Gate Ventures: Macro easing drives capital inflows, and the divergence pattern in the crypto market continues

According to Mars Finance news, based on Gate Ventures’ latest weekly report, as the situation in the Middle East eases temporarily and energy prices decline, global risk appetite marginally improves, stock indices hit new highs, the US dollar and US Treasury yields decline simultaneously, but gold remains strong, indicating that while the market is flowing back into risk assets, the demand for safe-haven assets has not fully diminished. Against this backdrop, the overall crypto market slightly rebounds, with BTC and ETH rising by 4.3% and 3.3% respectively, ETF capital continues to flow in net, but market sentiment remains cautious. Mainstream assets perform relatively steadily supported by institutional funds, while the altcoin market’s recovery remains limited.
On the industry level, regulation advancement and infrastructure development continue to deepen. France supports promoting a euro stablecoin plan under the MiCA framework to strengthen the competitiveness of the domestic currency system; Circle launches USDC Bridge to further improve cross-chain liquidity of stablecoins; X platform launches Cashtags feature to accelerate the integration of trading and social scenarios.
In investment and financing, a total of 12 funding rounds were disclosed this week, with a total scale of $41.8 million, including Paxos Labs completing $12 million in funding, focusing on compliant DeFi infrastructure development, reflecting that capital continues to focus on compliance and underlying capability upgrades.