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Tokenised Equities Reached a New Daily Trading Volume Record

BTC remained range-bound around $76–77K while spot Bitcoin ETFs saw a third consecutive day of outflows, keeping crypto sentiment cautious.

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Thahbib Rahman, Tazmina, Catherine (Block Scholes), and Andrew Melville
May 20, 2026
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Block Scholes is an FCA-regulated institutional crypto derivatives analytics platform. Live data, IV surfaces, and backtesting available via blockscholes.com.

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In Today’s Note

  • BTC stayed range-bound around $76K–$77K, while spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded their third consecutive day of outflows.

  • US equities fell and global bond yields climbed, with long-end yields in the US, Japan and UK reaching multi-year highs as US–Iran tensions remained unresolved.

  • Tokenised equity volumes hit a new daily record, while the White House ordered regulators to review fintech and digital asset banking access, Polymarket launched private-company prediction markets, Yorkville shifted its ETF strategy to a ’40 Act structure, and South Carolina signed a new state-level crypto framework into law.

Market Snapshot: Overnight Moves

Macro & Markets

  • BTC has continued to trade around the $76-77K region over the past 24 hours, while Spot Bitcoin ETFs marked their third consecutive day of outflows.

  • The latest downturn in risk appetite across both crypto and US equity markets has occurred alongside a continued bout of weakness in global bond markets which has seen government bond yields reach multi-year highs.

  • The S&P 500 posted its longest losing streak since the end of March, ending yesterday’s session down 0.67%, while the Nasdaq-100 index closed -0.61%.

  • At the long end of the US treasury yield curve, 30-year yields rose to 5.18%, a high last seen back in 2007, driven by increased concerns of the inflation fallout from the Middle East conflict.

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