According to The Block, Strike founder and Twenty One Capital CEO Jack Mallers said during an interview at BTC Prague this week that Bitcoin trading below $63,000 reflects a global liquidity crisis, not a sentiment problem. Mallers noted that consumer sentiment measured by the University of Michigan has fallen to a record low—below 2008 and 2000—while the S&P 500 sits at an all-time high. "Bitcoin is the closest thing we have to the monetary reflection of truth," Mallers said, describing it as a "24/7 traded indicator of how the world is doing."
At Strike, bitcoin-backed lending has become the company's best-performing product. Mallers estimated the total CeFi bitcoin-backed lending market at $20–30 billion against a $1.25 trillion asset class, viewing this as a fraction of its natural size. Strike recently launched a no-liquidation loan option with quarterly proof-of-reserve audits.