The appetite of the entire traditional and cryptocurrency market has seen a sharp increase this week, helping the United States cryptocurrency funds to recover the capital that has been lost in February and March, which has gained more than $ 7.5 billion worth of weekly flow.
Bitcoin (Btc) exceed All times high On May 21, two days after President Donald Trump confirmed the ongoing conversation between Russia and Ukraine in a post of May 19 x.
Meanwhile, CEO’s popular analyst and global macro investor Raoul Pal has warned more Fiat Currency Debasement, urging investors to get more exposure to cryptocurrencies and unimaginable tokens (NFT), as these properties will never be cheap again. “
Exponential Currency Debasement: “You do not own enough crypto, NFTS”
Cryptocurrencies and NFTs can help investors protect their eroding purchase of power during a period of exponential currency debasement, according to analysts and industry leaders.
Investing in digital assets is becoming increasingly important in the “world of exponential age and currency debasement,” According to to Raoul Pal, founder and CEO of Global Macro Investor.
“You don’t have enough crypto. When you do, you don’t have NFT’s enough, because art is in the flow of wealth. Both will never be cheap again,” Pal said.
NFTs are “the one best wealth store I know and you can buy it before kicking the network effects,” he added in another response.
“There is a validity of the statement that the NFTs, and in the extension art, became a vehicle for the rich once a certain level of wealth was reached,” Nicolai Sondergaard, a research analyst, called it “natural move” for asset differences.
“For entrepreneurs and investors, to lower the wealth curve, NFTs are slightly about thinking about future returns,” he told Cointelegraph, adding that NFTs also benefit from the attraction of strong communities, just beyond the creation of wealth.
US crypto funds are top $ 7.5 billion flowing in 2025 as the investor’s appetite is increasing
Crypto investment products in the United States attracted more than $ 7.5 billion worth of investment in 2025, with a fifth week of net positive flow last week signing a growing investor demand for digital ownership.
Based on the US Crypto investment Products attracted $ 785 million worth of investment last week, pushing throughout the year-to-date (YTD) to over $ 7.5 billion, According to In a May 19 report of Digital Asset Manager Coinhares.
The latest figure marked the fifth consecutive week of net positive flow, following nearly $ 7 billion in flows during February and March.
The United States provides most of the flow, with $ 681 million, followed by Germany at $ 86.3 million and Hong Kong at $ 24.4 million.
Investor demand for risk ownership such as cryptocurrencies present a significant recovery after the White House announced a 90-day pause In additional tariffs on May 12, marked a 24% cut for import tariffs for both the US and China.
One day after the announcement, Coinbase Exchange saw 9,739 Bitcoin costs more than $ 1 billion backward from the exchange -the highest netting recorded in 2025, which signed that the institutional appetite was “speeding up,” according to European Research leader, André Dramotch.
Vaneck to launch the Avalanche Ecosystem Fund
Vaneck plans to launch a private digital assets in June that targets tokenized web3 projects built on the Avalanche Blockchain Network, the asset manager said in a statement shared with Cointelegraph.
The Vaneck Purpurebuilt Fund, available only to accredited investors, aims to invest in liquid tokens and projects supported by venture throughout the web3 sectors, including playing, financial services, payment, and artificial intelligence.
Idle capital will be placed in avalanche (Avax) Real-World Asset (RWA) products, including tokenized funds in the currency market, Vaneck said.
The fund is managed by the team behind the Vaneck’s Digital Assets Alpha Fund (DAAF), which oversees more than $ 100 million in net assets until May 21.
“The next wave of crypto value will come from real businesses, not more infrastructure,” Pranav Kanade, a portfolio manager for DAAF, said in a statement.
The Ani-Bearing Stablecoins Surge to $ 11 billion, now 4.5% of the market: Report
The yield-bearing stablecoins rose to $ 11 billion in circulation, representing 4.5% of the total Stablecoin market, a steep climb from $ 1.5 billion and a 1% market sharing at the start of 2024.
One of the biggest winners is Pendle, a decentralized protocol that gives users to lock fixed produce or think of variable interest rates. Pendle now costs 30% of all yield-bearing stablecoin total amount locked (TVL), approximately $ 3 billion, According to In a report from the Pendle combined with analysts from the Spartan Group and modular capital shared with Cointelegraph.
The report noted that Stablecoins make up 83% of the $ 4 billion total amount locked, a sharp increase from less than 20% only a year ago. In contrast, the genitals such as ether (Et)which in history contributed 80%-90%of Pendle’s TVL, withdrew to less than 10%.
Traditional stablecoins such as USDT (USDT) and USDC (USDC) Do not pass interest to holders. With more than $ 200 billion in circulation and the US federal reserves interest rates at 4.3%, Pendle estimated that Stablecoin holders were missing over $ 9 billion in annual harvest.
Tether exceeds $ 111 billion of US Treasury holders
Tether, the $ 151 billion giant stablecoin issuance, exceeds Germany with the holdings of the United States Treasury Bill Holdings, showing the benefits of a darling reserve strategy that helped the firm to navigate the volatility of the cryptocurrency market.
Tether, the largest stablecoin in the world, USDT, has exceeded $ 111.4 billion worth of US, data from the US Department of the Treasury Shut up.
Tether exceeds $ 120 billion worth of bills, the firm shared in its testimony Report For the first quarter of 2025. That makes Tether the 19th largest creature in all counties in terms of T-Bill investment.
“This milestone not only strengthens the company’s reserve management strategy but also features Tether’s growing role in distributing the dollar’s denomination of the scale’s denomination,” Tether wrote in the report.
During 2024, Tether is the seventh-Largest Buying US Treasurys in all countries, more than Canada, Taiwan, Mexico, Norway, Hong Kong and many other countries, Cointelegraph reported in March 2025.
Overall -Defi Market
According to the data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro And tradingview, most of the 100 largest cryptocurrencies by market capitalization ended the week in green.
Worldcoin (Wld) rose more than 32% as the largest week of the week in the top 100, followed by hyperliquid (Hype) token, up to 30% in the weekly chart.
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