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SpaceX (SPCX) stock is sliding toward a make-or-break level as a selloff drags it more than 30% below its June peak, with the speculative heat that powered its record debut burning off fast.
Two weeks after its $75 billion IPO, the stock has round-tripped from euphoria to fragility. A fresh Starlink launch could not lift it, and cooling hype, weak space peers, and short-heavy positioning now point lower.
Hype Has Burned Out of the SpaceX Selloff
The SpaceX stock selloff has a clear tell, the hype is gone. A proprietary composite Hype Score, which blends momentum, volume intensity, volatility, and overbought readings into a 0 to 100 gauge of speculative intensity, has fallen to 18 and reads as cooling.
Hype Score Gauge: Charlie Quant Lab
That marks a sharp reset from the debut. The SpaceX IPO share performance has flipped from a peak near $228 to slightly $150, at press time.
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A Falcon 9 Starlink launch from Vandenberg on June 25 did nothing for the tape yet, a sign the speculative bid has left. However, once the market opens it would be interesting to see if the Spacex stock price today reacts to the Starlink launch.
LAUNCH! SpaceX Falcon 9 B1081-25 launches Starlink Group 17-45 from SLC-4E, Vandenberg. https://t.co/dHKPZKp49c pic.twitter.com/TIEx9qv8hA
— NSF – NASASpaceflight.com (@NASASpaceflight) June 25, 2026
The same apathy shows up in volume as the decline grinds on. Buying and selling have both faded since June 23, leaving the stock range-bound for roughly 48 hours.
Weakening Volume: TradingView
Underneath that quiet tape, money flow is split. Chaikin Money Flow (CMF), a proxy for buying and selling pressure, sits at a mild positive 0.10, yet price still trades below its volume-weighted average price (VWAP).
Money Flow Versus VWAP: Charlie Quant Lab
That mix matters because trading under VWAP means the average buyer since launch is now underwater. With even a rocket launch failing to lift it, the next clue is what SPCX actually moves with.
SPCX Trades Like a Space Stock, Not a Musk Stock
What SPCX moves with answers a defining question for the stock. Over 15-minute returns, it correlates 0.46 with space sector stocks like AST SpaceMobile (ASTS) and Rocket Lab (RKLB), but only 0.23 with Tesla (TSLA).
Weak Space Sector: Charlie Quant Lab
That gap makes the read clear. SPCX is trading on space-sector dynamics, not the Musk founder premium. That distinction matters because the sector is weak. Rocket Lab sits down roughly 44% month-on-month, and AST SpaceMobile has slid 45% in the same duration after a Q1 revenue miss.
Rocket Lab Performance: Yahoo Finance
SpaceX itself deepened that weakness, pulling capital out of smaller names and back into the giant on its debut. If a soft sector is setting the direction, positioning data shows who is leaning hardest into the move.
Smart Money Is Short, but Options Hold the Real Lever
Leaning hardest into the downside is the smart money. On Nansen data for the Hyperliquid perpetual that tracks SPCX, smart traders, whales and public figures are all net short, a rare unanimous stance.
That stance runs deep. Whales alone sit net short about $21.8 million, while the perp saw a net $140.6 million of selling over seven days, and the whale holder count fell about 24% in 10 days, which suggests distribution.
Hyperliquid SPCX Positioning: Nansen Data
That positioning is a warning, not a trigger. The perpetual is oracle-priced and tracks the stock, so it reflects smart money positioning and sentiment but cannot by itself move the underlying.
What can move it is the options market, through dealer hedging. The debut set a single-stock record near 1.6 million contracts and sparked gamma squeeze talk toward $400, before at-the-money implied volatility fell from about 169% to the mid-80s.
Volatility Drops: Barchart
That cooling has shifted the structure. The debut frenzy concentrated in short-dated calls struck at $210 to $250, well above the roughly $200 stock at the time, so with price now far below those strikes, dealer hedging can amplify declines rather than cushion them, just as Fidelity’s 15-day flipping penalty lapses around June 27 and frees up IPO supply.
SpaceX Stock Price Levels to Watch
It all comes down to one level. The SpaceX stock price today is holding above $148, the 0.786 Fibonacci level.
Hold it, and the range stays intact. Lose it on an hourly close, and the stock falls into a danger zone, opening the 1.0 retracement at $136 near the IPO price, with the 1.618 extension at $103 below.
SpaceX Price Analysis: TradingView
Above it, buyers have work to do. They need to reclaim the 0.618 level at $157 to ease pressure, then $163 and $169. Even then, thin volume is the catch. A low-volume break can reverse fast, so SPCX support levels only carry weight on a closing basis.
The $148 line is make-or-break, separating a recoverable dip from a slide back toward the $136 IPO price and beyond.

Hyperliquid has been added to Singapore’s Investor Alert List (IAL). The list is the public warning register maintained by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).
The move places Hyperliquid alongside Binance and Bybit on the list, which is a consumer warning rather than a ban. Prominent investors, though, are making a high-profile case for its value.
What the Investor Alert List Means
The IAL is a consumer warning register maintained by MAS, not a blacklist or a scam label. The regulator gave the same explanation when it added Bybit this month.
HYperliquid Joins Bybit on MAS List. Source: MAS
Inclusion does not block access to a platform or its tokens. For local users, though, it means trades on a listed venue carry no MAS investor protections.
Hyperliquid’s roughly 11-person team relocated to Singapore in 2024, led by co-founder Jeff Yan. The MAS warning now names a project run by the regulator’s own city. The team chose Singapore but never sought a license there.
Hyperliquid said nothing about its network has changed. The exchange runs on permissionless infrastructure, and traders keep self-custody of their funds. It has never claimed to hold a MAS license.
“IAL listing does not constitute a ban, an enforcement action, or a finding of wrongdoing,” Hyperliquid indicated.
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Binance and Bybit Were Listed First
MAS listed Binance in 2021 and ordered it to stop serving Singapore. The exchange withdrew its local license bid that December and closed its Singapore platform in 2022. The regulator added KuCoin in February and Bybit on June 17, both flagged for serving residents without authorization.
Each was a centralized company with a local presence, unlike Hyperliquid’s permissionless model.
Hyperliquid’s HYPE token dropped 2% on the news and traded near $62 on Friday.
Hyperliquid (HYPE) Price Performance. Source: BeInCrypto
Volumes held up after the listing, and the asset still ranks among the top 10 cryptocurrencies. It now sits below its record high of $76.70 from June 16, but about 65% above a year ago.
Investors Make the Bull Case
The warning has not shaken Hyperliquid’s loudest backers. Bitwise chief executive Hunter Horsley said markets still underestimate the platform, citing its user base and fee revenue. Bitwise has sought to launch HYPE investment products to gain from wider adoption.
“People underestimate how big Hyperliquid can become,” he said.
That conviction rests on hard usage. Multicoin Capital, which holds a large HYPE position, pegged Hyperliquid’s 2025 revenue near $873 million.
