Latest data claims that Bitcoin Spot ETFs surpassed their previous inflows record. Inflows currently sit at $40.33 billion, despite over $5 billion in outflows during the last two months.
Despite the climate of Extreme Fear in the crypto markets, Bitcoin ETFs saw comparatively limited losses during this period. By reclaiming this record so quickly, the market demonstrated an impressive resilience.
Even as Bitcoin ETFs started their rebound, inflows fell to a 2025 low. This dynamic is part of why ETF analyst Eric Balchunas finds this metric so useful in market analysis: it’s very difficult to fake.
“Lifetime net flows is the most important metric to watch in my opinion: very hard to grow, pure truth, no BS. [It’s] impressive [that] they were able to make it to new high water mark so soon after the world was supposed to end. Byproduct of barely anyone leaving, left only a tiny hole to dig out of,” Balchunas claimed over social media.
In other words, the crypto community’s “diamond hands” mentality may have defined this sharp turnaround. At the height of the tariff panic, markets were in Extreme Fear, the lowest level of investor confidence since the FTX collapse.
In this light, these products performed extremely well. Two months later, the Bitcoin ETFs are enjoying consistent inflows yet again.
Of course, this inflow record doesn’t guarantee that everything will remain sunny for BTC ETFs. Bitcoin recently reclaimed $100,000, sparking a surge in inflows for this market, but a few bearish signs linger in options trading.
For now, however, this accomplishment is very noteworthy. The ETFs’ successes have been explosive, and Bitcoin has seen increasing TradFi liquidity in recent weeks.
SUI has experienced significant volatility in recent weeks, with its price fluctuating amidst a 30% decline. This decline has been accompanied by rising outflows as investors and traders react to the altcoin’s uncertain short-term outlook.
However, despite these challenges, SUI has managed to hold above the crucial $2.00 support level.
SUI Traders Are Skeptical
Data from futures markets reveals that SUI recently experienced a two-month high in short liquidations, contributing to a total of $12 million in liquidations over a single day. These liquidations reflect the increased skepticism among traders, as many were forced to close their positions amid a rising bearish sentiment. The liquidations highlight the challenges faced by SUI traders, whose bullish outlook failed to materialize.
Despite the short liquidations, the volatility and liquidation events may have contributed to investor caution. The actions of traders, who quickly pulled their positions in the face of adversity, further underscore the uncertain sentiment surrounding the asset. With this pressure on traders, the market could see less buying activity in the near term, keeping bullish momentum subdued.
On a broader scale, the Chaikin Money Flow (CMF) indicator, which tracks capital inflows and outflows, signals rising skepticism about SUI’s price trajectory. Since the beginning of the month, the CMF has moved below the zero line, reflecting more outflows than inflows. This suggests that investors are hesitant, and the lack of buying pressure could hinder any immediate price recovery.
Given that the CMF is an essential indicator of market sentiment, its position below zero adds weight to concerns regarding SUI’s current market position. As the outflows continue, skepticism is likely to persist, making it more difficult for the altcoin to achieve sustained upward movement.
SUI’s price currently stands at $2.04, having dipped 30% over the past ten days. Despite this drop, the altcoin has managed to hold above the $2.00 support level, indicating some resilience.
If the bearish sentiment continues, SUI could face a further decline, with $1.75 potentially acting as the next level of support. Should the current trend persist, SUI’s inability to maintain its position above $2.00 could lead to additional losses.
However, if SUI secures $2.22 as support and rallies from there, it could reclaim upward momentum and push past the resistance at $2.47. Should SUI surpass $2.77, the bearish outlook would be invalidated, opening the door for potential growth.
Strategy recently posted its Q1 2025 earnings report, showing over $4.2 billion in net losses despite gains on its Bitcoin holdings. Shortly afterward, the firm declared its intention to sell $84 billion in new offerings.
Shareholders’ responses are mixed, with some fearful of failing fundamentals and their own stocks being diluted. Still, this audacious plan has its supporters, with Bitcoin’s price on the rise.
Strategy’s Biggest Bitcoin Buy
Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) hasn’t shown much interest in changing its plan for systematic Bitcoin acquisition. Its latest earnings report takes great care to show its returns on this investment: It holds 553,555 BTC, at an average cost of $68,459 each, and has gained $5.8 billion from Bitcoin.
Despite this, however, the company lost over $4.2 billion overall. The firm’s net losses are primarily due to a $5.9 billion unrealized loss on digital assets, reflecting the volatile nature of cryptocurrency investments.
