Danger zone dance
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What’s up
Steely Bitcoin Stays Above $60K
Bitcoin’s plunge this week toward $60,000 prompted a wave of worrisome predictions concerning the impact of that mark not holding. But $60K did in fact hold strong. The low mark was roughly $61K. BTC was seen canoodling with $62K-$63K for the better part of Friday morning. As of 9:07 a.m. (EST), BTC was $61.97K.
What's down
Potential Privacy Token Debacle Rocks Secretive World
Zcash, the second-largest privacy token after Monero, got pummeled overnight after developers disclosed a major bug conceivably allowing for rampant counterfeiting that would have been undetectable for the past four years.
The shocking vulnerability was discovered on May 29 by an AI-abetted security auditor and fixed within days. Had the bug been exploited prior to this discovery, there would have been no way to prove it. However, the audit's overall findings suggest that any actual exploitation of the bug is not likely to have taken place, Decrypt said.
Shielded Labs, the nonprofit developer behind the Zcash privacy token system, is proposing a network upgrade with new accounting measures and expanded security efforts, according to CoinDesk.
Despite efforts to assuage investors' concerns, Zcash’s native ZEC plunged more than 40% versus yesterday morning, per CoinGecko. The biggest privacy coin, Monero (XMR), only lost about 2%. But another big peer asset, Dash (DASH), fell 10%.
Meanwhile, a slew of the biggest altcoins were nursing severe laceration wounds as of early Friday. Ethereum, XRP and Solana have each fallen by double-digits (on a percentage-wise basis) since last week at this time.
It has been an exceptionally brutal period for Cardano (ADA), down 30% in the past week to reach $0.164.
Spot ADA prices have not bordered on 16 cents in six years.
Despite a noteworthy increase in network activity, the Cardano community was stricken by a bout of anxiety owing to Charles Hoskinson having posted a message on social media stating: “I’m taking a break.”
Some community members for whatever reason went ahead and interpreted that as a kiss-off from the founder, and theorized that perhaps Hoskinson was exiting the Cardano development ecosystem. But Hoskinson soon returned with a live broadcast to clear the air, emphasizing that he's merely stepping back from public-facing activities and social media engagement, not from his involvement in Cardano. (CoinJournal).
What's next
Strategy’s Shift A Big Test For BTC's Resiliency
Revealed on June 1 in an SEC Form 8 filing, Strategy’s sale of 32 Bitcoin worth $2.5 million proved to be a key psychological trigger for this week’s selloff.
“The shift in approach from one of the world’s largest BTC holders has weighed on market sentiment,” said Zach Pandl, Grayscale’s head of research.
Strategy’s leveraged BTC buying model is now under duress, potentially spelling further sales, according to Grayscale.
Shares of MSTR fell about 13% since the news of the sale — which marked the first time Strategy has sold any BTC since December of 2022 — but it’s Stretch (STRC), the firm’s variable rate preferred equity instrument, that warrants even closer attention.
Stretch is designed to trade at a share price of around $100 and pay a dividend of 11.5%, as Cointelegraph explained.
Currently, STRC is trading at around $95 so investors looking to be made whole are going to need a higher return rate. If Strategy raises its dividend, it increases cash obligations, potentially forcing more BTC sales. Strategy’s stash now totals 843,706 BTC. Markets could withstand a slowdown in buying and maybe a few more relatively small sales. But it’s the specter of a negative feedback loop that has roiled the BTC realm as well as the wider crypto scene.
Going forward it’ll be paramount for other buyers to step in if BTC’s price is to somehow find a sustainable bottom. Yesterday’s fund flow news didn't hurt on that score. On a nerve-fraying day but one apparently ripe for contrarianism, U.S.-listed spot BTC ETFs garnered $3M in net inflows, ending 13 straight trading sessions in which this cadre of funds saw outflows.
A longer-term shift toward more diversified corporate ownership of BTC — away from levered digital asset treasury balance sheets — would support market resilience over time, Grayscale concluded. (The Block)
