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While Asia begins its day of negotiation on Wednesday, Bitcoin
continues to negotiate beaches without any of the dominant newspapers.
The world’s largest digital asset is negotiated over $ 108,900, according to Coindesk market data, and the Coindesk 20 index, a performance of the largest digital assets, is more than 3,100, up 1.7%.
Currently, what separates Bitcoin drift at $ 110,000 from a rally is the condemnation of the market, say observers.
In a recent report, Glassnode Highlighted that Spot Volumes for BTC Continue to Linger below their Usual Statistical Bands, ETF Flows Contracted Sharly from Recent Highs, and Institutional Investors Appear Hesstant Despite the Climbing Unrealized Gains Shown in Elevated and Realized Value (MVRV) Reports.
In an update update earlier this week, Wintermute describes this environment cautious as a “dumbbell market”, highlighting a fracture between the enthusiasm renewed in high beta assets, such as mecoins, and the stability of the large capitalization tokens established.
The narrative punishments of last year, in particular the AA and Deput tokens, lost the attention of investors, indicating that traders are running in mecoins, many majors like Doge, Shib and Pepe increased by more than 8% last week, or to remain in BTC and ETH, which are considered to be tested and secure in combat.
With global actions by largely hausing geopolitical uncertainties, the hesitation of the BTC underlines persistent prudence among traders, suggesting that the market awaits lighter signals before breaking decisively. Things are likely to stay linked to the beach until it changes.
Summary of news: $ 100 million Backs Builders, not bettors, on Bitcoin
The company of VC Bitcoin only Ego Death Capital has closed a fund of $ 100 million aimed at supporting projects that deal with Bitcoin as an infrastructure, and not as a speculative trade, Coindesk previously reported.
The fund will target the series has turned between $ 3 million and $ 8 million for startups that solve the real world problems using the Bitcoin base layer or its scaling solutions.
“We are investing in companies that deal with Bitcoin not as a business, but as an infrastructure – something to rely on, and not on the bet,” said General Partner Lyn Alden. The existing portfolio of the EGO includes relay, a self-care and roxom application, an exchange of securities built directly on the Bitcoin rails.
At a time when Multichain VC chase the yield on each new L2 and L3, the ego thesis is a bet on simplicity and sustainability: Bitcoin domination remains greater than 60%, and the fund aims to capitalize on its power. The message to the beneficiaries: ignore the media threshing, support the lasting rails.
Summary of news: the judge prohibits the sanctions of the conversation in the trial in species of tornado, limits the defense of freedom of expression
A federal judge ruled that the sanctions of the United States government against the Tornado Treasury, which were imposed in 2022 and which were then canceled, cannot be discussed in the next criminal trial of Roman Storm, previously reported Coindesk.
Judge Katherine Polk Failla said that authorizing her to hear about the now invalid sanctions would require a “mental gymnastics” and risk confusing the main legal problems at the trial. The sanctions were initially imposed by the control of foreign assets of the US Treasury (OFAC) On an alleged use of the mixer by the Lazarus group in North Korea, but were canceled earlier this year in a separate case, Van loon v. Treasury.
Storm faces several criminal charges related to its role in the construction of Tornado Cash, a confidentiality tool that allows users to obscure the origin of cryptographic transactions. Prosecutors allege that he has taken advantage of the project considerably, citing proofs of torn token sales of several million dollars and real estate purchases.
Judge Failla also judged that the evidence obtained from the phone of Tornado Cash developer, the treasury developer can be admitted to the trial, despite the objections of the Storm legal team who argued that the equipment was selected in the cherry and not verifiable independently.
Although Storm is free to talk about his belief in private life and civil freedoms, the judge said he would not be authorized to supervise his actions as protected by the first amendment.
The court made a distinction between personal beliefs and legal defenses. A final forecast hearing is scheduled for Friday, the trial is expected to start on June 14 and is expected to last four weeks. The result of the case is likely to create an important precedent for the way in which the American courts deal with the developers of open source confidentiality tools.
Market movements:
BTC: Bitcoin maintained institutional quality resilience during the negotiation cycle from July 7 to 8, holding above the key level of $ 108,000 while sailing at high resistance at $ 109,200 and finding strategic support nearly $ 107,470, indicating the continuous confidence of the company’s treasures despite the delayed profit, according to the Bot of the Bendesk market.
ETH: Ethereum increased by 3% to reach $ 2,610 during the session from July 7 to 8, while institutional investors deployed $ 515 million in coordinated weekend purchases, driving volumes to almost triple the average and by pushing the assets through key levels of resistance
Gold: Gold dropped by 1.2% to $ 3,300 on Tuesday, optimism compared to delayed reciprocal prices and hopes for new commercial transactions weakened the demand for safe, while the markets awaited the FOMC minutes for new rate guidelines.
Nikkei 225: Asian markets exchanged on Wednesday while Japan Nikkei 225 fell 8.39 points (0.021%) After the American president, Trump, excluded the delay in the rates of August 1, imposed an obligation of 50% on copper imports and warned potential pharmaceutical rates of 200% with a period of grace of 18 months.
S&P 500: The S&P 500 closed almost unchanged on Tuesday after President Donald Trump confirmed that there would be no exemption from the deployment of the August 1 rate.
Elsewhere in crypto
- Eigen Labs dismisses 25% of employees, focuses on eigencloud (Blockworks)
- The Sharplink game jumps 26% while the Treasury ether arrives at 200K ETH (Coindesk)
- The yield in 30 years in Japan flashes a warning sign for risk assets: macro markets (Coindesk)
