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[DeFi Gravity @Terrinitup21]

🚨 ISM Manufacturing PMI came in at 54.0, the highest reading since May 2022.

Our model forecast 53.2, missing by 0.8 points.

That's further off than our typical forecast error, but considering everything happening simultaneously:

⚠️ Iran conflict
⚠️ Oil price volatility
⚠️ Tariff uncertainty
⚠️ Supply chain disruptions
⚠️ Rapid shifts in business sentiment
...the model still performed reasonably well.

More importantly, it successfully captured the underlying trend:
✅ Manufacturing expansion
✅ Improving demand
✅ Rising production
✅ Growing backlogs
✅ Continued economic growth

The exact magnitude was stronger than expected, but the directional call was correct from the start.

The bigger takeaway isn't that ISM printed 54.0.

The bigger takeaway is that U.S. manufacturing has now expanded for 5 consecutive months and just posted its strongest reading in 3 years.

📈 The manufacturing recovery remains intact.
$BTC #ISM #Manufacturing #Macro

[DeFi Gravity @Terrinitup21]

🚨 MAY ISM FORECAST: 53.2

U.S. manufacturing continues to show signs of expansion.

The biggest development this month was Chicago PMI exploding higher to 62.7, its highest level since January 2022 and one of the largest monthly jumps in survey history.

🔥 New Orders surged
🔥 Production accelerated
🔥 Backlogs expanded
🔥 Supplier deliveries tightened

Meanwhile, inflation pressures continue to build across the manufacturing sector.

🎯 My forecast for next week's ISM Manufacturing PMI: 53.2

If correct, that would mark another step higher in the manufacturing recovery and reinforce the idea that the sector has moved well beyond the contractionary environment that dominated much of 2025.

$BTC #ISM

[DeFi Gravity @Terrinitup21]

@blknoiz06 👀 🦶🏽

[DeFi Gravity @Terrinitup21]

Are pre-IPO crypto derivatives a useful access layer, or just another venue for mispriced private-market hype?

[DeFi Gravity @Terrinitup21]

Crypto exchanges listing pre-IPO SpaceX derivatives is more important than it looks.

This is not just “crypto wants equity hype.”

It is market structure leakage.

When private markets stay locked, demand finds a synthetic venue:
• perps
• tokenized claims
• pre-IPO proxies
• offshore liquidity

The big question is not whether these products are perfect.

They are not.

The big question is why public markets are so inaccessible that crypto rails become the workaround for price discovery.

That is the part regulators should be paying attention to.

Not vibes. Market structure.

[DeFi Gravity @Terrinitup21]

Context: Reuters reported today that crypto exchanges are cashing in on SpaceX frenzy with pre-IPO derivatives. The interesting part is demand moving to synthetic venues.

[DeFi Gravity @Terrinitup21]

The only vet in the Spurs rotation playing like a rookie 🤦🏾‍♂️

[DeFi Gravity @Terrinitup21]

🚨 CPI came in hot on the headline, but the cleaner read for bitcoin:native is that this was mostly an energy shock, not a broad reflation print.

May CPI rose 0.5% m/m and 4.2% y/y, while core CPI rose 0.2% m/m and 2.9% y/y. The dollar softened after the release, yet $BTC is still pinned near $61.9K. That does not look like a clean macro reset. It looks like a market still trapped between sticky headline inflation and fading crypto-specific flows.

If headline inflation cools next month, this print may age better than it looks. If energy keeps feeding through, rate-cut dreams stay dead. That is the line I am watching.

Media note: May CPI table & $BTC

[DeFi Gravity @Terrinitup21]

@DonWedge 🦶

[DeFi Gravity @Terrinitup21]

Is this where Bitcoin decides the next 6 months?

Here is what stands out:

$BTC is sitting near the 200W MA and the psychological $60K line.

ETF outflows have slowed, but they have not clearly reversed.

AI equities are still absorbing liquidity.

CPI is tomorrow.

The cleaner read to me is simple:

This is not a “Bitcoin is dead” setup.

It is a liquidity test.

If $60K holds and ETF flows stabilize, the bear case weakens fast.

If $60K fails with continued outflows, the market will probably stop talking about dips and start talking about regime change.

That is the line I am watching.

Media note: BTC weekly chart with 200W MA, plus Farside BTC ETF flows.

[DeFi Gravity @Terrinitup21]

The Knicks understand the magnitude of the moment, the Spurs don’t. That’s the difference

[DeFi Gravity @Terrinitup21]

Is this where the market crashes?

[DeFi Gravity @Terrinitup21]

@coinbureau They’re just buying time with all this contention. They need CLARITY just as much as anybody

[DeFi Gravity @Terrinitup21]

The Fog

I have walked so long through the fog

that I no longer fear getting lost.

I fear that there was never a road at all.

At first, I could laugh at the uncertainty.

I could carry it on my back like a traveler carries a pack.

Heavy, yes.

But temporary.

The destination would make sense of the weight.

The destination would justify the climb.

The destination would explain the sacrifice.

So I walked.

And walked.

And walked.

Years passed.

The fog remained.

Sometimes it thinned enough for me to glimpse a shape ahead.

A mountain peak.

A distant light.

A future version of myself standing free on the horizon.

And every time I saw him,

I quickened my pace.

“This is it,” I thought.

“The path is finally opening.”

But the fog would return,

and the light would disappear,

and I would be left alone with my footsteps once more.

