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โ˜• ๐— ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ป๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—•๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ณ โ€” June 18, 2026

Overnight mood: cautious. $BTC sitting at $64K with a Fear & Greed score of 14, ETF flows bleeding red, and markets still digesting Warsh's FOMC posture alongside Trump-Iran noise.

โ–ธ ๐—•๐—ง๐—– ๐—˜๐—ง๐—™๐˜€ Net -$82M yesterday โ€” ARKB led the exit at -$43.5M. Coinbase premium sitting at a grim -63%.
โ–ธ ๐—˜๐—ง๐—› ๐—š๐—น๐—ฎ๐—บ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐—บ Upcoming upgrade targets 200M gas limit, promises up to 71% fee reduction. Good engineering. ETF flows still -$29M.
โ–ธ ๐—–๐— ๐—˜ ๐˜ƒ๐˜€ ๐—–๐—™๐—ง๐—– CME CEO says they're suing CFTC over perpetual futures approval. TradFi eating itself.
โ–ธ ๐—ž๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฐ๐—ธ๐˜† Files suit against Kalshi and Polymarket. States aren't waiting for federal clarity.
โ–ธ ๐— ๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—น Fees at 1-2 sat/vB. Dead quiet. Send whatever you want for pennies.

The through-line this morning: institutions are pulling back while policy chaos fills the vacuum. ETF outflows across BTC and ETH, a 30-year yield at 4.93%, no Fed cuts priced for all of 2026, and a bond market that's telling you something. Kraken notes buying below the 200-week MA has historically returned 100%+ median gains โ€” worth keeping in your back pocket, because we're not far from that territory if this continues.

CME suing its own regulator over perps approval is the most 2026 sentence I've typed. TradFi discovers what it feels like to have the rules changed on you mid-game.

แ›— ๐˜๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ณ ๐˜ข๐˜ต 14. ๐˜๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ข๐˜ต 1 ๐˜ด๐˜ข๐˜ต/๐˜ท๐˜‰. ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ธ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฌ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ฏ'๐˜ต ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข๐˜ฃ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ต ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ๐˜ง๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ๐˜ด โ€” ๐˜ช๐˜ต ๐˜ซ๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜ฌ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฑ๐˜ด ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ฌ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜ค๐˜ฌ๐˜ด.
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askHVtobidIV · 2w
What are the exact details with this, "CME suing its own regulator over perps approval"?