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The balance held in wallets tied to centralized exchange has surged by 50% in three days, per Glassnode data.

Ether posted nominal gains in the past 24 hours alongside the broader market.

ProShares’ Bitcoin Strategy ETF (BITO) has hit an all-time high bitcoin equivalent exposure of 4,425 BTC.

Stride's native token STRD trades 0.7% higher as the transition is expected to beef up the liquid staking protocol's security by several thousand percent.

PLUS: Last week's partial court victory for Ripple last week buoyed Coinbase's share price by clarifying a nettlesome regulatory issue. The company still needs to recapture trading volume but seems headed for better times, an analyst says.

Crypto index funds potentially adding XRP to their holdings could mean additional buying pressure for the token, one analyst said.
Today’s downside breach below the current low point of Bollinger Band bears watching for even weaker prices in the near future.
Thursday's rally to a new 13-month high of $31,800 has now more than been fully nullified.

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for July 18, 2023.

Reddit changed its Terms of Service recently where it now explicitly allows for trading Reddit's tokenized Community Points, one observer said while explaining the price rally.
- 05:44Security Alert: Approximately $90,000 lost on Base chain due to "transferFrom" vulnerabilityAccording to a report by Jinse Finance, BlockSec Phalcon has issued a warning that its system has detected a "transferFrom" issue, resulting in a loss of approximately $90,000 on the Base chain. This problem is caused by insufficient access control, which allows arbitrary low-level calls in the callback function. It is recommended to immediately revoke all approvals for the unknown contract 0xD9f4a3238154ff6439e37F98c9B11489353715Bb.
- 04:30ECB Governing Council Member: ECB Interest Rate Cycle Nears Its EndJinse Finance reported that Martin Kocher, the new Governor of the Austrian Central Bank and a member of the European Central Bank's Governing Council, stated in an interview that if there are no major shocks, the European Central Bank can temporarily keep interest rates at 2%. "At present, this interest rate cycle has ended, or is very close to ending," Kocher said. This Thursday, the European Central Bank decided for the second consecutive meeting to keep interest rates unchanged at 2%. Kocher said that "if the data does not change significantly," the rationale for this month's decision will to some extent "continue to hold in the next few ECB meetings." When asked about his personal stance, Kocher said that he currently "tends to remain cautious in monetary policy" and advised against taking excessive risks on inflation issues.
- 04:14Data: The current Crypto Fear & Greed Index is 54, indicating a neutral state.ChainCatcher News, according to Coinglass data, the current Crypto Fear and Greed Index is 54, up 1 point from yesterday. The 7-day average is 51, and the 30-day average is also 51.