The Daily Drip

✅ Top Takeaways

• BTC breaks the $75K floor: Bitcoin slid 5.11% to about $74,650, extending losses below $75K for the first time since April on the back of roughly $2.5B in weekend liquidations.
• ETH and majors underperform: Ether fell roughly 7.7% toward $2,160, while XRP and SOL lost about 4–6%, leaving the S&P Cryptocurrency Broad Digital Asset Index down 7.96% on the day and 12.52% lower year‑to‑date.
• Macro shock is broad, not local: Warsh’s hawkish nomination, choppy precious‑metal moves and softer “Magnificent Seven” earnings, especially Microsoft, are all feeding the narrative that the easy‑liquidity, AI‑powered phase of this cycle is fading.

📰 Crypto Market Summary

Bitcoin dropped 5.11% to $74,650, extending losses below $75,000 for the first time since April as Kevin Warsh's hawkish Fed nomination rattled risk assets. Ethereum plunged 7.72% to $2,164, while XRP and Solana fell 4.11% and 5.72% respectively, with $2.5 billion in Bitcoin liquidations recorded over the weekend.

Gold rebounded nearly 6% to eclipse $4,900 per ounce after plummeting 21% in recent days following Warsh's nomination. Silver surged 9.62% to $86.83, clawing back losses after Friday's historic 26% single-day crash, its worst decline since 1980.

President Trump's selection of Kevin Warsh as next Fed chair sparked volatility across all asset classes due to expectations of hawkish policy. Markets interpreted the pick as signaling slower rate cuts and tighter balance sheet policy, pressuring cryptocurrencies, precious metals, and commodities simultaneously.

Disappointing Magnificent Seven earnings, particularly from Microsoft, cracked the AI investment narrative and contributed to Bitcoin's breakdown. Analysts cite the confluence of soft tech earnings, precious metals volatility, and Fed uncertainty as key factors driving the 37% decline from Bitcoin's October highs.

Copper rose 3% to around $6 per pound as dip buyers returned and Chinese manufacturers restocked ahead of Lunar New Year. The rebound followed a two-day selloff that saw copper hit four-week lows, with longer-term support from renewable energy and AI data center demand expectations.

Trump announced a trade agreement reducing tariffs on Indian goods from 50% to 18%, boosting the Indian rupee and lifting related stocks. The deal helped ease broader market concerns, with India pledging to cease Russian oil purchases in exchange for tariff reductions.

🌍 Macro & Cross‑Asset Lens

Warsh’s nomination has turned what was a crypto‑centric correction into a full cross‑asset repricing, with markets now assuming slower cuts and a tighter balance sheet instead of the liquidity backstop bulls had hoped for.

• Metals in whipsaw mode: Gold and silver’s violent selloff and snap‑back rally show how crowded “hard‑asset” trades had become, and why profit‑taking there hasn’t yet translated into fresh flows for BTC.
• AI narrative under review: Disappointing Magnificent Seven earnings, led by Microsoft, challenge the idea that AI can indefinitely outrun fundamentals, which in turn hits the high‑beta tech/crypto complex that rode the same liquidity wave.
• Real‑economy bright spot: Copper’s rebound, alongside the India–U.S. tariff deal, highlights how trade and infrastructure themes may prove more durable than pure “financial‑asset” plays if monetary policy stays tight.

💰 Flows & Market Structure

ETF flows showed a modest net inflow of about $558.9M, driven by roughly $561.8M into BTC funds and a small $2.9M outflow from ETH products, even as the broad crypto index fell nearly 8% on the day and sits 12.52% lower year‑to‑date.

The divergence between renewed BTC ETF buying and spot price weakness underscores how thin on‑exchange liquidity and liquidation cascades are still overpowering steady, but not yet aggressive, long‑only demand.

Desk take: until ETF inflows accelerate and depth on both sides of the book rebuilds, BTC remains vulnerable to headline‑driven spikes in volatility, with alts taking outsized damage whenever funding and basis compress simultaneously.

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🔢 Market Performance

• Every major asset in the table except TRX is now double‑digit negative year‑to‑date, highlighting how broad this reset has become across large‑cap crypto.
• SOL, ADA and DOGE show weekly losses near or above 15–20%, reflecting how altcoin beta continues to amplify each leg lower in BTC.
• Stablecoins like USDT remain steady in price and market value, suggesting capital is rotating into “dry powder” rather than exiting the ecosystem altogether.

⚡ Risk & Positioning Lens

With BTC down nearly 37% from its highs, ETH off more than a quarter year‑to‑date and cross‑asset volatility rising, this phase looks more like a grinding regime change than a quick V‑shaped correction.

What to watch next: whether BTC can stabilize above the low‑$70Ks, if ETF inflows accelerate beyond current levels, and how quickly the AI and metals complexes find their own footing — all key tells for when risk appetite might genuinely return to digital assets.

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