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Crypto is up (+1.4%) — Top: NEAR +7.5%

Crypto markets traded modestly higher on the day (average +1.49%), with risk appetite supported by a constructive news backdrop that reduced perceived tail risks. The XRP Ledger’s patch of a long-standing bug that could have enabled catastrophic token over-issuance, alongside Ledger’s confirmation of hardware-tampering concerns, kept security and infrastructure in focus and likely helped investors differentiate toward higher-confidence networks, coinciding with outsized gains in large-cap altcoins such as NEAR (+7% range) and Cardano (+5.3%). Separately, headlines around retail access to private markets and institutional pullbacks reinforced the broader “risk allocation” narrative, which can lift liquid crypto beta even without a single coin-specific catalyst.

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