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For the most prominent cryptocurrency, the chaos of the 2020-2022 era seems long gone. Bitcoin, which was often criticized for being too volatile, hasn’t seen a daily gain or loss of more than 10% this year. That's in stark contrast to 2022 and 2021 when it swung outside this range 9 and 11 times, respectively. All told, the price of Bitcoin has risen more than 60% this year, despite the continued crackdown on major exchanges such as Binance and Coinbase. But, even though Bitcoin is looking a little bit more stable, enthusiasm for the sector more broadly looks to have vanished, with venture capital funding for crypto companies and projects falling to a 3-year low.

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Crypto-focused Blockchain Capital has raised $580 million across two new funds, one of the biggest raises for the asset class this year and the largest for the venture firm in its 10-year history. Blockchain Capital, which has an existing $2 billion in assets under management, will use the fresh capital to back crypto startups in areas including decentralized finance and gaming as well as infrastructure, general partner Kinjal Shah said in an interview with Bloomberg News.

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There are fears that altcoins face significant downside as FTX potentially seeks to dump its $3.4BN digital asset holdings. This is happening as BTC is close to a 'death cross' - 50DMA dropping below 200DMA... Source: Bloomberg, www.zerohege.com

In an April filing, FTX said it held $3.4bn in crypto assets. In last week’s filing, FTX indicated its willingness to sell $200m of crypto assets per week as the company wants to return fiat instead of crypto to its users. This means FTX will continue to sell assets until the end of 2023. FTX holds and will potentially start selling: SOL $685m FTT $529m BTC $268m ETH $90m APT $67m DODGE $42m MATIC $39m BIT $35m TON $31m XRP $29m Source: Markus Thielen

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