• Doge Price has begun a new decline below the $0.2420 level.
• The price is below the $0.2320 level and a simple moving average of 100 hours.
• On the hourly chart of the Doge/USD pair (Kraken’s data source), there was a break under the key-rising channel with $0.2295 support.
• Prices could begin a new upward movement if they exceed the $0.2165 zone.

Dogecoin Price drops again

DogeCoin Price has been newly increased, surpassing the $0.240 resistance zone, including Bitcoin and Ethereum. Doge even spiked over $0.2420 before the bear appeared.

The high formed at $0.2430, and prices began to decline new. There was a move below the $0.240 and $0.2350 levels. The price fell below the 50% FIB retracement level of an upward movement from a swing low of $0.2163 to a swing low of $0.2430.

Plus, the Doge/USD pair hourly wage chart had a break under the main rising channels at $0.2295 support. DogeCoin Price is currently below the $0.2320 level and a simple moving average of 100 hours.

The Bulls currently protect the upward movement from $0.2163 Swing Low to $0.2430 with a 76.4% FIB retracement level. If there is a recovery wave, the immediate resistance of the benefit is close to the $0.2295 level. The Bulls’ first major resistance could be close to the $0.2320 level.

The next major resistance is close to the $0.2420 level. If the resistance exceeds $0.2420, the price may be sent towards a $0.250 resistance. Any further profit could potentially send the price to the $0.2650 level. The Bulls’ next major stop may be $0.2780.

Doge’s more loss?

If the Doge price does not rise above the $0.2320 level, it could continue to fall. The initial support for the downside is close to the $0.2220 level. The next major support is close to the $0.2165 level.

The main support is $0.2150. If there is a negative side break below the $0.2150 support, the price could drop even further. If stated, the price could drop to a level of $0.2050 or, in the short term, $0.2020.

Technical indicators

HOURLY MACD – Doge/USD’s MACD is gaining momentum in the bear zone.

Hourly RSI (Relative Strength Index) – DOGE/USD’s RSI is below 50 level.

Key support levels – $0.2165 and $0.2150.

Major resistance levels – $0.2320 and $0.2420.

If you work in a nine-to-five for diminishing wages and dwindling self-respect, the author of The Bitcoin Age (Amazon affiliate link), Adam Livingston, says Bitcoin can help you break the chains of ‘wage slavery’. Let’s take a closer look.

Wage slavery: you are not employed, you are monetized

In today’s economy, most people like to think of themselves as “employed.” Working hard, building a career, and moving up the ladder. Well, it’s time to wake up and smell the coffee, as Livingston bluntly warns:

“You sell your time for melting tokens that depreciate while you sit in traffic and rehearse what you’re going to say to HR after another Pizza Party raise.”

This cycle is what he calls wage slavery. You exchange hours of your life for currency that loses value by the day. The “grind” isn’t just a figure of speech; it’s real.

Livingston points to the rigged system we’re living in as prices rise, wages stagnate, and the retirement dream fades further into the background. Rents are up by more than 40%, eggs have become a luxury item, and salaries are frozen in time.

“The money printer goes brrr. Your paycheck goes missing. The system isn’t broken. It’s just not for you.”

The purchasing power of the U.S. dollar has fallen by about 95% since the 1970s. Imagine leaving your hard-earned wages in a bank for fifty years.

That’s not all: In 1970, the average UK house cost less than three times the average annual wage; by 2025, it’s more than seven times the average wage. Buying a home has become dramatically less affordable for the average worker over the past 55 years.

On the ‘fiat farm’, you get milked for your labor, sheared by taxes and inflation, and harvested for “productivity metrics” and Slack messages.

“They call it ‘the grind’ because you’re getting ground into paste.”

It’s a rigged, extractive machine, and opting out isn’t about protest or riot. It’s about quietly walking away from dependence on the system.

