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⚡ $SOL AT $64.90. PCE 4.1% = HIGHER BETA, BIGGER DROP. BUT DEX VOLUME BEATS RECORDS.
The PCE at 4.1% hit particularly the higher-beta assets — and $SOL leads that list. The token fell to $64.90 today, down -1.96% for the session, although it holds up better than in yesterday’s drop from $66. The market’s total liquidations were $1,260M over 24 hours. But there’s a piece of data that clashes with the price: Solana’s DEX volume set a new record this week, with SOL processing more weekly volume than Ethereum for the second consecutive quarter. And the volumes of RWA perpetual futures — tokenized real-world assets — rose 10.4% against the trend, reaching an all-time high.
⚡ $ETH HITS $1,534. RLUSD APPROVED IN JAPAN. ETH/BTC AT A 6-YEAR LOW.
The PCE at 4.1% hit $ETH hard today: the token touched a low of $1,534 this morning before rebounding to $1,560. The ETH/BTC ratio fell to 0.0253 — its lowest level since 2020, when Ethereum still didn’t have mature DeFi. $1,260M in liquidations over 24 hours. The biggest single liquidation in the market: $15.34M in an ETH/USD contract on Hyperliquid. The Ethereum Foundation laid off 20% of its staff this week. It’s the perfect storm of negativity. But there’s one piece of data the price doesn’t reflect. Japan’s financial regulator (FSA) approved today RLUSD — Ripple’s dollar-linked stablecoin — as a payment instrument under the world’s new, stricter regulatory category. SBI VC Trade already offers it to institutions and retail. And this event is happening on the network $ETH — RLUSD runs on the EVM-compatible layer of the XRP Ledger, but stablecoin volumes on Ethereum are still the largest in the world. Japan opening the world’s strictest regulatory door to on-chain stablecoins is the catalyst that no price has priced in yet.
⚡ $ADA AT $0.148. CYCLE LOW SUPPORT. LEIOS ACTIVE. THE MARKET ON ITS WORST DAY OF THE YEAR.
The PCE at 4.1% delivered the worst day of the year for the crypto market — and $ADA took the full impact: the token hits today $0.148, the same cycle low it marked on June 7. It’s a symbolic level: the last time ADA was here in a sustained way was in 2020, before Alonzo, before on-chain DeFi, before any decentralized governance. Fear & Greed fell to 13 during today’s drop — the lowest level of 2026. And yet the Leios testnet keeps running. The Musashi Dojo has been active since June 23. Carlos López de Lara confirmed this week that the slow start is intentional — the SPOs are integrating the protocol in a structured, not mass, way. The Van Rossem Hard Fork (Protocol V11) is in the final governance phase, with mainnet expected in July. And the August 9 date — when the CME futures of $ADA reach 6 months — is getting close: it’s the earliest possible date for a spot ETF.
⚡ $XRP AT $1.03. RLUSD APPROVED IN JAPAN BY THE FSA. CLARITY ACT AT 42%.
The PCE at 4.1% dragged $XRP along with the market: the token hits today $1.03, dangerously nearing the psychological $1.00 level the market has been monitoring for weeks. The backdrop is complicated: the odds of the CLARITY Act fell to 42% on Polymarket, the Catholic Church and police groups oppose Section 604, and BofA projects 3 rate hikes that weigh on all risk assets. But today brought the most important news for global XRP adoption in months: Japan’s FSA approved RLUSD—the dollar-backed stablecoin issued by Ripple—as a payment instrument under the strictest regulation in the world. SBI VC Trade, Japan’s largest crypto broker, already offers it to institutions and retail with RLUSD and $XRP pairs.
⚡ PCE AT 4.1%: HIGHEST IN 3 YEARS. $BTC HITS $58K AND BOUNCES TO $61K.
This morning the May PCE was released: headline inflation at 4.1% — the highest level since April 2023. Core PCE came in at 3.4%, in line with expectations. The outcome was the worst possible scenario: high enough to reinforce the Fed and BofA’s hawkish narrative (which forecasts 3 rate hikes), but not bad enough for the market to see the inflation ceiling. $BTC fell from $61,800 to $58,000 within minutes — its lowest level since September 2024. More than $1,260M in positions were liquidated in 24 hours. 209,000 traders were taken out of the market.
⚡ $SOL DROPS TO $66 BUT PROCESSES MORE DEX VOLUME THAN ETHEREUM. THE PRICE DOESN'T REFLECT THE NETWORK.
