This episode examines the eighty percent year-over-year decline in Bitcoin ETF and corporate treasury inflows as capital reallocates toward AI equities, Strategy’s first Bitcoin treasury liquidation since twenty twenty-two, nine senior researcher departures from the Ethereum Foundation amid a shift toward the CROPS mandate, ThorChain’s two-week outage following a security exploit, Justin Drake’s fifty percent probability estimate for quantum cryptographic failure by twenty thirty-two, and the CFTC’s approval of the first U.S.-regulated perpetual futures product alongside Coinbase’s launch of pre-IPO perpetual futures. The briefing connects reduced institutional demand, organizational restructuring, security infrastructure reassessment, and regulatory perimeter expansion across custody, protocol development, and derivatives markets.
