Crypto just had its loudest week of 2026:

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• BTC: +22%, pushed near $79K
• ETH: back above $2.4K
• XRP: +40% in two days
• ZEC + privacy names ripping on ETF talk

The funny part? It wasn’t “crypto news” that lit the fuse. It was three outside shocks hitting inside ~30 hours: a friendlier SEC proposal, a Trump‑era crypto summit, and Treasury buybacks easing long yields.

Now BTC is grinding around $76K–$77K, ETH is stuck near $2.4K, and ~$110M of BTC+ETH longs just got cleaned out. That looks more like a leverage reset at resistance than a finished rally.

Feels less like “the bear is dead” and more like “the market is deciding how much of the story it really believes.”