{"id":73604,"date":"2026-02-23T17:16:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=73604"},"modified":"2026-02-23T17:16:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:16:38","slug":"is-liquidity-drying-up-what-it-means-for-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=73604","title":{"rendered":"Is Liquidity Drying Up? What It Means For Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The repo market just sent a signal<\/h2>\n

What is a “repo”?<\/h3>\n

This week saw an unexpected jump in use of the Fed’s Standing Repo Facility (“SRF”) as well as heightened SOFR rates. If that sounds like Latin to you, don’t worry- here’s what it means:<\/p>\n

A \u2018repo’ transaction is just a very short-term (usually overnight) loan between two parties. That loan is secured by collateral, usually in the form of Mortgage Backed Securities (“MBS”) or US Treasuries.<\/p>\n

Example:<\/p>\n

Nakamoto Bank is tight for cash to fund operations and pay an upcoming tax bill. It can sell assets, or it can pledge those assets for a short-term cash injection, so Nakamoto Bank goes to the Fed’s SRF operation and pledges $10 billion of US Treasuries. Immediately, the Fed provides $10 billion in dollars.<\/p>\n

The next day, Nakamoto Bank goes back to the Fed and pays back the $10 billion, plus a small amount of interest (that interest rate will become important later).<\/p>\n

That’s it, now you understand a “repo”<\/p>\n

Fed’s Repo Facility Sees Massive Usage<\/h1>\n

This “Standing Repo Facility” is supposed to be a last resort, and generally over the past five years, it’s seen very little usage. Of course, from Q2-Q4 of 2025 it started to heat up, due to a building liquidity shortage and this is why the Fed quickly announced they’d start printing again (Reserve Management Purchases, or “RMP”) in order to address the cash shortage.<\/p>\n

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Daily usage of the Fed’s Standing Repo Facility \u2013 total securities pledged\/total liquidity provided.<\/small><\/p>\n

Now, it’s common to see liquidity crunches on tax deadline or at the end of the month\/quarter, as banks rush to shore up their books. What’s\u00a0not\u00a0<\/em>normal is to see the third highest usage since 2020, especially given the fact that neither of those scenarios are present\u00a0and<\/em>\u00a0given the RMP’s (QE-like money printing) being conducted by the Fed, which have served to inject freshly printed dollars into the financial system.<\/p>\n

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EVEN MORE UNUSUAL: $19.5 BILLION REPO<\/p>\n

The afternoon session of the SRF got tapped in even larger size<\/p>\n

It’s somewhat normal for the morning repo to be tapped, but …<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The repo market just sent a signal What is a “repo”? This week saw an unexpected jump in use of the Fed’s Standing Repo Facility (“SRF”) as well as heightened SOFR rates. If that sounds like Latin to you, don’t worry- here’s what it means: A \u2018repo’ transaction is just a very short-term (usually overnight) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-73604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}