2/ Hyperliquid is a vertically integrated layer 1 blockchain and DEX purpose-built for high-speed tradingIn 2025, Hyperliquid generated ~$873M in revenue across ~$2.9T in trading volume. It grew from ~301k to ~923k users and ended the year with ~$6B in open interest pic.twitter.com/t0IofZmnXi
— Spencer Applebaum (@SpencerApplebau) June 25, 2026
It put the platform’s share of decentralized perpetual open interest above 59%. In March, S&P Dow Jones Indices licensed the S&P 500 for its first official perpetual contract, now trading on Hyperliquid.
Multicoin published a valuation the same week, projecting the token could reach about $319 by 2028 in its base case. It also flagged risks around regulation, competition, and governance.
The coming weeks will show whether MAS extends similar notices to other onchain platforms. For now, one regulator’s caution sits beside a loud bet that Hyperliquid is only getting bigger.

95 Prozent aller jemals gestarteten Krypto-Token wurden laut Sergei Novikov, Chief Product Officer bei 8Blocks, nicht benötigt. Die meisten Teams brachten sie aus Gewohnheit auf den Markt, statt aus zwingender Produktnotwendigkeit.
Novikov teilte diese Einschätzung in einem Interview mit BeInCrypto. Dort erklärte er auch, warum wachsende Web3-Produkte ihren eigenen Tokenwert häufig nicht steigern – und warum Tokenomics-Audits dem Weg von Sicherheitsüberprüfungen für Smart Contracts folgen sollten.
Wenn ein Produkt floriert, aber sein Token nicht
Eine der hartnäckigsten Fehlvorstellungen in Web3 ist, dass ein wachsendes Produkt auch automatisch einen wachsenden Token bedeutet. Laut Sergei ist diese Verknüpfung selten automatisch.

AI agents are entering crypto through wallets, exchanges, payment apps, trading systems, and portfolio tools. Once an agent receives signing authority, it can prepare transactions, rebalance assets, pay invoices, use smart contracts, and move across on-chain apps at software speed.
This creates a new product category around controlled autonomy. The user keeps ownership of the funds, while software handles repetitive execution under rules set in advance.
BeInCrypto spoke with Fernando Lillo Aranda, CMO at Zoomex; Federico Variola, CEO of Phemex; and Adrian Wall, Managing Director of the Digital Sovereignty Alliance, about early use cases, transaction approval, user limits, on-chain activity, and new risks once agents gain access to funds.
Payments Come First
Adrian Wall sees payments as the earliest major use case for AI agents, since payment mandates can be narrowed by amount, recipient, asset type, and timing.
“Payments are the earliest use case because the parameters are well-defined and the mandate is constrained,” Wall said.
Stablecoins make cross-border payments a natural area for agent activity, especially in markets where bank transfers remain slow, expensive, or difficult to reconcile.
“Cross-border payments are especially compelling given the friction in legacy banking and the demonstrated efficiency of stablecoins,” Wall said.
Trading and portfolio management are also ready from a technical view, but Wall placed more emphasis on governance than execution.
“Trading and portfolio management are technically mature enough today,” he said, adding the harder challenge is “whether authorization frameworks and loss limits are sophisticated enough to keep an agent’s mandate from drifting beyond what the user intended.”
Identity may take longer, although Wall said decentralized identifiers and agent-assisted verification could reduce repeat authentication across fragmented digital services.
“The combination of decentralized identifiers and agent-driven verification is promising because it could reduce the burden on users who currently authenticate themselves repeatedly across fragmented systems,” Wall said.
Wallet Approvals Need Transaction-by-Transaction Controls
Wallets were built around human review, while agents may prepare many actions across apps, contracts, and venues. Wall said wallet design now has to connect product choices with policy expectations.
“The approval question is where policy and product design must converge, and it is where the industry has the most work left to do,” Wall said.
A strong approval model gives agents limited authority for routine actions while requiring human review for withdrawals, leverage, new contracts, and large swaps.
“What we need is a tiered authorization model where the level of scrutiny matches the potential impact of the transaction,” Wall said.
This approach can separate monitoring, trade preparation, execution, and fund movement. A user may permit an agent to watch positions and draft trades, while reserving withdrawals and new contract access for manual approval.
Fund Access Should Grow in Stages
Fernando Lillo Aranda said AI agents can improve automation, but users should give capital access gradually.
“AI agents can unlock automation, but capital access should always be progressive,” Lillo Aranda said.
He described the process as a gradual path from observation to assistance and execution. In practice, the agent first monitors and recommends, then prepares actions for approval, later receives limited execution rights, and eventually handles a larger mandate after reliable performance.
Capital controls come first. Lillo Aranda said users should “cap maximum allocation, daily loss, position size, and withdrawal amounts.”
Permission controls come next. Users should “separate permissions for monitoring, trading, rebalancing, and fund movement,” he said.
Time limits also reduce exposure from old approvals. Lillo Aranda said agent access should “require periodic re-authorization instead of permanent access.”
Market boundaries can prevent agents from entering assets, venues, or leverage levels outside the user’s comfort zone. Users should “restrict assets, leverage, venues, and volatility conditions where the agent can operate,” he said.
Human override remains the final guardrail. Lillo Aranda pointed to “instant pause, approval thresholds, alerts, and rollback mechanisms” as essential user controls.
Wall also put spending caps at the center of user protection. He said users should start low and raise limits only after observing how the agent behaves across market conditions and instruction types.
“The first and most fundamental limit is a spending cap, set low at the outset and adjusted upward only as the user develops confidence in how the agent behaves across market conditions and instruction types,” Wall said.
Above a preset threshold, human approval should remain in place even after an agent builds a good track record.
“The asymmetry between an interrupted transaction and an unauthorized one almost always favors interruption,” Wall said.
On-Chain Volume Needs Economic Purpose
Federico Variola said AI agents can create meaningful on-chain activity because blockchain apps let software move across many products and strategies.
“Yes, AI agents can create meaningful on-chain volume, especially because on-chain environments offer composability and flexibility across different strategies,” Variola said.
Those strategies may include spot trading, perpetual futures, lending, borrowing, and future products linked to assets beyond native crypto.
“This could include spot, perpetual futures, lending, borrowing, and eventually products outside native crypto assets as well,” Variola said.
Variola drew a line between activity with economic use and recursive trading among agents.
“A lot of on-chain activity today is still driven by human sentiment and greed,” he said.
Durable agent volume, in his view, depends on activity tied to productive use across on-chain ecosystems.
“Agents need to create or support real economic value,” Variola said.
Wall expects much of today’s agent activity to begin inside controlled app environments before moving on-chain as products and rules mature.
“Agents on public blockchains can access far more counterparties, assets, and protocols than any walled garden allows,” Wall said.
He expects trading and arbitrage to appear first, followed by treasury and settlement activity.
