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Key highlights: Bitwise notes that the current decline in the crypto market is the third consecutive quarterly loss The Bitwise 10 Large Cap Crypto Index dropped 15.4% in Q2 Bitcoin ETF outflows and changing investor sentiment have affected the market The crypto market is now struggling to maintain momentum. Amid the current crypto market crash, Bitwise published its market review, unveiling the factors affecting the prolonged bearish period. Bitwise noted that the industry is facing its longest period of quarterly losses since 2022. While the current decline marks the third consecutive quarterly loss, the asset manager believes that several factors, including the Bitcoin ETF outflows and changing investor sentiment, have contributed to it. However, the analyst added that the industry continues to grow despite these losses. Areas such as real-world asset (RWA) tokenization, stable
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A sharp divergence is opening up between crypto price performance and the underlying protocol economy. The latest Bitwise market update shows the Bitwise 10 Large Cap Crypto Index dropped 15.4% in the second quarter, with eight of its ten constituents posting negative returns. It marks the third consecutive quarter of losses—the longest such streak since the 2022 bear market. Yet the same report details a parallel universe of on-chain expansion. Ethereum transaction activity is now roughly 13 times higher than the 2022 bear-market bottom. DeFi total value locked has climbed more than 60%. Stablecoin assets under management have roughly doubled. Prediction market volume hit a record $43.2 billion during the quarter, while tokenized real‑world assets rose 50.3% year to date to $32.89 billion. The ETF Drain and Where Capital Is Fleeing Spot Bitcoin ETFs rec
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Something unusual is happening in the current bitcoin bear market — and it has less to do with price charts than with who is actually holding the asset. According to Bitwise Senior Investment Strategist Juan Leon, this downturn is structurally the mildest bitcoin has ever seen, and the reasons why point to a fundamental shift in how the market works. Key takeaways The current bitcoin drawdown of 50% is significantly smaller than the 78% swing in 2022 and the 84% drop in 2018, making it bitcoin’s mildest structural bear market on record. Institutional clients are split: some are dollar-cost averaging into the dip, while others are waiting for regulatory clarity before committing capital. Since April, spot bitcoin ETFs have seen over $4 billion in outflows, while memory-chip ETFs attracted roughly $12 billion in inflows — a gap Bitwise expects to reverse. The Clarity Act, if passed
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The departure of a chief financial officer after a seven-year stint rarely happens in a vacuum. At Grayscale, it lands at a particularly fragile moment. Edward McGee has stepped down, as reported by the original CoinDesk report, joining a small but growing exodus from the crypto asset manager’s senior ranks. Weeks earlier, distribution chief John Hoffman left for Ondo Finance, the tokenized real-world asset platform. The exits are not merely personnel updates. They chip away at the leadership bench that guides the world’s largest cryptocurrency trust through its most consequential regulatory hurdle: the lawsuit against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over the conversion of the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) into a spot ETF. The Timing Is the Story A CFO departure always draws attention, but McGee’s exit lands in the middle of a high-stakes legal fight that could define Gr
