Morning Minute: Crypto Surges Over Vacation Weekend – Decrypt

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In the present day’s high information:

• Crypto majors inexperienced over vacation weekend; BTC rebounds to $63k, HYPE hits $71
• LIT soars practically 50% on the week following Robinhood integration, leads alts
• BTC ETFs flip to internet inflows on Thursday, breaking outflow streak
• ANSEM jumps to $350M and enters crypto high 100
• Daniel Sundheim spends $2.2M buying 22 CryptoPunks in epic assortment construct

📈 Crypto Surges Over the Vacation Weekend as ETF Flows Flip Inexperienced

Crypto majors ripped greater over the July 4 vacation weekend, portray the weekly board inexperienced whereas US markets sat closed.

Bitcoin climbed again to highs over $63,000, up 5% on the week, however the alts led the cost.

• ETH +12% to $1,770
• SOL +11% to $81
• HYPE +12% to $71
• ZEC +16% to $450

Downstream, LIT led most alts up 44% to $2.50 and a brand new native excessive after its Robinhood integration.

Broadly, the CMC20 index of the highest 20 property rose about 9%.

Two elements had been key within the reversal. First, Thursday’s mushy June jobs report, simply 57,000 payrolls in opposition to roughly 113,000 anticipated, eased rate-hike fears and gave danger property room to run. Second, and extra importantly, the ETF flows flipped. After bleeding a report $4B+ in June, spot Bitcoin ETFs swung to a $223.5 million internet inflows on July 2. ETH ETFs had been inexperienced two days operating, including about $15 million on July 1 and $29 million on July 2. The institutional promoting that outlined June’s collapse confirmed its first actual indicators of reversing.

This bounce comes off a 21-month low of $57,950 to open July, after Bitcoin’s worst first half since 2018 and 2022. Whales had been absorbing the ETF promoting all month, shopping for roughly $16.7 billion of BTC over two weeks, the form of divergence that has proven up close to previous bottoms. The ETFs flipping inexperienced is the piece bulls had been ready for.

Saylor’s ecosystem caught some welcome aid within the Bitcoin rally as effectively, with STRC leaping 21% to $87.87 to finish the week after hitting lows close to $70. And MSTR inventory rebounded 21% as effectively, reclaiming $100.

Now, one or two inexperienced days don’t undo a record-outflow month. However alts outrunning Bitcoin is a traditional risk-on inform, and for the primary time in weeks, the move image factors up. Now we watch whether or not it holds when full liquidity returns.

🌎 Macro Crypto and Markets

• Crypto majors are flat, with HYPE main; BTC even at $62k; ETH even at $1,747; SOL even at $80; HYPE +2% at $70
• DEXE (+15%), LAB (+9%) and LIT (+8%) led high movers
• Oil even at $68; Gold +1% at $4,170
• Inventory futures are inexperienced as chip shares rebound; DOW flat, Nasdaq +1%
• President Trump defended his crypto ventures after his disclosure confirmed over $1 billion in 2025 earnings, pushing again on conflict-of-interest criticism as Democrats renew calls to bar politicians and their households from the trade
• Odds of the CLARITY Act passing briefly surged to 55% after two main regulation enforcement teams shifted their stance, however has since retraced to 44%; now only one month stays till the important thing Aug 7 deadline marking the Senate summer time break
• Vitalik Buterin outlined Ethereum’s “Lean Ethereum” roadmap, a 3-4-year plan to make recursive STARKs a local verification layer, swap remaining quantum-vulnerable cryptography for post-quantum alternate options, introduce a “scalable state” sort reaching 100 TB by 2030 to chop some transaction prices greater than 10x, and discover RISC-V or leanISA VMs for programmable privateness
• Bitcoin miner stress hit a traditionally uncommon stage, with the Miner Cycle Stress Composite falling to a brand new 2026 low and getting into its “undervalued” vary, a stage that beforehand confirmed up close to main bottoms in 2015, 2018, 2020, 2022, and 2024

Company Treasuries & ETFs

• The Bitcoin ETFs noticed $223M in internet inflows on Thursday (although $527M internet outflows on the week); the ETH ETFs noticed $29M in inflows on Thursday ($13M outflows for the week)
• STRC rebounded to $89.17 on Thursday, up 21% on the week

Meme Coin Tracker

• Meme leaders had been very inexperienced on the week; DOGE +6%, SHIB +4%, PEPE +15%, PENGU +8%, TRUMP even, BONK +11%
• ANSEM soared 300% on the week to $350M FDV, making it a high 100 token by FDV
• LEVI (+180x), ZERO (+48%) and JOBY (+430%) led movers on Solana
• Base movers included SYND (+30%) and LFI (+30%)

📈 Myriad Market of the Day

💰 Token, Airdrop & Protocol Tracker

• Summer season Finance was exploited over the weekend with $6M drained to date
• VVV has fallen 20% since its fairness announcement final week, now buying and selling at $11.56

🚚 What is going on in NFTs?

• NFT leaders had been largely inexperienced over the weekend; Punks +4% at 32.4 ETH, BAYC +5% at 9.2 ETH, Pudgy even at 4.5 ETH; Hypurr’s +2% at 220 HYPE
• Murakami Flowers (+29%) and Masks of Luci (+17%) led high movers
• Daniel Sundheim spent $2.2M buying 22 Punks over the previous week, constructing among the finest collections in existence