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Circle Soars 167% After IPO, Closing at $83 in First Day of Trading

Shares of Circle (CRCL) surged in its first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), closing at $83 after coming public at $31.
The stock spiked to as high as $104 after the first trades crossed the board at $69.
For traders and analysts alike, though, the focus now shifts to whether the stock can hold its ground in the days and weeks ahead. Coinbase’s 2021 IPO, which was initially hailed as a watershed moment for the crypto industry, offers a cautionary tale. That stock opened at $381 on Nasdaq, briefly climbed to $430, and then slid below $200 within a month.
Circle’s rise comes alongside a modest bump in activity for the stablecoin market. Trading volume for USDC was up 22% over the past 24 hours, while Tether’s USDT — the largest stablecoin by market capitalization — saw its volume climb 13%.
USDC plays a key role in the crypto ecosystem by providing a dollar-pegged token used for trading, lending and remittances. Thursday’s strong showing may reflect investors’ growing appetite for stablecoin infrastructure as traditional and digital finance continue to converge.
Still, speculative hype has a way of evaporating quickly. The coming weeks will test whether Circle can maintain investor confidence or fall victim to the volatility that has defined so many crypto-adjacent stocks.
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Michael Saylor’s Strategy Added 4,980 Bitcoin Last Week, Bringing Stack to 597,325 Coins
Strategy (MSTR), the largest publicly traded company holding bitcoin (BTC), boosted its BTC reserves by buying 4,980 BTC for a total of $531.9 million last week.
This addition brings Strategy’s total bitcoin holdings to 597,235 BTC purchased for $42.4 billion, or an average price of $70,982 each. At bitcoin’s current price of about $107,500, that stack is worth more than $64 billion.
Strategy financed the purchase through $519 million of common share sales alongside about $59 million of STRK and STRF preferred stock sales.
MSTR shares are up 1.3% premarket.
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Spanish Police Arrest 5 in Suspected $540M Crypto Fraud Operation

Spanish police arrested five members of a suspected crypto fraud operation that allegedly laundered 460 million euros ($540 million) stolen from over 5,000 victims.
The bust, carried out by Guarda Civil, the armed wing of the country’s law enforcement agencies, saw three arrests from searches in the Canary Islands and two in Madrid on June 25.
The investigation was supported Europol, as well as police forces from Estonia, France and the U.S.
The criminal network raised funds through cash withdrawals, bank transfers and crypto payments, Europol said in a statement on Monday.
Investigators suspect the organization of having set up a corporate and banking network out of Hong Kong to receive, store and transfer criminal funds through accounts in different names and in different exchanges.
The investigation is still in progress, Europol added.
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Bitcoin-Gold Price Ratio’s 10% Surge Greenlights Bullish Flag Pattern: Technical Analysis

This is a daily technical analysis by CoinDesk analyst and Chartered Market Technician Omkar Godbole.
The ratio between the per-piece dollar price of bitcoin (BTC) and gold’s (XAU) per-ounce dollar-denominated price rose over 10% to 33.33 last week, registering its best performance in two months, according to data source TradingView.
The double-digit gain, representing BTC’s outperformance relative to gold, marked a breakout from the bull flag pattern. The so-called flag breakout signals a continuation of the rally from lows near 24.85 reached on April 11.
A bull flag pattern is characterized by a sharp uptrend followed by a relatively brief counter-trend consolidation that usually refreshes higher, as is the case with the BTC-gold ratio.
The flag breakout is said to extend the upside by an amount equivalent to the magnitude of the initial rally. So, the ratio could rise to 42.00, topping the record high of 40.73 hit in December.
Previous uptrends in the ratio have been characterized by sharp upswings in BTC’s dollar-denominated price, as observed in late 2024 and in April and May, rather than gold dropping more than BTC.
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