In the worst session of the year for the crypto market, $SOL dropped to $66.04, a -3.94% in 24 hours. The $720M in liquidations are hitting especially hard on high-beta assets, and Solana is the highest beta L1 in the market. But here’s the kicker that the price isn’t showing: Solana is now processing more weekly DEX volume than Ethereum — for the first time in history, maintained over two consecutive quarters. The stablecoin turnover in SOL is 2–3x that of Ethereum. Plus, ProShares launched the Ultra Solana ETF (SLON) this week — a 2x product that explicitly cites Alpenglow as a catalyst for institutional interest.
⚡ LEIOS TESTNET KICKED OFF YESTERDAY. $ADA AT $0.158. THE MARKET STILL HASN'T NOTICED.
The Ouroboros Leios testnet kicked off yesterday on the Musashi Dojo network — and the price of $ADA completely ignored it. Today, it's trading at $0.158, down -3.18% along with the market while $720M in liquidations swept through crypto. The market was too busy with the Nasdaq dropping 3.3%, Bank of America forecasting 3 rate hikes, and the EF laying off 20% of its staff. Leios — 5,700 code updates, 705,000 lines, a jump from 800,000 to 27 million monthly transactions — launched without hardly anyone noticing.
⚡ CLARITY ACT: CATHOLIC POLICE AND THE CHURCH OPPOSE. POLYMARKET DROPS TO 42%.
The CLARITY Act just met some unexpected opponents. Today, the Alliance to End Human Trafficking (AEHT) — backed by nearly 100 bishops and leaders from the Catholic Church — sent a letter to Thune and Schumer opposing Section 604 of the bill, which exempts blockchain software developers from being classified as money transmitters. Their argument: that protection could create loopholes for tracking financial crimes, including human trafficking. On top of that, police groups also issued a warning today in the same vein. $XRP dropped to $1.06, a -3.92%, and Polymarket lowered the probability of presidential signature in 2026 to 42%.
⚡ $BTC BREAKS THE 200-WEEK MA. BANK OF AMERICA PROJECTS 3 RATE HIKES.
The crypto market went into panic mode today: $BTC dipped below $62,457 — its 200-week moving average — for the first time since November 2023. The culprits are threefold: the DXY (dollar index) surged to 101.17, its highest level since last May; Bank of America dropped a revision today projecting three rate hikes from the Fed in 2026, shifting from its previous "no change" stance; and the Nasdaq 100 plummeted 3.3% this Tuesday over concerns about AI demand. $720 million in liquidations within 24 hours, with 82.7% of positions long. Almost 145,000 traders got liquidated. The Fear & Greed index sits at 17 — the lowest since last May.
⚡ $XRP AT $1.10. CLARITY ACT ODDS DROPPING TO 59%. CAPITAL ROTATING FROM BTC.
The market for $XRP is clearly in a dichotomy today. The price is dropping to $1.10, down -3.15%, pulled down by the overall market correction and the odds of the CLARITY Act falling to 59% on Polymarket — the lowest level since before the committee vote on May 14. Sources cite renewed pressure from the banking sector and challenges in securing the 7 missing Democratic votes. But capital flows tell a different story: data from the XRP ETFs platform shows that capital has been rotating from BTC to XRP in recent weeks — the largest rotation between the two assets since December 2024.
⚡ LEIOS TESTNET TODAY. VAN ROSSEM HARD FORK IN JULY. $ADA AT $0.165.
Today's the day. The public testnet for Ouroboros Leios — the most significant consensus upgrade for Cardano since Alonzo in 2021 — kicks off on the Musashi Dojo network. The protocol introduces "endorser blocks" that leverage idle time between regular blocks, boosting throughput from 4.5 KB/s to a theoretical limit of 200 KB/s. Practical goal: over 1,000 TPS, scaling from the current 800,000 monthly transactions to 27 million. The development has amassed over 5,700 code updates and 705,000 lines. Charles Hoskinson called it "an achievement that I could only dream of when founding the project."
⚡ PROSHARES LAUNCHES SLON: 2X ETF ON $SOL WITH ALPENGLOW AS CATALYST.
Today, during the overall market dip, $SOL is trading at $68.72, down -5.29%. But the hottest financial product of the day dropped this week: ProShares launched the Ultra Solana ETF (SLON) — the first 2x leveraged ETF on SOL in the U.S. The fund explicitly cites the Alpenglow upgrade and its goal of 150 milliseconds in Q3 2026 as catalysts for institutional interest. The logic behind the product: institutional investors want direct exposure to Solana ahead of the most significant upgrade in its history, without the hassles of holding SOL directly.
⚡ BLACKROCK: "AI IS SUCKING THE OXYGEN OUT OF BITCOIN." $BTC DROPS TO $62,325.
