The Bank Ruling Arthur Hayes Says Will Pump Bitcoin to $250K

Arthur Hayes doesn't sugarcoat it. Bitcoin, HYPE, government bonds, and the $250K question, he answers all of it, unfiltered. This is the macro framework most traders ignore. And it might be the most important 25 minutes of your investing year. He reveals why Bitcoin hasn't bottomed, why he's flipping from "no trade zone" to constructive on risk, and the one macro framework that beats 80% of traders every cycle. In this interview, Arthur Hayes, co-founder of BitMEX and managing partner at Maelstrom Fund, gives one of his most candid macro breakdowns of 2026. From the Enhanced Supplemental Leverage Ratio (SLR) unlocking trillions in commercial bank balance sheet capacity, to the fragile US-Iran ceasefire and its direct impact on oil supply and Bitcoin price action, Arthur maps the exact conditions under which he'd make his next major directional bet. Arthur explains why Hyperliquid (HYPE token) remains his largest altcoin position, how decentralised perpetual swap platforms are an existential threat to centralised exchanges like Binance and Coinbase, and why weekend trading on Hyperliquid is now making headlines in the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times. We also tackle Ethereum's price underperformance, the meme coin market reality in 2026, Trump's crypto involvement and what it signals for mainstream adoption, and Arthur's single high-conviction macro trade that has nothing to do with any specific token. His framework is simple: liquidity drives Bitcoin. If you understand global money printing cycles, you understand Bitcoin. This is the model most retail traders completely ignore, and it's the reason Arthur's macro calls hit when others miss. Whether you're a serious trader, a crypto-curious professional, or an institutional allocator wondering whether Bitcoin belongs in a portfolio, this conversation cuts through the noise. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 Subscribe for weekly interviews with the sharpest minds in crypto and macro finance. 👇 Drop your Bitcoin price prediction for end of 2026 in the comments — let's see who's right. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 More from BeInCrypto: 👉 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@Beincrypto 👉 BeInCrypto: https://beincrypto.com 👉 X / Twitter: https://twitter.com/beincrypto 👉 Telegram: https://t.me/+U8DQNp4b8Gw3YmZi ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #ArthurHayes #Bitcoin #Hyperliquid #CryptoMacro #HypeToken