📊🤔 Alphractal: #BTC is going up, but profit-taking (SOPR) is going down — defying the market’s historical behavior. Holders are confident, and $100k still looks cheap to those who understand the game.

🇯🇵🎮 #BTC Japanese video game developer Gumi purchases ¥1 billion worth of Bitcoin.

🇺🇸📈 Over the past year, US-based stablecoins like #USDC and #PYUSD grew +104% to $67.5B — while non-US stablecoins still lead with $173.7B (+41%).

The surge reflects rising institutional demand, backed by regulatory clarity and trust in American issuers. #stablecoin

🔎 STATE OF THE STAKING

According to Staking Rewards, the entire staking market cap, which values all projects with staking mechanisms, is currently approximately $490 billion, with the top five being #ETH, #SOL, #stETH, #SUI, and #BNB.

📊🤔 #ETH supply on exchanges has been steadily declining for over a month now, suggesting a supply shock is on the horizon.

Increased demand + decreased available supply could rcreate a sharp price rally

⚠️ Reports indicate that there was a widespread internet outage affecting Spotify, Google, Discord, Twitch, Firebase and Cursor; Cloudflare and AWS services were also affected.

🥳 Shopify integrates stablecoin payments through Base. coindesk

🗽👀 #COIN Coinbase launches cryptocurrency futures in the US, and integrates DEX on Base into its app

🐳 Santiment: Projects with the highest rises in whale transactions this week.

📊 #BTC compared to the world's largest companies

💸 Total Liquidations across crypto futures exchanges $712.5M in 24 hrs. Longs $650M, Shorts $62.5M.

🆕 #S Coinbase added the cryptocurrency Sonic to its asset roadmap. Sonic's market capitalization: 1032 million dollars.

⚖️ #XRP The SEC and Ripple have jointly requested a Manhattan District court to dissolve the injunction in their ongoing case and release the $125 million civil penalty held in escrow.

In May, the court had already rejected a similar request to change the final decision.

🇮🇱🇮🇷 Israel says it has carried out preemptive strikes on Iran. #macro

🕵️ 2 wallets (likely belonging to the same whale) bought 4,521 #ETH ($11.7M) at $2,593 after the Ethereum drop. (1|2)

👍 #BTC GameStop have raised their fundraising target to $2.25 billion. businesswire

👨‍⚖️ #XRP SEC and Ripple jointly filed a motion to dismiss the litigation and reduce the fine from $125 million to $50 million. x

📈 #BTC #ETH #ETF Yesterday, total net inflows of spot BTC-ETFs totaled $86.3 million.

Total net inflows of spot ETH-ETFs amounted to $112.3 mln.

🙅‍♂️ #SOL #NFT Solsniper will shut down the NFT site.

🎮 Tencent is considering buying gaming company Nexon. cointelegraph #GameFi

📊 Friday's expiration of ~$3.7 billion worth of options**:
- Face value of #BTC options: $3.04 billion $
- put/call ratio: 0.95
- max pain point: $107,000

- Nominal value of #ETH options: $687 million.
- put/call ratio: 1.20
- max. pain point: $2,700.