All is not lost: Bitcoin as a time machine

If you’re ready to get off the sinking ship, Bitcoin is your liferaft. Livingston describes Bitcoin not as a speculative gamble, but as a time machine for poor people:

“It doesn’t inflate. It doesn’t lie. It doesn’t ask permission. You’re not buying magic internet money. You’re buying back your future. One sat at a time.”

Where fiat is designed to decay, Bitcoin offers a fixed supply, enforced by code rather than political whim. Compounding the problem of wage slavery is the fact that you’ve been given poor investment advice all your life, according to Livingston. Traditional financial advice sounds safe on the surface:

“Buy bonds.”

“Diversify.”

“Mutual funds are safe.”

But diversification is just managed poverty, he argues. The point isn’t to mindlessly spray money across asset classes that all sink with inflation; it’s to escape the system driving that decline.

“But I’m broke!” you argue, I can’t even save for my vacation, let alone put money aside for my financial future. That’s a good thing, Livingston argues, flipping the usual fear on its head:

“That means you’re paying attention.”

Stacking Bitcoin isn’t about being rich. “It’s about not disappearing.” Even $5 a day matters. So, cut Netflix. Cancel the aimless brunches, and start reclaiming your sovereignty one sat at a time.

The CEO of Bitcoin hoarder Metaplanet says the company is looking to accumulate so much BTC that it will become impossible for others to catch up in the future.

Speaking to the Financial Times, Simon Gerovich says the firm is taking advantage of Bitcoin’s “gold rush” moment by plotting a long-term strategy to build one of the world’s largest BTC treasuries before pivoting into other investment opportunities.

Says Gerovich,

“We think of it as a Bitcoin gold rush… We need to accumulate as much bitcoin as we can to get to a point where we’ve reached escape velocity, and it just makes it very difficult for others to catch up.

Then we have phase two, when Bitcoin, like securities or government bonds, can be deposited with banks and then they’ll provide very attractive financing against that asset. We’ll get cash that we can use to buy profitable businesses, cash-flowing businesses.”

Metaplanet previously announced that its goal was to own at least 210,000 BTC by the end of 2027.

The company’s BTC holdings recently surpassed Coinbase, the largest crypto exchange in the world, which has been in operation since Bitcoin was below $30.

According to BitcoinTreasuries.net, Metaplanet holds 15,555 BTC, making it the fifth-biggest Bitcoin treasury in the world. Hitting the 210,000 mark would make it the second biggest in the world, just behind Michael Saylor’s Strategy.

Gerovich says the company is still in the “really, really early” stages of its plan, which he says could transition to a strategy that uses Bitcoin as collateral to borrow and buy cash-flowing assets like profitable businesses.

“Four to six years is probably phase one in this Bitcoin accumulation phase, and then beyond that it becomes incrementally more difficult.”

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They said the teenager might try to escape the country before sentencing, and that people he worked with could help him do it.

Recent unsealed documents revealed that Chatel pleaded guilty in Washington, DC, to participating in a 2024 scheme involving wire fraud and money laundering. The case centers on a large-scale Bitcoin theft carried out through fake tech support calls.

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According to ZachXBT’s post on X, Chatel would call victims pretending to be from a company’s help desk. He would guide them through a process that gave his team access to their accounts.

Once inside, the attackers would trick victims into revealing their crypto wallet details. They then transferred the funds from Gemini

$328.55M

Authorities stated that Chatel used professional money launderers to hide the stolen funds. Along with his co-conspirators, Malone Lam and Jeandiel Serrano, he spent the money on watches, designer clothing, and several cars.

When the FBI searched his home, they found about $37 million in crypto connected to the heist. Officials also believe he defrauded around 50 more people, which generated another $3 million for himself.

As part of his plea deal, Chatel agreed to give up luxury goods purchased with the stolen money. He is expected to face between 19.5 and 24.5 years in prison, along with a fine that could range from $50,000 to $500,000.