Initially, the report claimed that Strategy was offering $21 billion in new stock sales to buy more Bitcoin. Soon after, however, Michael Saylor claimed that his firm was setting a much more audacious goal:
“Strategy… doubles capital plan to $42 billion equity and $42 billion fixed income to purchase bitcoin, and increases BTC Yield target from 15% to 25% and BTC $ Gain target from $10 billion to $15 billion for 2025,” Saylor said.
Compared to these figures, $84 billion in new offerings looks completely infeasible for several reasons. The main concern isn’t even finding enough buyers.
Dear MSTR shareholders, you’re getting bent.
Saylor needs to sell more common stock which he knows the shareholders won’t like. Therefore he disguises it in a “42/42” plan, despite having 20 BILLION of unsold preferred remaining from the previous plan. Why not issue it all?… https://t.co/WtUMHCt2nNpic.twitter.com/YrkztgPmVj
In other words, Strategy’s Q1 earnings report clearly shows that the firm has this reserve of preferred stock it could use to buy Bitcoin.
However, the company can’t execute these sales because of its steep losses and lack of cash flow. Offering these new shares instead would allow Saylor to gain fresh liquidity, but this would dilute existing shareholders’ holdings.
Still, some shareholders remain bullish about Strategy’s intention to buy more Bitcoin. Ultimately, the company remains a key pillar for the market’s confidence in BTC. If its investors start heading for the door, it could have adverse implications on the token’s price.
During the 2025 edition of the Paris Blockchain Week, BeInCrypto sat down with Alexis Yellow, CEO of Yellow, a crypto project working on an entirely new paradigm based on Satoshi’s initial vision for Bitcoin.
He talks about the upcoming Yellow Tokens, a new smart contract mechanism, and making crypto projects more utility-driven.
Alexis, can you introduce yourself?
I’m Alexis, a software engineer by background. I worked at the European Space Center early in my career, but my crypto journey started quite unexpectedly.
Back in 2013, an old friend from school reached out—he was working at Goldman Sachs and told me about a project that needed help. He said, “There are 12 people in Silicon Valley printing fake money.” That project turned out to be Ripple.
Ripple ended up being our first client, and that experience really helped me grasp the potential of crypto.
Despite the skepticism surrounding the space, I saw real innovation. Ripple’s CTO was a Bitcoin Core contributor, and Vitalik Buterin was involved with the team before Ethereum.
Actually, Buterin was planning to join Ripple. He was especially excited about their consensus mechanism, which inspired me, too.
One thing that always stuck with me was Satoshi’s idea: We need systems where trust isn’t a prerequisite. That idea shaped a lot of my thinking.
Around 2018–2019, I decided to start Yellow. We later merged with a French exchange technology company called OpenWare. Combining my market experience with their tech, we launched Yellow Network.
So, it’s a trading infrastructure designed to let institutions, like Société Générale, trade directly with major players like Binance without needing to trust them.
Trading with exchanges like Binance without trusting them, do you mean trust as a counterparty?
Exactly that’s at the core of Satoshi’s vision. At Yellow, we’re working on a different model of trustlessness using state channels, which represent a new paradigm compared to traditional blockchain systems like Bitcoin or Ethereum.
In those systems, you have tens of thousands of nodes, say, around 30,000, validating each transaction. It’s a powerful model for security, each validator has a financial incentive to be honest, and there’s no way to roll back a confirmed transaction.
The same applies to staking networks. But that structure just doesn’t work for high-frequency trading. You can’t have 30,000 nodes verifying every microsecond trade. It’s simply too slow and inefficient.
For example, some networks try to solve this by reducing the number of validators to 21, but that compromises the level of trust and decentralization. Our approach is fundamentally different. The Lightning Network inspires it, but we’ve taken it in a new direction.
With the Lightning Network, you can move money instantly by opening a state channel. At Yellow Network, we use similar state channels but instead of transferring funds directly, we transfer profit and loss in real time.
For instance, if you buy a Bitcoin for $100,000 and it rises 5%, the $5,000 profit is immediately transferred to your wallet. The trade is settled instantly, peer-to-peer, with cryptographic proof.
To ensure security and fairness, we’ve built a smart contract called ClearSync. If a counterparty refuses to settle, as we saw with the HyperLiquid issue recently, ClearSync can step in and arbitrate the trade.
It verifies the claim and, if valid, ensures the rightful party receives what they’re owed. So, it’s a trustless system that still allows for the speed and flexibility traders need.
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No, it’s peer-to-peer trading. Nothing is faster or more efficient than a direct state channel between two parties. Profit is transferred instantly. That’s the core of this new paradigm: trustless trading, where settlement happens in real time.
