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BlackRock just placed its largest weekly predictive bet on Bitcoin as it trades at a support level above $74,000. BlackRock’s spot bitcoin ETF, IBIT, absorbed $871 million in net inflows last week, leading all cryptocurrency ETFs on the board.
Combined, U.S. Bitcoin ETFs generated $1.9 billion in net inflows over the same five-day period, the strongest weekly wave since early February. The single session was on April 17, when ETF inflows totaled $663.89 million, with IBIT alone pulling in $283.96 million and Fidelity’s FBTC adding another $163 million.
Iranian tensions briefly pulled bitcoin back to $63,000 two months ago before Saturday’s bid briefly regained $78,000, with institutional buyers treating each dip as an entry.
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Bitcoin Price Prediction: Larry Fink’s $500K Target This Year?
Bitcoin’s technical setup looks constructive after the consolidation. The price holds above $74,000, up 10% in one month, with increasing bullish consolidation since the peak. Key resistance lies at the $78,000 level, and a confirmed close above that could open the door to the $80,000 breakout level.
The liquidity oscillator is showing positive signs of rate of change, consistent with a reversal in the global M2 money supply that has historically been associated with Bitcoin rallies.
As for the Bitcoin price itself, if ETF flows continue above $500 million weekly, BTC could clear $78,000 and target $80,000, then perhaps $83,000 on the M2 tailwind. Matt Hogan, IT director at Bitwise, upgraded his 2026 target to over $200,000, citing ETF inflows, MicroStrategy’s buildup, and Trump’s pro-crypto executive order that opened up participation on Wall Street.
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink reiterated his long-term price target of $500,000 to $700,000 in a recent Bloomberg interview, noting that sovereign wealth funds are weighing a 2% to 5% Bitcoin portfolio allocation as a hedge against the currency’s decline. It is a structural request that is not reflected in a single FOMC meeting or in a headline about the Strait of Hormuz.
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Bitcoin Hyper will follow Bitcoin’s path with greater upside
It’s undeniable that Spot BTC is bullish at the moment, but the asymmetric uptrend that early Bitcoin investors enjoyed just isn’t there anymore. Traders looking for early-cycle leverage within the Bitcoin ecosystem are shifting attention to the infrastructure that underpins BTC itself.
Bitcoin Hyper ($HYPER) It is billed as the first-ever Bitcoin Layer 2 with Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) integration, providing sub-second finality and low-cost smart contract execution while maintaining the security of the Bitcoin base layer.
The proposal is straightforward: solving Bitcoin’s fundamental limitations (slow transactions, high fees, lack of programmability) without abandoning its trust model. It sparked a pre-sale 32 million dollars At the current price $0.0136789with 36% available for the first participants.
Features include a decentralized fiat bridge for BTC transfers and high-speed transaction execution that the team claims beats Solana itself in latency, and The pre-sale has drawn attention alongside the broader Bitcoin ETF influx narrative.
