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#Bitcoin spent the past week rebounding to $70K and stalling into the high $60Ks. The structure still looks reactive, with attempts to recover meeting overhead supply and follow-through remaining limited.
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Assuming the early October ATH marked the end of the recent bull market, this cycle saw very modest drawdowns, similar to the 2015–2017 market.
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XRP lost its aggregate holder cost basis, triggering panic selling.
• SOPR (7D EMA) fell from 1.16 (Jul ’25) to 0.96 (now)
• Holders are realizing significant losses
• On-chain profitability flipped negative
This setup closely resembles the Sep 2021–May 2022 phase, where SOPR plunged to a <1 range for prolonged consolidation before stabilization.
📉 http://glassno.de/3O4vYwO
#Bitcoin's Yardstick has fallen to its lowest level on record, pushing valuation into an unprecedented zone. Conditions like this have rarely persisted, often marking periods where downside exhaustion meets long-term opportunity.
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The #BTC capitulation metric has printed its second-largest spike in two years, highlighting a sharp escalation in forced selling.
These stress events typically coincide with accelerated de-risking and elevated volatility as market participants reset positioning.
https://glassno.de/3LSM2kJ
Hyperliquid positioning tells a clear story:
Traders are net short ~240 BTC. Entry heatmaps show shorts added from higher levels, plus fresh shorts opening around $75k and current prices. Meanwhile, long interest remains notably thin.
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#Bitcoin fell to $74K after losing the November lows, with 14D RSI deep in oversold. Spot volume rebounded, but looks reactive, signalling churn in downside continuation, not dip buying.
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The Week On-Chain 4, 2026
BTC is consolidating with muted volumes, as spot bid rebuilds slowly while options markets lean increasingly defensive.
Executive Summary
- Bitcoin remains pinned near key on-chain cost basis levels, where support is being tested, and conviction is required to prevent further structural weakness.
- Short-Term Holder conditions remain fragile, with any failure to reclaim key breakeven bands keeping recent buyers vulnerable to renewed sell pressure.
- Broader holder behaviour still leans defensive, suggesting this is a consolidation regime driven more by absorption than expansion.
- Liquidity remains the deciding variable, as price stability has persisted despite reduced participation, but breakout continuation still needs demand follow-through.
- Spot ETF flows are stabilising, with the 30D average drifting back toward neutral after sustained outflows, reducing mechanical sell pressure.
- Spot CVD bias is improving across venues, led by Binance, indicating marginal buy pressure is returning, though Coinbase remains comparatively steady.
- Perpetual futures leverage remains muted, with funding largely neutral and speculative positioning still cautious and easily shaken out.
- Options markets are rotating toward downside protection, with bearish skew, elevated short-dated implied volatility, and dealer gamma slipping below zero, increasing downside sensitivity.
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Ethereum network fees just hit their lowest level since May 2017.
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#BTC has pulled back toward $85K over the past week, with momentum softening. Spot volume remains stable but subdued, reinforcing a consolidation phase rather than a decisive trend move.
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The Week On-Chain 3, 2026
#Bitcoin is consolidating in a low-volume regime, with easing spot pressure, light leverage, and volatility priced as short-lived rather than structural.
Executive Summary
- On-chain structure remains fragile, with price hovering around key cost-basis levels and limited confirmation of durable long-term holder conviction.
- Supply overhang persists, as recent buyers continue to face overhead resistance, constraining upside follow-through and keeping rallies vulnerable to distribution.
- Spot flows have turned more constructive, with sell-side pressure easing across major venues, though accumulation remains selective rather than aggressive.
- Corporate treasury activity is sporadic, characterised by isolated, event-driven inflows rather than coordinated accumulation, leaving corporates a marginal demand source.
- Derivatives participation remains thin, with futures volume compressed and leverage deployment subdued, reinforcing a low-engagement market regime.
- Options markets are pricing risk only at the front end, with short-dated implied volatility reacting while medium- and long-dated tenors remain anchored.
- Hedging demand briefly intensified, as reflected by a spike in the put/call volume ratio, but has since normalised, signalling tactical rather than structural risk aversion.
- Dealer gamma positioning has skewed lower, reducing mechanical support for price stability and reinforcing sensitivity to liquidity shocks.
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STH-NUPL, which measures the unrealized profit or loss of new investors relative to STH-market cap, indicates new investors have been carrying net unrealized losses since November 2025.
A recovery above ~$98K appears to be the minimum threshold required to return this cohort to a net profitable state.
📉http://glassno.de/4jQjx3u
Ethereum’s Month-over-Month Activity Retention shows a sharp spike in the “New” cohort, indicating a surge in first-time interacting addresses over the past 30 days.
This reflects a notable influx of new wallets engaging with the Ethereum network, rather than activity being driven solely by existing participants.
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The Week On-Chain 2, 2026
Bitcoin has entered the new year with constructive momentum, posting two consecutive higher highs and extending price to $98k. This early-year advance, however, has carried price directly into a historically significant supply zone.
Executive Summary
- Bitcoin remains locked in a low-volatility consolidation regime, with compressed ranges masking rising underlying fragility and unresolved directional conviction.
- Options markets continue to price elevated downside convexity, signalling that tail-risk demand remains firm despite improving spot and derivatives positioning.
- Volatility risk is being deferred rather than resolved, leaving the market vulnerable to abrupt repricing once liquidity conditions shift.
- Institutional balance-sheet flows have stabilised following a full de-risking cycle, but accumulation remains uneven and event-driven rather than structurally persistent.
-Spot market behaviour has turned constructive, with Binance and aggregate exchange flows transitioning into buy-dominant regimes while Coinbase sell pressure has materially eased.
- The recent push into the $96K region was mechanically driven by a derivatives-led short squeeze on comparatively thin futures volume.
