Tariffs reset at 10%. AI stress spreads. Bitcoin leans on support.
This is not a crypto story. It is a funding story.

CRYPTO PULSE

The Market Is Leaning on $60K

Bitcoin slipped under $63,000 overnight.
It stabilized near the low $63,000s.

That move is not dramatic. It reflects ongoing liquidity withdrawal, not a one-off shock.

The $60,000–$63,000 zone is now the decision band. Below that, the next visible liquidity pocket sits in the mid-$50,000s, where prior demand last stabilized price. Durable bottoms tend to form after deeper damage and confirmation from longer-term averages. That confirmation has not appeared.

Liquidations continue, but long-term holders are not capitulating. ETF flows remain negative. Retail accumulation is modest. This is leverage stress without long-term holder surrender.

That distinction matters.

When markets truly bottom, size returns through sustained ETF inflows and whale accumulation. That is still absent. Rallies are squeezes inside a fragile structure.

Crypto is not trading crypto. It is trading policy volatility, AI-driven equity repricing, and funding conditions.

Investor Signal

$60,000 is not just support. It is a liquidity referendum.

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MACRO CONTEXT

Tariffs Reset. Prices Do Not.

Tariffs are now live at 10% under Section 122. The threatened 15% level remains unresolved. Customs has stopped collecting the struck-down emergency tariffs. Refunds are being litigated.

That sounds like de-escalation. It is administrative reset, not clarity.

Businesses are signaling that lower tariffs will not automatically mean lower prices. Many plan to rebuild margins first. That delays any disinflation impulse from tariff relief.

Refunds add another layer. If repayments arrive later this year, fiscal math deteriorates immediately. Wider deficits imply heavier issuance. Heavier issuance tests long-end demand.

This is why bonds matter more than court rulings.

Today’s $69 billion two-year auction will show whether front-end demand remains firm. If bid-to-cover weakens, the curve steepens and liquidity tightens again.

Tariff relief without price relief preserves inflation friction and limits rate flexibility.

Investor Signal

Do not trade the tariff headline. Trade the yield response.

AI, FUNDING & CREDIT

The Arms Race Is Still Expensive

AI is not slowing. It is becoming capital-intensive and competitive.

Intel backing SambaNova shows incumbents are subsidizing challengers to stay relevant. Apple is anchoring domestic chip supply. The buildout remains politically charged.

This is not just a tech race. It is an industrial buildout financed through debt markets and public incentives.

At the same time, banks are being asked to quantify software exposure. Earnings from names like Workday and Salesforce now matter more for forward guidance than for headline beats. If AI monetization holds, credit spreads stabilize. If disruption compresses margins, spreads widen.

Add Bostic’s warning that AI may raise structural unemployment, and the policy path becomes less inclined toward cuts. If labor softness is seen as structural, not cyclical, the Fed may not rush to cut.

That keeps real yields sticky.

Crypto remains high beta to this funding cycle. As long as AI spending relies on debt and spreads remain sensitive, bitcoin trades as duration risk, not as digital gold.

Investor Signal

AI is a funding story. Funding stability decides crypto’s path.

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FLOWS & STRUCTURE

Size Is Still Absent

ETF outflows continue. Fear gauges are extreme. Yet long-term holders are not distributing aggressively.

Retail is accumulating incrementally. Large wallets remain neutral to cautious. Institutions continue redeeming.

That mix creates chop.

It does not create trend.

True capitulation requires sustained distribution from long-term holders. That has not materialized. Sponsorship has not returned either.

Until ETF flows stabilize or large holders flip back to accumulation, rallies remain vulnerable.

Investor Signal

Retail can cushion declines. Institutions create expansion.

STRUCTURAL PROGRESS

Plumbing Advances Under Stress

Amid price stress, infrastructure keeps moving.

A Hong Kong stablecoin payments firm is reportedly planning a $1 billion IPO in New York. That signals dollar-linked digital settlement is becoming capital markets architecture, not niche plumbing.

The Fed is narrowing supervisory focus away from vague “reputation risk.” Arizona is advancing a digital asset reserve bill funded through seizures. Brazil is cutting import duties for miners tied to stranded solar.

These are not immediate price catalysts. They are normalization signals. Infrastructure maturation continues even as liquidity tightens.

This split is important. Infrastructure matures on a quarterly clock. Price reacts on a daily funding clock.

Investor Signal

Short-term liquidity is fragile. Long-term integration continues.

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CLOSING LENS

This Is a Yield Question Disguised as a Crypto Question

Bitcoin is leaning on $63,000.
Tariffs reset at 10%.
AI stress spreads into funding and credit.
Refund litigation clouds fiscal math.
Mortgage rates have eased, but the 10-year still hovers near 4%.

The system is bending.

It is not breaking.

This is the macro transmission mechanism in one frame:

  • Tariff uncertainty injects volatility

  • Sticky prices limit disinflation

  • AI capex depends on credit markets

  • Structural unemployment debates complicate rate cuts

  • ETF outflows remove sponsorship

Crypto is downstream of all of it.

If the 10-year breaks below 4% and stays there, liquidity conditions improve. If ETF outflows stabilize, size returns. If software earnings calm AI disruption fears, risk appetite rebuilds.

If those do not occur, $60,000 becomes a trigger, not a floor. The organizing truth is simple. Crypto is trading policy volatility and funding conditions. Until liquidity expands, rallies remain tactical.

A reclaim of $65,000 alongside stabilizing ETF flows reactivates squeeze risk. A sustained break of $60,000 with firm yields accelerates downside reflexivity.

Expansion requires sustained size.

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