This morning South Korea’s KOSPI index is in freefall, dropping to 6,900 and breaking key support at 7,044, now 26% below its 2026 high of 9,387. A Bank of Korea rate hike is expected Wednesday, the Iran conflict is still open, and global risk sentiment is off. That is the backdrop for everything else in this edition.
Bitcoin held up well over the weekend, hovering around $64,000 through Saturday and Sunday despite the Iran conflict flaring back up. A few months ago, that headline alone would have sent crypto down 10%. The fact that it didn’t tells you something about where we are in the cycle.
We are now pulling back toward $62,000 as of this writing, which is not surprising. The market got ahead of itself pricing in a clean geopolitical resolution, and now it’s recalibrating. But I don’t read this as bearish. Bitcoin has been building a base, and a retest of $62K while macro uncertainty is elevated is actually constructive. Watch whether it holds above $60,000 to see our next move.
Ethereum is looking more interesting right now. ETH has been quietly setting up for a run at $2,000, and the technicals are looking ripe. The problem is it’s still moving with Bitcoin. When BTC dips, ETH follows. We haven’t had the decoupling moment yet where ETH trades on its own fundamentals. When that separation happens, and I think it’s coming eventually, the move could be sharp. We will eventually head back to All Time Highs.
For now both are tracking together, which means the real question is how BTC handles the $62K level. Hold it and ETH has a shot at $2K. Lose it and we wait for the next base.
This week's interviews cover three different corners of where the industry is actually building. Reid Cuming of Ground breaks down how onchain yield gets embedded into everyday banking products without the user ever touching a wallet. Peter Anthony of Perceptron makes the case for decentralized AI data infrastructure at 92% lower cost than legacy providers. And Misha Putiatin of Symbiotic explains why collateral markets, not restaking, is the right frame for what they are building and how it solves the RWA redemption problem institutions have been stuck with for years. Worth reading all three.
BTC is trading at $62,774 as of this morning, sitting inside a tightening wedge structure on the 4H. The low of $57,800 marked the cycle support that held after the AI BUY signal fired near the bottom, and price has since recovered into the $62K–$64K consolidation zone. The bigger-picture channel is compressing, meaning a directional break is coming. The question is which way.
The dashboard is mixed but leaning cautious. Weekly and 3H are both bearish, with the 1D holding neutral. Multi-timeframe reads neutral overall. Smart Money is OUT. RSI sits at a neutral 54.88 on the primary and 39.09 on the secondary. Not oversold, not overbought, just range-bound. AI Social Intelligence Score is 3, the weakest of the assets tracked this week, reflecting low conviction from the crowd.
My bias: neutral, watching for a break. The wedge has to resolve. A clean hold above $63,380 keeps the path to $64,000–$65,000 open. Lose $62,500 and the $57,800 low comes back into focus fast, especially with the KOSPI crashing this morning and Warsh testifying Tuesday.
Support: $62,500 → $57,800 | Target: $63,955 | Range High: $70,431
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ETH is at $1,777 on the 4H, holding near the intersection of a rising channel structure after two AI BUY signals fired off the $1,505 low. The recovery has been steady but unspectacular. Price is back inside the $1,773–$1,802 zone and has not yet pushed into any meaningful breakout territory.
The dashboard is more constructive than Bitcoin’s. The 1D reads bullish and multi-timeframe is bullish, even as the 1W and shorter timeframes stay bearish. RSI is healthier at 57.94, and the AI Social Intelligence Score of 4 is the strongest of the assets tracked this week. The one thing still holding it back: Smart Money is OUT. Until that flips, the bullish reads on the daily and multi-timeframe are not fully confirmed.
My bias: cautiously bullish, waiting on Smart Money. ETH has the better setup of the two right now. The channel is clean, the signals came off a clear bottom, and the 1D turning bullish while BTC sits neutral is a relative strength signal worth noting. If Smart Money flips IN and price reclaims $1,802, the path to $1,925 opens. Above that, $2,038 is the next major level to watch.
Support: $1,773 → $1,505 | Target: $1,802 → $1,925 | Range High: $2,038
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⭐⭐⭐ South Korea’s KOSPI is crashing today. Fell to 6,900, breaking support at 7,044, now 26% below its 2026 high. SK Hynix down 12%+. Bank of Korea rate hike expected Wednesday. South Korea has 10M+ crypto investors (30%+ of population). The same forces driving the selloff: rate hikes, Iran, AI valuation stress, all already weighing on BTC and ETH.
⭐⭐⭐ Circle just became a bank. OCC approved Circle’s national trust charter July 10. First crypto-native federally chartered trust bank. Regulated custody tied to USDC, inside the same federal oversight framework as traditional banks. Not a stablecoin story. A banking story.
⭐⭐⭐ CLARITY Act back on the Senate floor this week. Three weeks before August recess. New draft expected this week. Polymarket odds: 42–50%, down from 74% earlier this year. Galaxy Research prices passage at 60% for 2026. Three fights remain: ethics, developer liability, stablecoin yield.
