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Institutions did not get the bear market memo. They were too busy buying Bitcoin.

US spot Bitcoin ETFs have pulled in $1.7 billion across five consecutive days of inflows, pushing BTC holdings across all ETFs to $108.98 billion, their highest level since late January 2026. BTC responded accordingly, trading near $82,000 and posting its best seven-day performance in months. 👀

BlackRock's IBIT led the charge, accounting for $890 million of the five-day total alone. The fund now holds over 818,000 BTC worth more than $65 billion. Saylor must be watching with very mixed feelings.

The honest caveat: profit-taking in spot markets has been accelerating alongside the inflows. If ETF demand softens in the coming days, derivatives traders are already positioned to push back.

But five consecutive days of institutional buying does not happen by accident.

The money is coming back. The price is responding. The only question now is whether the volume shows up to confirm the next leg.

What we’ve covered for you today:

Grayscale completed its Q1 2026 fund rebalance and made one notable call. Aerodrome Finance (AERO) is out and Ethena (ENA) is in.

AERO had only been in the DeFi Fund since the Q3 2025 rebalance, replacing MakerDAO. Nine months later it is gone. The token held a 5.36% weighting before its full removal. 😅

ENA enters at a 13.59% weight, making it the third-largest holding in the fund behind Uniswap at 35.03% and Aave at 26.41%. The market noticed immediately. ENA jumped 4.33% on the announcement.

The full DeFi Fund lineup now reads: UNI, AAVE, ENA, ONDO, CRV and LDO. Yield-focused protocols front and center. Aerodrome quietly escorted out the back.

Grayscale's Smart Contract Fund saw no additions or removals, just a weight reshuffle. ETH and SOL remain the dominant holdings by a wide margin. No surprises there. 📊

When Grayscale adds something, it moves. When Grayscale removes something, it moves the other way.

ENA holders had a good Wednesday. AERO holders did not.

Bittrex shut down in 2023 after paying a $24 million settlement to the SEC for allegedly operating an unregistered exchange. The exchange is now bankrupt.

And it wants the money back. 😅

Bittrex filed a motion in Seattle federal court asking a judge to void the settlement entirely, arguing the SEC has done a complete about-face on crypto enforcement under the Trump administration.

Their lawyers put it bluntly in the filing: the SEC has "conceded that its legal theory was wrong," "acknowledged that its enforcement strategy was misguided from the start," and "dropped every similar case and investigation except this one."

Everyone else got off. Bittrex paid and closed. 💀

The SEC attempted to move the $24 million to the Treasury in March 2026 for distribution to harmed customers, but could not identify enough of them to justify the transfer. Bittrex is now asking the court to return the funds to the company before any transfer happens.

If the court agrees, every crypto firm that settled under Biden-era enforcement could start asking the same question.

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The institutional tokenization machine keeps moving. Quietly. Methodically. One regulated step at a time.

AMINA Bank, a FINMA-regulated Swiss crypto bank, has become the first regulated bank in the world to offer custody and trading services for Canton Coin, the native token of the Canton Network.

Here is why it matters.

The Canton Network is a public blockchain built specifically for capital markets, developed by Digital Asset and backed by the DTCC, Visa, BitGo, Goldman Sachs and Citadel. Not a startup. Not a DeFi experiment. Serious institutional infrastructure.

Previously, clients wanting Canton Coin exposure had to go through crypto-native exchanges. AMINA just changed that. Institutional clients can now hold and trade Canton Coin directly through a FINMA-regulated banking platform. 📊

Canton Coin sits at around $0.15 with a $5.7 billion market cap. S&P Dow Jones Indices has already introduced its US Treasury Index benchmark to the Canton Network.

The regulated finance world is not watching tokenization from a distance anymore.

It is building the custody rails for it.

Something important just happened on the higher timeframe. It is worth paying attention to.

Bitcoin's price action is beginning to resemble a deviation on the larger range structure. A deviation occurs when price briefly breaks below a key level, sweeps liquidity, then reclaims back above it with conviction.

That key level is $75,000.

The reclaim of $75,000 is the critical development. It suggests the move below that level was a liquidity sweep rather than a genuine breakdown. The market hunted stops, found its buyers, and pushed back above. 👀

As long as Bitcoin holds above $75,000, the deviation thesis remains intact.

Price action above this region signals that the larger range low is confirmed and the path of least resistance is now pointing toward the range high.

Here is the part worth sitting with.

A move to the range high from current levels would not just be a rally. It would make a new all-time high probable.

The setup is building. The structure is there. $75,000 is the line that keeps it all together.

Hold above it and the target is the top of the range.

Lose it and the thesis unravels.

The crypto-aligned Fellowship PAC, led by Tether's head of government affairs and backed by over $100 million from undisclosed crypto investors, has spent $1.75 million backing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in his May 26 Senate runoff against incumbent John Cornyn

A California man has been sentenced to 78 months in prison for his role in a massive $250 million crypto theft conspiracy that targeted victims through hacking and fraud schemes. Prosecutors said the operation stole large amounts of cryptocurrency before laundering the funds through various wallets and exchanges to hide the money trail.

The DeFi industry is facing a growing identity crisis after several protocols stepped in to freeze stolen funds linked to major exploits. While many users praised the moves for protecting victims, others argued it contradicts the entire idea of decentralization. The debate intensified after Arbitrum froze assets tied to the recent Kelp DAO exploit

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