HYPE Hits Wall Street as BTC ETFs Bleed $1B and $19B in Assets Go On-Chain
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🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | On today's public keys at the New York Stock Exchange, one of the biggest weeks in Washington for crypto collided with the hottest inflation print in years. |
| 0:07.1 | The crypto boom hits a speed bump. |
| 0:09.7 | Hyperliquid ETFs start trading on Wall Street and nearly $19 billion and tokenized real world assets. |
| 0:15.0 | Just hit the Ethereum blockchain. I'm Jensenessi. Let's get into it. |
| 0:26.6 | Happy Monday, everyone. Bitcoin lost its steam over the weekend, sitting below the psychologically important $80,000 level this morning |
| 0:32.6 | after the Bulls got squeezed with over $560 million in crypto liquidations. |
| 0:36.6 | Let's take a look at what happened. |
| 0:38.7 | On Thursday, the Senate Banking Committee passed the Clarity Act, 15 to 9 in a bipartisan vote. |
| 0:44.1 | This is the biggest piece of crypto legislation since the Genius Act. It finally answers the |
| 0:48.8 | question that has haunted this industry for a decade, what cryptos are securities versus |
| 0:52.9 | commodities? The bill draws clear |
| 0:54.9 | jurisdictional lines between the SEC and CFDC and aims to bring certainty to digital asset |
| 0:59.8 | developers, exchanges and everyday investors. Markets reacted positively. Coinbase surge 10%, |
| 1:05.2 | strategy jumps 7%, and Marathon was up 6. Then the weekend hit. Hot producer price data, |
| 1:13.0 | PPI up 6% year over year. |
| 1:18.7 | The biggest annual jump since 2022 shattered lingering hopes for a Fed rate cut this year. Suddenly, |
| 1:24.2 | the market was pricing in the possibility of a hike with odds jumping to around 50% on Friday. |
| 1:29.3 | The regulatory tailwind got overwhelmed by macro headwinds and risk assets got hammered. Bitcoin dropped to around $76,000. But Bitcoin ETF saw their worst week of outflow since January. |
| 1:35.3 | Coinbase slipped and strategy fell. Here is where we are. Crypto is one step closer to a regulatory framework in the United States. |
| 1:43.3 | But right now, the Fed matters more than Congress when macro stabilizes that Clarity Act, |
| 1:49.1 | tail of wind, couldn't be powerful until then. It's a turbulent ride. |
| 1:52.5 | All right, let's turn to crypto IPOs now. |
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