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Crypto is down (-1.7%) — Top: AAVE -5.8%

Crypto prices drifted lower today (average -1.78%) as traders unwound earlier macro-driven strength, echoing reports that bitcoin and ethereum have been giving back CPI-fueled gains, with ETH (-4.72%) leading the large-cap weakness and pulling risk appetite down across the complex. Regulatory headlines also skewed sentiment defensive: renewed scrutiny around stablecoin rules and the reported postponement of updated CLARITY Act text reduced near-term policy clarity, which tends to compress positioning in higher-beta names such as Aave (down roughly 5% on the day) and NEAR (-5.42%). Meanwhile, Foundry’s call for miners to weigh in on the BIP-110 soft fork kept attention on bitcoin’s governance process, but it did not provide an immediate positive catalyst to offset the broader de-risking tone.

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