Live updates: Bitcoin slips as corporate BTC enthusiasm moves to AI
Bitcoin prices are slipping as institutional investors shift their focus and capital toward AI-related infrastructure. Analysts suggest this rotation marks a return of crypto to its retail-driven roots as corporate enthusiasm wanes.
Why it matters
The shift reflects broader market trends where capital is moving from speculative digital assets to tangible AI-driven growth sectors.
The wider market fell 2% to $2.18 trillion, with roughly ten coins falling for every one that rose.
The names doing the pivoting are the ones that gave crypto institutional cover, holders led by Strategy and miners like MARA, which spent the past two years rebranding themselves around AI data centers.
Institutional money is now selling bitcoin to build liquidity or rotate into that trade, Kuptsikevich said, and with corporate enthusiasm draining, the risk is that BTC position liquidation accelerates over the coming weeks.
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