Meanwhile, Global Ledger and Recoveris, in collaboration with Reuters, recently found that Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has been using Bitcoin to pay a Canadian teenager. What was the FSB’s motive? Read the full story.

Anime-themed web3 brand Azuki has announced Alley Escape, a new event scheduled for July 5 in Los Angeles, California.

Whilst details remain limited, the event coincides with Anime Expo 2025, suggesting it may be timed to engage fans attending one of the largest anime conventions in the world.

Previous Azuki events have attracted attention across both the web3 and wider anime communities, blending in-person activations with digital storytelling.

What is Anime Expo?

Anime Expo is an annual convention held in Los Angeles that showcases Japanese pop culture, including anime, manga, video games, and cosplay. Organised by the Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation (SPJA), it draws hundreds of thousands of attendees from across the globe.

The 2025 edition of Anime Expo will take place from July 3 to July 6, making Azuki’s Alley Escape part of a broader weekend of cultural events and gatherings.

According to the SPJA, the 2024 event attracted over 400,000 attendees from 64 countries, generating an estimated $100 million in economic impact for the city of Los Angeles.

What can we expect from Azuki during the event?

Specific programming for Alley Escape has yet to be revealed and registration has not yet opened, but further details are expected to be released soon via Azuki’s official channels, including Twitter/X and its Discord community.

Azuki has only hosted three official events to date: a 2022 party in Los Angeles, a two-day immersive installation in New York City during NFT NYC 2022, and a 2023 event in Las Vegas tied to the release of the Elementals collection. Each of these was designed to extend Azuki’s brand storytelling into the physical world, often including music performances, real-time wallet integrations, and unique merchandise.

With Anime Expo expected to draw hundreds of thousands of fans into downtown Los Angeles, Azuki’s presence may or may not include other forms of activation in partnership with related platforms such as Anime.com and the $ANIME token project.

Armed assailants have reportedly attempted to kidnap the daughter and grandson of a crypto exchange executive in France.

The news television network France 24 reports that four masked men attacked a couple and their child in broad daylight in Paris on Tuesday.

Video footage shows that three of the perpetrators jumped out of a white delivery van to force the woman and her child into the vehicle. They also beat the woman’s partner, who tried to intervene.

But the woman, the daughter of France-based crypto exchange platform Paymium CEO and co-founder Pierre Noizat, resisted. She grabbed one of the attackers’ handguns and threw it away.

The commotion caught the attention of passersby who tried to help, including one man who brought out a fire extinguisher. The attackers eventually ended up fleeing in their waiting vehicle.

The victims sustained injuries and were taken to the hospital.

The attack follows a series of incidents targeting crypto entrepreneurs in France. In January, kidnappers abducted crypto wallet firm Ledger co-founder David Balland and his wife and demanded a large ransom in cryptocurrency. The police managed to rescue the couple and the suspects, including the alleged mastermind, are now detained.

Last month, masked men also kidnapped the father of a crypto millionaire in the French capital and demanded ransom. The police were able to locate the place of detention and freed the man during a raid.

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The following is a guest article from Mike Wasyl, CEO at Bracket.

DeFi has fast-tracked and failed with some terrible economic models over the last four years. But there’s something romantic about a tarpless economy that keeps onlookers gawking. Peeling back the penguins, Ponzi schemes, and perpetual jargon, we find a 24/7 market creating opportunities for generations left to fend for themselves. No 30-year ice cream scooper pensions for Gen Z.

Jokes aside, we younger generations had little choice but to use the tools we were dealt. In our brokerage accounts, we click around a fine UI generated by some megacorp army. But beneath the facade, we are actually duct-taped to a rickety seat riding decades-old rails. I don’t want to ride that old roller coaster slinging Jazz Age bucket shop finance lingo. There are new rides—new tools that modernize the financial experience and help us earn on our own terms, 24/7. Let’s take a look at a slice of this world and where we might go in 2025.

