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The $4.5B 2026 Bitcoin ETF bleed is risk-budget rebalancing (to gold, bonds, cash) while the $80.8B core becomes the new generational floor.
The leverage hooligans and retail weak hands rotated out, and the diamond-hand institutions will rotate in via regulated vehicles after CLARITY Act.
This is the textbook smart money winter before institutional spring.