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ETH Breaks $2,000: $1,530 Holds the Line & Morpho's $175M Bet | Jun 10
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Ethereum broke below $2,000 overnight, triggering $468M in crypto-wide liquidations and leaving $1,530 as the next critical support. Spot ETH ETFs pulled $82M in inflows even as Bitcoin funds bled — plus Morpho closes a $175M Series B backed by Paradigm, a16z, and Société Générale.
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Ethereum just broke below two thousand dollars, and the question now isn't whether that was significant. It's whether fifteen hundred and thirty holds.
The broader market reinforced that view fast. Twenty-four hours of selling triggered four hundred and sixty-eight million dollars in crypto-wide liquidations.
One number cuts against the pure bear narrative. Spot Ethereum ETFs recorded eighty-two point three seven million dollars in inflows on June tenth.
Against that backdrop, DeFi lending protocol Morpho closed a one hundred and seventy-five million dollar Series B led by Paradigm and a16z, with strategic backing from Circle, VanEck, and Société Générale. That's the largest DeFi funding round in months.
On the Layer Two side, Arbitrum One holds one point three billion dollars in total value locked heading into the second quarter. The bridge ecosystem has matured considerably, with canonical bridging, Across, Hop, and CCTP version two now offering competing options across speed, cost, and security trade-offs.
Ethereum's fundamentals aren't absent. Staking covers over thirty percent of supply.
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