The most anticipated IPO in history. And they own $1.3 billion of bitcoin. Plus Hyperliquid moved into top-exchange territory.
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SpaceX filed its S-1 last Wednesday. It’s teed up to be the largest IPO in history, and they own $1.3 billion of bitcoin.
Closer to home: Hyperliquid is being valued like a top exchange. And the CLARITY Act started giving altcoins an actual playbook.
Market in 60 Seconds
BTC
Kept slipping. Last week it traded around $77–78k. Now it’s closer to $74k.
ETH + SOL
Ethereum is back near $2,075. Solana is below $85.
Macro
Inflation is still hot. The 10-year Treasury yield eased to 4.48% (down from last week’s 4.6%) but stays elevated.
Geopolitics
The US–Iran cease-fire is barely holding. The US ran new airstrikes in southern Iran this week. Trump says a deal is close. The Strait of Hormuz is still the sticking point.
Vibe
Risk-off and patient.
3 Stories You Should Know
Hyperliquid is being valued like a top exchange
Hyperliquid’s token (HYPE) crossed a milestone last week. If you priced every HYPE token that will ever exist at today’s price, the total would be about $60 billion — higher than Coinbase the company’s $51 billion market cap. The catch: only about a quarter of HYPE is actually circulating today, so the real apples-to-apples comparison is closer to $15 billion vs $51 billion. Coinbase is still bigger today, but the market is saying it expects Hyperliquid to eventually be worth more.
Bitwise and 21Shares both launched spot HYPE ETFs this month. Coinbase itself signed on as Hyperliquid’s official USDC liquidity provider. An exchange that didn’t exist three years ago, built by a team of about a dozen with zero VC funding, just got two ETFs and a partnership with the biggest CeFi exchange in the US. HYPE hit a new all-time high last weekend.
So what: The market is paying up for the new players, not just the incumbents.
The inflation print rattled everything risky
CPI came in at 3.8% year over year, the highest in three years. Energy was the main driver, accounting for over 40% of the monthly increase, as the US and Iran nearly went into open conflict before diplomatic intervention pulled things back. Brent crude ran above $100.
The 10-year Treasury yield ran to 4.6% last week, its highest in over a year, before easing back. That put a lid on crypto, dragged crypto stocks down on the week, and capped the S&P.
So what: Energy is driving inflation, and inflation is driving everything risky. Watch oil.
The rulebook gets specific on altcoins
Last week we covered the Senate vote on CLARITY. Then analysts started digging into what it actually means for the thousand-plus altcoins out there.
The version the House passed creates a separation between how a token was originally sold and what it does today. Even if a token launched in a sketchy way, the token itself can still trade freely on regulated US exchanges as long as the network is real and the token has actual usage.
So what: Practical effect — tokens that do something (gas, staking, oracle services) likely get cleared for big-exchange listings and institutional money. Tokens that exist mostly as price action probably don’t. CLARITY sorts the market more than it lifts it.
What We’re Watching Outside Crypto
SpaceX filed its S-1 Wednesday. The company is targeting a valuation north of $1.75 trillion and a raise of up to $75 billion. That would be the largest IPO ever. It could make Elon a trillionaire. The filing itself reads more like sci-fi than a prospectus (“our mission is to make life multiplanetary”).
Two details worth knowing: SpaceX owns 18,712 bitcoin worth about $1.29 billion. It’s been a position since 2021, trimmed modestly over the years. And the same week, Anthropic announced it’s expanding its compute deal with SpaceX.
Separately: Nvidia reported 85% revenue growth and announced an $80 billion stock buyback. Meta cut 8,000 employees. OpenAI is reportedly prepping its own IPO filing. The companies building AI infrastructure are printing money right now, and that’s the biggest game in the market.
What Matters Right Now
Crypto is consolidating while the biggest stories — SpaceX, AI, the IPO pipeline — pull attention and capital toward themselves.
Underneath that, CLARITY is quietly doing the unglamorous work of sorting which tokens are real. That’s the part that matters most for anyone holding alts.
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See you next week.
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