U.S. central bank moves, inflation prints and a heavy corporate earnings slate will dominate markets this week — all as bitcoin rides a renewed bid at roughly $80,814.36 and the crypto sector watches several major infrastructure events.
“The market is entering a phase where liquidity is becoming more selective rather than purely speculative,” Jake Seltzer, CEO of Quantix Finance, told CoinDesk. He said bitcoin’s resilience at these levels matters because it’s rebuilding confidence among institutional allocators that had remained on the sidelines. “Near term, markets will still be driven by macro conditions, ETF flows, and global liquidity, so volatility is expected,” Seltzer added.
Seltzer argues the industry is structurally healthier than in past cycles, with capital shifting toward “real infrastructure, sustainable yield models, and platforms with actual risk management behind them rather than short-term narratives alone.” That theme helps explain why observers are paying close attention to a cluster of protocol and governance developments this week.
Key crypto events to watch
- Base’s Azul upgrade is slated to go live on mainnet, an important infrastructure rollout for the Optimism-built ecosystem.
- Ronin — the network behind Axie Infinity’s bridge — is expected to move back to Ethereum, a sign of continued normalization after past troubles.
- Multiple DAOs are voting on treasury, recovery and MEV-related proposals as the ecosystem continues to contend with fallout from the largest exploit of the year to date.
Taken together, the macro calendar (Fed changes and inflation), corporate earnings, ETF activity and these infrastructure milestones set the stage for a potentially choppy but structurally important stretch for digital assets.
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