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While overall bitcoin and ether price performance have been strong in 2023, it’s largely been a first quarter story

The Tesla CEO and Twitter owner has been known on occasion to playfully talk about his fondness for the memecoin.

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for July 19, 2023.

The burned tokens are now permanently destroyed, which makes circulating tokens more valuable if demand increases.

Open interest on XRP-based futures contracts crossed the $1.1 billion mark in the past 24 hours.

The balance held in wallets tied to centralized exchange has surged by 50% in three days, per Glassnode data.

Ether posted nominal gains in the past 24 hours alongside the broader market.

ProShares’ Bitcoin Strategy ETF (BITO) has hit an all-time high bitcoin equivalent exposure of 4,425 BTC.

Stride's native token STRD trades 0.7% higher as the transition is expected to beef up the liquid staking protocol's security by several thousand percent.

PLUS: Last week's partial court victory for Ripple last week buoyed Coinbase's share price by clarifying a nettlesome regulatory issue. The company still needs to recapture trading volume but seems headed for better times, an analyst says.
- 09:58Meteora Faces Class Action Lawsuit, Accused of Insiders Controlling 95% Supply in M3M3 Token IssuanceAccording to Cointelegraph, the decentralized exchange platform Meteora within the Solana ecosystem is facing a class action lawsuit. The lawsuit accuses it of causing investors a loss of $69 million through the M3M3 token issuance, with insiders controlling 95% of the token supply. This case is similar to the previous LIBRA token scandal involving the same parties.
- 09:57Strategy's Bitcoin Holdings Currently Show a Floating Profit of Approximately $141 BillionAt the current price of $94,026.1 per Bitcoin, Strategy's (formerly MicroStrategy) Bitcoin holdings show a floating profit of approximately $141 billion. As of April 21, 2025, Strategy holds a total of 538,200 Bitcoins, with a total purchase cost of approximately $36.47 billion and an average price of around $67,766 per Bitcoin. Previously, in December of last year, Strategy's Bitcoin holdings (then at 439,000 BTC) showed a floating profit of over $19.6 billion when the price of Bitcoin was about $106,000.
- 09:57A whale borrowed 10.20 million USDT through a loop loan to buy 109.2 WBTCAccording to on-chain analyst Ember's monitoring, a whale borrowed 10.20 million USDT from Aave through a loop loan 8 hours ago to purchase 109.2 WBTC at a price of 93,331 USD. He now holds a total of 256.2 WBTC (24.12 million USD), with an average cost of 87,162 USD. However, the health rate of this leveraged long BTC position is relatively low, at only 1.14. The corresponding liquidation price is at 82,457 USD.