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Crypto is mixed (-0.1%) — Top: NEAR +6.3%

Crypto prices were broadly flat on average (-0.06%) but choppy, as investors weighed conflicting signals on stablecoin competition and regulation. Circle-related headlines, including Mizuho’s downgrade on concerns around OpenUSD, kept attention on the economics of dollar-pegged tokens, while the ECB’s digital euro pilot underscored that policymakers are actively building alternatives to private stablecoins, tempering risk appetite in parts of the market. Against that backdrop, idiosyncratic strength in NEAR (up roughly 4–6%) looked more like rotation into higher-beta L1s than a market-wide bid, while larger-cap laggards such as SHIB (-4.2%) and ADA (-4.0%) reflected selective profit-taking rather than a broad risk-off move.

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