📢 Bithumb Recovers Mistaken $BTC Giveaway

• Exchange recovered 618,212 $BTC mistakenly sent during a promo error
• Users were meant to receive ~$1.50 but some got 2,000 $BTC each
• Incident briefly triggered a price crash to $55K on Bithumb as users rushed to sell

📢 $BTC gained more than $5,000 within the last 24 hours.

📢 BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF saw $231.6M in inflows, its biggest in weeks, ending a two-day outflow streak and pointing to renewed institutional interest.

📢 Corporate insiders are offloading U.S. stocks at the fastest pace since 2021, sparking concerns about market confidence and the outlook ahead.

📢 Turkish Authorities Freeze $500M With Tether Support

• Tether helped Turkish authorities freeze over $500M in assets
• Crackdown targeted suspected illegal betting and payment networks
• Highlights growing cooperation between crypto firms and law enforcement

📢 Binance is launching perpetual futures tied to Michael Saylor’s Strategy ($MSTR).

📢 U.S. investors appear to be buying the dip, as the Coinbase Premium Index has turned positive for the first time since mid-January. The shift comes after $BTC fell toward $60K, signaling renewed U.S. demand following several days of strong selling.

📢 Roughly $5B in short positions could be liquidated if $BTC moves back above $80K.

📢 Over $100M in Bitcoin and Ethereum short positions have been liquidated in the past hour.

📢 Ethereum is seeing unusual price volatility linked to a malfunction in a market maker’s grid trading system.

📢 Bitcoin mining difficulty has recorded its largest downward adjustment since the 2021 China mining crackdown.

📢 Google search interest for Bitcoin hit a 12-month peak before sharply dropping.

📢 The crypto market has gained about $310B since the wick low.

📢 Although the week began and ended strong, Bitcoin ETFs still recorded a net weekly outflow of over $358M.

📢 The market is heavily skewed toward short positions, with limited long exposure.

📢 Total TVL has fallen by $73B since the 10/10 liquidation event.

📢 CME Group data shows there is currently a 23.2% probability of a rate cut at the next FOMC meeting.

📢 The CFTC is broadening stablecoin regulations to allow national trust banks to issue dollar-pegged tokens under the GENIUS Act framework.

📢 About $217M in short positions have been liquidated over the past 24 hours.

📢 Perpetual trading volume has surged by nearly 400% over the last year.