Bitcoin recovered to $109,780 after Powell’s hawkish tone sent it briefly to $107,000. Ethereum and BNB remained range-bound, while Solana dipped 3% to $186. Total crypto market cap remains stable at $3.7 trillion despite weak U.S. ETF flows.
Bitcoin ETFs saw $488 million in outflows; Ethereum ETFs lost $184 million. Solana ETFs bucked the trend, posting $37.33 million in inflows, its third straight day of gains.
President Trump’s meeting with President Xi yielded trade, energy, and fentanyl agreements.
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The HKMA handed its first approvals to the banks that already print the Hong Kong dollar. That tells you everything about what these tokens are meant to be.
Geopolitical pressure from the Strait of Hormuz standoff continues to weigh on BTC, which has failed to sustain gains above $72,500 even as whale selling dries up and leveraged shorts accumulate.
BTC retreated from a weekend high near $73,000 after the U.S. announced naval interdiction of vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz, compounding an already fragile market structure.
DRW founder Don Wilson's blunt critique of MEV cuts to a deeper flaw: blockchain market design has drifted into engineering complexity that extracts value without improving price discovery or capital allocation.
