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Chainlink’s LINK Stages V-Shape Recovery After 14% Plunge

Chainlink LINK, the oracle network that helps bridging blockchain networks with external data, experienced significant price volatility in recent trading, recovering from a sharp 14.4% correction after finding strong support at $13.58.
The recovery gained momentum through consecutive higher lows, potentially pointing to accumulation at lower levels. However, bitcoin’s BTC performance will likely dictate the next major move for altcoins such as LINK.
LINK rose 1.4% over the past 24 hours in line with the price action of the broader digital asset market.
The crypto market benchmark CoinDesk 20 Index was up 1.1%.
Technical Indicators Point to Continued Strength:
- LINK experienced a sharp 14.4% correction from $13.972 to $13.557, followed by a strong recovery with high-volume support at $13.582.
- Notable resistance emerged at $13.960-13.970, where selling pressure intensified twice during the trading session.
- At 10:00 UTC, price action marked a decisive breakout with the highest volume of the period (1,061,645 LINK).
- A new trading range established between $13.800-13.950, indicating potential continuation of the uptrend if volume remains supportive.
- V-shaped recovery pattern formed with strong buying at the $13.785-13.790 support zone.
- The $13.830-13.840 range now establishes itself as a potential new support zone for continued upward movement.
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Trump Media and Semler Scientific Could Be Cheapest Bitcoin Treasury Companies by This Metric

A tsunami of new bitcoin BTC treasury companies — firms that almost exclusively dedicate themselves to accumulating bitcoin — is flooding the market.
Since all of them are more or less following Strategy’s (MSTR) playbook, questions are rising about the best ways to value them, and compare them to each other.
“The most important metric for a bitcoin treasury is the premium it trades at relative to its underlying net assets, including any operating company,” Greg Cipolaro, global head of research at bitcoin financial firm NYDIG, wrote in a June 6 report.
On the surface, that means adding up the company’s bitcoin, cash and enterprise value excluding the bitcoin stuff, and subtracting obligations such as debt and preferred stock. “It’s this premium that allows these companies to convert stock for bitcoins, effectively acting as a money changer converting shares for bitcoins,” Cipolaro said.
One of the most popular metrics, mNAV, measures a company’s valuation to its net asset value — in these cases, their bitcoin treasuries. An mNAV above 1.0 signals that investors are interested in paying a premium for exposure to the stock relative to its bitcoin stash; however, an mNAV below 1.0 means the equity is now worth less than the company’s holdings.
But mNAV alone is “woefully deficient” to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of these firms, Cipolaro said. The research report made use of other metrics such as NAV, mNAV measured by market capitalization, mNAV by enterprise value, and equity premium to NAV to provide a more complex picture.
The table shows, for example, that Semler Scientific’s (SMLR) and Trump Media’s (DJT) equity premium to NAV (which measures the percentage difference between a fund’s market price and its net asset value), are the lowest of the eight measured companies, coming in at -10% and -16% respectively, despite the fact that both companies have an mNAV above 1.1.
Alas, both SMLR and DJT are little-changed on Monday even as bitcoin climbs to $108,500 versus Friday evening’s $105,000 level. MSTR is higher by just shy of 5%.
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U.S. SEC Chair Says Working on ‘Innovation Exemption’ for DeFi Platforms

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is working on policy to exempt decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms from regulatory barriers, said Chairman Paul Atkins.
Software developers building DeFi tools have no business being blamed for how they’re used, Atkins and other SEC Republicans contended at the final of five crypto roundtables that have been held at the agency since the leadership turnover under President Donald Trump.
The chairman told a roundtable of DeFi experts on Monday that he’s directed the SEC staff to look into changes to agency rules «to provide needed accommodation for issuers and intermediaries to seek to administer on-chain financial systems.» Atkins called that potential exemptive relief «an innovation exemption» that would let entities under SEC jurisdiction bring on-chain products and services to market «expeditiously.»
«Many entrepreneurs are developing software applications that are designed to function without administration by any operator,» Atkins said in remarks at the event. While he noted the technology enabling private peer-to-peer transactions can «sound like science fiction,» he said «blockchain technology makes possible an entirely new class of software that can perform these functions without an intermediary.»
«We should not automatically fear the future,» Atkins said.
DeFi is a subsection of the broader cryptocurrency industry that seeks to recreate financial tools and products with code that replaces the role of traditional intermediaries such as banks and brokerages.
The Republican members of the commission — currently outnumbering the Democrat 3-1 — have been eager to move forward with crypto-friendly policy. While DeFi is often given short shrift in policy discussions that focus more on regulation of the higher-volume industry of crypto exchanges, brokers and custodial services. Though DeFi developers have faced years of distrust from U.S. government agencies, Republicans now in power are seeking to lighten those pressures.
«The SEC must not infringe on First Amendment rights by regulating someone who merely published code on the basis that others use that code to carry out activity that the SEC has traditionally regulated,» said Commissioner Hester Peirce, who has led the SEC Crypto Task Force established this year. However, she also noted that «centralized entities can’t avoid regulation simply by rolling out the decentralized label.»
Erik Voorhees, the founder of decentralized exchange ShapeShift, joked that when he got his first SEC subpoena 12 years ago, he didn’t think he’d be invited to speak at the agency years later.
«I appreciate the change of tone and the change of stance for the commission,» he said. «I think that’s absolutely a positive for America.»
Read More: U.S. SEC’s Crypto Trading Roundtable Delves Into Easing Path for Platforms
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Plasma’s XPL Token Sale Attracts $500M as Investors Chase Stablecoin Plays

Plasma, a crypto startup developing a blockchain optimized for stablecoins, attracted $500 million in deposits for its token sale on Monday — 10 times more than originally planned.
The fundraising cap was filled in five minutes as investors scrambled to earn an allocation for the token distribution, according to blockchain data from Arkham Intelligence. The ceiling was lifted from $250 million, which had already been increased from a $50 million original target announced just two weeks ago.
Over 1,100 wallets participated in the sale of Plasma’s XPL token, with a median allocation of roughly $35,000, the company said in an X post. The offering was conducted on Sonar, a public token sale platform built by Echo, a crypto-focused private fundraising startup led by prominent investor Cobie.
The outsized demand underscores surging investor interest in stablecoins — cryptocurrencies pegged to traditional currencies like the U.S. dollar — and the infrastructure that supports them. Stablecoins have become a dominant force in crypto, with total supply surpassing $250 billion, and are increasingly used for everyday finances like payments, remittances and savings.
While Bitcoin BTC remains the oldest and most secure blockchain, most stablecoin activity today occurs on newer networks such as Ethereum, Tron, and Solana. Plasma aims to bring native stablecoin utility to Bitcoin by building a sidechain fully compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), the software standard that underpins much of decentralized finance.
The team says the Plasma chain will address key challenges faced by stablecoins on existing blockchains — including high fees and scalability limits — by leveraging Bitcoin’s security and enabling zero-fee transactions for Tether’s USDT USDT.
Plasma’s fundraising follows a string of market signals pointing to rising appetite for stablecoin exposure. Just last week, Circle (CRCL), issuer of the $60 billion USDC stablecoin, completed a blockbuster public market debut, with shares surging over $110 from a $31 IPO price.
«Circle up another 20% at the open and Plasma’s $500M public token sale sold out in the first block. The people want exposure to stablecoins,» crypto analyst Will Clemente posted.
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