“The impact will show up in volume before it shows up in value, first driven by high frequency trading and arbitrage, and later by treasury management and institutional settlement,” Wall said.
Agent Risk Moves at Software Speed
Once agents gain signing rights, familiar crypto risks become faster and harder to contain. Wall highlighted mandate drift, exploit propagation, perception manipulation, and correlated market behavior.
“When software can trade, sign, and interact with smart contracts on a user’s behalf, four familiar risks become newly dangerous,” Wall said.
The first problem is mandate drift, where an agent moves beyond the user’s original instruction set.
“Agents can exceed their mandate,” Wall said.
The second problem is speed. An exploit can move through many connected wallets or contracts before a user sees the damage.
“Exploits can propagate at machine speed across every wallet an agent touches before any human notices,” Wall said.
The third problem comes from manipulated inputs. Attackers may feed an agent fake prompts, poisoned data, or malicious contract information, causing harmful actions even when the user keeps custody of the key.
Market behavior creates another concern when many agents rely on similar data sources, strategies, and models. In those conditions, many systems can sell, rebalance, or withdraw liquidity at the same time.
Wall said markets can destabilize when agents “respond rationally to the same inputs at the same time.”
Final Thoughts
AI agents will reach crypto wallets through constrained tasks first: payments, rebalancing, subscriptions, trading, and portfolio support. These use cases can operate under defined limits, measured permissions, and regular user review.
The strongest wallet model will center on controlled autonomy: scoped permissions, session keys, spending caps, renewal windows, whitelisted counterparties, approval thresholds, alerts, and emergency pause controls.
On-chain volume can grow if agents handle payments, settlement, treasury, and asset operations tied to economic use. Recursive trading among agents may increase transaction counts, but lasting value comes from activity tied to people, businesses, assets, and services.

A US user sent $25 directly to Elon Musk on Thursday to test X Money’s peer-to-peer feature. Musk confirmed the payment publicly on X as the platform officially launched its full payments service for US Premium subscribers.
X Money’s digital wallet enables real-time peer-to-peer transfers, bank account deposits, and US dollar balance storage. Subscribers also receive a physical metal Visa debit card for everyday spending at any Visa-accepting merchant.
X Money Goes Live With P2P Payments
The launch marks the end of a months-long beta period for X’s integrated financial system. The service initially covers Premium and Premium+ subscribers, with a wider expansion expected to follow. Earlier in the year, Musk already signaled X Money’s arrival, placing it at the center of his broader app ambitions.
Users can send money to any X account, link external bank accounts, and hold dollar balances inside the app. The Visa debit card ships to subscribers and displays their X handle as the card identifier.
pic.twitter.com/6Zi3pmHwPN
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 25, 2026
Musk Gets a Coffee
An X user put the feature to an immediate test by sending $25 to the world’s richest person. Musk confirmed receipt in a brief public reply.
Tks 😂
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 26, 2026
The exchange gave X Money’s P2P transfers a public proof of concept within hours of the official launch. Musk has separately revealed crypto integration plans for X Money, and Thursday’s fiat-first release does not rule out future digital assets. X’s XChat also topped the App Store at launch, showing the platform’s consistent ability to turn new product releases into rapid adoption.
40 States Licensed and $10 Million in FDIC Coverage
X holds money transmitter licenses in more than 40 US states, meeting the primary legal requirement for processing domestic payments. However, X still awaits approval in the remaining states.
Deposits inside X Money receive Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) coverage through a cash sweep program. The program spreads user balances across multiple partner banks, raising the insured ceiling to $10 million per user. Standard single-bank FDIC limits cap at $250,000, so the sweep structure offers significantly broader protection.
For context, PayPal and Venmo do not offer FDIC insurance on stored balances. That leaves users exposed if a platform becomes insolvent. X Money’s sweep arrangement puts it closer to a full banking product than a simple payments app.
X enters a market where PayPal, Venmo, and Cash App hold dominant positions among fintech platforms in 2026. Nevertheless, X Cashtags drove $1 billion in global trading volume soon after their debut. That result shows the platform can convert social engagement into financial transactions at scale.
X Money’s adoption curve depends on how fast the service moves past its initial Premium subscriber base. Crypto communities have tracked every X payment development closely, and the full launch gives them fresh reason to watch for a future digital asset expansion.

Bitcoin’s Total Supply in Loss has climbed to a record 10.7 million coins, even as a sharp drop in oil prices revives hope that cooling inflation could keep the Fed from hiking and let BTC hold $60,000.
The on-chain reading marks the most coins ever held at a loss. Two earlier peaks this cycle landed close to local price bottoms, so traders are watching whether the pattern repeats.
A Record Number of Bitcoin Held at a Loss
Glassnode data shows Total Supply in Loss reached 10,694,567 BTC on June 25, the highest figure on record.
All-Time High Record: Glassnode
The metric counts every coin whose last move happened at a higher price than today.
BTC Total Supply in Loss: Glassnode
High readings tend to appear after deep selloffs, when many holders sit underwater. That stress can also mark the point where sellers run out of supply.
The Bitcoin supply in loss signal has tracked turning points before. In early February, the metric spiked near 9.9 million coins as BTC carved out a local bottom. In November, another peak preceded a rebound from around $85,143.
BTC Total Supply in Loss Local Peak: Glassnode
Analysts have flagged similar rare bottom signals flashing earlier this cycle. None of these readings guarantees a low, but the clustering near past bottoms keeps the metric in focus.
Whether that floor holds, however, may hinge less on the chart and more on a macro shift now playing out in the oil market.
Why Falling Oil Matters for Inflation
Brent crude has fallen close to 27% over the past month to about $74 a barrel. WTI trades near $70 after briefly dipping below that mark.
The slide came as tensions around the Strait of Hormuz eased and a US license cleared some Iranian crude transactions. JPMorgan cut its Brent forecast to $80 for the fourth quarter and $64 next year.
ANALYSTS CUT OIL PRICE FORECASTSMajor banks are lowering oil price forecasts as tensions ease and shipping through the Strait of Hormuz normalizes. JPMorgan now expects Brent crude to average $80 a barrel in Q4 and $64 next year, citing weaker demand. Capital Economics and Wood…
— *Walter Bloomberg (@DeItaone) June 25, 2026
Energy did most of the damage in the latest inflation report. May CPI rose 4.2% from a year earlier, the fastest pace in three years, as energy prices jumped 3.9% on the month.
Energy costs were up 23.5% over 12 months, tied to the supply shock from the Iran conflict and the Hormuz disruption. That single category did the heavy lifting.
Core inflation stayed calmer at 2.9%, which suggests the spike was an energy shock rather than broad price pressure. Core goods even fell on the month, a sign tariff pass-through had faded. Cheaper crude now points the other way. That relief, however, may take far longer to reach the inflation data than the drop at the pump suggests.
