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This time, Bitcoin’s decline cannot be simply understood as “the price fell, so the market panicked.” What’s more worth focusing on is that the price drop happened within the same time window as heightened activity across leverage and capital dynamics: coin-margined futures positions staying near their highs, some major players aggressively adding short positions, high-leverage ETH longs being forced to top up margin, and the “Japanese yen carry trade” narrative gaining traction as the tide turns. In other words, what the market truly needs to analyze is not a single candlestick, but the chain reaction among leverage structures, the quality of collateral, and the cost of macro capital.

This incident’s true significance is not that Strategy sold 32 BTC itself.
Based on its holdings of more than 840,000 BTC, those 32 BTC are almost negligible.
What truly shifts market sentiment is a “buy-only” Bitcoin treasury model for a publicly listed company—long packaged and portrayed as such—now beginning to explicitly incorporate BTC into the cash flow, dividend, and asset-liability management toolkit.
At the same time, on Polymarket, the high-value dispute over whether there is any selling before May 31 has pushed into the spotlight the rule boundaries of prediction markets, the timing of information disclosure, and how on-chain or documentary evidence is counted toward settlement.
From the factual record, documents disclosed by Strategy on June 1, 2026 show that the company sold 32 BTC between May 26 and May 31, at an average execution price of about $77,135, for a total amount of about $2.5 million.
The documents also show that as of May 31, 2026, the company still held 843,706 BTC, with an average purchase cost of about $75,699.
That means this was not a large-scale de-risking, not a full liquidation, and not the company abandoning its Bitcoin strategy.
On a proportional basis, the portion sold accounts for only about 0.0038% of its holdings.
But the market never looks at quantity alone—it also looks at signals.
For a company that builds its brand, financing capability, and valuation logic on “continuous accumulation of BTC,” the first standalone disclosure of net selling in itself carries narrative significance.
The event’s background needs to be understood from Strategy’s business

Recently, HYPE has continued to strengthen and hit a record high of approximately $64.23 on May 24, 2026.
This price movement is not a single candlestick event but a resonance of three narratives at the same time:
First, Hyperliquid's trading volume and open interest in on-chain perpetual contract markets continue to lead;
Second, the connection between protocol revenue and HYPE buybacks is clear, with the market willing to directly map trading fee growth to token value capture;
Third, ETF applications, RWA, and 24/7 derivatives experiments are pushing HYPE from a "high-beta asset for crypto traders" narrative to an "on-chain financial infrastructure" framework.

The probability of the rebound ending is clearly increasing. BTC's recent rally from the lows is more like a technical correction within a bear market, rather than the start of a new bull market. The most critical risk moving forward is not a simple pullback, but the possibility of retesting or even breaking below the previous low near $60k, completing the final dip of this bear market.

我更倾向于认为，当前市场不是一轮确定性的“全面山寨季”已经开启，而更像是BTC高位横盘之后，部分山寨在流动性、叙事和情绪推动下出现的补涨行情。它可以很热闹，也可以很赚钱，但从市场结构看，它更像是上涨尾声的风险释放，而不是新一轮大牛市的起点。

As of now, BTC has regained the level near $80k, and market sentiment has clearly warmed up. Many people are starting to discuss a question again: Is the bull market back? But my view is more cautious: this seems more like a strong rebound within a bear market, rather than a confirmed new bull cycle. The real critical level is not $80k, but around $83k.
Because the level near $83k roughly corresponds to the daily MA200, which is the boundary line between bull and bear in the eyes of many traders. This position can be understood as the last line of defense for the bears. If BTC only stays above $80k but fails to effectively break through $83k for a long time, then this rally is more likely just a bear market rebound. If BTC can break through strongly and stabilize above $83k, or even further above $85k, then the probability of an early end to the bear market will significantly increase.

First, let's lay out the current market situation.
As of April 17, BTC has reached approximately $76,640, and ETH has risen above about $2,406;
Meanwhile, market risk appetite has noticeably improved, with Barron’s attributing this round of gains directly to the easing of tensions in the Middle East,
Reuters also confirmed that as ceasefire and negotiation expectations increased, oil prices once fell nearly 10% on April 17,
global stock markets approached record highs, and the US dollar retreated from safe-haven levels.
In other words, this round of crypto market rally is not primarily a "fundamental independent bull market,"
but rather a simultaneous uplift of risk assets worldwide driven by sentiment.

Let's first look at the most straightforward price results. Based on current market data, SOL is approximately around $83, down about 71.5% from its all-time high of $293.31; ETH is approximately around $2,322, down about 52.9% from its all-time high of $4,946.05; HYPE is approximately around $44, only about 25% below its all-time high of $59.30. So the question is no longer "Is SOL weak?" but rather: why, in the same bear market, is SOL so much weaker than ETH and HYPE? My answer is: SOL lost due to valuation framework, not entirely because of on-chain activity.

The matter of Hong Kong's stablecoins has finally moved from "market rumors" and "conceptual expectations" to the actual licensing stage.
On April 10, 2026, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority officially issued the first stablecoin licenses to Anchorpoint Financial and HSBC Bank;
and even earlier, the Hong Kong "Stablecoin Ordinance" had come into effect on August 1, 2025.
This means that Hong Kong is no longer just discussing stablecoins but has entered a new phase of "licensed issuance, licensed promotion, and licensed implementation."

