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$BTC is trading around $60,528, holding these levels after last week's break below $60K and a flash crash that briefly tagged ~$58K – which puts the strength of the current trend in question. $ETH holds near $1,594, while BTC dominance sits at 58.1% – still firmly Bitcoin Season, with no clean rotation into alts yet. Key question for the week: can the ~$58K low hold as support? Overhead, $61.6K and the 200-week SMA near $62.4K are the levels to reclaim before the picture flips back to neutral. Where do you see the crypto market heading this week? 📊

SimpleSwap now works with @SafePal_official New to crypto and don't have a wallet yet? You can now set up SafePal without leaving the swap flow. Choose your pair, create your SafePal wallet in a few taps, and your crypto lands in self-custody from the very first swap. No detours, no balance sitting on a platform you don't own. Just a swap that ends in a wallet only you control. 👉 Try it now on SimpleSwap

Of 8,192 coins on CoinMarketCap, only 192 are proof-of-work blockchains. Pepecoin ($PEP) is in the top 20 of them 🐸 Most people think Pepecoin is the PEPE meme token. It isn't. PEPE rides Ethereum. PEP runs its own chain, merge-mined with Litecoin and Dogecoin, no premine, no ICO. Why build a whole blockchain for a frog? We explain

The biggest IPO in history is nearly two weeks old, and it already has a second chapter! SpaceX raised $75B at a ~$1.75T valuation on June 12 – more than double Aramco's record. Three days later it announced a $60B acquisition of Cursor, the largest startup acquisition ever recorded. For most of its life, SpaceX was the textbook company you couldn't buy into unless you sat near the cap table. That door stayed shut – until real-world assets started moving on-chain and the access question got a different answer. That's where $SPCXX comes in: a tokenized share now swappable on SimpleSwap. After touching an all-time high of $225.64 on June 16, the stock has corrected and now trades around $156 as the initial momentum stabilizes. The first leg up was rapid, but where it goes from here is an open question. What do you think the outlook is for $SPCXX from here? 👇

SimpleSwap is now integrated into the Cypherock X1 🤝 Swap directly on the device: pick the pair, tap a card to confirm, and funds move wallet-to-wallet across 20+ liquidity sources. Your private key stays split across the Vault and four cards the whole time. The X1 goes from a place to park assets to a place to use them – 2,800+ assets, none of it touching custody. Read more about the SimpleSwap × Cypherock integration

$BTC is trading around $64,505, holding these levels after last week's break below the rising channel – which puts the strength of the current trend in question. The interesting part: sentiment hasn't caught up with the tape. The Fear & Greed Index sits at 22 (Fear) even as price stabilizes, and that gap between mood and price is usually where the next move is decided. $ETH holds near $1,752, while BTC dominance sits at 58.40% – still firmly Bitcoin Season, with no clean rotation into alts yet. Key question for the week: can the freshly formed trendline hold? Support to defend is ~$61.8K–$62K. Reclaiming the channel flips the picture back to neutral. Where do you see the crypto market heading this week? 📊

⚡️ More assets are now available on SimpleSwap $RE, $WALLI, $ZEST, $ATWO, $NEX, $QAIT, $OBASE, $ILY, $DEUS, $SPA, $YOM, $ELIZAOS, $STAR, $CTR, $KONET, $HPP, and $SHX are now supported for wallet-to-wallet swaps. ➡️ Head to SimpleSwap to explore the new coins

That USB clipboard malware Microsoft just flagged? It's one of seven scams quietly draining wallets right now. The common thread: none of them hack the blockchain. They get you to approve the loss – a swapped address, a signed approval, a lookalike site. We mapped each one and the habit that stops it. 👉 Read the full guide

34 years of "don't trust, verify" One idea, six moments: 1992 – The Cypherpunks Mailing List is founded by Eric Hughes, Tim May, and John Gilmore. Jan 3, 2009 – Bitcoin's genesis block. Coinbase message: "Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks." Jan 2009 – Hal Finney tweets "Running bitcoin," and receives the first peer-to-peer BTC transaction days later. Feb 2014 – Mt. Gox collapses. ~850,000 BTC gone. Nov 2022 – FTX collapses. ~$8B in customer funds missing. 2026 – More value than ever sits in self-custodial wallets. The instinct won. But it only won the first round. 👉 What's still open

More assets are now available on SimpleSwap ⚡️ $CODEX, $COCA, $ELIZAOS, $IAUON, $QIE, $RAVE, $SPA, $SPORTFUN, $SPYX, $TAG, $TBC, and $ZEST are now supported for wallet-to-wallet swaps. ➡️ Explore the latest additions and choose your pair

Self-Custody Is Solved. Moving Between Your Assets Isn't.

"The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that's required to make it work."

