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Crypto is down (-1.7%) β€” Top: NEAR -4.7%

Crypto markets traded lower on the day (average move about -1.7%) as risk appetite softened, with sharper declines in higher-beta layer-1 and scaling tokens such as NEAR and Arbitrum suggesting a rotation away from growth-oriented crypto exposure. While headlines around institutional adoption remained constructive, including Morgan Stanley’s Bitcoin ETF nearing $400 million in assets, that support appeared more incremental than catalytic and was not enough to offset broader de-risking. Separately, reports of Aave whale activity near the $100 level underscore selective interest in DeFi, but the day’s price action indicates those flows were too concentrated to lift the wider market.

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