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📊🧠 After The Purge Smart Money Piles In

Hello there you embodiment of curiosity;

Welcome to today's edition of Osiris News, if you spent the weekend watching the charts with the kind of morbid curiosity usually reserved for volcano documentaries, you’re not alone. The market was violent, loud noises, sudden drops, and then, just as quickly, quiet again, leaving everyone to stare at the wreckage and ask what, exactly, just happened.

The story today is about a cleansing fire. On Friday, a geopolitical spark from a former president’s social post ignited a forest of over-leveraged positions, triggering the largest liquidation event in crypto history. It was brutal, efficient, and clarifying. A trader in Singapore watched a year’s gains evaporate in ninety seconds, then reappear by Sunday. The theme: crypto’s violent allergy to old-world politics, and two stark takeaways from the ashes: fragile, hyper-connected plumbing that buckled, and deep-pocketed, patient capital that stepped in to buy the blood.

🔍 Quick Overview

• Market Meltdown: $200B erased and $19B liquidated in hours, a rogue wave that showed crypto catches colds

• Tariff Tumult: Trump’s tariff threat tanked prices, then a walkback sparked a rebound, geopolitics as puppet master

• Stablecoin Shivers: Ethena’s USDe slid under $0.70; Aave hard-coded the price to avert wider fallout, resilience in action

• Insider Whispers: Ex-exchange CEO flagged for a perfectly timed BTC short netting ~$200M, insider-trading alarms blaring

• Ethereum’s Big Backers: Institutions keep stacking, Bitmine holds ~2.5% of ETH supply; ETFs now own 5%+

Trending News

🌪️🔧 Crypto Market Recovers After $20 Billion Liquidation Event

The crypto market experienced a $20 billion liquidation event, triggered by escalating US-China trade tensions, before rebounding as rhetoric eased. Analysts characterized the downturn as an "emotional flush" and a "technical event" driven by cascading margin calls. This deleveraging event flushed out excess leverage, suggesting potential for market recovery.

📊⚠️ Crypto ETFs Record $755 Million Outflow Amid Trade War Fears

US spot Bitcoin and Ether ETFs saw a combined net outflow of $755 million after a market drop, triggered by President Trump's tariff announcement. Analysts attribute these outflows to post-liquidation caution and investors awaiting clearer macro signals. ETF flows will stabilize as markets digest volatility, but remain sensitive to geopolitical headlines.

🐉💼 China Renaissance Plans $600M Fund for BNB Ecosystem

Chinese investment bank China Renaissance is reportedly raising $600 million for a fund focused on the BNB ecosystem, with YZi Labs also investing. This move signals an Asian institutional crypto strategy prioritizing infrastructure tokens and native liquidity networks. The fund could serve as a blueprint for future Asian institutional products in crypto infrastructure.

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Beyond the Noise

The first punch landed Friday after-hours. President Trump threatened 100% tariffs on China, and the market’s nervous system short-circuited. What followed wasn’t a dip; it was a fall. Altcoins dumped 60–90% in a minute, then whipsawed. In hours, a record $19B liquidation cascade hit. Over $200B in market cap vanished. Bitcoin knifed below $110,000. A full-blown panic, an emotional reset reminding everyone that leverage still obeys gravity. The system felt the strain, and in spots, it fractured.

This wasn’t random chaos but the snap of an over-tuned machine. Systematic funds had been “maxed out on equities,” hypersensitive to volatility. The tweet was the spark; the tinder was an estimated $100B in automated sell triggers flipping at once. Market makers reportedly pulled liquidity, order books thinned, and Auto-Deleveraging kicked in, closing profitable positions to cover losses. A fast-motion ‘sell everything’ fire sale.

Amid the mechanical carnage, suspicion flared. A whale, later tied to former BitForex CEO Garrett Jin, timed a $735M BTC short minutes before the tariff post; one trader reportedly netted $200M. The coincidence sparked insider-trading whispers. Jin denied it, citing a client wallet, but the market whispered louder. The whale has since added nearly $500M in new shorts, a bold bet against the rebound.

DeFi faced a severe stress test. Ethena’s USDe suffered a $2B depeg, plunging below $0.70 on Binance, evoking Terra flashbacks. Yet some systems held. Aave saw just $193M in liquidations, less than prior, milder events. Its risk curators hard-coded USDe’s price to USDT internally, a centralized intervention that prevented unfair liquidations. The quiet moral lens: every tick off-peg echoes in real finances; Aave’s move likely saved thousands.

As leverage washed out, new buyers waded in. Institutions love a sale. Tom Lee’s Bitmine bought another 200,000 ETH, lifting holdings to 3M ETH (~2.5% of supply). The Real-World Asset (RWA) push rolled on: Securitize eyes a public listing at $1B; Aurelion raised $150M to become the first public company with XAUT as its primary treasury asset. In parallel, silver hit an all-time high, up 75% this year, a broader flight to scarcity.

By Monday, the market was breathing again. The rebound was as swift as the crash, an extreme “Darth Maul candle” on total market cap. Leaders were telling: BNB printed a new ATH at $1,370, boosted by a $600M US treasury vehicle backed by a Chinese bank and a $45M memecoin airdrop. DOGE popped ~30%. The purge left a mix of institutional conviction, ecosystem-specific strength, and meme-energy resilience. The fever broke.

This Caught My Eye:

Here’s a breakdown:

• Bitcoin's spot demand momentum has plunged to an all-time low, with short-term holders offloading 800,000 BTC since late May.

• This extreme sell-side pressure contrasts with price stability, hinting at potential hidden accumulation or a delayed correction.

Looking Ahead

The weekend’s purge vaporized historic leverage. The system bent, even cracked, but didn’t break. What’s left is a sturdier base, with longer-horizon holders and fewer 100x tourists. The broken pieces now face scrutiny: systematic strategies, market-maker behavior, and stablecoin design will be probed. The USDe depeg, even if contained, left scars, fuel for louder calls to regulate these mechanisms, especially with insider-trading allegations in the air.

Two forces are colliding: chaotic geopolitics that can shock this market in minutes, and the slow, immense pressure of institutional capital that sees chaos as confirmation. This round, the accumulators won. With US inflation data due tomorrow, focus swings back to macro. The challenge: build infrastructure resilient enough for the next inevitable collision. The board’s reset, now we watch who moves first.

Until tomorrow,
- Dr.P