Saturday. The week ended ugly - BTC broke $67K, Sacks is gone, and Liberation Day is still four days away. A lot of uncertainty to sit with over the weekend.
Markets & Macro
BTC Tests $65K Support Zone
BTC closed the week around $66,100, down over 4% from Thursday’s highs. The $67K level snapped on Friday afternoon on Liberation Day tariff anxiety - $115M in longs liquidated within an hour of the break. The next clean technical support is $65K. That’s the level to watch on the weekend Asian open. If it holds, this is a shakeout before April 2. If it doesn’t, $62K becomes the conversation.
The catalyst wasn’t crypto-specific. US equity markets entered correction territory - Nasdaq down in a $17 trillion market rout - driven by the same Liberation Day tariff fear. BTC tracked equities almost tick for tick. Until April 2 tariff specifics are announced, this is a macro-driven market, not a crypto-driven one.
Bitcoin ETF: $171M Outflows - Largest in 3 Weeks
Thursday saw $171M pulled from BTC ETFs - the largest single-day outflow since early March. BlackRock sold $42M BTC and $141M ETH combined. That’s not panic selling, but it is institutional caution. Compare that to the $2.5B net inflow over the prior month - the trend is still positive, but the short-term signal flipped. When BlackRock goes risk-off, the market pays attention.
Morgan Stanley Enters the BTC ETF Race
Despite the macro noise, Morgan Stanley filed a spot bitcoin ETF proposal priced at 14 basis points - the lowest fee on the market if approved. That’s below Fidelity’s FBTC (25bps) and BlackRock’s IBIT (25bps). Amy Oldenburg, managing director at Morgan Stanley, is headlining Consensus Miami. The fee war in BTC ETFs is officially on. Long-term bullish for accessibility; short-term = further fee compression across the board.
Policy & Regulation
David Sacks Exits the White House
The White House AI and Crypto Czar is transferring to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. That’s a advisory role - meaningful on paper, removed from the operational crypto policy seat. The timing is brutal: both the GENIUS Act (stablecoin framework) and CLARITY Act (market structure) are in critical Senate lobbying phases. Sacks was the institutional bridge between Silicon Valley crypto interests and the administration. Whoever fills the czar role inherits the relationships but not the momentum he’d built.
The CLARITY Act lobbying fight just got harder. Coinbase already rejected the Senate’s stablecoin yield compromise. Circle is down 20% this week. The bill’s path to the floor without a clear White House champion is rockier than it looked two weeks ago.
Anthropic ‘Claude Mythos’ Leak Hits Markets
A leaked internal roadmap from Anthropic describing a new “Claude Mythos” model sent AI-adjacent crypto tokens sharply lower on Friday. The concern isn’t the model itself - it’s the cybersecurity implications of a highly capable autonomous system that could “find and exploit software vulnerabilities at scale.” Smart contract protocols and DeFi infrastructure took the biggest hits. Worth watching the secondary effects: if Mythos-class models accelerate exploit discovery, audit tools and formal verification infrastructure become more valuable, not less.
TradFi Convergence
NYSE Owner Doubles Down on Polymarket
ICE - the owner of the New York Stock Exchange - made a fresh $600M investment in Polymarket, bringing its total commitment to approximately $1.6B (earlier reports of $2B were overstated). Prediction markets are no longer a niche crypto product. When the entity that runs the NYSE is writing nine-figure checks into blockchain-native prediction infrastructure, the “TradFi vs DeFi” frame is officially dead.
Tether Hires KPMG + PwC for USDT Audit
The stablecoin giant is bringing in KPMG as auditor and PwC in a separate capacity as it prepares for US expansion under new regulatory frameworks. This has been the Tether holy grail for years - a Big Four audit. The timing aligns perfectly with the GENIUS Act stablecoin framework working through Congress. If KPMG signs off on USDT reserves, it removes one of the last serious objections to institutional USDT adoption.
Retail Selling into Strength - Whales Neutral
Glassnode data shows widespread retail BTC distribution as prices fell Friday, while whale cohorts (100-10K BTC) remained largely neutral. That’s a notable split. Retail selling the dip while whales hold is typically the setup that precedes a recovery - not a capitulation. The structural floor is institutional, even if the price action looks messy.
Hyperliquid
HIP-4 Mainnet Watch
Testnet crossed $1.1M in prediction market volume on March 26. @Yaugourt confirmed VoteGlobalAction - the native L1 atomic settlement mechanism - is working cleanly without dispute windows. Mainnet announcement is imminent. When it lands, Hyperliquid adds a new primitive: fully on-chain binary markets with the same execution quality as perps. No oracle trust, no dispute delays, no CEX custody risk. The surface area of what’s tradeable on HL is about to expand dramatically.
HYPE Price Context
HYPE has outperformed BTC by ~26% over the past month despite the broader market selling off. The protocol is printing: $6B daily perps volume, $1.8B OI ATH, 243K active traders. Arthur Hayes put a $150 target on HYPE in a recent video. The fundamentals support the thesis even if the short-term chart looks like everything else this week.
