Gold and copper have moved higher even as the Federal Reserve continues to signal patience on rate cuts, a divergence that shows how markets tend to price liquidity conditions ahead of formal policy shifts rather than wait for confirmation from central banks. These metals are responding to changes in real yields, funding conditions, and forward […]
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A new public company with a big Bitcoin stash is pitching a bold claim. Twenty One Capital, which listed on the New York Stock Exchange on December 9, arrived with close to $4 billion Bitcoin treasury and now holds the third-largest BTC reserve among public firms. According to the firm’s CEO, Jack Mallers, Bitcoin’s role could expand far beyond a speculative holding. Related Reading: Solana’s Long-Awaited Firedancer Launch Sparks 5% Rally CEO Sees Bitcoin As A Reserve Asset Mallers told viewers on theCUBE+NYSE Wired that Bitcoin has compounded holders’ portfolios at roughly 50% a year over the past five to 10 years. Based on reports, he expects that the current $2 trillion market for Bitcoin could grow to between $20 trillion and $200 trillion. He argued Bitcoin might become the next global reserve asset as finance “recollateralizes” itself away from traditional treasuries and government debt. If supply then stood at 20 million tokens when a 100x market rise happened, Bitcoin would trade near $10 million per coin. At a present price of $92,270, that outcome would equal an increase of about 10,730%. Market Signals Remain Mixed Short-term market signs are not all in favor of a big rally. According to market watchers, the Federal Reserve’s recent rate cut barely moved Bitcoin, leaving price action largely flat and directionless. The MACD histogram, however, is showing hints of bullish momentum in some technical reads, which suggests buyers may be warming up. The dollar index is showing signs of weakness, which often helps assets like Bitcoin. ETF flows keep disappointing. Without steady inflows from funds, big narratives can struggle to turn into lasting price gains. Product Push Aimed At Liquidity Without Selling Twenty One Capital says it wants to offer services that let holders tap liquidity without selling their coins. The firm plans to start in credit and lending and has said it will roll out products in partnership with Tether. Related Reading: Do Kwon Falls Hard — Terraform Labs Chief Gets 15 Years For Wire Fraud Mallers described the company as more than a balance-sheet accumulator; he compared their ambitions to Coinbase while stressing a narrower focus on Bitcoin services. If executed, these offerings could change how holders manage risk and cash needs. Big Numbers And Big Questions The projection to $200 trillion is headline-grabbing. It is a vision, not a forecast, and it hinges on major shifts in global finance and adoption. Reports note that other industry figures have offered similar long-term targets, which means the idea is not unique but remains highly debated. Featured image from Unsplash, chart from TradingView
Crypto markets saw a modest lift after the US Federal Reserve made another move on rates, and traders are watching for a clearer follow-through. According to reports, the Fed has carried out three consecutive interest rate cuts totaling 0.75% from September to December. The move was widely expected. Still, market responses have been mixed and somewhat choppy. Related Reading: American Bitcoin Makes Big Buy, Adds 416 BTC To Its Stack Fed Moves And Market Takeaway According to CoinEx chief analyst Jeff Ko, much of the Fed’s action was already priced in, and the updated dot plot leaned a bit more hawkish than some had hoped. Ko pointed to $40 billion in short-term Treasury purchases as a technical step to ease liquidity and lower short-term rates, not as a broad stimulus program. Markets took the measures as mildly positive. US stocks rose, and that helped Bitcoin find some footing after an early dip. Santiment And The Short-Term Reaction Based on reports from onchain analytics firm Santiment, each cut has prompted a classic “buy the rumor, sell the news” move where initial optimism is followed by short selling. ???????? The US Fed made three strategic cuts over the past 3 months, resulting in a total of an 0.75% reduction to interest rates. 1⃣ September 17, 2025: Fed lowered the target range to 4.00 %–4.25 % (from 4.25 %+) at the 16–17 Sep meeting. 