The Lag That Complicates the Bull Case
Lower oil does not cool inflation right away. Research shows gasoline shocks drive about 65% of headline CPI swings but only 10% of core moves.
Direct effects on headline prices show up within two to three months, while the pass-through into core prices builds slowly over about eight quarters. So June and July prints could stay hot even as crude falls.
That gap matters for the trade. The relief from cheaper oil is real, but it may not reach official inflation data for months, which keeps the Fed cautious for now. Markets have still started to relax. On Polymarket, the odds of a 2026 Fed rate hike eased to 53% from 66% on June 20.
Fed Rate Hike Prediction: Polymarket
CME futures had recently priced a November hike near a coin flip. The Fed left its target range at 3.50% to 3.75% on June 17, citing sticky inflation and a firm labor market.
That backdrop has fed a live four-year cycle debate about whether Bitcoin is bottoming or breaking down. Any further drop in inflation expectations would remove a major weight on risk assets.
Bitcoin, Gold, and the $60,000 Test
Bitcoin trades below $60,000, near $59,400, after slipping on the day. The record supply-in-loss reading now sits right at that closely watched floor.
Bitcoin Price: BeInCrypto
Bitcoin’s 30-day correlation with gold stands at 0.364, a moderately positive level. Such links tend to strengthen during macro shocks as buyers rotate into safe havens.
Bitcoin Versus Gold 30-day: Charlie Quant Lab
Gold has struggled this year, sliding below $4,000 after a January record near $5,600 as rate-hike bets rose. Lately it has rebounded as Treasury yields eased.
The 10-year yield slipped to about 4.41% on June 24, its lowest in six weeks, as oil fell to pre-conflict levels. Lower yields and cooler inflation fears are exactly what could lift gold and BTC together. That dynamic frames the floor near $60,000 as a test of macro sentiment, not just chart support.
The Bitcoin supply in loss record (on-chain validation) however cuts both ways. It often marks capitulation near a bottom, the same pattern seen in February and November. Yet it does not rule out a deeper flush if $60,000 breaks and pushes even more coins into loss.
The setup hinges on one chain of events. Falling oil must cool inflation, softer inflation must lower hike odds, and lower odds must lift sentiment. Gold is already benefitting from the sentiment shift and its BTC link might come in handy.
Whether Bitcoin holds $60,000 may reveal how much of that path the market is ready to price in early, a question explored in the latest Bitcoin June price outlook.

XRP remains in freefall as broader market turmoil pushes the token closer to losing the psychological $1 level. The recent break towards $1.01 now puts the path toward deeper support zones squarely on the table.
The next few sessions could decide whether bulls reclaim control or another leg down kicks in.
Why XRP Is Now in Freefall Across the Market
The broader macro backdrop is not helping. Bitcoin has briefly slipped below $59,000, and Ethereum continues to trade dangerously below the $1,600 support zone. As a result, weakness has spread across the entire crypto market, dragging XRP down with it.
“There is a VERY strong likelihood of a market bounce/relief in the coming weeks as June comes to its end. Historically, during midterm years, Bitcoin tens to find a local bottom in June before witnessing relief, but it will likely be a trap before the final drop in Q4 $XRP fam,” crypto analyst ChartNerd said on X.
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XRP Price Performance. Source: BeInCrypto Markets
XRP has dropped roughly 3.31% in the last 24 hours, according to BeInCrypto data, signaling that selling pressure is accelerating rather than slowing. Furthermore, the token now trades within a descending channel on the weekly timeframe, with sellers firmly in control across all meaningful trading windows.
The $1.01 has cracked under that pressure. This zone had previously absorbed multiple corrections and served as a reliable cushion. However, repeated failed bounces from the level have flipped it from defensive support into fresh overhead resistance for the broader market structure.
Below the current prices sits a far less crowded zone. The volume profile thins out dramatically between $0.88 and $0.73, creating what traders call a volume gap. As a result, the price could move more quickly across that region because fewer historical buyers are ready to absorb the supply.
What Comes Next for the XRP Price Structure
The current setup keeps the bearish bias firmly intact. The token has slipped out of its high-volume value area, while the broader weekly structure continues to tilt against any short-term bullish recovery attempts across global trading venues.
For bulls to reclaim the initiative, XRP needs to sustain the $1.05 support. Furthermore, the token must push back above the descending resistance trendline that has capped every meaningful rally attempt over the past several weeks.
Until those two conditions align, the path of least resistance points lower. The first downside target sits at $0.86 and $0.87, where minor demand could attempt to slow the decline. However, a break of that level would open the door directly toward $0.73 next.
I've shared this chart before. I still think it's one of the best scenarios for $XRP. In my view, the bottom is around $0.86–$0.87, while the top target is about 10x higher, in the $8–$9 range.This chart aligns well with the $54K Bitcoin scenario. pic.twitter.com/CcofYKnRH9
— Celal Kucuker (@CelalKucuker) June 25, 2026
The psychological $1 mark sits right in the middle of that risk zone. A clean breakdown would not only trigger fresh stop-loss flows but also further damage retail sentiment. As a result, defending the level becomes critical for any short-term stabilization scenario across the broader XRP market.
Traders are now watching the next few daily closes for clarity. A decisive close above $1.05 would point to a relief bounce. Conversely, sustained closes below the current range would confirm the descending trend and push $0.73 into immediate striking distance.
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World Cup 2026 fan tokens are sending mixed signals as the group stage nears its end. Chiliz (CHZ) has lost nearly half its value this month, even as several national-team tokens have jumped.
The tournament, hosted across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, was billed as a catalyst for sports tokens. After a month of selling, on-pitch drama has sparked a late bounce in some of them.
Chiliz Falls Despite the World Cup Spotlight
Chiliz, the blockchain behind the Socios fan token ecosystem, has not benefited from the on-field action. CHZ traded near $0.0188 on June 25, down roughly 4% on the day and about 21% over the week.
Over 30 days, the token has lost close to 47% of its value. That decline has pushed the Chiliz spot price toward its lowest levels of the year, with a market capitalization of nearly $196 million.
CHZ weekly chart. Source: Tradingview
The weekly chart shows how steep the decline has been. CHZ broke down from a symmetrical triangle and lost the support zone near $0.03 that had held for months.
The token had already been rejected at the $0.05 resistance band before the breakdown. It is now testing its last major support near $0.01.
The sell-off has come on rising weekly volume, which suggests sellers hold the advantage, and the downtrend could extend if $0.01 fails to hold.
World Cup Fan Tokens are Breaking Out Ahead of the Knockouts
The slide has not been one-way. Over the past day, several national team fan tokens have jumped sharply as the group stage reaches its climax.
The South Africa Fan Token (SAFA) led the move, up about 37% in 24 hours to $0.41. The Spain National Football Team Fan Token (SNFT) gained roughly 17% on the day and about 54% over the week. Belgium Fan Token (BELG) rose about 16%.
