How institutions made Bitcoin a weekday market so retail takes on all the weekend risk

Bitcoin might trade around the clock, but its liquidity doesn’t anymore. The asset that was supposed to become more resilient after absorbing billions in institutional capital through ETFs has instead developed a split personality, one that looks deep and orderly during New York trading hours and considerably more fragile once Wall Street’s desks go dark. Fresh data from Kaiko published this week quantifies what many…