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While Asia opens the week of negotiation,
Changing hands at around $ 105,000, wedged in this range due to the uncertainty of the market as to whether the Israeli-Iranian conflict will turn into a wider regional war, according to a recent note from the QCP commercial company.
QCP wrote in a Friday note published on Telegram that risk inversions “decisively overturned”, with front BTC places which commanded bonuses of up to 5 volatility points on equivalent calls, a clear indicator of increased anxiety of investors and increased coverage against lower risks.
The firm said that in spite of this defensive change in positioning, the BTC has demonstrated notable resilience. Even in the midst of recent volatility, which has seen more than a billion dollars in long -term positions liquidated through the main cryptography assets, the data on the chain show that institutional purchases continue to provide significant support.
The QCP stresses that the markets remain “stuck in a connection”, pending clarity on geopolitical results, and warns that the digital asset complex will probably remain closely linked to motivated feelings in the predictable future.
With all this in mind, however, Glassnod data ensures that investors concerned about the longer -term management.
Although recent volatility highlights short -term anxiety, the current Bitcoin cycle of 656%, although lower than the previous bull markets, is significantly impressive given its much greater market capitalization today.
Previous cycles have rendered 1076% (2015-2018) and 1007% (2018-2022), which suggests that investors’ demand always returns closely to the maturation of the BTC, even if the macro in the long term dominate the feeling of the market.
Galaxy Research says that the op_return debate was not so important
The op_return debate was less important than a “noisy but noisy group of criticism” wanted everyone to think, wrote Alex Thorn de Galaxy Research in a recent note.
Thorn described the reactions of criticisms as “wild accusations of” Bitcoin death “” and argued that such a hyperbole was moved given the historically weak congestion of Mempool.
The data on the chain show that mempool is practically empty compared to a year ago, and the idea that a congested blockchain suffocating the BTC, as well as the story in force in 2023, now seems overestimated.
In the note, Thorn also underlined the irony of the labeling of arbitrary data as a “spam”, reminding the observers that the creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, included an arbitrary text, the “chancellor of bitcoin of the first baking block” in the very first block of blockchain Bitcoin.
Instead, made Thorn, the attention of the Bitcoin community would be better focused on potential upgrades such as checktempleolify (CTV), a proposed opcode allowing strict expense conditions (“alliances”).
“We continue to believe [CTV] is a conservative but powerful opcode that would considerably improve the capacity to build better safer child care methods, “he wrote, noting that around 20% of the Bitcoin hashrate has already reported a support for upgrading.
Bitcoin upgrades require an extended consensual construction, reflecting its open source philosophy, and Thorn stressed that a prudent and deliberate evolution remains critical for a larger adoption and scalability.
Bybit launches byreal, a decentralized exchange of Solana native
Bybit enters the decentralized exchange space with Byreal, a chain trading platform built on Solana, Ben Zhou, announced the CEO of Bybit via X during the weekend.
To announce Byreal – Our first onchain Dex incubated by Bybit, will be live by the end of the month. From zero and now born on Solana. What is special: 1 / CEX + Dex Synergy Byreal is not “just another Dex”. It combines the liquidity of Grade Cex with the challenge transparency.… Https://t.co/ju60e4zhq4
– Ben Zhou (@benbybit) June 15, 2025
The Byreal testnet should be launched on June 30, with the Mainnet deployment expected later this year. Zhou said that Byreal is designed to combine centralized exchange characteristics such as high liquidity and rapid execution with DEFI transparency and composibility. The platform will also include a fair launch system and organized yield boxes linked to the native assets of Solana as BBSOL.
Market movements:
- BTC: Bitcoin has owned nearly $ 105,000 after more than $ 1 billion in leverages, led by a long $ 200 million, while the increase in Israel-Iran tensions sparked a strong sale, a flight from altcoins and a brief but intense blur of volatility.
- ETH: Ethereum increased by 2% to around $ 2,550 after finding solid support at $ 2,510, showing resilience in the middle of Israeli-Iranian tensions and wider market volatility, with continuous institutional entries supporting the upward trend.
- Nikkei 225: The markets in Asia-Pacific increased on Monday, led by the Nikkei 225 of Japan, winning 0.87%, while investors weighed Israeli-Iranian tensions, while the prices of oil and gold increased on a refuge request.
- Gold: Gold climbed to $ 3,447 at the start of Asian negotiations on Monday, reaching a one-month summit as tensions in the Middle East and rising expectations of the Fed rate of September coupé prevailed over the feelings of the feelings of American consumers.
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