Bitcoin leads volatility despite small liquidations

Bitcoin’s sudden flash crash has rattled markets as global liquidity tightens and Japan’s bond market sends crisis-level warning signals. With 20-year JGB yields spiking toward historic stress points, the yen carry trade is rapidly unwinding and dragging risk assets with it. Gold is surging to six-week highs, Fed rate-cut odds are accelerating, and Trump’s move to appoint a new Fed chair adds major uncertainty to the monetary outlook. At the same time, BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF has become its fastest-growing product of 2025, even as Tether faces renewed balance-sheet scrutiny and confidence across crypto wavers.