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BTC clings to $62,000 after a 20% weekly drop wipes April-May recovery. XRP eyes $1, SOL leads sentiment, Strategy and Bitmine carry $23B in unrealized losses.

Uniswap recorded its biggest single-day UNI burn under UNIfication on Thursday, as founder Hayden Adams said on X he is extremely bullish on DeFi and Ethereum.

Bitcoin slipped below $69,000 as 10,300 BTC left Mt. Gox-linked wallets, $1.5B in liquidations hit crypto, and Charles Schwab targeted a mid-2027 advisor…

Saturday-to-Saturday: XLM ripped 40%, UNI lost the $3 line as 5M tokens hit Binance, and the CFTC opened US perps. Greed cooled 10 points.

UNI fell toward $3.02 after 4.9M tokens hit Binance on May 25 and May 27, with 7-day netflow running 6,019% above the three-month baseline, CryptoQuant data…

BTC trades $73,113 after losing $74K, testing a 2017 wedge support near $70K. Robinhood +11%, Coinbase +7% on CFTC perps green-light. UNI inflows spike 6,019%.

BTC pushed above $82,000 on US-Iran deal hopes as $8B in shorts liquidated since February. AAVE bottoms near $93 after Kelp DAO contagion. ETH lags below…

Aave is moving to unfreeze $71M on Arbitrum tied to the Kelp DAO exploit after a federal judge let creditors target DeFi recovery funds.

Mantle's 30,000 ETH credit facility for Aave's rsETH rescue went to Snapshot Friday, layering structured debt onto a $314M multi-DAO backstop.

Aave deployed on Solana on Monday through Sunrise, opening the largest DeFi lending market to SOL liquidity and routing borrow demand across two chains.

BTC sentiment holds at 86 with SOL and XRP at perfect 100 reads. Morgan Stanley adds 220 BTC, BitMine targets $300M for ETH, Ether trades near $1,745.

Injective's Vulcan mainnet upgrade proposal went live Sunday, promising new trading features and tokenomics tweaks that could reshape how INJ accrues value.

Lido rolled out Staking Router v3 on Wednesday, a modular overhaul aimed at trimming validator costs and broadening operator access on Ethereum.

Cactus Custody now supports Lido V3 stVaults, giving institutions a custodied route into Ethereum staking with customizable validator and risk parameters.
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