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$HYPE hit a new ATH at $64.59, up 25% this week and nearly 70% this month 🔥

What makes this move stand out is that the broader market still looks relatively flat. $BTC is holding around $75-77K, while most altcoins continue moving sideways.

The strongest moves right now are coming from assets with real catalysts behind them – $ZEC, $TON, and now $HYPE.

Many people missed that $HYPE ETFs launched earlier this month and already attracted $54M in inflows within the first 7 trading sessions.

But the bigger story is the tokenomics:
99% of protocol trading fees are used to buy back $HYPE directly from the market.

Where do you see HYPE going next? 👇

$BTC is trading around $77,500 this Monday, recovering from last week's lows as geopolitical headlines continue to drive short-term volatility. The Fear & Greed Index sits at 40 – fear territory, down sharply from 55 (greed) just last week. That's a meaningful sentiment shift in a matter of days.

$ETH is holding near $2,113, continuing to lag $BTC on relative performance. $BTC dominance remains firm above 60% – the same pattern we've seen throughout 2026: when uncertainty rises, capital consolidates into the market leader and altcoins feel the pressure first.

Technically, the setup is clean. $78,000-$78,500 is strong resistance overhead – the zone that's capped every recovery attempt recently. $76,000 is the key support below. A clean break under that level shifts the conversation meaningfully lower. A confirmed close above $78,500 opens the path toward $80K-$82K.

Where do you see BTC heading this week? 📊

SimpleSwap is integrating Monad 🤝

The integration adds a self-custodial, wallet-to-wallet swap flow for users moving assets into the Monad ecosystem, with aggregated liquidity across CEX and DEX sources handled under the hood.

Users can move assets into Monad without manually comparing providers or dealing with complex bridge setups, while remaining fully in control of their assets throughout the process.

Built for simpler ecosystem access and more efficient liquidity routing.

👉 Read more about the SimpleSwap × Monad integration and how it simplifies access to the ecosystem

🪙 Bitcoin once bought pizza, alpaca socks, and even a space ticket.

We revisited some of the most legendary $BTC purchases from crypto’s first decade

👉 Read the full story on our Blog

🪙 16 years ago, one of the most legendary transactions in crypto history happened.

Programmer Laszlo Hanyecz spent 10,000 $BTC on two Papa John’s pizzas 🍕

Back then, it was just pizza.
Today, that order would be worth more than $774 million. 🤯

That’s how Bitcoin Pizza Day became part of crypto history.

Happy #BitcoinPizzaDay everyone

Programmable strategy needs seamless execution ⚡️

In our latest Blog article, we explore how SimpleSwap is powering execution inside Kuvi.ai’s agentic finance ecosystem – connecting AI-driven strategy with self-custodial wallet-to-wallet swaps powered by aggregated CEX + DEX liquidity.

The bigger idea behind this partnership is simple:
users should be able to automate strategy execution without giving up control of their assets or manually managing complex routing flows.

This is what the next layer of on-chain automation could look like.

👉 Read the full article on our Blog

🪙 DASH vs ZEC 🟠 – two OG privacy coins, two completely different approaches.

$ZEC focuses on deep cryptographic privacy through zk-SNARKs, while $DASH built its reputation around fast payments, InstantSend, decentralized governance, and optional transaction mixing.

Right now the market clearly favors ZEC:
📊 ~$10.8B market cap vs ~$625M for DASH

Why?

⏺ growing institutional interest around ZEC
⏺ Grayscale pushing a potential spot ZEC ETF
⏺ SEC officially closing its Zcash investigation with no action
⏺ stronger “privacy narrative” in the current market cycle
⏺ zk-tech becoming increasingly important across crypto infrastructure

At the same time, DASH still stands out for real-world payments, faster transactions, and one of the most battle-tested utility-focused ecosystems in crypto – now also expanding toward smart contracts and dApps through Evolution.

Two very different bets:

ZEC → privacy & institutional narrative
DASH → utility & payments

Which side are you on?

🪙 Bitcoin reserves on exchanges have dropped to just ~5.6% of total supply – the lowest level since 2018.

Ethereum remains historically low as well at ~4.6%, although $ETH balances on exchanges have started rising over the past 10 days, hinting at growing trading activity.

The broader trend is clear: more users are moving toward self-custody, while liquid supply on exchanges continues shrinking.

How do you prefer to store your $BTC – exchanges, hardware wallets, or something else? 📊

🪙 BTC dropped to $77K this week, dragging the total crypto market cap down with it. The Fear & Greed Index slipped to 32 – fear territory, and a sharp contrast to the neutral readings we saw just days ago.

ETH took the bigger hit, falling 10% to around $2,120, while BTC held relatively better. BTC dominance stayed firm at 60.2% – capital is clearly consolidating around the market leader when sentiment turns.

Not all bad news though. Strategy added another $2B in BTC last week, and the Clarity Act cleared the Senate Banking Committee – both signals that the structural case for crypto remains intact.

Short term, $76K-$77K is the zone to watch. A hold here keeps the structure alive. A breakdown shifts the conversation lower.

The growth prospects for the crypto market in 2026 are still very much real, but the market needs more stable macroeconomic conditions to trigger the next phase of growth. What are your expectations for the upcoming week? 📊

Fresh tokens just landed on SimpleSwap

You can now swap $BILL (ETH & BSC), $ASSET, $KAIO, $METADAO, and $NAT directly wallet-to-wallet.

