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 two treasuries fund their accumulation in very different ways, and a filing shows Strive holding a stake in Strategy's own preferred stock, so the two are not just parallel bets on bitcoin. They hold each other's paper.
The deal puts a bank-issued stablecoin on a major exchange while giving that exchange's institutional clients access to round-the-clock dollar settlement.
