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🚨 SOFR Surge + Sub-$100B RRP Just Flashed a Major Liquidity Warning
Just under record high in overnight volume. 7bps SOFR spike. Reverse repos breached critical levels after months of stability. This isn’t noise—it’s a major stress signal for all markets.
Luke Lovett
August 02, 2025
Reverse Repo Collapse = Liquidity Firewall Breached (Again)
Reverse repos (RRP) have now fallen back below $100B, entering red zone territory.
RRP hasn’t closed below $100B once since April 25th (during the rebound off the last market sell off lows)—until now.
Read between the lines:
This isn’t just a technical blip. It’s a repeat breach of the floor that marks systemic stress in the heart of the liquidity circuit.
The last time we saw a sustained break below $100B? February 2025 — right before the sharp March–April market pullback. This isn’t a coincidence. When RRP drops like this, it means:
The collateral pool is shrinking.
The system is hunting for trust.
Dealers are no longer stashing excess liquidity with the Fed.
We’re not witnessing ordinary ebb and flow. We’re watching the dam thin and the pressure build—again.
Signal | Latest Level | Interpretation | Zone |
|---|---|---|---|
10-Year Swap Spread | –23.87 bps | Deep inversion persists. This is synthetic preference over sovereign debt—an open distrust in the "real." | 🟠 Orange |
Reverse Repos (RRP) | $97.426B | First break below $100B since late April 2025—during the March/April market sell off. | 🔴 Red |
USD/JPY | 147.38 | Watch out for a break towards 160 or a break below 140. | 🟠 Orange |
USD/CHF | 0.8040 | Franc strength persists—capital seeks refuge. The quiet flows say more than headlines. | 🟠 Orange |
3-Year SOFR–OIS Spread | 27.0 bps | Term structure tension is screaming. Interbank trust in the near future is deeply strained. | 🔴 Red |
SOFR Overnight Rate | 4.39% | A 7 bps spike overnight is not incredibly rare but not a good sign. This rate is the hidden heartbeat of stress for global liquidity. | 🟠 Orange |
SOFR Daily Volume | $2.933 Trillion | Massive overnight spike. Close to new all-time high. The market is leaning heavier on overnight funding—this is unsustainable. | 🔴 Red |
SLV Borrow Rate | 0.70% (5M avail.) | Supply remains constrained. The pressure hasn’t lifted. Short interest still needs to be paid for. | 🟡 Yellow |
COMEX Silver Registered | 191.58M oz | Only ~22.8% of OI could clear the vault. Surface stability masks leverage risk beneath. | 🟠 Orange |
COMEX Silver Volume | 75,097 | Paper action heating again. Somebody’s positioning—either for pressure… or release. | 🟡 Yellow |
COMEX Silver Open Interest | 160,088 | 4.62:1 leverage ratio. Thin margins for error. Vault coverage tightens. | 🟠 Orange |
GLD Borrow Rate | 0.44% (4.7M avail.) | Calm still reigns—for now. But remember: gold doesn’t react first. It reflects deepest trust misalignments. | 🟢 Green |
COMEX Gold Registered | 21.16M oz | ~47.9% of OI could clear it. Better than silver—but stress is not absent here. | 🟡 Yellow |
COMEX Gold Volume | 269,844 | Huge daily surge. That’s a shockwave of interest. The system heard something… and someone moved. | 🟠 Orange |
COMEX Gold Open Interest | 441,731 | 2.08:1 leverage. Balanced, but under scrutiny. This could tip with a spark. | 🟠 Orange |
UST–JGB 10Y Spread | 2.665% | Still elevated. Carry pressure isn't resolved—just coiled. | 🟠 Orange |
Japan 30Y Yield | 3.106% | Still near all time highs. Yen policy is a stretched rubber band. Snap risk is rising. | 🔴 Red |
US 30Y Yield | 4.807% | Long end refuses to obey Powell. It's pricing in something bigger—supply? Inflation? Liquidity fears? All of it. | 🟠 Orange |
SOFR Surge = The Plumbing Is Coughing Blood
SOFR volume surged to $2.933T—flirting with all-time highs.
SOFR rate jumped 7bps overnight, from 4.32% to 4.39%—a significant move for what’s supposed to be the "stable" overnight benchmark.
Read between the lines:
When rates rise and volume rises, the story is simple:
Trust is evaporating.
Collateral is degrading.
Short-term liquidity is no longer abundant—it’s being hunted.
This isn’t business as usual. This is the financial equivalent of a trauma center where triage lines are forming fast, and the machines are beeping louder.
The collateral heartbeat of the global financial system is irregular. It’s not cardiac arrest—but it’s throwing clots. And when the heart of global liquidity coughs, the entire system listens.
Combine This With Reverse Repo Breakdown: The Feedback Loop Begins
SOFR volume near record.
Overnight rate jumping 7bps.
Dealers no longer parking cash at the Fed (RRP ≈ $97B).
These aren’t isolated events. They’re echoes in the same canyon. When reverse repos collapse, excess reserves are drying up. When SOFR spikes, it means banks are paying more for short-term money.
When volume surges, it’s because they have no choice—they’re in too deep. Put together: The system is being forced to crowd the exits... just to stay in the game.
What This Means for Gold and Silver
This is the exact environment where hard assets shine.
When the plumbing of the fiat system leaks, capital doesn’t just trickle—it stampedes toward assets that don’t depend on counterparty confidence.
Gold isn’t responding to inflation. Silver isn’t reacting to “the Fed.” They’re front-running the fractures. They’re pricing in a world that no longer trusts itself.
Gold and Silver: Trust Is Liquidity — and the System Is Starving for Both
This isn’t about inflation. It’s not about rate cuts. It’s about trust—and in this system, trust is liquidity. That’s the secret the headlines won’t say out loud.
When SOFR jumps 7bps overnight, that’s not just a rate change.
That’s trust re-pricing in real time.When $2.933T in overnight volume floods the system, it's not just busy markets.
It's banks saying: "We don't trust each other unless it's overnight, and even then... only at a premium."When reverse repos collapse under $100B, they’re not just a chart breaking a line.
That’s the disappearance of trusted surplus—excess capital that used to flow freely is now gone.
That’s not a liquidity glitch. That’s a trust event—and trust events break markets.
Truth-Backed Liquidity Is Leading the Exodus
When trust breaks, liquidity doesn’t vanish—it flees into truth-backed value. Gold and silver don’t default, dilute, or ask permission. They simply are—trusted, liquid, and sovereign.
Silver is igniting.
COMEX gold volume is spiking.
Gold is up 66.8% since Feb 2024.
This isn’t speculation. It’s a flight of trust. When trust is liquidity, gold becomes the balance sheet, silver the exit. This is capital remembering what’s real. This is truth returning.
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When liquidity means trust, and trust is cracking, the wise step out of the simulation and into sovereignty. Secure your foundation—before the next wave hits. Move before the headlines catch up.
Luke Lovett
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