– Satoshi Nakamoto, P2P Foundation, February 2009 17 years later, that argument is won. Self-custody is the default for serious capital. But a second question has quietly replaced the first: if trust in custody is solved, why does moving between your own assets still feel like 2017? Our new long read traces what changed, what didn't, and what comes next. 👉 Read the full piece on CryptoSlate

The market quietly changed what it rewards. For years, crypto ran on narratives. Decentralization was the pitch, and capital flowed into projects promising to reinvent everything from finance to social media. The problem was never the vision. It was the gap between the idea and actual use. Today, narratives still capture attention, but utility keeps it. The strongest projects solve concrete problems: payments, identity, ownership, and infrastructure that works behind the scenes. The biggest barrier was never really technology. It was usability. Crypto spent years asking people to understand complex tools before they could feel any benefit. The next phase is simpler: products that work, settle reliably, and keep users in control. The best infrastructure is the kind you barely notice. The bottom line: this isn't crypto dying. It's crypto growing up. Narratives fade, but useful products compound. So which projects are actually doing the quiet work right now?

New listing: SpaceX tokenized stock ($SPCXX) is now swappable on SimpleSwap – price exposure to the biggest IPO on record, brought on-chain and backed 1:1. Real-world assets keep moving on-chain. Swap in wallet-to-wallet, stay in control of your keys

We asked three teams building the self-custody stack one question: where does the category go after storage is solved?

@ELLIPAL — "Self-custody is a discipline you keep every time you move funds." @Swapzone — "The new challenge is no longer storage, but execution." @Zano — "Strip self-custody or permissionless access away, and what's left is theatre."

Three teams, one conclusion: the next decade isn't about who holds the coins. It's about how they move. 👉 All three quotes in full, in our new long read

$BTC is trading around $66,465, up on the week after recovering from a drop below $60,000 – its highest level since early June. The interesting part: sentiment hasn't fully caught up with the price. The Fear & Greed Index remains at 23 – Fear – while spot ETFs just recorded ~$85.9M in inflows, hinting that selling pressure may be easing. $ETH holds near $1,813, recovering hard off its lows and continuing to outperform BTC year-to-date. BTC dominance is near 59%, while the Altcoin Season Index has climbed to 51/100 from ~30 earlier this year. Still Bitcoin Season, but rotation is slowly building. Key levels: $66.9K is the first resistance, $73K the major hurdle. Support sits around $61.8K-$62K. Where do you see BTC heading into this week's Fed meeting? 📊

We're at BTC Prague 2026 🤝 Self-custody, liquidity, institutional capital, market structure – basically our daily to-do list, but on stage. We'll write up the sharpest insights over the next few days. Follow along for the highlights, minus the hype.

Self-custody used to mean one thing. In 2026, it means two. The first question – who holds your assets – has been answered. Cypherpunks started arguing for individual control in 1992. Bitcoin made it real in 2009. By 2026, more capital sits in self-custodial wallets than ever before. The instinct won. The second question is louder now: who builds the route when you actually want to move between assets? Liquidity in 2026 lives in pieces, scattered across hundreds of centralized venues, thousands of DEX pools, and more than a dozen networks. For any given pair and check size, the best executable path changes minute to minute. The default has been for the user to build it by hand. Our new long read traces how the routing problem got this big, what to look for in a workflow that doesn't make you assemble swaps manually, and why one quiet category is now doing the work. The first decade of crypto was about who holds the coins. The second is about how they move. Read the full piece

SimpleSwap is integrating NEAR Intents 🤝 The integration adds intent-based cross-chain execution to SimpleSwap’s liquidity pool. You declare the outcome – send X, receive Y – and a solver network handles routing, cross-chain settlement, and execution under the hood. No wallet connect, no bridge to configure, no approval flows. Funds move from a wallet you own to a wallet you own, with no interface connection in between, which fits how SimpleSwap has been built since 2018. For larger positions it matters more directly: intent-based routing runs through solver competition, adding a different source of depth on cross-chain pairs alongside the existing CEX and DEX providers. 👉 Read more about the SimpleSwap × NEAR Intents integration

Web3 is dead

That was Multicoin's Kyle Samani responding to StarkWare's Eli Ben-Sasson, who called this moment crypto's identity crisis: institutions are moving in, the industry is evolving, and the old narratives are fading

Sounds bearish. But the reality may be much simpler. The 2020-21 cycle was built on big promises. Blockchain gaming, decentralized social media, Web3 entertainment. Some of it worked. Most of it didn't. What survived wasn't the loudest narrative. It was the infrastructure people actually use: DeFi, payments, stablecoins, self-custody, and the rails that move value across the ecosystem. This isn't the death of Web3. It's the end of the idea that a narrative alone is enough. The market is increasingly rewarding utility over slogans. Can it settle transactions? Does it solve a real problem? Does it give users more control over their assets? The industry isn't shrinking – it's maturing. Maybe this isn't an identity crisis after all. Maybe it's crypto growing up. What do you think?

Together with Bitrefill, we sent our analyst, Rick, across Latin America for 10 days with one rule: no fiat. One wallet, three countries – Brazil, Chile, Argentina. Flights, hotels, a tango show, 3 bottles of Malbec, one emergency pair of sneakers, all paid in crypto. SimpleSwap moved the crypto; Bitrefill turned it into real-world spending. 👉 Full diary