Bitcoin’s Saylor Problem, Hype Breaks Out, and Alts Are Going Big

Crypto majors are red again down 3-5%; BTC -3% at $67.2k; ETH -5% at $1,880; SOL -5% at $75.45; HYPE +1% at $73.05. LIT (+27%), ENA (+22%), and WLD (+21%) led top movers; NEAR and VVV +10% as well. Oil +5% at $96; Gold -1% at $4,490. Stock futures are mixed with the Nasdaq up 0.1% and DOW down 0.4%. Bitmine’s Tom Lee predicted Ethereum will reach $250,000 as corporate treasury firms, institutional stakers, and sovereign wealth funds increasingly take over network validator control. Andrew Yang’s Noble Mobile acquired Helium Mobile Tuesday; Noble will use the Helium Network’s 137,000 community-operated hotspots for expanded coverage (HNT -9%). MoneyGram launched a USDC stablecoin payment service on the Stellar network Tuesday, letting consumers send dollar-pegged transfers across borders using Stellar’s rails. Franklin Templeton partnered with MoonPay to let institutional investors swap stablecoins for yield-bearing assets around the clock, pairing Franklin Templeton’s $1.74 trillion in AUM and tokenized money market funds with MoonPay’s institutional settlement infrastructure. Galaxy Research entered the institutional prediction markets space by facilitating a $10 million Arca trade Tuesday, the first nine-figure institutional prediction market position brokered by a major crypto research firm. NewLimit, the anti-aging biotech co-founded by Brian Armstrong, closed a new $435M Series C funding round backed by Founders Fund, Thrive, Greenoaks, and others, while also announcing it has developed a prototype drug that reverses the biological age of human cells by restoring function they had when younger. Powered by https://myriad.markets/markets