Today, the most uncomfortable market diagnosis came from an unexpected source. Robert Mitchnick, head of digital assets at BlackRock, said that AI is "sucking all the oxygen out of the room" for Bitcoin — and institutional investors are prioritizing AI over crypto. $BTC dropped to $62,325 this morning, down -4.67% in 24 hours, with the Fear & Greed at 20 (Extreme Fear). Wintermute summed it up: "Funnels aren't flowing" — the market has the cleanest leverage of the cycle, but there's no new buying demand. Spot ETFs recorded $68M in outflows yesterday. The May PCE comes out tomorrow, Thursday.
⚡ $SOL LEADS THE RALLY: +5% WITH ORMUZ AND SPACEX TOKENIZED. ALPENGLOW TOMORROW.
$SOL is the asset that’s reacting best today to geopolitical optimism: trading at $74, recovering ground with a weekly performance better than the rest of the majors. The logic is mathematical — when geopolitical risk decreases, high beta assets rise more, and SOL is currently the highest beta asset in the L1 market. When Brent fell to $74 and Bessent confirmed Ormuz free, the altcoin market recalibrated — and SOL led the move. But the catalyst this week is on-chain: tomorrow, June 23, the public testnet of Alpenglow launches — the biggest consensus redesign in Solana's history. Alpenglow replaces TowerBFT with Votor + Rotor, bringing block finality from 12 seconds down to 150 milliseconds. With 98% approval among validators and mainnet aimed for Q3 2026, tomorrow's testnet is the first technical inflection point of the cycle for $SOL .
⚡ ORMUZ OPENS. BRENT AT $74. $ETH RISES TO $1,775 AND TARGETS $1,800.
This morning, Bessent's confirmation about Ormuz and the nuclear inspectors triggered the biggest weekly bounce in the crypto market. $ETH opened on Monday at $1,704 and surged to $1,775 — a +4.2% jump driven exactly by the mechanism analysts have been describing for weeks: oil under $80 → expected low inflation → Warsh's dot plot up for revision → institutional capital shifts back to "risk-on" mode. The critical level to close this week is $1,739 — the technical confirmation signal that activates the short-term bullish pattern according to resistance analysis.
⚡ ORMUZ OPENS. CLARITY ACT ODDS DROPPING. $XRP AT $1.14 WITH TWO OPEN VARIABLES.
The market in $XRP today is living in two worlds at the same time. On one hand, the positive news: Bessent confirmed that Iran committed to free passage in the Strait of Hormuz, Brent dropped to $74, and the crypto market kicked off the week in the green with altcoins leading the charge. XRP opened Monday at $1.13 and is slightly up during the session. On the flip side, the warning signal: Polymarket cut the odds of the CLARITY Act to just 59% — the lowest since before the committee vote on May 14 — with sources citing renewed pressures from the banking sector and challenges in securing the 7 necessary Democratic votes for the floor.
⚡ BESSENT CONFIRMS: IRAN OPENS HORMUZ. BRENT SLIPS TO $74. $BTC RECOVERS TO $65K.
This morning, Scott Bessent tweeted that "in line with the productive negotiations in Switzerland, Iran has committed to free passage in the Strait of Hormuz and to allow the return of IAEA inspectors." Oil immediately dropped to $74 per barrel — the lowest level since early March. Vance confirmed that Iran also agreed to let in nuclear inspectors. $BTC jumped from $63,242 at Monday's open to $65,218 as the market processed the news from Bürgenstock.
⚡ $SOL AT $74.31 THIS SUNDAY. 99% OF THE TOKENIZED STOCK MARKET. ALPENGLOW ON THE WAY.
$SOL is trading at $74.31 this Sunday — the best performer of the day among major coins with a +3.67%, bouncing back to the EMA20 resistance zone at $72. The fundamental narrative remains the strongest of the cycle: the SpaceX IPO on June 12 turned Solana into the most active tokenized equity market in the world — 99% of SpaceX's stock volume was traded on-chain in $SOL , with $100M in a single day on June 15. In the last 30 days, $4,300M in tokenized stocks traded on Solana — a historical record with +140% year-over-year growth.
⚡ $XRP AT $1.14. 200 COMPANIES PRESSURE THE SENATE. CLARITY ACT: IT ALL DEPENDS ON 7 VOTES.
This weekend, $XRP is trading at $1.14 — the same range as the last few weeks, stuck between the support at $1.10 and resistance at $1.25. But the catalyst that could break this consolidation could come at any moment: over 200 crypto companies — including Coinbase, Ripple Labs, and Bitwise — sent a joint letter this week to Senate leaders (Thune and Schumer) demanding an immediate vote on the CLARITY Act. The legislation has been on the legislative calendar as Calendar No. 423 since June 1 — ready for a vote without further committee action.