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Crypto is down (-2.6%) — Top: NEAR -6.7%

Crypto markets traded lower on average (about -2.6%) as risk appetite softened amid renewed caution around leverage and market quality, with sharper drawdowns in higher-beta majors like NEAR and Solana. Headlines about $1B of apparent Ethereum spot buying “before leverage arrives” likely reinforced the view that recent strength may be increasingly dependent on derivatives positioning, encouraging traders to de-risk into a down tape. At the same time, widely circulated reports of a Trump-themed meme coin collapsing on rug-pull allegations added a fresh reputational shock to the speculative end of the market, while CoinDesk’s note about decade-dormant bitcoin moving largely off-exchange helped temper immediate sell-pressure fears even as the broader rally showed signs of stalling.

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