Larger national tokens also climbed. The Argentine Football Association Fan Token (ARG) added about 6% to $0.23, while the Portugal National Team Fan Token (POR) rose about 6% to $0.18. The Brazil National Football Team Fan Token (BFT) gained about 5% on the day and 19% over the week.
National team fan tokens. Source: CoinGecko
The on-pitch drama has fed the move. Lionel Messi became the all-time leading World Cup goal scorer on June 24, scoring a hat-trick against Algeria to pass Miroslav Klose’s record of 16 goals.
Cristiano Ronaldo added his own milestone. He scored twice in Portugal’s 5-0 win over Uzbekistan on June 23, becoming the first player to score at six different World Cups at 41 years old.
World Cup 2026 top scorers / Source: FIFA
The moves show how closely these tokens track results and star performances. Chiliz has signaled it wants tighter links between the two, with Chiliz US expansion plans that include match-based supply mechanics.
What the Knockout Rounds Could Bring
The group stage concludes this week, and the knockout rounds begin June 28. That schedule sets up a fresh test for fan tokens that have so far disappointed during the event.
Wins and losses tend to move these markets in real time. Whether the elimination rounds can reverse a month of selling, or simply extend it, may depend on which national teams survive into the later stages.

Two of finance’s biggest names have converged on the same crypto bet. Standard Chartered and Grayscale both see strong upside for Aave (AAVE), the decentralized finance (DeFi) lender, despite a rough year for the token.
The dual signal arrives with the altcoin near $82.69, up about 0.3% on the day and 12% over the past week. Both firms tie the upside to tokenized assets moving on-chain.
AAVE Price Performance. Source: BeInCrypto Markets Two Heavyweights, One DeFi Pick
AAVE, like the broader crypto market, posted significant losses in 2026, with the token down roughly 43% year-to-date. Selling pressure intensified in April after the KelpDAO exploit.
Yet, the analyst case has turned firmly bullish. Earlier this week, Standard Chartered put forth a $3,500 target for end-2030. The call implies a roughly 50x gain.
“We forecast significant upside for digital asset token prices into year-end, and we think Aave has moved beyond the April incident. Longer-term, we expect the value of tokenized assets active in DeFi to increase 37x between now and end-2030, driving more deposits to the platform,” Geoff Kendrick, the bank’s global head of digital assets research, said.
Grayscale named AAVE among 15 protocols that are “attractively valued.” Its base one-year target is $179, with Grayscale pegging upside over 100%, and a bull case around $271.
It flagged the proposed CLARITY Act as a catalyst that could help unlock the value.
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Aave’s Fundamentals Behind the Conviction
DefiLlama data supports the case. Aave holds about $12.2 billion in deposits, leading Morpho at $7.06 billion and Spark at $5.3 billion.
The gap widens on active loans. The protocol’s $10.9 billion loan book runs roughly three times Morpho’s $3.7 billion and dwarfs Spark’s $1.6 billion.
Aave Active Loans Triple Morpho Across Defi Lending. Source: Data Curated by BeInCrypto From DefiLlama
That lead holds despite a sector retreat. CryptoRank data shows active loans across major lenders down 42.3% this year, from $35.3 billion to $20.4 billion. Yet, Aave maintained its lead.
Newer infrastructure is gaining traction, too. Aave V4 crossed $200 million in deposits within three months of its launch, roughly doubling each month.
While Aave still towers over its rivals, it cannot escape a shrinking market. Its total value locked (TVL) fell sharply after the Kelp DAO exploit.
Industry-wide DeFi TVL has slid through 2026, falling 39%. Whether tokenized assets scale as analysts expect will shape AAVE’s next move.
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Cardano (ADA) on-chain activity spiked for the second time this month, with daily active addresses and social dominance climbing.
The uptick came as the token traded near December 2020 price lows. ADA has fallen nearly 41% over the past month, outpacing the broader market’s 19.9% decline.
Cardano Activity Surged as the Token Hit Five-Year Lows
The spike arrived during heavy selling. ADA traded near $0.142 on June 26, down about 3.38% on the day.
Today’s decline adds to a broader slide that has pulled the altcoin down by more than 13% over the past week.
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Cardano (ADA) Price Performance. Source: BeInCrypto Markets
The downtrend followed ADA’s break below the $0.23 support level in early June. Despite the price slide, Santiment noted that network activity rose.
Daily active addresses reached 29,025. At the same time, social dominance climbed to 0.33% of all crypto discussions. Santiment recorded the same setup earlier in June, marking the second activity spike in a single month.
“Cardano has suddenly become one of crypto’s biggest conversation pieces as on-chain activity explodes for a second time this month,” the firm said.
Cardano Active Addresses and Social Sentiment. Source: X/Santiment Hoskinson Warnings and Governance Disputes Fueled the FUD
The analytics firm explained that much of the negative sentiment traced back to founder CharlesHoskinson. In early June, warned that more projects could fail.
Hoskinson also stepped back from videos, interviews, and X. Furthermore, he drew a hard line on his role in the token’s performance.
“What I’m not passionate about is making the price of ADA go up,” he said.
Governance disputes have added to the strain. Santiment noted that while the developments “have fueled bearish sentiment, they’ve also pushed Cardano back into the spotlight.”
It added that the combination of the on-chain spike and elevated FUD has previously preceded mild relief rallies.
“The on-chain spike and major FUD do hint at a mild relief rally, as the chart shows how the two previous instances of this setup unfolded,” the post read.
The coming sessions will show whether the pattern holds or sellers retain control.
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Ondo Finance, Virtuals Protocol, and Treasures opened more than 430 tokenized stocks to over 40,000 autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agents on Friday, letting the bots trade onchain equities.
Treasures handles the execution, while Ondo powers the tokenized equities. At launch, the service covers US stocks on Ethereum and Solana, subject to certain jurisdiction restrictions.
AI Agents Step Into Tokenized Equity Trading as Sector Tops $1.5 Billion
Tokenized stocks rank among crypto’s fastest-growing segments. Their distributed value reached about $1.5 billion, according to the data platform RWA.xyz.
That marks roughly 360% year-over-year growth. Ondo Finance leads the segment with more than 57% market share.
Virtuals noted that algorithmic systems already handle about two-thirds of US equity volume, though mostly inside large institutions. The integration opens that same direct-trading capability to any agent.
According to the latest announcement, traders can now leverage agent hedge funds, run copy-trading vaults, hand portfolios full autonomy, or set programmatic strategies that trade nonstop.
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Wall Street is now tradeable by AI.And you can access it all through Virtuals Protocol.AI can trade tokenized stocks like SpaceX, Apple, Tesla, and NVIDIA, powered by @OndoFinance, executed through @treasures_io. pic.twitter.com/Wu8CasebQM
— Virtuals Protocol (@virtuals_io) June 26, 2026
The launch joins a wider race to make AI agents active financial participants. Mastercard launched Agent Pay for Machines (AP4M), a payment system that enables AI agents to buy and sell services.