2⃣ October 29, 2025: Fed cut the rate to… pic.twitter.com/X6DWypvq5t — Santiment (@santimentfeed) December 11, 2025 Cuts are seen as bullish for crypto over the long haul, yet they have triggered brief pullbacks in practice. Santiment adds that a small wave of FUD or retail selling often signals that the mild post-cut downswing is finished and a bounce may follow once things calm down. Technical Levels Traders Are Watching Bitcoin was volatile in the aftermath. It fell under $90,000 then popped to $93,500 on Coinbase before settling near $92,300 at the time of reporting. Key resistance sits between $97,000 and $108,000. On the daily chart, BTC remains inside a small rising channel that sits within a larger downtrend, and technical traders note that a MACD histogram is approaching a positive crossover — a sign some see as possible renewed momentum. ETF activity has been tepid, with only $219 million in net inflows since late November, which keeps some investors cautious. Related Reading: Is Dogecoin Waking Up? Critical On-Chain Metric Explodes Higher Dollar Weakness And Equity Signals A weaker dollar has been part of the backdrop; the DXY index fell to 98.36 and is showing bearish momentum on its own MACD. Nasdaq’s move back above its 50-, 100- and 200-day simple moving averages helped lift risk assets briefly, and that has supported Bitcoin’s rebound attempts. Yet correlation with equities remains uneven — losses in stocks tend to hit Bitcoin harder than gains help it, creating an asymmetric risk profile for traders. Featured image from Impossible Images, chart from TradingView
Crypto markets are confronting a fast-moving repricing of US monetary policy expectations, and macro trader Alex Krüger argues that even after last week’s sharp dovish turn, futures curves still fail to discount what a Trump-aligned Federal Reserve leadership could look like. Fed Cut Mispricing Sets Up Crypto Repricing Event In a post on X, Krüger shared a CME-derived table of implied policy rates for late-stage 2026 and framed it as the market’s baseline for the post-Powell transition. The table shows an expected fed funds rate of 3.47% for the April 29, 2026 FOMC meeting (347 bps), drifting to 3.29% for June 17, 2026 (329 bps), to 3.10% for September 16, 2026 (310 bps), and to 2.99% for December 9, 2026 (299 bps). In other words, the curve prices roughly 48 basis points of easing between late April and early December 2026 about two quarter-point cuts across that span—implying a relatively gradual descent toward just under 3%. Krüger’s core claim is that this path is inconsistent with the policy preferences he associates with the Trump camp, and therefore inconsistent with an “ultra dovish” chair appointment. He situates the April 2026 meeting as the last one under Jerome Powell’s chairmanship, whose four-year term ends in mid-May 2026, and then treats the June 2026 meeting as the first under a new chair. Related Reading: Crypto Crash Is A Forced Crypto Seller Unwind, Glassnode Co-Founders Claim Against that transition, Krüger points to Fed Governor Stephen Miran—whom he casts as a proxy for Trump-world monetary instincts—as advocating a much faster return to neutral. In Krüger’s telling, Miran has argued that the “appropriate fed funds rate” is “roughly 2% to 2.5%,” has linked this year’s tighter stance to a rise in the neutral rate, and has characterized his divergence from colleagues as centered on “speed of cuts,” not destination. Krüger also highlights Miran’s preference for “50 bps cuts” over 25-bp steps as the way to get policy back to neutral. On Krüger’s arithmetic, a futures curve that delivers only about 50 bps of easing from the first post-Powell meeting in June 2026 through December 2026 is not a curve that has truly priced a Trump-era chair willing to front-load larger moves. Related Reading: Crypto Funds Face Third Consecutive Weekly Losses, Totaling $3 Billion In Outflows Put simply, he sees the market as still anchored to a Powell-style glide path, even while political risk is skewing toward more abrupt easing. “The Trump camp wants faster and bigger cuts, many of them. The Fed only cutting 50bps between the new Fed Chair’s FOMC in June and December 2026 falls short. That’s why I sustain an ultra dovish Fed Chair appointed by Trump is not priced in,” Krüger concludes. December Rate Cut Seems Likely The timing of Krüger’s warning matters because the front end has already undergone a dramatic swing. Last week, traders sharply increased the probability of another cut at the Fed’s December meeting after New York Fed President John Williams said rates could fall “in the near term,” a remark that pushed implied odds of a quarter-point December move into the mid-70% range on CME FedWatch, up from roughly 40% the day before. In parallel, Goldman Sachs chief economist Jan Hatzius reiterated a baseline in which the Fed cuts in December, then again in March and June 2026, taking the policy band down to roughly 3.00%–3.25%.” We expect another Fed cut in December, followed by two more moves in March and June 2026 that take the funds rate to 3-3.25%,” said Hatzius. GOLDMAN SEES DOWNSIDE RISKS FOR ECONOMY NEXT YEAR Goldman Sachs economists expect the Fed to cut rates in December, followed by a few more cuts in 2025, bringing rates just above 3%. Chief economist Jan Hatzius warns the economy could slow more than expected, requiring… — *Walter Bloomberg (@DeItaone) November 24, 2025 His path is modestly more