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TimesTabloid also covered TON’s explosive move with comments from Stefan Lauer, Head of Infrastructure at SimpleSwap

The article dives into what’s driving the rally, Telegram’s growing role in the ecosystem, and why infrastructure matters most during fast market shifts.

👉 Read it here

Every cycle usually has two defining assets:

2017 – $BTC & $XRP
2021 – $ETH & $DOGE
2024 – $SOL & $PEPE

Looking at recent developments, $TON increasingly feels like a potential candidate for the next cycle.
Telegram’s deeper involvement in the ecosystem, $TON infrastructure expansion, $USDT integrations through Fragment, and the growing focus around the network are starting to form a much bigger narrative than before.

Of course, this is still more of a scenario than a fact.
But it does look like $TON is gradually being positioned for something much larger.

Could $TON become one of the leaders of the next cycle? 📈

TON is becoming one of the hottest narratives in the market right now 💎

The rally accelerated after Telegram announced deeper involvement in $TON infrastructure, including validator control and major ecosystem upgrades.

The market is no longer treating $TON as just another speculative L1.
Right now, investors are repricing it as infrastructure directly connected to Telegram’s ecosystem and massive user base.

At the same time, most of the move is still momentum-driven – the real test will be whether network activity and adoption can keep up with the valuation expansion.

Still, one thing is clear: the update benefited TON, at least in the short term. And after months of sideways action and heavy drawdowns across the market, strong moves like this are exactly what the crypto community likes to see 📈

Crypto cards are no longer just a niche product 💳

In our latest article, we break down:
⏺ debit vs credit crypto cards
⏺ hidden fees and conversion spreads
⏺ which cards actually work for everyday spending
⏺ and the top crypto card picks for different use cases

From Coinbase and Binance to MetaMask and Crypto.com – we covered the biggest players in the market.

👉 Read the full breakdown on our Blog

🪙 BTC is holding around $81K, while the Fear & Greed Index remains neutral at 50 – a sign that the market still doesn’t look overheated. BTC dominance stays elevated near 60.1%, although this week strength was visible across the broader market, not just Bitcoin.

BTC’s weekly candle also closed in favor of the bulls, though without full control. The structure remains constructive, but seller pressure is becoming more noticeable near current levels.

For now, the structure still looks more like an attempt to push higher and collect upper liquidity than a confirmed reversal. Heatmaps support that view: short liquidity remains above, while notable long liquidity has already formed around the $79K zone.

Base scenario remains the same – one more push higher before the market decides on the next direction. What are your thoughts on last week and the one ahead? 📈

$USDT vs $USDC
Similar on the surface – very different underneath.

Both dominate the stablecoin market and maintain a 1:1 USD peg, but their positioning is increasingly diverging:

🪙 $USDT – highest liquidity, strongest trading presence, global reach
💲 $USDC – transparency-focused, fully backed by cash & U.S. Treasuries, heavily aligned with regulation

What’s happening now?
⏺ Tether continues expanding in crypto-friendly regions like El Salvador and Abu Dhabi
⏺ USDC is rapidly integrating into traditional finance through partnerships with Binance, Mastercard, and payment systems in Latin America
⏺ MiCA regulation in Europe is creating additional pressure on USDT, while USDC benefits from stronger compliance positioning

In practice, many traders use both:
⏺ $USDT for liquidity and active trading
⏺ $USDC for long-term holding and regulatory confidence

The stablecoin market is no longer just about ‘digital dollars’ – it’s becoming a competition between liquidity and compliance.

Which side are you on: $USDT or $USDC? ⚡️

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Zcash: a private alternative to BTC?

🟠 $ZEC is having one of the strongest runs in the market right now.

Up 77%+ this week, 120%+ over the month, and roughly 1,400%+ over the year – while still trading around $568, far below its old ATH of $5,941.80.

What makes this move interesting is not just the price.

Zcash is built around zero-knowledge proofs, allowing users to shield sender, receiver, and transaction amount. In a market where regulation and on-chain tracking are getting stronger, privacy is becoming a serious narrative again.

Around 30% of $ZEC supply is now in the shielded pool, which shows that privacy here is not only a marketing angle – users are actually moving into it.

🪙 $BTC is still the main market symbol.
But Zcash is bringing back the original cypherpunk question:

What is crypto worth if financial privacy disappears?

Is $ZEC just catching a privacy narrative, or can it become one of the key assets of this cycle?

Macro vs crypto – what actually drives the market? 📊

In our latest article, we break down how key macro factors impact $BTC and the broader crypto space:

⏺ Fed policy matters – but doesn’t directly define $BTC cycles
⏺ Inflation often aligns with trends, but not as a trigger
⏺ Money supply (M2) plays a bigger role in risk asset expansion
⏺ Crypto still moves on its own drivers: sentiment, adoption, liquidity

Bottom line: macro sets the environment – but crypto doesn’t follow a single script.

👉 Read the full breakdown on our Blog

Not Your Keys, Not Your $330M: How Zondacrypto Turned User Wealth into a Digital Graveyard

Zondacrypto’s $334M crisis shows the risk of centralized exchanges, where lost private keys can lock user funds and expose custody vulnerabilities.