TLDR - Daily Market Report #652

- $BTC printed its 5th red weekly candle in a row. Fear & Greed at 14. Google searches for Bitcoin dead spiking. Historically that’s closer to bottoms than tops.

- Total market cap at $2.4T with solid volume. $BTC around $68K. Difficulty +15% despite price weakness. Miners doubling down while AI energy demand squeezes margins.

- $ETH around $1,968. Sharplink accumulated nearly 1M ETH. BitMine added 35K ETH. Corporate-style accumulation is happening.

- $XRP at $1.43. Clarity Act odds 80–90% according to Ripple. $BNB recovering post–Chinese New Year. $SOL at $85 with rising on-chain volume. The meme casino is still alive.

- $DOGE around $0.10 with ETF narrative flows.

- $HYPE at $30 generating ~$1.2M daily chain fees, surpassing $SOL. HIP3 and HIP4 expansions increasing conviction. Real infra competition from $ASTER and Paradex.

- $LINK holding around $19. $PYTH up 3%. Oracle space still relevant.

- Privacy cooled off: $XMR at $330, $ZEC at $260.

- Sonic leadership drama continues. $LTC at $55. $AVAX still at $9 despite hackathon push. $NEAR reclaiming $1.10. $POL at $0.11. $ARB near $0.10 with unlock pressure. $DOT at $1.37. $CRO at $0.08. $UNI up 5% debating protocol fees. $PENGU green on the week.

AI meets EVM with EVMbench. Polymarket expanding. CZ spotted at Mar-a-Lago.

Fear everywhere. Infrastructure still building. That’s the setup.