🐳 According to Glassnode data, Hyperliquid whales have aggressively increased their long positions, achieving a new record for sustained net long exposure this year. Over the past two months, these large traders have demonstrated growing confidence and a strong bullish sentiment, anticipating an imminent breakout from the current range-bound consolidation.

👀 Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas breaks down why Bitcoin ETFs are reshaping the crypto-TradFi relationship.

“Bitcoin underestimates how lean and mean and well-managed TradFi is for regular people.” #etf

📊 A newly created wallet "0x84b" deposited $8M $USDC into HyperLiquid and opened a 2.76M $TON short position with 2x leverage.

🇺🇸🕵️ The U.S. Government (Glenn Olivio Seized Funds) deposited 3.233 $ETH ($7.63K) to Coinbase Prime an hour ago.

🕵️ The Week On-Chain 18, 2026
Bulls Approach the Ceiling

#BTC pushes beyond $80K toward key resistance near $85K, with bulls in control. ETF demand builds and shorts persist, but overhead supply may cap upside without stronger spot follow-through.

Executive Summary
- Bitcoin has broken above the True Market Mean at $78.2K and Short-Term Holder Cost Basis at $79.1K, with holding above these levels suggesting a short-lived deep value phase and $85.2K as the next key resistance.

- Glassnode’s Moderate Strategy has re-entered allocation after BTC reclaimed ~$76K, capturing recent upside while maintaining a focus on downside protection.

- Front-end implied volatility has repriced higher following the breakout, while realized volatility lags, rebuilding a positive volatility risk premium. #etf

🇺🇸💳 #ONDO #XRP #RWA

Companies Ondo, Kinexys (managed by J.P. Morgan), Mastercard, and Ripple have completed the first cross-border interbank purchase of tokenized U.S. Treasury bonds.

🤔 Hon. David Burt says Bermuda plans to amend the Public Funds Act to invest in digital assets and support a fully onchain economy.

🗣 "We’re not here to make the people who broke the economy in 2008 richer. We’re here to change the world.” - Hoskinson.

🤝 Elon Musk's 'SpaceX' signs agreement with Claude AI developer Anthropic.

🇨🇦🗽 Canada to ban all Bitcoin ATM’s in the country

💰 Bittensor sits at $289 with $211M daily volume on a $2.77B cap. Post-NVIDIA GTC, decentralized compute is the cleanest crypto AI proxy left.

Builders are showing up faster than capital has rotated in. Watch the lag.

🤔 SpaceXAI partners with Anthropic to power Claude with Colossus 1, a massive GPU cluster. They are also exploring orbital AI compute as the next frontier.

🏦 Prosecutors refer ex-JPMorgan banker Chirayu Rana for mental health treatment after finding no evidence behind his sex slave claims.

🚀 S&P 500 Reaches New All-Time High of 7,350

📊 FBI Charges 30 People In Global Insider Trading Scheme That Made Tens Of Millions In Illegal Profits.

🇧🇷🐳 Brazilian public company OranjeBTC (OBTC3) buys an additional 2 Bitcoin and now holds a total of 3,727 BTC.

Bitcoin 100 Ranking: 23

💰 Retail derivatives are crowded long, while institutions have just hit pause. The funding tape is loud, and one-sided crowds rarely get paid first.

Squeeze risk works both ways.

See $XRP funding + L/S →

🗣 Elon Musk says xAI will be dissolved and become "SpaceXAI."

🏆 Samsung's Market Cap just surpassed $1.2T.