It’s easy to blame headlines or politics for market moves, but I’m starting to see that money and liquidity drive almost everything—crypto or macro.
I don’t have all the answers, but I’ll share what I’m learning as I try to make sense of what’s really flowing, or drying up.
The products get the headlines. Underneath every one of them sits custody, policy engines, and settlement rails. That is where scale gets built.
Francisco Montenegro from @FordefiHQ on what the regulated infrastructure stack looks like now that Fordefi and Paxos have joined forces:
Crypto as liquidity barometer: Bitcoin and Ethereum saw 30%+ drawdowns as order books thinned, but Saylor’s large BTC buys and Tom Lee’s key levels ($91.8K support, $96.5K resistance) frame the next move if liquidity stabilizes. 🌡️
Central bank tightening has likely peaked and the Fed has effectively halted QT, while Asian liquidity is picking up. Bitcoin, as the most liquidity‑sensitive asset, tends to front‑run these shifts, tilting the setup bullish. 📈
World liquidity drives crypto. From July's to November's liquidity singularity to December's Fed pivot—every major BTC move traced back to global liquidity status.
Watch the BOJ, Fed repos, TGA drawdowns. They’re the fuel gauge for your portfolio. 📈
Liquidity squeeze: dollar funding stressed, QT about to stop, safety buffers thinning. Bitcoin
near $90K and Ethereum
around $3K look like a classic liquidity reset (ETF outflows + leverage flush), not end‑of‑cycle doom.
💶 Europe’s immigration wave isn’t compassion — it’s liquidity fallout. Easy money inflated assets, crushed wages, reduced housing access. Births fell, labor vanished. Now leaders ‘import’ workers to fill the gap their own policies made. Human QE — decay’s final stage.
BlackRock wants to tokenize ETFs. Why care?
Own $100K in stocks?
Banks: 50 forms, borrow $50K at 7%
Tokenized ETFs: Instantly borrow $90K at 3.5%, no paperwork, 24/7
Current DeFi: 10-15% on volatile crypto
Future: 3-4% on stable ETFs
It’s cheaper money without permission.
When does it end? When liquidity tightens or institutions finish rebalancing.
Right now, we may still be at the “quiet accumulation” phase.
By the time it’s obvious to everyone, the big moves have already happened.
What do you think? Are we early or late? ☄️⏰👇
I’d like to start with the fact that’s driving BTC price up—when does it end?
Follow the institutional money. This is no longer a retail game.
Let me show you the actual data 🧵
And now? The Fed’s cutting rates next week-95% probability of 25bp on Sept 17 📆
Markets pricing 3 total cuts this year. More liquidity flowing into risk assets precisely when institutions are stacking. 💦