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Market summary:

Last week, BTC continued its rebound trend, with a low of $66,060 and a high of $71,979, close to the historical high of $73,777 in March. The final increase was 3.37% with an amplitude of 8.93%.

The rebound in the past 7 days mainly came from the limited approval of the US SEC for the ETH spot ETF. Although the final approval and listing will take 1-2 months, combined with the FIT 21 Act (clear regulatory policy) voted by the US Congress and Trump's recent frequent gestures to the cryptocurrency industry, the US macro climate has suddenly become sunny.

The US stock market is also in a high-level fluctuation similar to BTC. The Dow Jones fell sharply and rebounded weakly, while the Nasdaq rebounded strongly (Nvidia's financial report exceeded expectations). BTC currently maintains a relatively weak state. With the expected landing of ETH ETF, there are signs that the industry capital in the market has shifted from BTC to ETH. The ETH/BTC trading pair rebounded by 20%, and the trading volume increased by 4 times.

In terms of interest rate cuts, the Fed's doves and hawks have taken turns, and each time they will trigger a reaction from BTC. Before the interest rate cut is clear, this will be the underlying tone of the BTC market, and this period may continue for 2 months, which is close to the 17-week shock and adjustment period that began in June last year.

Supply and demand structure:

This round of bull market has obvious similar characteristics in terms of trajectory, and is closer to the trajectory of 2017: slowly rising, with several high-level stops and consolidation along the way. This forms sufficient turnover and provides strong support for subsequent rises.

Last week, we pointed out that through on-chain data, the $60,000-73,000 range has become the largest BTC chip accumulation range, with a total of about 3 million chips. At the same time, $66,000 has also become the single largest chip accumulation area in all price ranges, reaching 546,000 chips. At present, this may have formed a support range for a new round of market conditions.

U.S. ETFs have recorded net inflows for two consecutive weeks since March, reaching $1.055 billion after net inflows of $946 million last week.

The inflow of US dollar stablecoins can be regarded as a core indicator of the long-term liquidity of the market. Following the inflow of $823 million last week, the stablecoins had a slight outflow of $30 million last week. Further observation shows that the net outflow mainly came from the outflow of $693 million from the US compliant stablecoin USDC, which was related to its continuous decline in market share for 2 years; while the market-oriented stablecoin USDT had a net inflow of $606 million.

As of May 26, the amount of coins held by centralized exchanges was 2.329 million, an increase of 12,000 from last week. This shows that with the rebound in market prices, the short-term BTC supply has increased slightly, but the amount is not large.

Similarly, as the price rebounded for two weeks, the on-chain profit of short-term investors who held BTC for less than 5 months increased from losses to 12%, which is a relatively moderate profit in the bull market cycle. From the perspective of the past 2 years, there is not too much concentrated profit-taking pressure.

Our statistics show that BTC is significantly uncorrelated with 18 major asset classes around the world, including US stocks, oil, gold, etc., and strongly negatively correlated with the US dollar. Therefore, before the expectation of US interest rate cuts reaches its strongest point, the overall market is still in a dynamic balance of the overall upward trend. However, we have also seen the approval of the ETH ETF, and the "competition" for US cryptocurrency investors is happening one after another due to the early warm-up of the US election.

We should constantly trace back to the original intention of BTC’s creation, which is also its underlying value: to fight against the over-issuance of central currencies. With the dollar and U.S. debt system expanding, the short wait is worth it.

EMC BTC Cycle Indicator:

Due to the recovery of market price indicators and long and short hand indicators, the EMC BTC Cycle engine shows that our bull market acceleration period has risen from a low of 0.37 to 0.63.

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