In the past 24 hours, the most noticeable market change was not a positive development in a specific cryptocurrency, but rather a temporary easing of geopolitical risks. The United States and Iran reached a two-week ceasefire agreement conditioned on the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz; subsequently, global markets quickly entered a "risk appetite recovery" mode: oil prices plummeted, stock markets surged, bonds strengthened, the US dollar retreated, and BTC also rose accordingly. Reuters directly called this round a relief rally, meaning a rebound driven by sentiment easing. This statement is crucial because it clearly points out the core of this rally: first, a decline in macro risk premiums, followed by an increase in cryptocurrency prices.

Among mainstream altcoins, AVAX and LINK are two assets that are often compared, but their underlying logic is actually completely different.
AVAX represents a high-performance public chain and the expansion benefits of its multi-chain ecosystem; LINK, on the other hand, embodies the "selling shovels" logic of cross-chain technology, oracles, automation, and on-chain financial infrastructure.
On the surface, both are established mainstream coins and are related to major narratives like RWA, institutional entry, and multi-chain interoperability; but if we extend the timeline to three or five years, the key factor that determines their long-term returns is not short-term hype, but **how the tokens capture network value**.

If we only look at the short term, the recent trend of gold hasn't been very encouraging. By **April 2, 2026**, spot gold briefly fell to **about $4,612 per ounce**, and the entire **March decline reached 11.8%**, marking the **worst monthly performance since 2008**. On the surface, this seems like a collapse after a trend peak; but if we extend the time horizon, you'll find that deeper logic hasn't been broken: **The median of institutional forecasts for the 2026 average gold price in the Reuters survey remains as high as $4,746.5 per ounce, Goldman Sachs even raised its 2026 year-end target to $5,400, and J.P. Morgan maintains a $6,300 forecast for the end of 2026.** This indicates that market divergence on gold is more about "short-term fluctuations" rather than "long-term investment value."
My core view on gold is: **By 2026, gold is not just a simple trading asset but a strategic asset re-priced by macroeconomic conditions.** In other words, the medium- to long-term direction of gold prices is no longer just about whether the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates, but about whether three larger cycles resonate simultaneously: **interest rates and liquidity cycles, sovereign debt and monetary credit cycles, geopolitical tensions and reserve asset restructuring cycles.** As long as these three major logics are ongoing, the major trend of gold will

Many people’s current main concern is not whether Bitcoin will rebound, but whether this bear market has really already fallen to an end.
If you only look at the surface price, BTC falling from its all-time high of around $126,200 in October 2025 to about $68,000 now seems like a significant drop. However, when viewed within the context of historical cycles, you'll find that the current position resembles the later stages of a bear market rather than the final bottom.
My core judgment on this market cycle is:
Bitcoin is likely to experience one last decline, but this final drop may not be a sudden crash; it could be a complex process of “oscillation—rebound—further decline.” The true bottom is more likely to appear around Q4 of 2026. In terms of price levels, $50,000–$60,000 is a more realistic main bottom zone, while $40,000–$50,000 would be a deep dip zone more likely to occur only in extreme panic scenarios.

Many people see AAVE drop below $100 and their first reaction is only two words: cheap.
But the real issue has never been "is it cheap or not," but rather whether it is being misjudged or if the market is re-pricing it. As of April 1, 2026, AAVE is priced at approximately $99.4, down 13.4% over the past 7 days, about 85% below its all-time high of $661.69. On the surface, this looks like a typical deep bear market dip, but in reality, it’s more like a revaluation around the valuation system of DeFi industry leaders.

If I had to summarize my view on HYPE in one sentence, it would be: the bear market is most likely to kill narratives, but hardest to kill cash flow. And HYPE is precisely one of the few cryptocurrencies that has transitioned from a "narrative asset" to a "cash flow asset." Currently, HYPE's price remains around $38, with a market cap of approximately $9 billion to $9.8 billion; the price will of course fluctuate, but more important than the price itself is that the protocol behind it has not collapsed—in fact, it has been strengthening continuously during the bear market.

As of **March 28, 2026**, the current price of BTC is approximately **$66,386**, with an intraday low of **$65,552**, and it has already been confirmed to have fallen below **$66,000** once again. If it cannot recover the key level before **March 31**, BTC is very likely to close the **March monthly candle** as a bearish candle; this would mark its **sixth consecutive monthly bearish candle**, tying the longest streak in history — the last time this happened was during the **bear market from August 2018 to January 2019**.

In recent years, the two most common words in the crypto world have been "bull market" and "compliance." In the past, people often thought of these two terms as separate: a bull market relies on sentiment, liquidity, and narratives; compliance means approval, restrictions, barriers, and slow pace. But now, Hong Kong is trying to reconnect these two words. With the regulatory framework for stablecoin issuers in Hong Kong officially implemented on **August 1, 2025**, the issuance of fiat-backed stablecoins has become a licensed regulated activity. The market is truly beginning to focus on a bigger question: **Will Asia be the first to see the next "compliant bull market"?**