Morning Minute: Bitcoin Headed for Rare Back-to-Back Quarterly Loss

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Today’s top news:



  • Crypto majors chop over the weekend, lag stocks; BTC steady at $60k

  • BTC ETFs see $1.79B in outflows on week, 3rd most ever

  • Brian Armstrong responds to criticism of Coinbase app promoting gambling

  • Unlicensed crypto firms in Europe face trouble ahead of July 1 MiCa deadline

  • ANSEM cools off after weekend run to $120M, now back at $80M


📉 Bitcoin Headed for Rare Back-to-Back Quarterly Loss


Bitcoin is trading just below $60,000 and is on track for a rare back-to-back quarterly loss.


It’s down roughly 12% this quarter after a 22% drop in Q1, which breaks its historically strong second-quarter pattern, with the quarter and first half both closing Tuesday. The selloff bottomed at a $58,115 low on June 26, a 20-month low, and the bounce since has been shallow.


The causes have been pretty consistent:



  • steady outflows from spot Bitcoin ETFs (another $1.79B this past week)

  • a hawkish Fed under Kevin Warsh

  • a dollar at 12-month highs

  • capital rotating into semiconductor and memory-chip stocks riding the AI boom.


The damage runs deeper in altcoins. ETH is down about 25% on the quarter and 47% on the year, and over the past week Dogecoin, XRP, and HYPE all posted double-digit losses. Solana held up a bit better, but is still down 43% on the year.


The back-to-back losses feed the bigger debate over whether Bitcoin’s four-year cycle is breaking, since a red 2026 would push the usual three-up, one-down rhythm into a second straight down stretch. But the bulls have a chart of their own.



Every prior time Bitcoin closed two red six-month candles in a row, in 2018 and 2022, it was followed by a three-year uptrend. The second red six-month candle of this stretch closes in two days.


Pair that with a Fear and Greed reading of 18, deep in Extreme Fear, and the setup looks either like the start of a deeper breakdown or the kind of capitulation that has marked past bottoms. Let’s hope it’s the latter…




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  • Meme leaders were red on the week; DOGE -13%, SHIB -10%, PEPE -18%, PENGU -8%, TRUMP -12%, BONK -9%

  • ANSEM ran from ~$1M to $120M over the weekend in one of the biggest moves seen in months

  • WYNN (+38x), Solangeles (+90%) and alon (+80%) led movers on Solana

  • Base movers included Rave (+30%) and POD (+22%)




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💰 Token, Airdrop & Protocol Tracker



  • Hyper Foundation announced $10M in grands to help builders impacted by the USDH sunset

  • The same sequencer bug caused the Base outages that occurred on June 25 and 26




🚚 What is happening in NFTs?



  • NFT leaders were mostly flat over the weekend; Punks +1% at 32.5 ETH, BAYC +1% at 8.85 ETH, Pudgy -1% at 4.5 ETH; Hypurr’s +10% at 228 HYPE

  • Creepz (+77%) and Chimpers (+20%) led top movers

  • Several Punks sold for multiples above the floor this weekend, including a 3D Hoodie for 278 ETH, a VR for 135 ETH, and a Pilot for 100 ETH


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