🔎 Today’s Daily Sift: Crypto/Blockchain Crypto no longer feels like a side casino disconnected from reality. It now trades inside the same global liquidity machine as equities, bonds, and geopolitics. Bitcoin spent today swinging between optimism and exhaustion near the mid $70Ks after failing to hold a breakout above $80K. Ethereum and most altcoins weakened harder. The message from markets is becoming clear: Capital is concentrating, not spreading. The biggest shift underneath the surface is institutional behavior. Large firms are rotating away from pure speculation and toward infrastructure, execution layers, and regulated crypto rails. Stablecoins, custody systems, and tokenized assets are becoming the real battlefield. Washington is accelerating this transition. New regulatory frameworks are attempting to define custody, disclosures, and stablecoin rules before the next expansion cycle fully begins. Crypto is slowly transforming from frontier rebellion into regulated fina...