# DADS - Daily Crypto Briefing

*January 10, 2026 - This is boring, but a lot is happening*

By [Dadsdefispace.base.eth](https://paragraph.com/@daddefispace), 2026-01-10

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Today feels like a **relief rally**, not a resolution.

A cooler jobs print and a key index decision around MicroStrategy put a temporary floor under the market, keeping Bitcoin from slipping decisively below $90K. But the bigger tension hasn’t gone away — **retail optimism vs institutional selling** is still the story.

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### Market Snapshot

*   **Bitcoin:** $90,881 (+0.7%)
    
*   **Ethereum:** $3,110 (-1.6%)
    
*   **Total Market Cap:** $3.12T
    
*   **BTC Dominance:** 58.5%
    
*   **Fear & Greed:** 40 (Fear)
    

This is still a cautious environment, despite today’s bounce.

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### Macro Check: Jobs Data

*   **Unemployment:** 4.4% (better than expected)
    
*   **Payrolls:** +50K jobs (slightly light, but stable)
    

This confirms a **“low-hire, low-fire”** labor market. No imminent recession signal — but also no urgency for the Fed to cut rates.

Odds of a January rate cut dropped to ~5%.

Translation: the panic got dialed back, not erased.

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### The Real Headline: MicroStrategy & MSCI

A lot of noise today about S&P 500 inclusion — but the _actual_ market mover was **MSCI**.

MSCI confirmed it will **not exclude digital asset treasury companies** (like MSTR) from its major global indices in the February review.

That matters because:

*   It prevented an estimated **$8.8B in forced selling**
    
*   It removed a structural downside risk
    
*   It acted as a relief valve for both MSTR and Bitcoin sentiment
    

MicroStrategy didn’t make the S&P 500 this cycle — the committee is still hesitant about BTC-heavy balance sheets — but **avoiding forced selling mattered more than inclusion**.

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### ETF Flows & Leverage

*   **BTC ETFs:** ~$1.13B in net outflows this week
    
*   Institutions are clearly rotating out of the New Year pump
    
*   **Liquidations (24h):** ~$260M
    
*   ETH leverage remains skewed **long**, making it vulnerable if BTC loses support
    

This is not a clean risk-on setup yet.

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### Big Picture

*   $90K BTC is the **line in the sand**
    
*   Holding this level through the weekend matters
    
*   A sweep toward the ~$88.5K CME gap is still possible without breaking structure
    

This feels like **range behavior**, not trend confirmation.

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### $DADSDEFISPACE

*   Eyeing some token burn experiements soon
    
*   Consolidating funds and moving wallets soon
    
*   Still want to establish a new liquidity pool on Uniswap, possibly paired with cbb
    

This feels like **range behavior**, not trend confirmation.

  

### How I’m Thinking About It

*   Relief ≠ reversal
    
*   Structure > headlines
    
*   Liquidity > narratives
    

I’m watching positioning, not predictions.

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