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Crypto is down (-1.5%) — Top: NEAR -6.3%

Crypto prices drifted lower on the day (average move -1.5%), with ETH (-4.7%) and DeFi names like Aave (-5.8%) leading the pullback as investors digested a more cautious policy backdrop around digital money and payments. Headlines on the ECB’s stablecoin concerns and the long runway for a digital euro reinforced the theme of tighter oversight and bank-centric design, which tends to weigh on risk appetite for crypto-native financial rails. Separately, fresh reporting on FTX’s latest $900 million creditor distribution adds to the ongoing normalization of post-collapse flows, but it did not offset the broader risk-off tone that also pressured higher-beta L1s such as NEAR.

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