The Crypto Flush May Have Made the Market Healthier

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What’s on the menu today:

• The Crypto Flush May Have Made the Market Healthier

• Robinhood Wants to Bring Wall Street Onchain

• Metaplanet buys 2,823 BTC, surpasses 43,000 in Bitcoin holdings

A crypto trader says:

“I only make high-probability trades.”

Friend:
“How high?”

Trader:

“High enough to convince me…”

“Right before they fail.” 📉😂

Crypto just got flushed.

And while that sounds scary...

It may actually leave the market in a healthier position.

Here’s why 👇

1/ Billions of dollars in leverage just disappeared

During Q2, more than $8.3 billion in long positions across Bitcoin and Ethereum were liquidated.

That means a huge amount of borrowed money got wiped out.

At the same time, Bitcoin and Ethereum futures open interest dropped sharply.

In simple terms...

The market is a lot less leveraged than it was a few months ago.

2/ But there’s a catch

Less leverage doesn’t automatically mean less volatility.

Liquidity has also dried up.

Bitcoin’s order books are roughly half as deep as they were back in early May, while spot trading volume has fallen significantly.

That means it now takes less buying or selling to move the market.

So even without excessive leverage...

Big price swings are still very much on the table.

3/ Demand also cooled off

Some of crypto’s biggest buyers slowed down.

US spot Bitcoin ETFs saw around $4.5 billion in net outflows during June.

Strategy also eased off the gas, buying around 3,600 BTC in June after purchasing roughly 25,000 BTC in May and more than 50,000 BTC in April.

The takeaway:

The market has cleared out a lot of speculation.

That’s usually a healthy reset.

But with less liquidity and weaker buying demand, crypto could still see some pretty wild moves until bigger buyers start stepping back in.

Robinhood just made one of its biggest crypto moves yet.

And honestly?

This isn’t really about another blockchain.

It’s about bringing Wall Street onchain.

Here’s what’s happening 👇

1/ dYdX is becoming Arcus

The team behind the dYdX decentralized exchange has partnered with Robinhood to launch Arcus on the new Robinhood Chain.

The goal?

Build a platform where users can trade crypto perpetuals and tokenized stocks in one place.

Not just Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Think Apple.

Tesla.

Nvidia.

All onchain.

2/ Robinhood is going all-in on tokenized assets

Arcus plans to offer fee-free trading on 95 tokenized stocks, along with perpetual futures.

Even more interesting...

Those tokenized stocks will eventually be usable as collateral for perpetual trading.

So instead of keeping your stocks and crypto in separate worlds...

They’re starting to merge.

3/ This is becoming a trend

Robinhood isn’t the only company heading in this direction.

Coinbase already launched its own blockchain, Base.

Now Robinhood has its own chain too.

The takeaway:

Crypto isn’t just competing with traditional finance anymore.

It’s slowly rebuilding it onchain.

And if tokenized stocks keep gaining traction, buying shares through a blockchain could eventually feel just as normal as buying crypto does today.

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