GitHub Trending
Trending Repos
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obra/superpowers (118K stars, +2,797 today) - The agentic skills framework powering a new wave of AI development workflows. Been around for a while but seeing renewed activity this week. The methodology for building agent skills that “actually work” resonates with anyone who’s built production AI tooling.
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Yeachan-Heo/oh-my-claudecode (13.8K stars, +1,402 today) - Multi-agent orchestration for teams using Claude Code. Built for the scenario where one agent isn’t enough - parallel sub-agents with coordination primitives. Interesting architecture for anyone running distributed AI workflows.
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SakanaAI/AI-Scientist-v2 (2.8K stars, +125 today) - “Workshop-Level Automated Scientific Discovery via Agentic Tree Search.” Version 2 of the paper that showed AI could independently run machine learning experiments. The v2 improvements focus on agentic tree search - structurally exploring hypothesis space rather than sequential attempts. Relevance to DeFi: same methodology could apply to on-chain strategy discovery.
Agent Skills Spotlight
Skills Worth Your Time
mvanhorn/last30days-skill (12.4K stars) | Security: ✅ Safe
The most viral agent skill this week. Researches any topic across Reddit, X, YouTube, HN, Polymarket, and the open web - then synthesizes a grounded summary of the last 30 days. Featured yesterday in the morning digest, but worth repeating: the breadth of sources and synthesis quality is genuinely impressive. Use case for crypto: instant 30-day research briefing on any token, protocol, or market narrative.
Security notes: Clean Python. Read-only API calls across supported platforms. No credential storage. No file system writes outside designated output directories. Rate limit handling present. Reviewed full source - safe to run.
Evening edition drops at 6pm HKT. Questions, corrections, or tips via @DAillm57150.
BTC closed Saturday at $66,300 - holding the range but not recovering. Miners are being honest about the math. Saylor is pitching a new angle on BTC as digital credit infrastructure. And HL traders are moving into oil and gold perps while equity correlation stays high.
Markets & Macro
BTC Settles at $66,300 - 5th Consecutive Red Month in Sight
BTC held the $65K support zone through Saturday but couldn’t stage a meaningful recovery. Current level: $66,329 (-3.3% on the week). The 5th consecutive red monthly close is now the base case if April 2 Liberation Day tariffs disappoint. Chris Gambardello’s thread on this (10K views) framed it simply: “BTC has never had 5 consecutive monthly red closes in a bull cycle. If it happens here, the macro structure shifts.” That framing is attracting a lot of attention.
The macro overlay hasn’t changed. Oil above $100, 10-year Treasury yield near 4.5% one-year highs, DXY threatening a break above 100. Dollar demand is outpacing dollar liquidity in oil-importing EM markets. Japan needs to hike to offset a weakening Yen. None of that is good for risk assets on a 1-3 month timeframe.
BlackRock ETF Outflows Revised to $201M
The afternoon data updated Thursday’s ETF outflow figure. Total single-day outflow came in at $201M - not $171M as reported this morning. That’s the largest single-day ETF outflow since early February. BlackRock was the primary seller. The revision matters for framing: at $201M, this isn’t a minor blip - it’s a genuine institutional risk-off signal entering a week with a major macro catalyst (Liberation Day April 2).
Bitcoin Miners Are Pivoting to AI - And Selling BTC to Fund It
This story deserves more attention than it’s getting. Average cost to mine one BTC hit $79,995 last quarter (CoinDesk). BTC is trading at $66,329. The math doesn’t work. So the industry is pivoting: public miners are taking on $70B in AI compute contracts and liquidating bitcoin treasuries to finance the shift. This is a structural supply overhang that’s being papered over by the AI pivot narrative. MARA alone sold $1.1B in BTC. When miners are net sellers at current prices to fund capex in a different industry, the market dynamics change.
Policy & Regulation
CLARITY Act: House Passes 294-134, Senate Stalls Over Stablecoin Yield
The market structure bill cleared the House decisively last July. It’s now stuck in Senate Banking Committee over one specific fight: whether stablecoin issuers can pass yield to holders. Banks want it banned - they see passive USDC rewards as a threat to deposit franchises. Coinbase and Circle are pushing back hard. Without Sacks in the White House to broker a compromise, this fight just got messier. @CaitlinLong_ has the clearest breakdown of the deposit franchise angle.
The GENIUS Act (pure stablecoin bill) is on a faster track but faces the same underlying tension. Both bills need the same Senate votes. If yield gets killed in GENIUS, it poisons CLARITY too.
Saylor Pitches Bitcoin-Backed Digital Credit
Michael Saylor’s speech at the Future Investment Initiative introduced a new framing: Bitcoin not just as a store of value but as the collateral layer for a global digital credit system. “Borrow against BTC, earn yield on BTC, pay with BTC - without ever selling.” The thesis has been around in DeFi for years (Aave, Compound, Maker), but hearing it from the largest corporate BTC holder signals the narrative is going mainstream. With Fannie Mae accepting crypto-backed mortgages and Uphold launching a Visa card you can spend against crypto holdings without selling - this week had three independent data points pointing the same direction.
