The crypto market is continuing to suffer significant losses this weekend as rate-hike-anxiety in the stock market, driving big-tech/growth stocks into the ground, is spilling over into other high momentum markets. But a 'whale war' may be the biggest immediate driver as institutions, HODL Whales, and miners battle one another.

As market expectations for rate-hikes (amid soaring inflation) have soared...

Source: Bloomberg

That has hit high growth, high momentum stocks...

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And Cathie Wood's recent demise is not helping...

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And reduced the size of global negative-yielding debt (reducing the attractiveness of zero-yielding crypto)...

Source: Bloomberg

That anxiety has weighed directly on crypto with bitcoin back below $45,000 for the 3rd time in the last week (back to levels seen when Elon Musk announced Tesla's big BTC holdings)...

Source: Bloomberg

But Ethereum is getting monkey-hammered, back below $1300 for the first time since January...

Source: Bloomberg

But the relative underperformance of ETH has erased all of the 2021 'DeFi Boom' gains over BTC...

So it’s all red today. But we’re all in it for the technology, right? Source: Bloomberg

But, away from the inter-market spillovers, Crypto-news-flash.com reports that as CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ju discussed, a whale war is currently raging between US institutional investors, BTC whales, and miners over “who got the real power.”

US institutional investors are giving a clear “buy” signal through Coinbase outflows as well as the Coinbase price premium.

BTC whales are also in a buying mood at current levels as evidenced by BTC reserve and stablecoin inflow transactions.

However, once again the mining sector seems to have a different opinion. As Ju elicited, miner outflows and miner to exchange flows are giving a clear “Sell” signal.