
The Bull Market Is Back! But Bitcoin Isn’t Leading It?
- Experts like Ben Cowan and Michael Nato declare the bull market official – based on the Golden Cross (50-day MA crossing above 200-day MA), on-chain metrics (coins shifting from weak to strong hands), and leverage reset.
- Bitcoin has reclaimed the 200-week moving average and is at an 8-month high. However, a drop below ~$65k would break the early-bull thesis.
- Bitcoin remains large ($1.7T), but flows are increasingly directed to smaller coins with actual revenue:
- Zcash (+10-year high) – private money, competing with Bitcoin as a store of value.
- Near, Arbitrum, Onondo, Uniswap, Jupiter – all have real earnings (fees, buybacks).
- The blue chips (BTC, ETH) struggle to attract new buyers due to their size and lack of clear cash flows.
- U.S. Treasuries (10-year at 5.15%, 30-year at 5.44%) – highest yields in over 20 years.
- Howard Marks (bond expert) cites three reasons: high inflation, lack of fiscal discipline, and AI capital demand ($5T). He recommends cryptocurrencies as a hedge against debasement.
- Rising yields barely affect Bitcoin – the correlation is low (0.18 inverse) because crypto is driven by cycles and herd mentality.
- Kalshi (prediction market) accused of wash trading – nearly 1 million identical trades of $5,500. The CFTC is not investigating yet, but the story isn’t over.
- Vitalik endorses Truo – an “ethical” prediction market on Ethereum L1. Truo token briefly jumped 10x after his tweet (market cap now ~$10M).
- Variational – new derivatives aggregator, airdrop of 32% supply, 100% revenue goes to buyback & burn.
- BlackRock partners with Onondo on intelligent portfolios (tokenized RWAs, managed by BlackRock). Also publishes a report on AI and digital money.
- Binance takes a $100M stake in Circle (USDC) with a 5-year partnership.
- Coinbase opens IPO allocations to U.S. retail, expanding into stock trading.
The bull market is here, but leadership is shifting from Bitcoin to revenue-bearing altcoins. Meanwhile, rising bond yields pressure macro – yet crypto seems immune as long as its own cycles dominate.






