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Crypto’s $2 Trillion Wipeout

Loading ...Addison Wiggin

February 5, 2026 • 59 second read


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Crypto’s $2 Trillion Wipeout

Since peaking in early October, the market cap of all cryptocurrencies has slid from a $4.3 trillion peak to about $2.3 trillion today:

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Following a series of massive liquidations, crypto has erased $2 trillion in market cap since October. (Source: Kobeissi Letter)

In comparison, gold’s 9% haircut last Friday wiped out a similar $2 trillion valuation.

We forecast markets would hit historic highs before getting chopped in half. Bitcoin and cryptos as a block are leading the way early in the year.

We’ll be talking to Mark Jeftovic tomorrow about tge big pops and drops lately and how to play them. The price action at the top is a feature —  not a flaw — of this “Most terrifying bull” market.

~ Addison

 

P.S.  Mark Jeftovic’s joining us at a special time this week for Grey Swan Live! — Friday, February 6, at 2 p.m. ET. He’s going to help us unpack a set of signals in crypto and Dollar 2.0 digital assets that rarely appear at the same time — and almost never by accident.

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Mark will walk us through what’s happening with bitcoin, and what to expect next when capital, policy, and power start pulling in the same direction. Fascinating stuff!


The Trump Great Reset Enters Its 2026 Endgame

February 5, 2026 • Addison Wiggin

As we’ve tracked since April 2, 2025,  the early phase of the reset burned hot. Institutions weakened. Assumptions cracked.

This week supplied fresh evidence. Software buckled under pressure from artificial intelligence. Metals convulsed under leverage.

What follows looks colder and more deliberate. The metaphor shifts from bonfire to board game. The game isn’t chess. It’s Risk. Territory matters. Chokepoints matter. Supply lines matter.

Winning depends less on elegance and more on control.

The Trump Great Reset Enters Its 2026 Endgame
Creative Destruction Comes for Software

February 4, 2026 • Addison Wiggin

Market behavior is shifting alongside technology. AI shortens business cycles and accelerates repricing. Leverage magnifies reactions. Empire of Debt warned that systems built on smooth assumptions fail loudly once those assumptions collide with reality. Software reached that collision point first.

Creative Destruction Comes for Software
Another Bell Ringing

February 4, 2026 • Addison Wiggin

You can bet on nearly anything on Polymarket. One bet is that Elon Musk, current net worth $775 billion, will add the other $225 billion and become the world’s first trillionaire.

Betting market odds now overwhelmingly see it happening this year, and this could be a sign of a top.

Another Bell Ringing
Markets Slip, Metals Split, Power Gets Physical

February 3, 2026 • Addison Wiggin

In Singapore, Bloomberg reported that retail buyers crowded United Overseas Bank, the city’s only bank selling physical gold, until customers without pre-orders were turned away.

In Sydney, lines stretched into the street outside ABC Bullion after Friday’s selloff. Thai investors held existing positions instead of selling into weakness. In China’s Shuibei district, ahead of the Lunar New Year, buyers stepped in, and local prices held premiums over exchange benchmarks.

“It’s still a buying market,” said Globlex Securities CEO Thanapisal Koohapremkit. Quiet accumulation doesn’t announce itself. It just keeps happening.

Markets Slip, Metals Split, Power Gets Physical