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Here’s What’s Happening 👇️

Today’s top trending tickers:

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
Fireworks On Friday, Aspirin On Monday 💊

The Fourth landed on a Saturday this year, so the desks cleared out Thursday, the observed holiday ate Friday, and crypto did what crypto does when the grown-ups leave the building: it ran. Thin books, no equities to argue with, and a tape that drifted up through the cookout and the whole long weekend.

Then Monday showed up. July 6, everybody back at their screens, and most of these names gave a chunk of it back.

$ADA ( ▼ 2.86% )

The weekend's biggest mover and it wasn't close. ADA went from a Thursday close of 16.1 cents to 19.2 by Saturday, tagged just shy of 20 cents intraday, and rode the holiday tape up roughly 17% Thursday-to-Sunday. Month-to-date it's the leader of this group at +24%. Then Monday morning did what Monday does - the biggest weekend winner took the biggest Monday haircut, down 5.5% to close near 17.9 cents.

$BCH ( ▲ 0.77% )  

BCH climbed every single day of the holiday window, 220 into a 249 high by Sunday, up nearly 11% across the weekend and +17.5% on the month. No stair-stepping, no fakeouts, just a grind higher while the tape was empty. By Monday morning it slipped back under 235, giving up about -4%.

$ZEC ( ▼ 2.14% )  

ZEC rode the weekend from a 434 close up through a 474 high, up about 6% Thursday-to-Sunday and +11% on the month. Context for anyone new: this thing was trading under fifty bucks last September. It's up roughly nine-fold since.

$ETH ( ▲ 2.09% )  

ETH ran from 1,699 Thursday to a 1,806 high over the weekend, up 5% into Sunday and +10.4% on the month. Respectable. Then Monday clipped it 2.9% as of this morning.

$SOL ( ▲ 1.66% )  

The laggard of the group. SOL basically sat out the party - up a whole 1.1% across the weekend while everything around it printed. It touched 83.88 Saturday, couldn't hold it, and drifted. Month-to-date it's +7.8%.

$DEXE ( ▲ 17.31% )  

The one that didn't read the script. DEXE puttered through the weekend like everyone else, up a modest 3.6%, nothing to write home about. Then Monday - while the whole board went red - it ripped 15.9% off a 24 open to a 27.9 high (well, as of 1015 EST).

ON-CHAIN ANALYSIS
Nobody's Moving Coins Anymore, And That's Its Own Kind of Answer 🤔

Exchange flow balance is a simple on-chain measurement. Coins deposited to exchanges minus coins withdrawn.

Positive means in flows/deposits to exchanges are winning. That’s viewed as a negative because analysts and traders view crypto sent to exchanges as a precursor to selling.

Negative means out flows/withdrawals are winning. This is viewed as bullish by analysts and traders because crypto leaving exchanges generally means it’s moving to long-term hodling wallets, cold storage, a staking contract, a hardware wallet in a sock drawer somewhere.

I pulled daily flow data on BTC, ETH, XRP, and GRAM from January 1, 2025 through July 6, 2026.

Bitcoin

July so far: +1,407 BTC onto exchanges over six days, about 235 a day. Against a history where monthly net flows swung between -74,000 and +64,000, that rounds to zero.

Gross flow - deposits plus withdrawals - has been shrinking all year. May 2026 was the quietest month in the dataset. June netted -275 BTC for the entire month, the flattest on record, and July is pacing even lighter.

The flow balance is telling you nothing because nobody's participating enough to make a signal.

Ethereum

ETH was the outflow machine. Fourteen of eighteen full months negative. In 2025 alone, 5.8 million ETH left exchanges, running about 800,000 a month through the back half, capped by a record 1.29 million withdrawn on November 23.

That era's done.

Watch the 2026 tape: January -252k, February -114K, March -395k, April -105k, decelerating. Then May flipped to +484,000 of net deposits, the single largest inflow month in the dataset.

June went back out at -390k. July opened with +64,900 in six days, the second-heaviest inflow pace of any month behind only May.

The daily detail is the tell. July 1 through 4, as price bounced from $1,609 to $1,779, exchanges absorbed 88,500 ETH. The two sessions after, when the bounce stalled, flows went mildly negative.

ETH that left at $3,500 and $4,500 are coming back at $1,700, and whatever you want to call that, bullish isn't it.