Eventually, a dangerous thought arrived.

Not all at once.

Not like lightning.

Like water dripping through stone.

Slowly.

Patiently.

Relentlessly.

Maybe the path is not hidden.

Maybe there is no path.

Maybe freedom is a story I tell myself

to make the walking bearable.

Maybe the years are not leading somewhere.

Maybe they are simply passing.

And yet—

Even as I questioned the road,

my feet continued moving.

Even as I doubted the destination,

I kept walking.

Even as hope became heavier to carry than despair,

I carried it anyway.

Because somewhere beneath the exhaustion,

beneath the disappointment,

beneath the anger at a world that never explained itself,

there remained a quieter truth.

I was never walking because I knew.

I was walking because I cared.

The fog was never proof that the road had ended.

Only proof that I could not see very far.

And perhaps that is the burden of every traveler:

To continue without certainty.

To move without guarantees.

To plant seeds in soil they may never see bloom.

To love things that can be lost.

To build things that can fail.

To hope when hope feels foolish.

The fog still surrounds me.

The destination is still unknown.

And tonight, I am tired.

Tired enough to sit beside the road and wonder if it is worth continuing.

But somewhere beyond the reach of my sight,

the path may still be there.

Not because I have evidence.

Not because I have certainty.

But because the absence of a horizon

has never been the same thing

as the absence of a road.

So tomorrow,

if only for one more day,

I will stand.

I will shoulder my pack.

And I will walk into the fog again.

[DeFi Gravity @Terrinitup21]

This is miserable ngl
bitcoin:native

[DeFi Gravity @Terrinitup21]

$BTC is not dumping because whales are distributing.

At least, that is not what the data looks like to me.

The cleaner read is that this move is being driven by ETF/spot selling from short-duration holders, while larger whale cohorts are still absorbing underneath.

Here is what stands out:

New whales are still accumulating aggressively

New whale realized cap continues to rise hard.

That does not look like broad distribution.

It looks like newer large buyers are still building exposure while price is weak.

Open interest is mostly flat

If this were primarily a leverage unwind, I would expect OI to collapse hard.

But OI has been more or less rangebound during the dump.

That tells me this is not simply a derivatives liquidation event.

Spot vs derivative volume ratio is rising

This is one of the most important pieces.

The spot/derivative ratio has been increasing while $BTC price has been falling.

That suggests the move is being driven more by spot selling than pure perp pressure.

In other words:

Real supply is hitting the market.

Not just leverage noise.

Whale exchange activity is not showing a major distribution spike

Whale Exchange Ratio has actually cooled from the late-February / March highs.

If old whales were aggressively dumping, I would expect that ratio to be screaming higher.

It is not.

ETF flows have been negative nonstop since mid-May

This lines up almost perfectly with the start of the $BTC dump.

That is the biggest clue.

ETF holders are behaving like short-duration/tactical holders right now.

Maybe they bought the breakout.

Maybe they expected continuation.

Maybe they lost confidence when $BTC failed to hold above short-term holder realized price.

But the flow data is pretty clear:

ETF selling has been a major source of pressure.

So my current read is:

This is not broad whale distribution.

This is not a clean leverage blowoff.

This is ETF/spot weak-hand selling into large-buyer absorption.

The big question is why.

Maybe capital is rotating into AI, equities, gold, private-market deals, or whatever narrative currently has more urgency.

Maybe the Saylor sale damaged confidence, not mechanically, but psychologically.

Maybe investors simply do not want to hold $BTC until it proves it can reclaim structure again.

I am not convinced this is some coordinated manipulation ahead of CLARITY.

That is possible in theory, but the cleaner explanation is usually the better one:

$BTC lost momentum.

ETF flows turned negative.

Short-duration holders sold.

Whales kept absorbing.

Now the market is testing whether that absorption is strong enough.

If ETF outflows slow and new whales continue accumulating, this could form a higher low.

If ETF outflows keep overwhelming absorption, deeper support gets tested.

That is the line I am watching.

Not vibes.

Flows.

[Eleanor Terrett @EleanorTerrett]

This is another step in the process and does not necessarily signal that a Senate floor vote is imminent. Specifically, it’s a committee report for the bill, which adds on all the amendments that passed during the @BankingGOP markup into the latest text of the bill.

Note: It’s not yet merged with the Ag text, which will likely happen in a manager’s amendment on the floor.

[DeFi Gravity @Terrinitup21]

🚨 Crypto Regulation Update: CLARITY Act Hits Senate Calendar. Real Progress, But Not a Vote (Yet)

Yesterday the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act (H.R. 3633) was placed on the Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders (Calendar No. 423).

It’s legit progress: Senate Banking Committee is done, the bill is now eligible for floor debate. But no vote date is set, and it still must be reconciled with the Senate Ag Committee’s separate DCIA bill first (SEC vs CFTC jurisdiction).

Momentum is building toward U.S. crypto clarity, but we’re not popping champagne yet, a few more steps remain.

Stay informed and keep building! 📈
#CLARITYAct #CryptoRegulation

[DeFi Gravity @Terrinitup21]

This $BTC move feels way too dramatic to not be a shakeout, especially with no negative news. The only news has been the CLARITY vote being put on the Senate schedule, which is obviously positive.

[DeFi Gravity @Terrinitup21]

$BTC is sitting right at the trend line from the last two bear market lows 👀