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What’s up
Zebec Kills It This Week
Payments player Zebec Network, you slay us. Your native token ZBCN achieved James Bond status ($0.007) while hitting its new all-time high earlier today, ascending into the Top 150 bracket as measured by CoinGecko. The half-a-billion-dollars market-cap threshold was reached. From its darkest depths in early May, ZBCN has rocketed more than 700%. Yesterday, Zebec said it acquired Science Card, a UK fintech focused on the financial lives of college students.
Meanwhile, the Top 100 chart is devoid of green. Cronos (CRO) was slowly going nowhere but leading the mid-cap altcoins in performance, up 0.3% over 24 hours. Fasttoken (FTN)? Up 1% this week.
Stock futures were doing an early a.m. deer-in-headlights thing as investors try to navigate a constantly shifting course of tariff-related decisions and implications. Crypto has starkly pulled back.
What's down
Digital Markets Tumble
As of 8:25 a.m. (EST), total digital assets stood at $3.44T, down 5.3% since yesterday at this time. Bitcoin fell 2.7% in that time to reach roughly $105.7K.
Some big altcoins have gotten trounced this week. Dogecoin, for example, declined 17% since last Friday. Much of that depletion happened in the past 24 hours, after the White House announced its governmental efficiency guru Elon Musk was departing the fold.
Traders at the bell were watching "core PCE," a crucial inflation measure closely tracked by Federal Reserve policymakers. The Personal Consumption Expenditures price index data, excluding volatile food and energy, remained flat in April. In March, core PCE was unchanged. A wispy PCE number was seen as likely to ease concerns about inflation although practically no one expects a rate cut in June.
What's next
Dogecoin Looking For Fresh Start
Dogecoin (DOGE) suffered a midnight sell-off, CoinDesk said. The eighth-largest crypto has been as high as nearly 24 cents in the past week. At 20 cents, it's still up over the past month.
Dumping followed news that Elon Musk is leaving the Department of Government Efficiency. Today will be his last day as a special government employee.
Somehow this matters. DOGE volatility aligns with Musk’s 130-day stint heading D.O.G.E., FXStreet said. "Amidst the exit of Dogefather from federal responsibilities, Dogecoin risks a downfall below the $0.20 support," FXStreet insists, noting technical analysis that shows bullish momentum in decline versus a mere 30 days ago.
But, points out CoinDesk, a potential double-bottom pattern "hints of possible stabilization" for the largest memecoin.
Note also that Dogecoin trading volume has been spiking ahead of a mid-afternoon White House send-off for Musk.
