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For a generation of alienated techies, crypto's all-for-one ethos was its biggest draw. Now panic is spreading across this universe — and that same ethos is posing what may be the biggest threat yet to its survival.

crypto's all-for-one ethos was its biggest draw. Now panic is spreading across this universe — and that same ethos is posing what may be the biggest threat yet to its survival. What started this year in crypto markets as a “risk-off” bout of selling fueled by a Federal Reserve suddenly determined to rein in excesses has exposed a web of interconnectedness that looks a little like the tangle of derivatives that brought down the global financial system in 2008. As Bitcoin slipped almost 70% from its record high, a panoply of altcoins also plummeted. The collapse of the Terra ecosystem — a much-hyped experiment in decentralized finance — began with its algorithmic stablecoin losing its peg to the US dollar, and ended with a bank run that made $40 billion of tokens virtually worthless. Crypto collateral that seemed valuable enough to support loans one day became deeply discounted or illiquid, putting the fates of a previously invincible hedge fund and several high-profile lenders in doubt. The seeds that spawned the meltdown — greed, overuse of leverage, a dogmatic belief in “number go up” — aren’t anything new. They’ve been present when virtually every other asset bubble popped. In crypto, though, and particularly at this exact moment, they are landing in a new and still largely unregulated industry all at once, with boundaries blurred and failsafes weakened by a conviction that everyone involved could get rich together.

As Bitcoin slipped almost 70% from its record high, a panoply of altcoins also plummeted.

U.S. stock futures fell slightly on Sunday night following a major rebound last week from this year's steep declines. Despite the bounce, Wall Street is preparing to wrap up the worst first half for stocks in decades.

Smaller crypto exchanges could be vulnerable to collapse during this crypto bear market, given seemingly unsustainable yields offered to users, and a confusing “webs of relationships” between companies in the space, a new report from the crypto data provider Kaiko has found.

Europeans are likely to see real wages fall faster than their U.S. counterparts, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sends inflation on a fresh surge, threatening to push the continent into recession.

With the recent performance of Bitcoin [BTC], it seems that the king coin does not have much to give to the advancements that are expected in the crypto space and Web3. However, it does hold the title of being a “store of value” asset as well as an inflation hedge, but lately, the token has been losing that as well.

The latest victim of the crypto crash looks set to be Abracadabra’s a U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin Magic Internet Money (MIM). The talks of the de-pegging started to spread on 17 June. However, the Abracadabra founder still remains stern about the situation being in control.

This past week, the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem faced the brunt of the bears fueled by liquidation rumors of Three Arrow Capital (3AC) and Celsius liquidations. MakerDAO decided to cut off Aave (AAVE) from its direct deposit module as a safeguard in light of the possibility that Celsius folds and crashes the price of staked Ether (stETH).

Cryptocurrencies continued declining on 17 June, two days after the Federal Reserve stepped up the pace of interest-rate increases.

The market for non-fungible tokens (NFTs) is seeing a very mixed picture amid the broader crypto market downturn - a small relief rally in the floor prices was recorded in the past day by a couple of major collections with others continue to decline, and the overall trading volume for the majority of these has risen over the past week.

Online chatter has recently increased multi-fold around Three Arrows Capital post speculations related to insolvency. There are swirling rumors that the company will be the latest to crash in a domino effect- after LUNA.

Plunging cryptocurrency prices are starting to throw a wrench into the plans of firms that deal in bitcoin and related areas, amplifying the impact of an already brutal market retreat.

Shares of MicroStrategy tumbled 13 June as investors fretted over what a brutal selloff in cryptocurrencies would mean for the software company’s finances.

After months of falling prices, Bitcoin’s price on June 13 dropped to $24,000, which was an 18-month low. The overall market cap for Bitcoin stood at $457.12 billion, according to coinmarket cap.

New York: Bitcoin and Ether pared losses, after falling earlier on Sunday amid a broader retreat by the cryptocurrency complex in the wake of data showing US inflation hitting a fresh 40-year high. Ether declined as much as 6.4% to $1,424.40, its lowest level since March 2021, while Bitcoin dropped to as low as $26,876.51, its lowest since May 12.

U.S. stock futures fell Sunday night as Wall Street tries to recover from one of its worst weeks of 2022.

Shaun Tham, Legal Director of ChainUp shared his insights on the digital market during the Blockchain Fest 2022 this week. He acknowledged that businesses are being exposed to difficulties in this evolving environment. However, the exec remains certain that regulations look set to be in motion in the near future.

Major cryptocurrencies traded in the red early on June 2 as the global crypto market cap dropped 5.78 percent to $1.24 trillion over the last day. Total crypto market volume over the last 24 hours decreased 12.10 percent to $97.43 billion.

Stock futures were mixed on Wednesday evening as investors digested a disappointing update from Nvidia, an economic bellwether in the technology industry.

Stock futures fell in overnight trading on Monday as the markets struggled to sustain a comeback rally following weeks of losses.