
Ether Touches $1,500, Its Deepest Drawdown Since the 2025 Peak
Ether traded about 70% below its August 2025 record of $4,953.73 on Monday, roughly 20 points worse than bitcoin, as more than $1 billion of positions were liquidated.
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Ether traded about 70% below its August 2025 record of $4,953.73 on Monday, roughly 20 points worse than bitcoin, as more than $1 billion of positions were liquidated.

Bitcoin traded as low as $59,743 on Friday, its first move under $60,000 this cycle, after a five-session fall of about $14,000. A $1.57 billion liquidation wave marked the fourth billion-dollar day in five sessions, and total crypto market value dropped to $2.23 trillion.

US spot crypto ETFs recorded a 13th consecutive session of net outflows on Wednesday, taking the total to $4.37 billion since mid-May. Bitcoin fund assets have fallen from $104.29 billion to $82.83 billion, and the ETF share of bitcoin's market capitalization has slipped to 6.36%.

Stellar's XLM rose 40.4% on the first trading day of June, lifting its market capitalization above $9.6 billion on $2.3 billion of spot turnover, after an integration with the DTCC's tokenization work. The broader market opened the month lower, with US spot bitcoin ETFs shedding $483.8 million.

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