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Crypto is down (-1.3%) — Top: AAVE -5.0%

Crypto markets drifted lower today (average move -1.4%) as the brief recovery phase described in technical coverage faded, triggering renewed risk-off positioning and sharper pullbacks in higher-beta DeFi names like Aave (down roughly 4–5%). While institutional headlines such as Citadel Securities’ reported $400 million investment in Crypto.com underscore ongoing long-term capital formation, they did little to offset near-term caution, with traders also digesting mixed signals around exchange and L2 strategy shifts (including scrutiny of Base’s trading/AI pivot). Overall, the price action looks more like a cooling of recent momentum than a reaction to a single market-moving catalyst, with selling concentrated in assets that had been leading the rebound.

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