dovish than what the curve had discounted earlier in the month, but it still resembles the gradualism embedded in Krüger’s CME table: sequential 25-bp steps, aiming for an early-2026 rate around the low-3% area rather than a rapid drop toward the low-2s. For the crypto markets, the dispute is less about whether cuts are coming than about the speed and terminal rate. Crypto is structurally levered to shifts in dollar liquidity and real-rate expectations; what Krüger is flagging is a scenario where the curve’s “destination” and, especially, its pacing remain too conservative relative to a potential political reorientation of the Fed. If traders are right that the Williams-sparked repricing is the beginning of a slower, data-dependent easing cycle, then current crypto asset valuations already incorporate the relevant macro impulse. If Krüger is right, the curve is still missing a regime change in reaction function—one in which larger front-loaded cuts compress cash yields faster than expected, steepen risk-on positioning, and force another round of cross-asset duration and liquidity repricing. That gap between a Powell-era slope and a Trump-era shock path is what he means when he says an ultra-dovish chair “is not priced in” for crypto markets. At press time, the total crypto market cap was at $2.92 trillion. Featured image created with DALL.E, chart from TradingView.com
The crypto market moved quickly after Jerome Powell hinted that interest rate cuts may finally come. Many assets moved immediately, and the Shiba Inu price was among the top gainers. According to this post on X, more than just a price chart, this moment reminded many that SHIB’s strength lies in market timing and its loyal community support. Powell’s Hint Sparks Instant Shiba Inu Price Momentum When Powell suggested that long-awaited rate cuts may soon be possible, the market responded quickly. Investors waiting for a clear signal rushed to position themselves, and SHIB wasted no time showing its power. The coin’s price surged with a 12% green candle in a quick move that shows how possible rate cut hints from policymakers can send crypto prices soaring fast. Related Reading: Analyst Predicts What Will Happen When XRP Price Hits $4, $10, $100, And $1,000 It was not just a random jump in price but a reminder of how closely tied SHIB is to larger economic shifts. When the Federal Reserve shows signs of easing, money tends to flow into risk assets, and SHIB has proven it can move with conviction. The sharp rise showed that the price can move much more quickly when the proper signals appear and that the meme coin is more active and responsive than many expected. The move suggests global signals could directly influence the Shiba Inu price. In this case, just a few words from Jerome Powell were enough to spark a strong reaction as his comments spread across markets and caught the eye of traders everywhere. It shows that when there are hints of a possible US interest rate cut, SHIB reacts quickly and moves in to align with the market trend. The ShibArmy Behind Shiba Inu’s Price Strength The X post states that price action can be exciting, but its community truly makes SHIB stand out. While price swings often draw attention, Shiba Inu’s true strength lies in its community. The ShibArmy has shown steady support even during uncertain times, and this loyalty helps SHIB stay strong and resilient in the crypto market. Instead of waiting for the world to tell them when to move, the ShibArmy stays active and prepared. Related Reading: Trump’s Pro-Crypto PAC Gets $21 Million Bitcoin Donation From Billionaire Founders This strength is not new. From the beginning, Ryoshi’s vision for Shiba Inu was more than charts and numbers; it was about creating a project and a community that could endure and be ready when the world finally noticed. The latest reaction to Powell’s hint reflects that same vision, with holders not simply chasing prices but being committed to the bigger picture. The ShibArmy understands that charts can rise and fall, but true resilience comes from staying together and believing in the long-term story. Powell’s possible rate cuts may have lit the spark for the latest surge, but the community’s loyalty keeps the fire burning. As others wait on the sidelines for more signals, SHIB’s supporters repeatedly prove they are always ready for what comes next. Featured image from Dall.E, chart from TradingView.com
The bullish jobs report adds fuel to hopes for an “Uptober” and fourth-quarter rally in Bitcoin’s price.
CoinShares expects that crypto investment products will become “increasingly sensitive” to interest rate expectations in September.
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The State of Saxony, gripped by fears of a sudden Bitcoin price crash, hastily ordered the sale of its 50,000 BTC stash.
Powell said the Federal Reserve needs “more confidence” in the U.S. economy before it can begin cutting rates.