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Both tokens rose 3%, bitcoin and ether added as much as 1.2% and bnb (BNB) rallied 1% after staving off concerns about contagion risks in the BNB Chain ecosystem.

Lending platform Maker’s governance tokens soared to near one-year high prices last week prior to the sales.

Digital asset investment products recorded outflows last week for the first time since mid-June, CoinShares reported.
Next week’s U.S. central bank interest rate decision and the bitcoin options expiry are unlikely to move markets, which have been stuck for weeks.

Some selling pressure may have arisen from a revised U.S. bill that excludes a host of traditional securities from the "digital asset" category, which some say bodes ill for DeFi.

Analytics can offer insight into how recent and past crypto and regulatory events have affected prices and movement. Plus: A quick Q&A on retirement funds.

Bitcoin’s stall despite a recent wave of positive crypto news is a cause for concern, one observer said.
The trading volume of XRP against the Korean won was the highest among all other counterparts .
Breaking down one of the key dilemmas in crypto investing in 3 different ways. Plus: Questions spurred by the BlackRock ETF application.

Crypto data firm CCData released the first institutional-grade scoring system that evaluates digital assets focusing on environmental, social and governance aspects.
- 07:48Musk's Approval Rating Falls Below Trump; Federal Cuts ControversialA poll released last Friday shows that 35% of people approve of Musk's management of the "Department of Government Efficiency" (DOGE), while 57% disapprove, up from 49% in February having a negative view of Musk. The percentage of people approving of Musk's work has not changed significantly, with 34% approval two months ago. However, the poll found that Musk's popularity remains lower than Trump's. In this survey, Trump's approval rating is 39%, with a disapproval rate of 55%. After Tesla released dismal financial results for Q1 2025, Musk announced he would dedicate more time to company operations. The poll indicates that nearly 60% of people believe President Trump's efforts to downsize the federal government through layoffs have gone too far.
- 07:461inch Expands to Solana NetworkThe multi-chain decentralized exchange aggregator 1inch has launched on the Solana network. The project team stated that this integration brings their Fusion Protocol, on-chain swap feature, and six developer APIs to empower this speed-renowned crypto network. (The Block)
- 07:24Orderly Network: Upgrade Completed, New Features Include Maximum Open Contract Limit DisplayOrderly Network, the cross-chain derivatives liquidity layer, announced via a tweet that it has completed an upgrade. New features include the display of a maximum open contract limit, support for LayerZero v2, and optimized strategy Vault. All systems are now back online.