Nvidia’s Meteoric $4T Run Flusters Bitcoin, Asia Rises, and Australia Goes Full Monopoly Money

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What the World (in all its restless grandeur) Is Chatting About:

  • Nvidia, ever the overachiever, bolts past a $4 trillion market cap. In its wake? Bitcoin, suddenly brimming with life and surging beyond $111,000. Emotionally co-dependent or merely seeking a little attention? 🎭
  • The sages at Glassnode clarify: Bitcoin’s eerie stillness is not mortality, but mere institutional ennui—where the wealthy traders yawn, transfer their largesse, and politely decline to panic sell. How terribly fashionable.
  • Once sworn market twins, Nvidia and Bitcoin now drift apart. The cosmic dance of correlation is on the wane—though they do still text occasionally. 💔📉

A Most Salubrious Morning, Asia: The Markets Have Spilled Their Tea

Nvidia’s gallop to a $4 trillion cap has made quite a spectacle, much like a society debutante setting tongues wagging at her first ball. This prodigious feat, in turn, appears to have jolted Bitcoin awake and sent it thundering past $111,000—a leap that analysts had insisted required precisely this show of financial pyrotechnics. The faint scent of FOMO wafted across the room.

BTC, that perennial bad boy, now hovers around $110,900, as tracked by CoinDesk—having flirted, perhaps indecently, with its all-time high during the frenzied US trading hours. How droll.

Glassnode’s analysts, ever fond of a clinical phrase, report that Bitcoin’s latest “quiet” mood is simply a sign of institutional suavity. Little on-chain hullabaloo, miners are earning pocket change, and no one wants to pay the bar tab (i.e., fees).

But let’s not mistake reserve for despair. In fact, the grown-ups have arrived: the market now draped in the velvet ropes of large, stately transfers and the kind of long-term confidence only the most jaded financiers can muster.

That said, the Nvidia-Bitcoin romance is growing cold. Where once they twirled together with a correlation peaking above 0.80—a veritable market cotillion—the latest numbers are down to 0.36, which in financial relationships means they’re only messaging each other after a couple glasses of wine. 🍷

Nvidia’s unlikely to retain this fever forever, of course. Volatility is the soul of the party, after all. But as the market’s power couple gently drifts apart, Bitcoin may prove itself a sturdy singleton, unmoved by Nvidia’s inevitable correction.

Australia’s Foray Into Digital Banknotes—Pass Go, Collect CBDC

Meanwhile, in the sunburnt vastness Down Under: Australia’s monetary mandarins have rolled out Project Acacia, which incidentally sounds like either a Marvel superhero or a new flavor at an expensive juice bar. The Reserve Bank and Digital Finance Cooperative Research Centre have assembled a crack team—banks, fintechs, and infrastructure types—presumably all wearing very serious hats.

These select few are to trial programmable digital money across bonds, carbon credits, private markets, and other pursuits fit for the thoroughly modern financier. Nineteen projects will actually play with real assets; five, no doubt for dramatic suspense, will merely flirt with proof-of-concept. ASIC, heroically unbothered, allows this with “targeted regulatory relief” so the experiment may unfold.

Contrast this with our frosty friends in Canada, who have retreated from issuing retail CBDC altogether. Apparently, there’s some discomfort around the idea of the government observing every transaction—what a scandalous breach of etiquette! Cash, after all, is the only true confidant.

Market Movements, or Anxieties in High Society

BTC: Bitcoin has chosen to perform a balancing act—hovering just shy of $109,000 as institutional types safeguard it against the abyss. Wallets sleep, regulations threaten, and yet the whole scene is propped up by a weak dollar and hope for some rate cuts. In this opera, risk is the star soprano. 🎶

ETH: ETH enjoyed a 2.8% pop and looked rather resplendent above $2,650—buoyed by the sort of institutional volume that makes one feel it must have great prospects, or at least fine breeding.

Gold: Gold, the old money of the commodities world, sags for a second consecutive day, lingering around $3,285. The Fed’s mixed messages and muscular US dollar appear to be holding it underwater, while talk of tariffs keeps it from entirely drowning. Sink or swim, darling?

Nikkei 225: Asian markets, as indecisive as a debutante before the spring gala, opened mixed. Japan’s Nikkei 225 stumbles 0.45%—in the wake of Korean rates holding, American tariff drama, and Bolsonaro now starring in his own legal miniseries. 🌏

S&P 500: After binge-watching the week’s political thrillers, S&P 500 futures lay static, with the Dow fidgeting anxiously (down just 37 points). Flat is the new up, evidently.

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2025-07-10 05:47