/s
- Hashprice (spot): $53.55
- Complete Charges: 2.63 BTC / $277,146
- CME Futures Open Curiosity: 150,970
- BTC priced in gold: 30.9 oz
- BTC vs gold market cap: 8.76%
Technical Evaluation
- A brand new inexperienced brick appeared on bitcoin’s three-line break chart on June 9, signaling bullish momentum continues to be intact.
- In different phrases, the trail of least resistance is to the upper facet regardless of tensions within the Center East.
Crypto Equities
- Technique (MSTR): closed on Friday at $382.87 (+0.82%), pre-market up 1.6% at $389
- Coinbase World (COIN): closed at $242.71 (+0.69%), pre-market up 2.7% at $249.27
- Circle (CRCL): closed at $133.56 (+25.36%), pre-market up 8.7% at $145.50
- Galaxy Digital Holdings (GLXY): closed at C$25.58 (-3.25%)
- MARA Holdings (MARA): closed at $15.04 (-4.93%), pre-market up 1.66% at $15.29
- Riot Platforms (RIOT): closed at $9.72 (-4.8%), pre-market up 1.85% at $9.90
- Core Scientific (CORZ): closed at $11.89 (-2.06%), pre-market up 2.87% at $12.23
- CleanSpark (CLSK): closed at $9.3 (-4.22%), pre-market up 2.37% at $9.52
- CoinShares Valkyrie Bitcoin Miners ETF (WGMI): closed at $18.86 (-3.82%)
- Semler Scientific (SMLR): closed at $29.58 (-3.77%), pre-market up 3.28% at $30.55
- Exodus Motion (EXOD): closed at $31.37 (-0.79%)
ETF Flows
Spot BTC ETFs
- Day by day web circulation: $301.7 million
- Cumulative web flows: $45.59 billion
- Complete BTC holdings ~ 1.21 million
Spot ETH ETFs
- Day by day web circulation: -$2.1 million
- Cumulative web flows: $3.87 billion
- Complete ETH holdings ~ 3.96 million
Supply: Farside Investors
In a single day Flows
Chart of the Day
- The chart reveals the sovereign sign rating derived from the credit score default swap markets.
- It reveals the markets expect main ranking companies to downgrade the U.S. sovereign ranking to BBB within the coming months.
Whereas You Had been Sleeping
- Metaplanet Overtakes Coinbase With 10K BTC, Becomes No. 9 Bitcoin Holder (CoinDesk): The agency purchased 1,112 BTC for $117.2 million, elevating its complete stash to $947 million at a median value of $94,697 per bitcoin.
- Bitcoin Price Volatility Signal Goes Off – Is a Surge Ahead? (CoinDesk): A narrowing Bollinger band hole is predicted to widen because the MACD flips constructive, signaling a doable return of volatility that has traditionally preceded sturdy value rallies.
- Vietnam Passes Landmark Law Recognizing Crypto Assets (CoinDesk): Vietnam’s Digital Know-how Trade Regulation distinguishes crypto from different digital belongings by its use of encryption to validate creation and transfers. It takes impact Jan. 1, 2026.
- Israel Takes Control of Iran’s Skies—a Feat That Still Eludes Russia in Ukraine (The Wall Road Journal): After knocking out air defenses in western Iran, Israel has shifted to utilizing older F-15 and F-16 jets and cheap guided bombs to maintain its air marketing campaign extra effectively.
- Oil Options Attract Bulls in Heavy Trade as Mideast Risks Expand (Bloomberg): 1000’s of Brent crude $80–$100 calls traded early Monday as volatility surged, with merchants bracing for escalation and potential provide shocks if Iran disrupts flows by the Strait of Hormuz.
- China’s Factories Slow, Consumers Unexpectedly Perk Up (Reuters): Though China’s industrial output grew simply 5.8% in Could, its slowest tempo in six months, retail gross sales jumped 6.4% on subsidies and an early begin to the “618” procuring pageant.
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