Robinhood launched Agentic Trading on May 27. Coinbase also introduced a tool to connect AI agents to customer accounts.
However, US lawmakers have flagged concerns. House Financial Services Committee Democrats pressed the SEC this week on how it oversees AI agents trading for retail investors.
Representatives Bill Foster and Brad Sherman posed 13 questions to SEC Chair Paul Atkins. They set a July 31 deadline and warned that agents trained on similar data could herd and amplify volatility.
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South Korea’s KOSPI surged 112% in 2026, overtook the UK’s FTSE 100, and ranked as the world’s best-performing major index in 2025. Yet MSCI’s latest annual review left the country in its Emerging Markets category for another year.
MSCI CEO Henry Fernandez says South Korea’s economy is not the problem. Its currency market is.
One Currency Rule Blocks the Upgrade
Fernandez told CNBC that South Korea is “one of the most developed markets on the planet” in economic and technological terms. But MSCI judges countries on how their equity markets function for international investors. On that measure, the Korean won creates a specific barrier.
Fund managers buying South Korean equities must first purchase the won to settle trades. In every other market that MSCI classifies as developed, investors can buy or sell that currency at any hour, from any major financial center. The Korean won trades only during business hours in Seoul.
That constraint matters at scale. Fernandez said a third of all globally managed index assets sit in index funds. Managers running those funds cannot rebalance Korean positions outside Seoul trading hours.
July Reform Is Not Enough to Convince MSCI
South Korea plans to launch 24-hour dollar-won spot trading on July 6. Fernandez acknowledged the reform as real progress. But he raised a direct question: will a Seoul-based night shift generate enough liquidity, with a tight enough bid-ask spread, to satisfy institutional demand? He said he has doubts.
MSCI also cited rigid investor identification requirements, restrictions on in-kind transfers, and limits on exchange data use as additional reasons for keeping the country in emerging markets. The index provider stated that investors reported these issues remain unresolved.
South Korea already holds developed-market status under FTSE Russell’s classification system. The MSCI designation carries greater weight for passive fund flows globally, which is why Seoul has long pursued the upgrade. Earlier this year, the KOSPI overtook London’s FTSE 100 to become the eighth most valuable national equity index in the world. Market performance does not factor into MSCI’s methodology, however.
The KOSPI has skyrocketed since 2025 on the back of SK Hynix and Samsung, predominantly. Image Source: Trading View
The July trading launch will be the key test. If it produces deep, liquid markets around the clock, MSCI’s next annual review could look different.

Binance will shut off its services for European Union customers from next week, after withdrawing its bid for a licence under the bloc’s crypto rules.
The exchange emailed users in Poland, Italy, Spain, and France this week.
What Binance Told EU Customers
According to Euro News, Binance emailed its French clients. The message said its French unit would stop onboarding new users immediately and would end all crypto asset services in the country from July 1, 2026.
The company confirmed that comparable notices had been sent to affected users in other EU markets.
The notices stated that Binance will not hold a Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) licence by June 30, 2026. The exchange assured that customer funds remain safe.
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The MiCA Deadline Behind the Decision
MiCA entered into force in June 2023. Its full licensing regime began in December 2024, opening a window for firms to secure a national licence.
That window closes July 1, 2026, the hard enforcement date across the European Economic Area. After it, operating without a MiCA licence puts a firm in breach of EU law.
EU CRYPTO DEADLINE LOOMS – You have only 2 weeks to move your funds!Only 14 exchanges are licensed to offer trading in Europe after July 1, 2026.MiCA regulation is ending the transitional period. Unlicensed platforms must stop serving EU clients.See what EU crypto users… pic.twitter.com/6YuzekS5kw
— BeInCrypto (@beincrypto) June 16, 2026
Binance applied to the Hellenic Capital Market Commission in Greece but received no formal decision. It withdrew the bid this week. However, Binance said it would instead pursue a licence through another EU member state.
“Europe is an important region for Binance, and our ambition to operate under a clear, fair, and harmonized MiCA framework remains unchanged. We continue to support MiCA’s goal of creating a consistent regulatory framework for crypto assets across the EU, and we are confident we will secure authorization in another EU Member State in the coming months,” the exchange stated.
Two people familiar with the process told Reuters that Binance also approached regulators in Ireland and Latvia but faced resistance. The coming time will reveal which member state Binance targets next.
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Roughly $10.63 billion in Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) options expire on Deribit Friday. The settlement drops into a market that keeps sliding lower while traders hunt for a floor.
Bitcoin trades near $60,200 after a 2% daily drop, while ether sits around $1,580 after a steeper 4.43% fall. Both rest far below their options max pain levels.
Puts Command a Premium as Traders Brace for Downside
Friday’s settlement ranks as the quarter’s largest options event on Deribit. The bulk of expiring value sits in Bitcoin, with notional contracts worth about $9.06 billion against ether’s $1.57 billion. Max pain marks the price where the most options expire worthless. Bitcoin’s level sits at $70,000, while ether’s sits at $2,000.
Bitcoin Expiring Options. Source: Deribit
Open interest leans toward calls in raw terms, yet positioning tells a cautious story. Bitcoin’s put-to-call ratio sits at 0.63, with 92,154 calls against 57,652 puts. Ether’s ratio runs lower at 0.50. The heavier call count reflects bullish bets now stranded well above the current price. Bitcoin’s recent options expiry events have followed a similar defensive pattern.
Ethereum Expiring Options. Source: Deribit
According to Greeks.live, Bitcoin’s 25-delta skew has turned sharply negative on short-dated contracts. The skew reads -10.7% at one day, -11.3% at seven days, and -9.6% at one month. By contrast, longer tenors stay calmer near -6% and -5%.
“Puts continue to command a meaningful premium over calls across all major tenors,” analysts at Greeks.live stated.
That premium reflects steady demand for near-term downside protection. Traders are paying up to hedge a further slide rather than chase upside. Bitcoin’s recent price action has kept that hedging active through the week.
The Bottom Question Hangs Over Settlement
Greeks.live places negative gamma between $60,000 and $64,000, the band where Bitcoin trades now. Positive gamma spreads across $67,000 to $82,000, with clusters near $67,000, $71,000, $75,000, and $80,000. The June, July, and September contracts drive most of that dealer exposure. The firm notes these readings exclude IBIT data.
That structure can keep price action choppy near current levels through expiry. Meanwhile, ether’s steeper price drop has pushed it well below its $2,000 max pain mark.
The expiry also lands during a broad crypto downturn. Both assets have slid to multi-month lows this week, deepening the case for caution into settlement.
Some forecasters expect deeper losses first. Jiang Zhuoer, founder of mining pool BTC.TOP, sees a late-2026 bottom forecast near $42,000 to $44,000. He points to Strategy’s mNAV slipping to 0.72, close to its 2022 low. BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes has floated a $40,000 Bitcoin bottom within six months. Even so, his year-end target still runs above $200,000.