- Long-term holder distribution has slowed, with cost-basis clusters and confidence bands forming a developing structural price floor.
- Broader market direction remains increasingly dependent on liquidity conditions and derivatives positioning until persistent spot accumulation re-emerges.
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As Long-Term Holders (LTHs) transition from a high-spending regime in H2 2025 to lower spending in Jan 2026, their profit-taking volumes have cooled to levels typically observed in shallow bear phases.
Such conditions are often associated with heightened uncertainty and tend to emerge during mid-bull market pauses or the early stages of deeper bear markets.
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The Week On-Chain 6, 2026
Bitcoin remains defensive in the $60k–$72k zone while overhead supply caps rallies. Treasury outflows, reactive spot volume, and cooling futures signal shallow demand.
Executive Summary
- Bitcoin remains confined between the True Market Mean (~$79.2k) and the Realized Price (~$55k), reflecting a defensive regime following the structural breakdown, with sell-side pressure continuing to be absorbed in the $60k–$72k demand corridor.
- Large supply clusters at $82k–$97k and $100k–$117k sit in unrealized loss, creating overhead resistance potential during relief rallies.
- Short-Term Holder profitability remains negative, underscoring fragile conviction among recent buyers and limiting upside follow-through.
- Digital Asset Treasury flows have flipped into synchronized net outflows, signalling broad institutional de-risking and shallow spot absorption.
- Spot volume spiked during the selloff but failed to sustain, indicating reactive participation rather than constructive accumulation.
- Perpetual futures positioning has cooled, with directional premiums compressing as leveraged traders step back and speculative momentum fades.
- Implied volatility and skew reflect persistent downside hedging demand, consistent with a defensive market posture.
- Dealer gamma and options positioning are reinforcing reactive price behaviour, keeping moves short-lived amid fragile liquidity conditions.
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At $69k, the unrealized loss in the market equals ~17% of the market cap. Current market pain echoes a similar structure seen in early May 2022.
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#Bitcoin recovers to $69K after sharp downside repricing. Positioning remains defensive across spot, derivatives, and on-chain metrics, with recovery dependent on renewed spot demand.
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On Feb 04, Bitcoin’s Entity-Adjusted Realized Loss (7D-SMA) hit $889M per day, the highest daily loss realization since November 2022.
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The Week On-Chain 5, 2026
The #BTC bear market rages on as profitability resets, realised losses rise, spot demand stays weak, and leverage unwinds. Options keep pricing elevated downside risk.
Executive Summary
- BTC has confirmed a decisive breakdown, with price slipping below key structural support levels and keeping market participants firmly on the defensive.
- On-chain profitability has sharply deteriorated, with MVRV Z-Score compressing to its lowest level since Oct 2022, signalling a major reset in unrealised gains.
- Realised losses are accelerating, with sustained sell pressure suggesting many holders are being forced to exit at a loss as downside momentum persists.
- Spot volume remains structurally weak, reinforcing a demand vacuum where sell-side flows are not being met with meaningful absorption.
- Futures markets have entered a forced deleveraging phase, with the largest long liquidation spikes of the drawdown amplifying volatility and downside continuation.
- Demand from major allocators has softened materially, as ETF and treasury-linked netflows fade and fail to provide the consistent bid seen during prior expansion phases.
Options markets continue to price elevated downside risk, with volatility staying bid and skew steepening as traders pay up for protection.
- With leverage being flushed but spot demand still absent, the market remains vulnerable, and any relief rallies are likely to be corrective rather than trend-reversing.
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The 3D-SMA of Net Realized Profit & Loss is now at –$317M/day, a regime last observed in December 2022.
Loss realization has regained control, liquidity is fading, and patience is being tested.
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Looking at the cumulative Spent Volume by Long-Term Holders, LTHs have been spending >12K BTC per day on average over the past 30 days — equivalent to ~370K BTC per month.
This highlights the scale of gross distribution activity, beyond what net metrics alone capture.
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Any meaningful transition back toward a strong market rally should be reflected in liquidity-sensitive indicators such as the Realized Profit/Loss Ratio (90D-SMA).
A sustained rise above ~5 has historically signalled a renewal of liquidity inflows into the market.
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The 30D-SMA of netflows for both Bitcoin and Ethereum Spot ETFs remains negative. There is no sign of renewed demand.
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The recent attempt to move above STH-cost basis ($98.4K) was capped by sell-side pressure from 3–6 month holders, whose average cost basis sits near $112.6K.
This cohort ramped up spending into the move, realizing elevated losses and weighing on upside momentum.
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#BTC has pulled back from recent highs of $98K, slipping back into the low-$90Ks. Momentum has cooled but remains above neutral, pointing to consolidation rather than trend deterioration.
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The current market structure for XRP closely resembles that of February 2022.
Investors active over the 1W–1M window are now accumulating below the cost basis of the 6M–12M cohort.
As this structure persists, psychological pressure on top buyers continues to build over time.
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🔄 Update:
With the spot price surging to $97K, the key on-chain price models have now shifted slightly:
🔴 STH Cost Basis: $98.4K
--- Spot Price: $97K ---
🟡 Active Investors Mean: $87.8k
🟢True Market Mean: $81.1K
🔵 Realized Price: $56.2K
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Using the newly launched Short-Term Holder Cost Basis Distribution (CBD) Heatmap, the recent $80K–$95K consolidation reflects a top-heavy cost-basis structure meeting renewed demand above $80K.
Overhead supply from recent buyers has absorbed bounce attempts, anchoring price despite sustained buying interest following the drawdown.
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Long-term $BTC holder distribution has decelerated. Net outflows have rolled over from extreme levels, indicating that the market is progressively absorbing long-held supply and that a large portion of overhead supply may now be largely worked through.
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