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BREAKING: Bitcoin rally is taking a breather near $75,000. Onchain data shows why

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq both closed at fresh all-time highs on Wednesday.

The driver?

Reports that the U.S. and Iran reached an "in principle" agreement to extend ceasefire talks past next week's expiry.

Trump added fuel, telling Fox Business the war is "very close to being over."

Bitcoin rode the wave too, tapping $75,000 and climbing nearly 10% over the past two weeks.

ETF inflows are backing it up. Yesterday's $411 million was the second-largest single day this month, and flows have been consistently positive since the ceasefire momentum began.

Morgan Stanley's MSBT just overtook WisdomTree's Bitcoin ETF in total inflows.

It only took them six trading days...

A fund that took WisdomTree over two years to build.

But the derivatives market is flashing caution.

Funding rates on Bitcoin futures are still negative, meaning short sellers are paying to stay bearish.

Options traders keep paying up for downside protection rather than betting on more upside.

And CryptoQuant flagged a warning: hourly Bitcoin deposits to exchanges hit 11,000 BTC on Tuesday, the highest since December.

That's a pattern that historically shows up when large holders prepare to sell.

The key level to watch now is $76,800.

That's the traders' realised price, a technical level that has capped every relief rally this bear cycle.

If Bitcoin pushes through it convincingly, the structure changes. If it rejects again, another pullback gets likely.

Meanwhile, Ethereum is quietly outperforming.

ETH is up 8% this week, and the ETH/BTC ratio just bounced off multi-year lows. On-chain transactions hit a record 200 million in Q1. Stablecoin supply on Ethereum just hit an all-time high of $180 billion.

The setup is finely balanced. Stocks at records. ETF flows strong. But the options market and on-chain data both want the rally to prove itself. 🚀

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Yesterday we covered VanEck's updated price target of $52,300 for Ethereum by 2030.

Today we're following it up with an even bigger signal.

This one isn't from a crypto-native asset manager. It's from Charles Schwab. The firm that manages over $9 trillion in client assets.

Schwab just released portfolio allocation guidance for both Bitcoin and Ethereum, broken down by risk tolerance. Conservative, moderate, and aggressive.

The numbers are eye-opening.

For a conservative portfolio looking for 5% risk contribution from crypto, Schwab recommends a 0.7% allocation to Bitcoin and a 0.5% allocation to Ether.

That's a BTC-to-ETH ratio of 0.714.

And here's where it gets interesting.

If Schwab is telling its clients to allocate to Ether at roughly 71% of their Bitcoin weight, what does that imply about Ethereum's fair value?

Based on Bitcoin's current price, it implies Ethereum should be valued at around $49,000 per coin.

And if you run the same ratio against Bitcoin's all-time high, that number climbs to $86,000.

Read that again. Charles Schwab's own allocation model implies an Ethereum fair value of between $49,000 and $86,000. Right now.

And this isn't some fringe corner of the firm.

This is Schwab Asset Management.

The research arm that guides how trillions of dollars of client capital gets deployed. The kind of institution that doesn't take positions unless the underlying math is rock solid.

Combine this with what we covered yesterday. VanEck's updated model targeting $52,300 per ETH by 2030.

The 2 numbers line up remarkably well. A major asset manager's current-day implied fair value at $49,000 and a fundamental model's 2030 target at $52,300.

That's not coincidence. That's consensus building.

The biggest names in traditional finance are putting out numbers that, if Ethereum ever caught up to, would represent a 25x from current levels.

Schwab isn't guessing. They're positioning. 🎯

Time for check in on Ethereum’s supply side dynamics.

To do that we’ll be focusing on the amount of Ethereum currently being staked.

Quick Note: Ethereum staking involves locking up ETH to support the blockchain’s security. In return, users earn rewards for staking.

If you’d like to learn more about staking, check out this article.

39.17 million ETH is now locked in staking. That's up 3.18 million ETH since the start of 2026.

In raw terms, that's over $7 billion worth of ETH voluntarily removed from circulation this year.

32.46% of all Ethereum is now staked. Nearly a third of the entire network locked up, earning yield, and going nowhere.

But here's what jumped out this time…

Two weeks ago it was 31.97%. The jump to 32.46% means almost half a percent of total supply moved into staking in just 14 days.

Take a step back and think about what that means during a market like this. Price is depressed. Sentiment is negative. Every signal on the surface says risk-off.

And yet more ETH is being staked now than during the rally. More than during the consolidation. More than at any point in the network's history. 🚀

Tom Lee's BitMine Posts $3.8 Billion Quarterly Loss Due to Ethereum Price Plunge. Leading Ethereum treasury firm BitMine Immersion Technologies posted a major loss thanks to unrealized losses on its ETH.

Bitcoin BIP-361 Targets Quantum Security Threat. BIP-361 proposes phased quantum-resistant migration for Bitcoin, freezing funds in legacy addresses five years after activation.

Tether keeps stacking BTC, adding $70M in tokens to reserve. The USDT stablecoin issuer has now accumulated over $7.1 billion in bitcoin as part of its strategy introduced in 2023 to purchase BTC from up to 15% of its profit.

Ethereum DEX aggregator market grows more competitive as Kyber, CowSwap rise. Kyber currently leads with ~30% market share, followed by CowSwap at 22%, while 1inch has seen its share decline to 15% over the same period.

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Trivia Answer: The practice of one entity pledging the same collateral across multiple platforms simultaneously. 🥳

Rehypothecation was a central factor in the 2022 crypto credit crisis. Firms like Celsius and Three Arrows Capital used the same assets as collateral across multiple lenders, creating hidden leverage that amplified losses when prices dropped.

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