Bitcoin is on track to post its biggest weekly advance in more than three years, fueled by an expanded U.S. Treasury buyback program and a wave of supportive policy signals. During New York trading, the cryptocurrency climbed as much as 9.4% to around $77,000, bringing its gains for the week to roughly 22%.
The immediate catalyst came on Wednesday when Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced plans to at least double the size of long-dated debt repurchases. The move, aimed at lowering long-term yields, helped lift overall risk appetite across markets. On the same day, President Donald Trump met with executives from Coinbase and other crypto firms, urging the Senate to advance the Clarity Act, a legislative push that further reinforced bullish sentiment.
Rachael Lucas, an analyst at BTC Markets, noted that the expansion of Treasury buybacks has been the real driver behind the surge. Meanwhile, Adam Morgan McCarthy, chief researcher at London-based digital asset liquidity and data firm LO:TECH, pointed to the ongoing short squeeze as the primary force. According to Coinglass, nearly $2.5 billion in leveraged bitcoin short positions were liquidated over the past three days.
Institutional money is also pouring back in, with the 13 U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs attracting over $1 billion this week, positioning them for their largest weekly net inflows since January. Data from CryptoQuant shows that large holders, often referred to as "whales," have added approximately $2.75 billion worth of bitcoin over the past 60 days.
On the macro allocation front, Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio has advised investors to underweight bonds, allocate around 10% to 15% of their portfolios to gold, and hold a "small amount" of bitcoin as a hedge against potential debt crises. McCarthy, however, cautioned that gold remains the true macro signal for hedging currency and inflation risks this week, while bitcoin's move has been more influenced by forced buying.
Buoyed by the rally, crypto-related stocks surged, with Coinbase jumping 6.3%, Strategy Inc. climbing 4.5%, and Circle Internet Group Inc. rallying nearly 7%. Although bitcoin remains well below its all-time high of over $126,000 from October last year, Geoffrey Kendrick, head of global digital asset research at Standard Chartered, suggested that the bank's year-end target of $100,000 is now facing a downside risk for the first time.
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