The token is down nearly 7% on the week with the altcoins falling harder. Bitcoin and ether are both ending the second quarter in the red, a back-to-back losing first half that runs against the usual pattern.

A rotation out of chipmakers lifted much of the stock market, with the equal-weight S&P 500 at a record. Crypto was not part of it. Ether fell 8% on the week and the memecoins dropped harder.

Sellers broke another support level on heavy volume, while the recovery failed to reclaim the zone that would ease downside pressure.

The Fairshake super PAC supported Adrian Boafo in Maryland, plus other candidates in Maryland, New York and Utah as each ran its primary elections.

The White House issued twin executive orders to accelerate U.S. development of large-scale quantum computers while simultaneously hardening defenses against such machines.

sian stocks and tech climbed as the US and Iran agreed a roadmap to a final peace deal, sending oil below $80. Crypto stayed soft, with bitcoin down 2% on the week and the memecoins leading the losses.

Crypto firmed over the weekend after Friday\\\'s sell-off, with bitcoin recovering toward $64,000. Permanent ceasefire talks open in Switzerland, but Iran\\\'s order to close the Strait of Hormuz again revives the risk the deal was meant to settle.

As AI-powered security tools become cheaper, faster and more widely available, researchers said they could reshape what the crypto industry considers reasonable due diligence before deploying code, potentially altering expectations for developers and institutions.

Crypto dropped across the board on Friday in holiday-thinned trading, giving back the week\\\'s gains. With oil down 9% and the Iran deal signed, the question turns to whether this cycle gets an altseason at all.

Kalshi\\\'s perpetual futures product did not meet the Dodd-Frank Act\\\'s definition of a \\\"swap\\\" and should not have been approved, Terrence Duffy said.

XRP briefly traded above key resistance before sellers stepped in, with rising volume suggesting traders used the rally to cut positions rather than add risk.

The Bank of Japan raised its key interest rate by 25 basis points to 1%, the highest level since 1995.

XRP extended its rebound from recent lows on the strongest buying activity in weeks, with institutional flows and ETF demand supporting a push toward the $1.20 level.

Not all crypto exchange executives agree, but the data does not lie: centralized exchange trading volumes dropped more than 11% to $4.61 trillion, their lowest since late 2024.