Every Bullish Catalyst Hit in 2025… So Why Is Crypto Bleeding?ETFs, liquidity, and a pro-crypto backdrop should have sent prices higher. Here is what is actually happening and what I am buying because of it.
There is a moment every investor eventually faces. A moment when the story is perfect, the incentives are aligned, the headlines are favorable… and the market still refuses to cooperate. That is where crypto is right now. Because if you wrote the “perfect bull market checklist” for 2025, crypto checked every box.
And yet, crypto has spent the back half of the year behaving like something is structurally wrong. Not “bear market wrong.” Plumbing wrong. What you are watching is not price discoveryIt is forced selling. The crypto market has become a liquidation engine that routinely wipes out traders by the thousands. Sometimes in a day. Sometimes in an hour.
That combination explains the paradox: Even when the long-term case improves, the short-term tape can still get crushed because the marginal seller is not “a believer changing their mind.” It is a machine closing positions. The hidden shift most people missedIn 2020 and 2021, crypto lived in its own universe. In 2025, crypto increasingly traded like a high beta risk asset, and the ETF wrapper made that linkage tighter, not looser. When markets de-risk, ETFs do what they are designed to do. They redeem. They sell. The flow becomes the catalyst. That is why you can have a week where the “crypto narrative” is bullish, but the “macro tape” is risk-off, and crypto still bleeds anyway. So what actually broke?Here is my best answer, stripped of cope. 1) Leverage became the productCrypto does not just have leverage, it is built around it. Perps, funding games, reflexive liquidations, cascading stops. You do not need a new piece of bad news. You just need price to slip through a level where too many traders are leaning the same way. Then the market does the rest. 2) Wall Street arrived, and brought the exit door with itThe ETFs were sold as a one-way adoption funnel. They are not. They are a two-way liquidity valve, and November proved it.
3) The “real buyers” can still get drowned outStrategy buying nearly $1B a week sounds like it should overwhelm sellers. It does not, if the market is flushing leverage and bleeding ETF flows at the same time. That is the uncomfortable truth. Even large, visible buyers can be powerless against mechanical selling. The Tape Has Two PathsThe tape only has two ways to resolve a disconnect like this. Path 1: The pressure valve finally releases That seller is rarely a person. It is positioning, leverage, and wrappers that turn “risk-off” into automatic selling. When that valve closes, crypto starts behaving normally again. Path 2: The snapback that nobody is positioned for Not because investors suddenly became geniuses. What I am doing right nowI am not chasing whatever is loudest on crypto Twitter. I am accumulating rails. The toll roads. The infrastructure that institutions actually need if the next wave is real-world assets, stablecoins, on-chain yield, and tokenized money markets. Because that is the part of crypto that keeps growing even while prices get whipped around.
That is not a meme cycle. That is plumbing. And plumbing is where the real money builds. If you agree the “casino layer” is broken, then the move is simple: Stop betting on vibes. Start owning the pipes. Below is the exact “rails stack” I am accumulating... Continue reading this post for free in the Substack app
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Rabu, 17 Desember 2025
Every Bullish Catalyst Hit in 2025… So Why Is Crypto Bleeding?
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