Jiang’s broader four-year cycle model points to a bottom around late October. He has mined through several halvings and plans to buy back near the low.
Deribit, however, cautions against reading too much into the max pain pull.
“While max pain remains a widely followed metric, recent quarterly expiries have shown limited evidence of a consistent pinning effect ahead of settlement,” Deribit analysts indicated.
Both assets remain stuck below max pain heading into settlement. The next sessions may show whether sellers extend the search for a bottom or buyers finally step in.

SpaceX went public on June 12. Fourteen days later, one of Europe’s largest asset managers is calling it a market top signal. Allianz Chief Investment Officer Ludovic Subran warned this week that SpaceX’s rapid return to capital markets has pushed a healthy rally into “bubble territory.”
The warning came days after SpaceX launched a $25 billion corporate bond sale, which rattled the price of shares in Elon Musk’s company. SPCX is down almost 19% over the last five days.
From Record IPO to Bubble Warning in 14 Days
Subran described SpaceX’s bond move as a prime example of markets shifting “from a healthy boom, a stretched boom . . . into bubble territory.” His core argument drew a sharp line between equity and debt investors.
“The guy just got $70 billion of funny money to play with to get us to space. Equity investors, you can take them to Mars. Bond investors are, like, ‘where is my coupon?'”— Ludovic Subran, CIO, Allianz
The bond deal drew $89 billion in orders. Bankers upsized it from $20 billion to $25 billion to meet demand. SpaceX plans to use the proceeds to retire a $20 billion bridge loan it took on in March. Still, bond investors extracted a price premium.
SPCX has been in steady decline over the past five days. Image Source: Trading View
The 2036 tranche priced at 1.4 percentage points above US Treasuries, roughly 0.4 points wider than similarly rated BBB peers, according to Bloomberg. Investment-grade US companies currently borrow at under 0.8 points above Treasuries, near a multi-decade low.
A Poster Child That Could Become a Catalyst
SPCX opened at $150 on June 12. It surged to an intraday high of $225.64 by June 16. Then it reversed. As of June 26, SPCX trades near $152 — a 32% drop from peak, erasing over $600 billion in market value in under two weeks.
That slide now reshapes the broader IPO pipeline. As BeInCrypto reported earlier this week, OpenAI leans toward pushing its own listing to 2027, citing choppy markets and weakening retail appetite after SpaceX’s turbulent debut.
Analysts had warned before the listing that SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic together could flood public markets with roughly $3 trillion in new equity supply, more than the entire US IPO market raised from 2016 to 2025. Easy to imagine given the near $86 billion raised by SpaceX alone.
SpaceX’s bond sale adds another $25 billion to that total demand. Susquehanna started coverage of SPCX with a Neutral rating and a $170 price target. Morningstar set its best-case fair value at $169, flagging the stock as significantly overvalued at its peak.
Susquehanna Initiates Coverage on $SPCX with Neutral Rating, PT $170Analyst comments: "Over the 2025-2028 timeframe, we are forecasting SpaceX to grow revenue at an 81% CAGR and adjusted EBITDA at a 76% CAGR. In our view, some of SPCX’s key competitive advantages include: (1)… pic.twitter.com/4r0LJT3tYb
— Wall St Engine (@wallstengine) June 23, 2026
SpaceX reports its first public earnings on August 6. That result will likely determine whether the post-IPO slide marks a correction or the start of something wider.

Polymarket-Händler geben inzwischen eine Wahrscheinlichkeit von 65% dafür an, dass Bitcoin (BTC) in diesem Jahr auf 50.000 US-Dollar fällt. Hintergrund ist eine heiße Inflationsanzeige, die den Token auf den niedrigsten Stand seit September 2024 geschickt hat.
Die Chancen auf niedrigere Kursziele sind in letzter Zeit gestiegen und signalisieren, dass Händler jetzt einen stärkeren Rückgang als wahrscheinlicher ansehen.
Heiße Inflation löst den Verkaufsdruck aus
Bitcoin rutschte am Donnerstag auf etwa 58.100 US-Dollar ab, den niedrigsten Stand seit September 2024. Die Bewegung entsprach einer überraschend stärker ausgefallenen Inflationsrate.
Der Index der persönlichen Konsumausgaben (Personal Consumption Expenditures, PCE) stieg im Mai 2026 um 4,1% im Jahresvergleich.

President Donald Trump canceled the signing ceremony for the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act on June 24, saying he will withhold his signature until Congress passes his voter ID measure. This standoff is now compressing the Senate floor calendar that the CLARITY Act needs to survive.
The housing bill, which cleared the Senate 85-5 and the House 358-32, carries a provision banning the Federal Reserve from issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC) through December 31, 2030. That makes its stall a crypto policy event, not just a housing one.
A Political Squeeze With Crypto Consequences
Trump posted on Truth Social that the “Housing News Conference and Signing is hereby cancelled until such time as we pass the desperately needed SAVE AMERICA ACT.” The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, which requires proof of citizenship to vote, has already passed the House but faces a near-certain Democratic filibuster in the Senate.
Donald Trump is refusing to sign the new housing bill until his voter ID bill is passed. Image Source: Truth Social
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, who met with Trump at the Capitol, told reporters he hoped the president would “find his way to sign” the housing bill. Senator Elizabeth Warren, who co-sponsored the legislation, said she had “no idea” why Trump canceled the signing.
The housing bill’s CBDC ban had been one of the more durable wins for crypto advocates this Congress. House Republicans attached the provision to the broadly supported bill to give it the legislative momentum it could not achieve as a standalone measure. Its suspension now leaves that win in limbo.
CLARITY Act Window Is Closing
The more direct consequence for crypto markets is what the standoff means for Senate scheduling. The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act sits on the Senate Legislative Calendar as No. 423, placed on June 1 and eligible for a floor vote at any time Majority Leader Thune chooses to schedule one. He has not yet announced a date.
The Senate returns from the July 4 mini-recess on July 13. The August recess begins around August 10, leaving fewer than four weeks of usable floor time. The bill still needs 60 votes to clear a filibuster, meaning at least seven Democratic crossovers beyond the two already on record.
Senator Cynthia Lummis announced this week that the bill will reach the Senate floor in July, marking the first public floor date commitment from the bill’s lead sponsor. But as BeInCrypto has reported on the Senate calendar crunch, Galaxy Digital research head Alex Thorn has already cut his 2026 passage odds to 60%, citing a shrinking schedule.
I have watched the digital asset community grow from the fringes to the floor of the United States Senate. I am so proud of every single person who made that happen. Now let’s get the Clarity Act to the president’s desk!
— Senator Cynthia Lummis (@SenLummis) June 25, 2026
Brian Gardner, chief Washington policy strategist at Stifel, wrote that the CLARITY Act “probably needs to get through the Senate by the end of July, preferably in June.” He added that failure before the August recess would cause the bill’s prospects to “deteriorate materially.”
