Bitcoin Tests $80K Resistance as ETF Inflows Hit $2.26B, Memecoins Signal Risk Appetite Surge

Welcome to Stock Market Today — your market briefing with actionable insights on stocks, bonds, crypto, and the events moving markets. Let's get into it. Bitcoin tested eighty thousand dollars overnight before rejecting at the fifty-week moving average near eighty-one thousand eighty-five—now trading around seventy-eight thousand nine hundred seventy-seven dollars. Galaxy Research notes that breaking and holding above this moving average confirmed bear market endings eleven out of thirteen times. Daily RSI hit eighty-two point nine three, highest since November twenty twenty-four—but weekly RSI at fifty-eight suggests early trend reversal. The twenty-five percent rally came as futures open interest collapsed to five hundred eighty-seven thousand B T C, lowest in five months, confirming this was a short squeeze, not fresh longs. Institutional flows tell a different story. Spot Bitcoin ETFs logged their sixth straight day of inflows Monday—three hundred thirty-eight million dollars—pushing the six-day streak to two point two six billion. Ethereum ETFs added one hundred sixteen million, Solana thirty-three million, X R P fourteen million. Total Bitcoin ETF assets climbed from seventy-eight billion to ninety-eight billion in a week. Risk appetite is spreading. Dog and cat meme coins doubled—Cash Cat up one hundred thirteen percent, Thinking Cat one hundred thirty-one percent. The Crypto Fear and Greed Index spiked to seventy-five from thirty a week ago, highest since October twenty twenty-five. When sentiment ran this hot last October, deleveraging followed days later. Treasury expanded Iran sanctions to cover the entire crypto sector under Operation Economic Outcast. Oil dropped over three percent as Iran-Pakistan peace talks progressed, with W T I falling to eighty-two dollars per barrel. Coinbase launched tokenized stocks on Base with Chainlink price feeds. Thailand published draft rules for Bitcoin and Ether ETFs. India plans its first tokenized corporate bonds in September. Key levels: Bitcoin support at seventy-two thousand four hundred to seventy-three thousand five hundred. Resistance remains at eighty to eighty-three thousand. Watch P C E inflation data and Fed Chair Warsh's Jackson Hole speech Wednesday for directional cues. That wraps your market intel — trade smart out there. For deeper insights and real-time analysis, visit capitalcopilot dot i o.