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The largest IPO ever enters the Nasdaq 100. Previous additions like Palantir and Strategy saw volatility after the index inclusion rather than the start of new rallies.

Your day-ahead look for July 6, 2026

BTC holds at $62,800 after last week’s brush with $58,000, while LIT surges 50% and the Altcoin Season indicator hits its highest reading in three months.

A reading that negative means investors would have been better off in risk-free assets like 10-year U.S. Treasuries.

The approval means Ripple is now fully MiCA-compliant for payments, financial institutions, corporates and businesses across all 30 European Economic Area countries.

CEO Brian Armstrong investigated, and the firm said it made updates to prevent future AI-generated inaccuracies.

Your look at what’s coming in the week starting July 6.

A revised roadmap details how the multi-year overhaul would replace nearly every major part of Ethereum’s protocol, with quantum resistance and privacy moving up the priority list. It lands as ether rallies more than 12% in the past seven days.

Bitcoin touched $63,882 overnight before retreating to around $62,900, per CoinDesk data. Sunday’s high held briefly before sellers pushed it back down.

Veteran trader Peter Brandt said gold is going to gain substantially on bitcoin.

Heavy volume pushed XRP through resistance, but sellers met the move near $1.16 and left traders watching whether former resistance can now hold as support.

A stalling rebound in AI and chip stocks and a stronger dollar kept the mood cautious as the second half gets underway.

All parties are still optimistic that Clarity can happen before the midterms, but time is really starting to run out.

U.S.-linked wallets traded $571 million in political contracts over the past year, more than any other country, even though the platform legally cannot serve them. The money leans toward the foreign-conflict markets U.S. venues do not list.

Financial institutions are racing to become the secure gateways for stablecoins as digital asset volume is projected to explode by 2030.

As yield-bearing stablecoins race toward a $50 billion market capitalization, the industry is optimizing for the wrong metric, argues Artem Tolkachev, chief RWA officer at Falcon Finance.

Some of the many battles with state gaming regulators aren’t going well for the industry at the moment, but it isn’t without its would-be government protectors.

Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy said he will hold bitcoin all the way down to zero after buying near $100,000.

Thomas Sy, head of multi-asset solutions at the $800-million asset manager, says blockchain can enable complex portfolio construction that’s not yet possible in traditional finance.

The token hit its highest in over a month during thin July 4 trading, with XRP up 5% in 24 hours to lead gains among majors.

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao said Satoshi Nakamoto’s bitcoin should be frozen before quantum computers can steal it. Not everyone agrees.

A critical flaw in the Aptos blockchain, which was patched, gave researchers a near-90% success rate at breaking a core security guarantee, with attack costs of just hundreds of dollars.

Researchers at Schwab and Hashdex said AI has diverted capital from digital assets while bitcoin continues to follow a familiar post-halving recovery pattern.

The TRUMP token is down 96% from its peak, and 85% of secondary market wallets for WLFI are underwater, reflecting a broader downturn in the sector.

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The region’s regulators emphasized that a product’s actual function as a derivative matters more than its commercial name or labeling when assessing compliance.

The U.K. FCA’s crypto framework has been praised for prioritizing global liquidity and institutional adoption, but the authorization process is expected to be daunting.

The token’s 30-day and 365-day MVRV, a measure of how far holders are underwater, sit near -45% and -47%, lows Santiment says XRP has never reached before. Some traders read stretched losses as a contrarian signal.

This cycle, about $697 billion in new money has generated a roughly 689% gain, compared with earlier cycles where far less capital drove returns of 2,000 percent to more than 50,000 percent.

A7A5 claims crypto data providers understate its trading activity, while blockchain analytics firms say the ruble-backed token’s volumes have fallen sharply this year.