⭐⭐⭐ Fed Chair Warsh testifies Tuesday and Wednesday. At his June debut he killed the rate-cut thesis and adjusted the dot plot toward hikes, sending Bitcoin tumbling. June CPI and PPI also print this week. Biggest macro swing factor for crypto right now.
⭐⭐ Ethereum Institutional launches with Joe Lubin. Nonprofit backed by Lubin, BitMine, and SharpLink. 500+ relationships across Tier 1 banks, asset managers, and sovereign institutions representing ~$250T in AUM. Arrives as ETH closes three consecutive red quarters for the first time in its history.
⭐⭐ Bitcoin ETFs snapped an 8-week outflow streak — barely. $197.4M in net inflows for the week ending Friday. BlackRock IBIT drove it ($291.9M); Grayscale, Fidelity, and ARK were still selling. $197.4M against $8.26B withdrawn since May 11. ETH ETFs broke their streak too: $84.4M against $1.2B out since May 11. Not a recovery yet.
⭐⭐ Fannie Mae-backed crypto mortgage closes. First conforming mortgage using Bitcoin as collateral closed in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Full rollout this summer, $250M in projected loan volume on the waitlist. A US government-sponsored enterprise now formally accepts digital assets as collateral.
⭐⭐ Fidelity: Bitcoin near a power law support line tracked since 2015. Called an accumulation zone, but no catalyst yet. Coinbase Premium negative 50 straight days. BTC cheaper on Coinbase than Binance for nearly two months. Weak US retail demand persists.
⭐ Bear case: Bitcoin cycle low around October. One institutional CIO says Bitcoin remains in a downcycle, bottom forming around October 2026. A separate analyst calls it the latter stages of the bear market but stops short of calling a bottom. Both agree: not over yet.
⭐ Solana Alpenglow upgrade targeting Q3. Cuts finality from 12.8 seconds to 150 milliseconds. Active addresses near 7M yearly highs. SOL outpaced BTC and ETH on the jobs report bounce (+14% vs BTC’s +4.5%).
⭐ Stablecoin market cap down $10B since May. June alone: $7.7B contract, the largest dollar decline since Terra-Luna. Watch as a liquidity signal.
Onchain Finance for Every Balance
Reid Cuming, Co-Founder of Ground, joins Ashton Addison on Blockchain Interviews fresh off a $3.6M pre-seed raise backed by Bain Capital Crypto, ParaFi, Nascent, Robot Ventures, Chapter One, and Consonant VC. Ground is building the API layer that lets any neobank, exchange, or financial platform embed onchain yield directly into their existing products — no wallets, no private keys, no blockchain knowledge required for the end user.
In the conversation, Reid breaks down why the access problem (not the yield problem) has kept trillions in idle deposits offchain, how Ground is doing for onchain finance what Stripe did for payments, what the GENIUS and Clarity Acts actually unlock for larger financial institutions, why institutional demand for tokenized real-world assets is accelerating, and where the industry is headed in the next 12 months.
Decentralized AI Data at 92% Lower Cost
Peter Anthony, Co-Founder of Perceptron Network, joins Ashton Addison on Blockchain Interviews to break down why centralized data providers like Scale AI are losing ground to a mesh of 700,000+ user-run nodes. Perceptron is already generating real revenue, with 300K daily active users contributing AI training data at a fraction of what legacy platforms charge. Peter walks through how the Data Questing Platform turns distributed micro-tasking into precision labeling at scale, and how the $10M AI Data Fund gives teams free data access with no pre-funding required. If you think data is the bottleneck for AI development, this one reframes how that problem gets solved.
Collateral Markets for the Onchain Economy
Misha Putiatin, Co-Founder and CEO of Symbiotic, joins Ashton Addison on Blockchain Interviews to explain why the restaking label undersells what Symbiotic is actually building. The conversation covers Core V2’s capital facilities, which let vault capital stay enforceable while earning yield between settlement events, and Symbiotic Instant Liquidity, which enables T+0 atomic settlement for tokenized assets without pre-funded inventory. Most RWA redemptions still take 60 to 180 days. Symbiotic is the infrastructure layer that fixes that. Cap Labs, Nexus Mutual, and Midas are already building on it.
The Original DePIN Protocol — Now with Its Own Layer One
10M+ nodes. A decade of proof-of-work. XYO’s Layer One is built for high-volume data, AI infrastructure, and real-world asset tokenization, with dual tokens $XYO and $XL1.
Bitcoin is sitting on $62K with a lot of noise overhead. Korea selling off, the Fed testifying, the CLARITY Act on the floor. None of it resolves this week, but all of it is pressure on the same level. Hold $62K and ETH has a real shot at $2K. Lose it and we wait for the next base. That is the only number that matters right now.
See you next week.
Ashton Addison
CEO, Crypto Coin Show
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