According to @CoinMarketCap, total crypto market capitalization increased 3.86% to $3.23 trillion, with BTC up 5.15% and ETH up 6.25%. According to @CoinMarketCap, short liquidations spiked above $500 million on January 13 before normalizing. According to @CoinMarketCap, funding rates have risen alongside risk appetite but remain at healthy levels. According to @CoinMarketCap, the advance has been characterized as markets grinding higher toward $100K again for BTC.

According to @EricBalchunas, Bitcoin ETFs saw $843 million in activity yesterday, lifting the 1-week total to $1 billion and the year-to-date total to $1.5 billion (source: Eric Balchunas on X, Jan 15, 2026). He added that BTC is trading near $97,000 after spending an extended period around $88,000 in prior months (source: Eric Balchunas on X, Jan 15, 2026). He also referenced the $100,000 level in his commentary (source: Eric Balchunas on X, Jan 15, 2026).

According to @CryptoMichNL, Bitcoin (BTC) is currently battling the 21-day moving average and a confirmed break above could accelerate a move toward $100,000, source: @CryptoMichNL on X, Jan 1, 2026. He adds that several large-cap altcoins have already reclaimed the 21-day MA ahead of BTC, indicating leadership from altcoins, source: @CryptoMichNL on X, Jan 1, 2026. Per his view, traders may monitor BTC versus the 21-day MA and relative strength in large-cap altcoins as potential near-term momentum catalysts, source: @CryptoMichNL on X, Jan 1, 2026.

According to Santiment, BTC briefly spiked to about $90,087 on Coinbase before retracing to roughly $86,580 at the time of the post (source: Santiment, X post, Dec 17, 2025). According to Santiment, rising positive BTC funding rates across exchanges indicate heavier leveraged long positioning, a setup that has historically preceded sharp liquidations, volatility spikes, and local tops or pullbacks (source: Santiment, X post; Santiment dashboard app.santiment.net/s/iUiEzzfd?utm_source=x&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=x_btc_eth_total_aggregated_funding_rates_b_121725/&fpr=twitter). According to Santiment, ETH currently shows shorts outweighing longs, signaling weaker bullish conviction and comparatively lower immediate squeeze risk versus BTC (source: Santiment, X post; Santiment dashboard). According to Santiment, because crypto assets broadly track BTC, a cleaner path back toward $100K for BTC and an altcoin rebound requires BTC funding rates to normalize to neutral or turn negative (source: Santiment, X post). According to Santiment, traders can track aggregated BTC and ETH funding rates in real time via its dashboard to gauge leverage and liquidation risk (source: Santiment dashboard app.santiment.net/s/iUiEzzfd?utm_source=x&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=x_btc_eth_total_aggregated_funding_rates_b_121725/&fpr=twitter).

According to @NFT5lut, a Bitcoin move above 100,000 could coincide with MONAD trading around 0.05, setting a clear trigger level on BTC and a potential price target on MONAD for traders to monitor, source: @NFT5lut on X, Dec 3, 2025. Traders can treat 100,000 on BTC as the breakout trigger and 0.05 on MONAD as the watch level, noting the post provides no timeframe or supporting metrics, source: @NFT5lut on X, Dec 3, 2025.

According to the source, a widely viewed X post claims most people will only buy Bitcoin once BTC trades above 100,000, flagging a potential retail FOMO threshold at a round-number breakout, source: X post on Nov 30, 2025. Round-number levels such as 100,000 often concentrate orders and act as liquidity magnets, increasing the odds of stop-runs and fakeouts around the first touch, source: price clustering evidence in the Journal of Financial Markets. For validation, traders can anchor to the prior all-time high near 73,000 from March 2024 and monitor options open interest clustering at the 100,000 strike on Deribit to gauge gamma and volatility risk into the level, source: Bloomberg price data for BTC ATH and Deribit Insights on strike OI concentration. Risk gauges to track into any 100,000 test include perpetual funding rates and US spot Bitcoin ETF net flows, as sustained positive funding and strong ETF inflows supported upside continuation during 2024 rallies, source: major exchanges’ funding dashboards and iShares/Bloomberg ETF flow trackers. In practice, consider planning for both breakout-continuation and liquidity-sweep scenarios around 100,000, using alerts at 80,000, 90,000, and 100,000 with confirmation from funding, options skew, and ETF flow momentum to avoid chasing weak moves, source: trading best practices derived from Glassnode cycle studies and institutional flow monitoring.

According to @EmberCN, a whale who used loop lending to long 1,320 WBTC sold another 175 WBTC in the past five hours for $16.18M USDC, completing the leverage unwind (source: @EmberCN, Nov 20, 2025). According to @EmberCN, the de-risking began when BTC fell to $100,000 on 11/5 and the position neared the liquidation threshold (source: @EmberCN). According to @EmberCN, over roughly two weeks the whale sold a total of 725.8 WBTC for about $71.81M in stablecoins (denoted as U), marking the end of this deleveraging cycle (source: @EmberCN).

According to @CoinMarketCap, the October 2025 review highlights JPMorgan, Citibank, MUFG, and Mastercard advancing custody and tokenization, signaling ongoing institutional participation in crypto market infrastructure. Source: CoinMarketCap According to @CoinMarketCap, Grayscale launched the first staking ETPs and 21Shares filed HYPE ETFs, expanding the lineup of exchange-traded crypto products tracked in the period. Source: CoinMarketCap According to @CoinMarketCap, BTC closed the month above 100,000 dollars despite approximately 20 billion dollars in mid-month liquidations, marking a strong monthly finish in the face of deleveraging. Source: CoinMarketCap According to @CoinMarketCap, protocol developments included the Aave v4 transition and zkSync’s Atlas upgrade, adding notable DeFi and L2 milestones to the month’s market drivers. Source: CoinMarketCap