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April payrolls printed at 115K against a 55-65K consensus, unemployment held at 4.3%, the 10-year sits near 4.44%, and Strait of Hormuz tensions keep oil-led inflation pressure live. Energy and freight pass-through is 4-6 weeks from the data, with shipping, aviation, and manufacturing absorbing input cost pressure. Inside crypto, BTC funding extended to 32 negative sessions, and BTC/ETH correlation recoupled to 0.81x, but the squeeze grinding on is not a regime change.
Percentile rankings: 90-day rolling window. Green = health, red = stress, amber = neutral, monitor closely. Values and changes ranked over 90 days; deeper colour signals proximity to recent highs or lows. Correlations: rolling Pearson on daily log returns of close.
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BTC closes at $82,178 in the 100th 90-day percentile, a fresh high, ETH at $2,329.54 sits at the 85th and continues to lag. Realized vol stays compressed: BTC 7D at 24.6% in the 6th percentile, RV ratio 0.69x. Spot volume at near-record lows, BTC at the 0th percentile and ETH at the 6th. BTC/ETH 30-day correlation snapped back to 0.81x from 0.17x prior week.
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2. Liquidity
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BTC spread widened to 0.9bps at the 100th 90-day percentile, the most expensive execution of the window. ETH spread fell back to 0.7bps in the 7th percentile; the BTC-ETH spread relationship diverged sharply. BTC bid depth at 46.8% sits in the 1st percentile, sellers control the book against a 100th-percentile spot price. Depth held at $904M for BTC and $1.04B for ETH in 90-day-high zones.
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3. Rates
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BTC funding extends to a 32-session negative streak at -7.4% APR, the deepest sustained inversion of the 90-day window, shorts paying through the grind-up. SOL flipped negative to -4.6% from -0.1% prior, ETH moderated to +1.7%. Altcoin funding ran extreme: BNB at +14.0%, XRP +8.8%, DOGE +6.5%. ETH term spread inverted to -1.0bps in the 12th percentile, an unusual demand-for-spot signal.
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4. Positioning
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Open interest extended to fresh highs: BTC at $29.76B (91st percentile), ETH at $17.34B (92nd), SOL at $3.45B in the 99th percentile, system leverage building. BTC long/short ratio at 0.91x sits in the 11th percentile, perp tape still net short against a 100th-percentile spot price. BTC liquidations of $90.28M moderated from $180.68M prior, ETH $94.73M, SOL $27.99M in the 100th percentile.
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5. Stablecoin
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USDT added $985.5M over the week with mint/burn at 7.84x against 15.20x prior, the acute expansion phase cooling but still positive. USDC minted $1.0B, supply rising to $67.9B, contributing meaningfully alongside USDT for the first time in recent weeks. USDe added $67.9M, USDS minted $38.1M, PYUSD burned $3.1M. Aggregate stablecoin liquidity expanded around $2.1B over the 7-day window, capital still entering at a moderated pace.
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6. DeFi Lending
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Protocol-level snapshots for TVL, utilization, borrow APR and liquidations did not feed for the 10-05-2026 reading, the daily protocol layer is dark this week. LST APY data is present: ETH base staking at 2.9% in the 88th percentile, swETH at 3.2% (91st), sfrxETH at 3.2% (54th), lsETH the outlier at 2.0% in the 3rd percentile. The cohort dispersion is narrow, no leveraged-staking arb compression signal visible from the rates side.
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