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Your day-ahead look for June 23, 2026

Bitcoin lost 2.5% to $62,300 and ether fell more than 4% while $717 million in liquidations amplified losses across altcoins.

The license will enable Ripple to offer its stablecoin payment systems to European companies and expand into broader crypto functions.

The former bitcoin miner denied any wrongdoing related to its 2023 merger with U.S. Bitcoin Corp.

The bitcoin price’s long-term moving averages are set to flash a bearish signal soon. That’s good news for the bulls.

After nearly two years of declines, alts have run out of sellers and steadied, while bitcoin has dropped hard, sliding back toward $63,600.

Weak volume and fading momentum kept XRP pinned near the bottom of its recent range, with the $1.05-$1.10 area emerging as the market’s key line in the sand.

The newly public company shed close to half of bitcoin’s entire market value in three sessions after announcing its first bond sale. Bitcoin, absorbing the same backdrop, fell less than 1%.

A rotation out of this year’s best AI and chip stocks sank Asian markets, with South Korea’s Kospi down 6%, and crypto fell with them. Bitcoin is down more than 3% on the week.

The White House issued twin executive orders to accelerate U.S. development of large-scale quantum computers while simultaneously hardening defenses against such machines.

The idea of a U.S. central bank digital currency — though little more than a research topic at the Federal Reserve — may be getting formally blocked.

tZERO and Securitize are squaring off over tokenization patents as the market attracts more of Wall Street’s attention.

Crypto prices remain under pressure, but Ric Edelman says institutional adoption and tokenization are accelerating behind the scenes.

Tokenization can improve settlement and asset movement, but key pieces of financial infrastructure remain unprepared for institutional-scale adoption.

A sharp selloff in digital credit products exposed growing pains in a young market, a Strive executive argues the underlying credit fundamentals remain intact.

Ethlabs was formed with support from SharpLink, Bitmine and Consensys CEO Joe Lubin as the network’s development is expanding beyond the Ethereum Foundation.

The Ethereum community is once again debating the future of the foundation after co-executive director Hsiao-Wei Wang announced she would step down.

The crypto sector’s leading U.S. advocacy groups asked the U.S. House’s tax committee to advance a bill to clarify treatment of assets from mining and staking.

The crypto bank aims to help financial institutions offer round-the-clock payments and settlement without replacing their core systems.

The remittances firm has become a validator on the Solana blockchain, helping process and secure transactions as it expands its stablecoin payments strategy.

The goal is to enable OKX’s 120 million global users to access ICE futures and NYSE tokenized equities markets, the two U.S. companies announced.

The largest Ethereum treasury firm slowed its buying pace but remains on track to reach its goal of owning 5% of ETH supply.

A growing share of miners are operating near breakeven levels, making hashrate and mining difficulty increasingly responsive to bitcoin’s price movements, the bank said.

The boost to cash reserves is meant to reassure investors about dividend payments on the company’s hard-hit preferred shares, STRC.

Baillie Gifford Enhanced Yield Fund (BAGEY) is denominated in dollars, and gives eligible investors access to an actively managed, short-duration portfolio of public corporate bonds.

Your day-ahead look for June 22, 2026

Analysts noted bitcoin is stuck between key support near $60,000 and resistance around $68,000, and a bearish chart pattern could send prices toward $54,000.

Your look at what’s coming in the week starting June 22.

An attacker forged withdrawal proofs to drain about $1.7 million, the same type of flaw behind this year’s biggest bridge hacks. Fast containment kept the damage small.

Doctor Profit, a widely followed crypto analyst, says bitcoin is forming a “bear flag” pattern.