Is This Cycle Cooked?
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- 🪶 Robinhood hit with Wells Notice. The stock and crypto-trading app is likely the next crypto exchange facing the ire of the SEC and its anti-crypto agenda after receiving the notice of potential future enforcement action.
- 🤔 Coinbase hit with lawsuit. Brian Armstrong and Coinbase are facing a class action suit from investors who say that they suffered losses as the result of being sold illegal securities in the form of SOL, MATIC, and other tokens.
- 🌊 Justin Sun apes into Swell. With a 120k ETH deposit into the Swell L2, the billionaire Tron founder’s now massive 40%+ position is raising eyebrows ahead of the project’s planned airdrop.
📊 GBTC Goes Big. The Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) experienced its first net inflow since converting to a spot ETF! Did we just enter a more bullish paradigm, or is there an alternative explanation for this unexpected inflow?
| Prices as of 6pm ET | 24hr | 7d |
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Crypto $2.35T | ↘ 0.3% | ↗ 0.4% |
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BTC $63,465 | ↘ 0.5% | ↗ 0.5% |
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ETH $3,082 | ↘ 1.5% | ↘ 3.1% |
Is this cycle already over? A confluence of factors has led to structural problems with the vibes in crypto: an overabundance of VC capital, a lack of new entrants, and an overbearing regulator.
Why are the factors causing these problems, and who are the ones losing out because of them?
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