Let’s say we’re trading and the connection drops, no problem. If I made a profit, it’s already secured. I might not receive the asset, like Bitcoin, but my profit in dollars is locked in. There’s no need to trust the other party to settle correctly.
Is it effective profit or a claim to profit?
It’s effective profit, denominated in dollars or whatever currency is locked as collateral. Here’s how it works – two parties lock in $20,000 to trade Bitcoin. That amount represents the maximum they’re willing to risk.
If the trade results in a $5,000 profit for one side, that amount is instantly settled, even if the other party refuses to finalize the trade.
If both agree to settle, I send you $100,000, you send me one Bitcoin, and both our collaterals unlock.
Can you switch to stablecoin?
Absolutely. In fact, we’re working with stablecoin issuers to create partnerships and potential investments in Yellow.
Can you give us an idea of the size of the Yellow Group? How many people are there? How many transactions do you process ?
We haven’t officially launched. Before the war in Ukraine, we had a large team of over 100 people. Many have since relocated, mostly to Poland, but we still have staff in Ukraine. Right now, we’re about 50 people globally.
Meanwhile, you can track activity on our analytics site, BundleBear. On Polygon, we’re already the fourth most active app. On Linea, a new protocol by Consensys, we’re number one with over 229,000 users despite not being live yet.
We can see on your website that you are offering your technology so that you can list any token without going through a CEX or a DEX. Is that part of the project?
Exactly. The Yellow Wallet is like a Layer 3; it lets users interact with any chain seamlessly. It now supports cross-chain swaps, like moving tokens from Polygon to Binance Smart Chain, with zero fees. It’s designed to remove friction from cross-chain trading.
Seamless cross-chain swaps, all in your Yellow Wallet!
Swap between BNB, Base, Arbitrum, AVAX, Polygon, OP, Linea, and Scroll with ease.
No, not for the state channels themselves. We don’t monetize trades directly. The Yellow token plays a security role, a “necessary evil,” like ETH or BTC.
Your security deposit gets burned if you behave badly and refuse to settle. It ensures honesty in a peer-to-peer environment. Think of it like a miner losing their reward for trying to cheat.
How do you make money from the usage of your service?
The token economy is the foundation. Just like ETH or BTC derive value from usage and network participation, the Yellow token does too.
It’s needed to place security deposits in the network, and over time, its utility and adoption by industry players will drive its value.
If someone cheats, their token gets burned—creating deflationary pressure and reinforcing good behavior.
Is the token already traded?
Not yet, but we’re planning to launch in the next couple of months. We’ll mint 10 billion Yellow tokens; ideally, that number stays close to that.
If too many tokens get burned, it could indicate issues in the system. It’s a built-in signal to monitor the health and integrity of the network.
Are you going to start it with an airdrop or something of the sort?
No, we’re focused on utility-based distribution. Most tokens will be sold directly in the markets where they’re used. Ethereum didn’t launch with an airdrop. Neither did Bitcoin.
This is a B2B infrastructure project—just like Ethereum and Ripple. While the network is open to everyone, our core users are businesses and institutional players.
That said, the beauty of crypto is that the ecosystem is open. Anyone who believes in the project can get involved and benefit from the network effect, without needing to be a developer or an insider.
Anything important that we left out?
Yes, very few cryptocurrencies are used in the real world today. Bitcoin has proven its value as a store of wealth.
Ethereum demonstrated its utility during the ICO boom. USDT fills a vital gap in places where dollars are hard to access.
We believe Yellow can become the fourth pillar. It’s solving a real need in crypto markets: scalable, trustless, high-frequency trading. And we’re making it open source so the whole industry can benefit.
It’s obvious that Web3 applications will need infrastructure to reach the scale of platforms like Twitter or YouTube.
At Pragma today, @Yellow‘s Louis Bellet shared the secret weapon Ethereum already has to achieve this today.
I think this approach, state channels for speed and smart contracts for resolution, will redefine how trading infrastructure works. It’s ideal for gaming and other fast-paced applications where blockchains never truly fit.
Blockchain isn’t always the answer, especially if you’re using 30,000 nodes to validate a game move. That’s just not efficient.
With Yellow, the trading side is handled through cryptographic state channels not full decentralization. But if something goes wrong, we still fall back to a smart contract to arbitrate. That’s the balance we’re bringing.
Also, we’re working on a new ERC standard for this. In the next 3–4 years, I expect that 10–20% of new crypto projects will adopt this architecture.
Overall, We’re not just building a product, we’re introducing a new philosophy for how decentralized systems can operate more efficiently.
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