#Gate广场五月交易分享 As the exchange reserves drop to a seven-year low, 270K BTC whales' net buying compresses circulating floating supply — is $80K support or a trap

The US spot Bitcoin ETF has recorded nine consecutive days of net inflows, accumulating about $2.7B, with a single-day inflow of $629M on May 1st being one of the strongest daily data in 2026. The core significance of this liquidity event is not optimistic sentiment, but structural supply compression: each ETF net inflow is actually authorized participants buying BTC from the spot market and transferring it to the issuer for custody, assets then exit tradable circulating supply, combined with the fact that exchange reserves of BTC have fallen to their lowest since December 2017, at 2.21 million BTC. The core contradiction in today’s market is not the direction, but whether the price can be sustained by continuous spot trading volume support amid extremely compressed floating supply, or whether this rally has already exhausted the short-term squeezing space.
On the external liquidity side, macro pressures have not dissipated but marginally eased. US Secretary of State Blinken’s statements on the military situation in the Strait of Hormuz pushed the dollar and oil prices lower, with BTC rebounding to $81,600, indicating that BTC’s current short-term correlation with the dollar index remains significantly negative. However, this correlation is inherently fragile — the 30-day correlation coefficient between the crypto market and the S&P 500 is as high as 84%, and 87% with gold, which is not de-correlation assets but amplifiers of macro sentiment. On the stablecoin side, the total market cap of stablecoins in Q1 2026 reached a historic peak of $315-316B, indicating capital has not left but remains defensively anchored in dollar-pegged instruments, providing ammunition for subsequent rotations, but at this moment, no large-scale signals of shifting from stablecoins to spot BTC have been observed.