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The worst day of the year for $ETH was yesterday and today together. The token fell to an intraday low of $1,517 this morning — a -14.4% drop from Monday June 22’s $1,773 high. The technical catalyst: ETH lost its 200-day moving average at $1,668 on Wednesday, triggering a wave of liquidations of leveraged longs. Spot ETH ETFs recorded $260M in outflows this week. And the Ethereum Foundation announced a 40% cut to its operating budget, reducing annual spending from 15% to 5% of the treasury by 2030. The ETH/BTC ratio fell to 0.025 — the lowest level since 2020, before the mature DeFi era.

In the most brutal week of the year for the crypto market, $SOL is the only positive anomaly among major assets: it’s up 1.07% over 7 days while BTC falls -4.5%, ETH -14.4%, and XRP -8.34%. Today, the token trades around $67–69, rebounding from yesterday’s low of $63.90. SOL options expiring today on Deribit (83K contracts, $57M in notional) have a put/call ratio of 0.50 — the most bullish of all market assets, with call volume dominating. SOL’s max pain is at $85 — a sign of where mid-term institutional positioning is pointing.

June 7. June 25. And today, June 26: $ADA it’s $0.148 for the third time in the cycle — the minimum that’s been holding as demand support for 19 days. In technical analysis, three touches of a support without a break are one of the strongest signals of institutional accumulation: sellers have less and less supply, and buyers are absorbing faster. Fear & Greed hit 13 during yesterday’s low — the lowest level of 2026. ADA options on Deribit expire today. And the broader market is having its worst week of the year, with $2,000M in liquidations.

The toughest Friday of the year for $XRP : the token hits $1.03 as the overall market collapses and today’s options expiration amplifies volatility. The day’s low was $1.01 — just one cent away from the psychological $1.00 level the market has been watching for weeks. The put/call ratio of options on $XRP on Deribit rose to 1.25, indicating bearish hedging. And Polymarket keeps odds for the CLARITY Act at 42% — far from 72% three weeks ago.
But on-chain data tells a different story. CryptoQuant reports an increase in positive whale flows during today’s drop $XRP — a sign of institutional accumulation at support. Spot ETFs logged their seventh consecutive week of positive inflows (though smaller). The options max pain for XRP expiring today is $1.30 — 26% above the current price. Ripple received approval for the MiCA license in Europe — with Binance suspending services in the EU on July 1, Ripple positions itself as the strongest regulated operator in the bloc.

The most important Friday of the quarter: $10.6B in Bitcoin options expire today on Deribit — the largest quarterly expiration of 2026. 80% of the contracts are out of the money, max pain is at $70,000 (well above the current price), and the put/call ratio rose to 1.24 indicating massive hedging. The market fell to $58,189 this morning — the lowest intraday level since September 2024 — before rebounding toward the current $59,400. Spot ETFs recorded $692M in outflows yesterday — the largest outflow since May 27. Total weekly liquidations exceed $2,000M. The Fear & Greed index at 13 hit during the day’s low.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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%.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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 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 .