XRP

July MTD: -8.05 million off exchanges in six days, a pace of -1.34 million a day. Fifth-heaviest outflow rate in the dataset, and the first five days were the third-most-negative start of any month.

On paper, bullish. In practice, XRP's flow series is chunk city. February 1, 2025: +289 million deposited in one day. February 5: -262 million out. Single days dwarf entire months, which is what happens when treasury-scale entities and ODL plumbing share rails with retail.

July's outflow is mostly one print - July 3, -13.8 million - and then July 6 put 5 million right back. Zoom out and it flattens: 2025 netted -287 million off exchanges, 2026 year-to-date is +7.9 million, a rounding error.

GRAM

Context, since the ticker is three weeks old: $GRAM ( ▼ 0.01% ) is Toncoin. Durov announced the rename June 1, the vote passed 81.22%, the ticker flipped from TON on June 15.

GRAM's daily flow normally runs in the single-digit thousands. On June 3, 4, and 5 - mid-vote, mid-dump - it printed -502,000, -507,000, and -408,000. That's 1.42 million withdrawn in 72 hours, 71% of the entire 18-month net, in three days.

Then it went back to sleep.

So, what the heck happened? No idea, could be a couple of things. One: somebody bought the flush at $1.50-1.90 and took delivery, and the near-identical clips on consecutive days look programmatic, not panic. Two: holders de-risked custody ahead of a messy migration, since exchanges froze deposits and withdrawals around June 15-22 for the swap.

What we’ve got is either the biggest accumulation footprint in the token's flow history or an artifact of the rebrand, and July's tape is too dead to break the tie.

NEWS
Crypto People Shocked TRON Showed Up In A Sanctions Story, Said No One Ever 🙄

Shocking development from the land of totally normal on-chain behavior: $TRX ( ▲ 0.39% ) showed up in another illicit finance story.

On July 1, OFAC updated its ISIS-K sanctions listing with 134 crypto wallet addresses. The breakdown: 131 on TRON and 3 on $XMR ( ▼ 0.8% ).

Chainalysis says the ISIS-K-linked TRON wallets received more than $1.4 million since 2023 and sent over $880,000. Tether froze balances across all 131 TRON addresses.

ISIS-K has allegedly used crypto donation campaigns tied to its media arm, while some of the sanctioned wallets also sent funds to Syria-based exchangers. Separately, OFAC targeted people and companies tied to Brazil’s PCC, saying the group used crypto to move more than $30 million in illicit proceeds back to Brazil.

NEWS
Moonbeam Leaves Polkadot For Base 🤦

Man, $DOT ( ▲ 0.62% ) just can’t catch a break.

Moonbeam, one of the older EVM-compatible names in the Polkadot stack, is packing up GLMR and heading to Base. The team announced July 3 that $GLMR ( ▼ 0.89% ) will migrate 1:1 into a native ERC-20 on Base, with the bridge open now and a July 31, 2026 deadline.

Moonbeam is also repositioning as… drum roll… an AI agent communication and settlement network. Lot’s of that AI repositioning stuff going around these days.

Agents find each other, agree on work, produce verifiable on-chain proof, and pay each other without middlemen. Fine. But speaking of middle-men, don’t leave funds up to middle-men, especially the GLMR tokens.

Leave funds behind after wind-down and they may become inaccessible. Centralized exchange holders should be handled automatically.

OLD NEWS
Other Stuff That Happened Today, But A Long Ass Time Ago ⌛️

July 6

• 371 BC - Thebes beat Sparta at Leuctra

• 1483 - Richard III was crowned king of England

• 1535 - Thomas More was executed on Tower Hill, after refusing to endorse Henry VIII’s supremacy over the church

• 1775 - Congress issued the Declaration on Taking Up Arms

• 1777 - British forces captured Fort Ticonderoga

• 1785 - Congress made the dollar the official U.S. currency

• 1885 - Louis Pasteur tested his rabies vaccine on Joseph Meister, and the bitten 9-year-old survived

• 1892 - The Homestead Strike turned into a pitched battle

• 1933 - MLB held its first All-Star Game

• 1967 - The Nigerian Civil War began

• 1975 - Comoros declared independence from France

• 1976 - Women entered the U.S. Naval Academy for the first time

• 1988 - Piper Alpha exploded in the North Sea, killing 167 workers in the world’s deadliest offshore oil disaster

• 2018 - Japan executed Aum Shinrikyo leader Shoko Asahara and six followers, closing one chapter of the cult behind the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack

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