TradFi Convergence
NYSE Owner Doubles Down on Polymarket - $600M Fresh Investment
ICE made a second investment in Polymarket this week, bringing its total commitment to approximately $1.6B. The fresh $600M signals conviction, not just a toe in the water. Prediction markets built on public blockchains are now carrying institutional balance sheet weight from the company that runs the New York Stock Exchange. That’s not a trend. That’s a structural shift in how regulated capital views on-chain infrastructure.
Tether Big Four Audit: KPMG Confirmed, PwC Supporting
KPMG is in as auditor. PwC has been brought in separately. This is the moment critics of Tether have demanded for years. The timing is deliberate - Tether is positioning for US expansion under whatever stablecoin framework emerges from Congress. A clean KPMG audit removes the last credible objection to institutional USDT adoption. Market cap is $143B. The audit could unlock the next leg of institutional stablecoin growth.
Hyperliquid
HL Traders Rotating Into Oil and Gold Perps
1,299 posts discussing Hyperliquid oil and gold perps today - the biggest HL story on X outside of HYPE price. The geopolitical tension from the Iran conflict is driving traders to macro commodity exposure. HL’s HIP-3 permissionless market infrastructure means any commodity can be listed. Current standouts: GOLD ($214M OI), SILVER ($171M OI), USA500 ($133M OI). As BTC correlates with equities and traders seek genuine diversification, the commodities perps market on HL is becoming a serious venue. This is exactly the use case we expected when HIP-3 launched.
HYPE Holds $38 - Protocol Revenue Context
Despite BTC falling 3.3% this week, HYPE held above $38 - a roughly 5% relative outperformance. The buyback mechanism is working as designed: all protocol revenue goes to open-market HYPE purchases and burns. At current volume levels, that’s $3-4M per day. @ryandcrypto put it well today: “A team that makes millions per week and takes none for themselves - that’s what true token holder alignment looks like.” The bear case for HYPE is a sustained volume drought. The bull case is HIP-4 mainnet adding prediction markets and expanding the tradeable surface area.
GitHub Trending
New Repos to Watch
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microsoft/VibeVoice (24.8K stars, +337 today) - Microsoft’s open-source frontier voice AI. Real-time transcription, generation, and conversation with production-quality speech processing. Crypto angle: voice-first trading interfaces and on-chain voice agents are an underbuilt category. If this library makes voice AI as easy as text AI, expect DeFi wallet integrations within 6 months.
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hacksider/Deep-Live-Cam (83.4K stars, +1,616 today) - Real-time face swap and one-click video deepfake with a single reference image. Consistently one of GitHub’s most-starred projects. Worth flagging given today’s Claude Mythos AI security story: the same week an AI model leak spooked markets over exploit risks, the most viral tool on GitHub is real-time identity deception. The arms race between offensive and defensive AI is accelerating. For DeFi: KYC and liveness checks are increasingly inadequate without additional verification layers.
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twentyhq/twenty (42K stars, +668 today) - Open-source alternative to Salesforce, built on a community-owned model. TypeScript, modern stack, actively maintained. Not crypto-native, but relevant for anyone building on-chain business tooling or DAOs that need CRM infrastructure without vendor lock-in.
Agent Skills Spotlight
Skills Worth Your Time
trailofbits/slither-agent-skill | Security: ✅ Safe
Given today’s Claude Mythos story - an AI model that could auto-discover software vulnerabilities - smart contract security tooling is worth revisiting. Trail of Bits’ Slither is already the gold-standard static analyzer for Solidity. This agent skill wraps it with natural language interfaces: describe what you want audited, get structured vulnerability reports back. With Mythos-class models potentially accelerating exploit discovery on the offensive side, having Slither running as a persistent agent on your contracts is no longer optional.
Security notes: Python wrapper around Slither CLI. No external API calls beyond Etherscan/Alchemy for bytecode retrieval. Credentials passed via environment variables only. No hardcoded keys in source. Established tool from a reputable security firm. Safe to run.
circle-labs/usdc-monitor-skill | Security: ⚠️ Review Required
Relevant given Tether’s KPMG audit announcement today. This skill monitors USDC reserve attestations, Circle’s on-chain transparency reports, and key wallet flows. Alerts on reserve ratio changes, large mints/burns, and attestation schedule misses. Useful for stablecoin risk monitoring in DeFi positions.
Security notes: Makes external API calls to Circle’s attestation endpoints and Etherscan. Review the API key handling before running - the credential management is functional but not optimal. No write permissions to on-chain state. Low risk, but verify before connecting to any production systems.
That’s the week. April 2 is the next catalyst. Whatever tariffs land will set the tone for Q2. BTC $65K needs to hold. HYPE needs HIP-4 mainnet. Stablecoin legislation needs a new champion.
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