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Bitcoin Below $60K, $1B Liquidations & MiCA Loses Binance | July 3
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Bitcoin cracked below $60K triggering $1 billion in liquidations as Binance completed its EU exit — the first real enforcement test of MiCA. Ethereum rebounded sharply while June Bitcoin ETF outflows hit a record $4.06 billion.
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Binance is out of the European Union. Not winding down, not pausing.
While the regulatory story was developing, Bitcoin cracked below sixty thousand dollars, hitting fifty-nine thousand and twenty-three at its low. The drop triggered roughly one billion dollars in liquidations across approximately one hundred eighty thousand traders.
That brings us to the institutional side. June spot Bitcoin ETF outflows hit four point zero six billion dollars, the worst monthly figure on record.
Ethereum moved the other direction. ETH climbed back above one thousand six hundred twenty-eight dollars on a ninety-seven percent surge in daily trading volume.
On the security side, the Cardano ecosystem absorbed its largest DeFi hack to date. The SecondFi protocol lost twenty million dollars in a smart contract exploit, with sixteen million ADA missing across three hundred seventy-four affected wallets.
The Taiko bridge was exploited for one point seven million dollars through a signing key leak that let attackers forge bridge transactions. The architecture-level vulnerability here is the signal.
The clearest watchpoints from here: whether Bitcoin holds the fifty-nine to sixty thousand zone, how European users migrate off Binance and where that liquidity lands, and whether the June ETF outflow pace continues into July or stabilizes. MiCA passed its first real test by losing its biggest player.
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