The CLARITY Act’s two remaining hurdles, an unresolved ethics provision and law enforcement objections to Section 604, were already straining the timeline before Trump’s housing bill move.
A SAVE Act fight that consumes Senate floor time in July could push the bill past the only realistic legislative gate remaining before the fall campaign season sets in.

SharpLink has resumed buying Ethereum (ETH) for the first time in 8 months, adding 5,000 ETH to its holdings.
The move breaks a long buying pause and lands while ETH trades far below the price the firm paid to build its treasury.
SharpLink Return to Buying as ETH Slides
According to Lookonchain, the 5,000 ETH, worth about $7.85 million, came from FalconX. SharpLink holdings have reached 876,285 ETH valued at roughly $1.4 billion. This also includes 22,102 ETH earned through staking rewards.
The acquisition adds to a position trading well below cost. SharpLink’s average purchase price is $3,609, while ETH traded near $1,556 today. That gap leaves the firm with an unrealized loss of more than $1.7 billion.
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Ethereum (ETH) Price Performance. Source: BeInCrypto Markets
That gap reflects a steep market decline. Ethereum has posted two consecutive red quarters and is on track to close the second quarter lower.
The asset has dropped nearly 25% over the past month, according to BeInCrypto Markets. The fall outpaced Bitcoin (BTC), which lost 22% across the same period.
Institutional appetite has cooled alongside the sell-off. According to SoSoValue data, spot Ethereum ETFs have recorded outflows for six consecutive weeks, with outflows extending into this week. The trend signals weak demand.
ETH ETF Flows. Source: SoSoValue Mounting Losses and a Wider Ethereum Bet
The buying resumes after a punishing quarter. SharpLink reported a net loss of $685.6 million for the first quarter of 2026.
Most of that came from non-cash unrealized losses on its ETH holdings. Staking revenue, however, lifted total revenue to $12.1 million from $0.7 million a year earlier.
SharpLink has also widened its Ethereum commitment beyond its own balance sheet. The firm helped fund Ethlabs, a nonprofit research lab backing Ethereum’s institutional push.
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Micron Technology überholte am Donnerstag, dem 25. Juni, kurzzeitig Meta Platforms und kam nahezu an die Marktbewertung von Tesla heran. Ausschlaggebend war ein Ergebnisbericht für das dritte Quartal des Fiskaljahres, der zeigte, dass der Umsatz im Jahresvergleich um 346 % auf 41,5 Milliarden US-Dollar gestiegen war.
Das Ergebnis ließ die Aktien um 18,4 % auf 1.236 US-Dollar steigen und bescherte Micron eine Marktkapitalisierung von 1,398 Billionen US-Dollar. Meta lag bei 1,392 Billionen US-Dollar. Tesla hielt sich knapp darüber bei 1,4 Billionen US-Dollar. Es war das erste Mal in der Geschichte von Micron, dass das Unternehmen beide Firmen übertroffen hatte.
Nvidias Moment für Speicher
Microns Aufstieg wird mit der Entwicklung von Nvidia verglichen, nachdem das Unternehmen zum prägenden Hardware-Namen des KI-Computing-Zeitalters wurde. Während Nvidias Grafikprozessoren zur unverzichtbaren Rechenschicht für das Training von KI-Modellen wurden, haben sich Speicherchips als nächster kritischer Engpass herausgestellt. Ohne High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM) können selbst die leistungsfähigsten KI-Prozessoren nicht im großen Maßstab funktionieren.

South Korea has fined crypto exchange Bithumb 210 million won ($136,000) for sharing user data overseas without proper consent. The penalty followed a multi-month investigation by the Personal Information Protection Commission.
The decision marks one of South Korea’s most direct crypto privacy enforcement actions to date.
Why South Korea Fined Crypto Exchange Bithumb
Cross-border data transfer is the movement of personal information from one jurisdiction to another, a process subject to strict consent rules under South Korean law. Bithumb violated those rules during cryptocurrency transactions between September and November 2025, according to the official commission findings.
The investigation focused on customer data linked to Tether’s USDT market activity. Furthermore, the commission concluded that the exchange failed to comply with the legal requirements governing overseas transfers of personal information across multiple international destinations.
“The Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC; Chairperson Song Kyung-hee) held its 12th plenary session and agreed to impose a fine of 210 million won on Bithumb Korea Co., Ltd. (hereinafter ‘Bithumb’), as well as to issue a corrective order requiring it to comply with legal requirements regarding the cross-border transfer of personal information, following the discovery of violations of the Personal Information Protection Act (hereinafter the ‘Act’),” reads an excerpt from the PIPC statement.
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Bithumb has been fined approximately $136,$000 by South Korean regulators for sharing user data internationally without consent. This highlights increasing scrutiny of crypto exchanges regarding data privacy and compliance #SouthKorea pic.twitter.com/CIPTAzqRgW
— John Morgan (@johnmorganFL) June 25, 2026
A key finding involved a clear consent mismatch. Bithumb told users that their data would be moved to the Stellar exchange. However, investigators determined that the information actually ended up on a platform operated by BingX, thereby breaching the required destination accuracy under South Korean privacy law.
The case did not stop there. Investigators uncovered a second compliance failure involving transfers with 13 separate overseas crypto exchanges. Bithumb shared customer names, wallet addresses, and birth dates without obtaining the complete consent required under national privacy regulations.
The commission ordered Bithumb to revise its internal procedures for cross-border data transfers. Moreover, the regulator stressed that exchanges must clearly explain where customer information will be processed before any transfer occurs across international platforms or third-party operators.
What the New Privacy Guidance Means for Crypto Firms
The Bithumb decision arrived alongside fresh privacy guidance for blockchain companies. South Korea designed the framework to address the specific tensions between transparent ledger architecture and the personal information protection rules that govern every regulated business in the country.
The core principle is straightforward. Blockchain companies should avoid recording personally identifiable information on public ledgers. As a result, sensitive data such as names and national identification numbers should remain off-chain whenever the technology allows it, for the operator’s convenience.
Bithumb Crypto Exchange Metrics. Source: CoinGecko
Cross-border data movement received the most attention. The commission urged firms to introduce stronger safeguards before transferring customer information to international platforms. Furthermore, exchanges must now verify the actual destination of personal data rather than relying on third-party intermediaries.
The wider regulatory direction is clear. South Korea has steadily expanded its oversight of crypto businesses beyond traditional financial compliance. Privacy protection now sits squarely at the center of regulatory expectations for every digital asset service provider operating across the country.
For Bithumb specifically, the penalty serves as both a financial setback and a reputational warning. However, the broader implication reaches every Korean crypto exchange. Incomplete user consent will now attract stricter enforcement actions as the industry continues to evolve throughout the rest of 2026.