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In crypto markets Monday, bitcoin ETFs saw outflows while nearly every other major digital asset fund pulled in fresh money. Ether, XRP, Solana, and Hyperliquid funds all recorded gains. The catch is that bitcoin's bleeding was almost entirely Grayscale's GBTC, which has a long history of investor exits since converting from a trust structure.
That XRP inflow story connects directly to our next item. The token surged roughly ten percent, riding a wave of Asian demand and ETF enthusiasm to push past one dollar and twenty cents. But traders sold into the rally near one dollar and twenty-five cents, a level that acted as a ceiling, and XRP gave back a meaningful chunk of those gains by end of session.
And from the oddly practical corner of the internet, a real-time map of rat sightings across New York City has surfaced on Hacker News. The project pulls live complaint data and plots it across the five boroughs. It has only one comment so far, but honestly, for a city that treats its rodent population as a civic institution, this feels overdue.
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