Morpho's token spiked after Standard Chartered's analyst backed the DeFi lending protocol with an aggressive long-term price target.

The US president, Donald trump, has disclosed cryptocurrency income on a scale with no modern precedent.

A new stablecoin is launching with one of the broadest backer lists the sector has seen. Open Standard announced Open USD, a stablecoin supported by a consortium of more than 140 financial and crypto companies.

The altcoin market is in one of its weakest stretches in years. Most coins have stayed stuck below a key long-term trend line for months, a slump matched only by the last bear market.

XRP is consolidating after a hard fall, and its derivatives market has quietly gone calm. Price sits at $1.0479 at the time of writing, down 5.6% for the week, having dropped from the $1.25 area through $1 in June.

Hyperliquid's native token, HYPE, recovered toward the upper end of its recent trading range on June 29, erasing most of a mid-week slide that had pulled it into the low $60s while the wider market softened.

Fundstrat's Tom Lee thinks crypto's weakness is a price problem, not a broken thesis. Speaking with Anthony Scaramucci on SALT, he laid out a wide-ranging bull case.

Stablecoin exchange activity has dried up in both directions, near its lowest since July 2025, after one large May outflow that hasn't returned since.

Canton (CC) is testing the lower boundary of a two-month range as momentum deteriorates, with both key moving averages now sitting overhead as resistance heading into July.

Speaking at ETHCC, Polygon's Chief Product Officer John Egan argued that crypto's killer use case turned out to be moving money, specifically stablecoins as a payment rail, not NFTs, DeFi speculation, or trustless infrastructure as an end in itself. "The killer use case for crypto is money," he said.

At $71 at the time of writing, SOL trades below every major moving average in a downtrend that's run since October 2025, but it's also resting directly on top of the largest concentration of recent buyers in its history.

The story in XRP is a split screen: the derivatives market just went through a violent, one-sided purge of leveraged bets, while network usage keeps climbing.