In crypto, proof-of-stake networks deliver native rewards for securing the network—“staking.” Staking cannot be replicated in traditional finance and is a revolutionary economic primitive native to blockchains (it’s ours!). Staking has led to the creation of Liquid Staked Tokens (LSTs), which allow users to earn rewards without running nodes. Ethereum-based liquid staking witnessed a precipitous rise through 2024, reaching a high of $70 billion in total value locked (TVL) by year’s end. Passive block rewards fueled holder count even with ETH’s staking rate hovering around just 3%.

While Ethereum leads in staking value, only ~28% of ETH supply is actively staking. We believe this number will increase to 40-50% within a few years, with 2025 pivotal to unlocking institutional capital. Over half of institutional Ethereum holders use liquid staking tokens (LSTs) and understand the utility of reward-bearing assets. As more entrants from traditional finance venture on-chain, LST dominance will rise. Despite the tailwinds, competition for rewards will heat up. It is up to users and capital allocators to decide how to stack yield efficiently to maximize the value of their on-chain collateral.

As competition compresses yields, stakers will look for new ways to grow beyond simple block rewards. Providing opportunities is difficult, as liquidity is stuck in DeFi protocols across several chains. A user’s staked ETH in one DeFi pool is a monolith, typically stuck until yields disappear or better opportunities arise. It’s inefficient and limiting, which makes users hunt for airdrops and outsized inflationary rewards in the meantime.

Ether.fi, a major player in the ETH restaking space, controls >50% of the liquid restaking market by allowing users to restake ETH across services like EigenLayer. “Restaking” turns idle LSTs into Liquid Restaking Tokens (LRTs) that aim to earn extra yield from extending ETH’s security to other services, getting rewards in return. So far, most returns are loyalty points, tokens, and other inflationary economic incentives to keep users occupied. As more restaking-secured services come online, we will see if there is adequate yield supply to meet the billions in demand for passive, on-chain earnings.

Users want flexible, mobile, reward-accruing, stackable products. But in DeFi, protocol design lags behind demand. Simply reusing economic security is speculative and stresses Ethereum. Most platforms still treat staking as a one-way mechanism—deposit ETH and earn rewards. This leads to capital recirculation within the rewards loop, the “ouroboros” we talk about at Bracket, where capital never leaves DeFi.

However, users want products that provide diversified exposure to new asset classes with “set it and forget it” experiences. We’d like to remove complexity and have transparent products that prioritize earning but with additional safety measures. Product builders ignoring this shift leave yield-seekers stranded in an inflationary rewards cycle.

The Playbook for 2025 – Real-Yield Optimization and Strategy Management

DeFi enables money-legos, something traditional finance has struggled to deliver in banks or brokerages due to highly siloed systems with those rickety old rails we talked about. DeFi, however, has unlocked the ability to layer great-quality on-chain collateral to compound yields. Think of the ideal state as a digital “yield stack”—passive staking rewards, plus real trading yield, plus real-world products, plus economic incentives that generate solid returns without leaving the on-chain ecosystem.

If products from Lido, Coinbase, and Binance could be used alongside real-world assets across DeFi, users wouldn’t have to pick one pool or opportunity. They could be automatically reallocated among the best options, managing participation based on risk tolerance.

2025 brings a surge in new blood, new products, and most importantly, a shift in perspective about high-quality collateral. For the first time, staking assets, ETH, and stablecoins are being legitimized by the government and influential capital allocators. Tokenized TradFi products like on-chain money market funds, credit funds, and even hybrid on-chain/off-chain models are emerging.

Introducing these yield-producing assets alongside an improved regulatory climate should unlock a wave of new capital deployment—something DeFi needs in order to exit the ouroboros loop and participate in the global economy. These changes will force DeFi to build toolkits and infrastructure to help the trillions of dollars waiting to move at the speed of on-chain finance.

Yet, a massive knowledge gap remains. DeFi builders don’t always understand finance, TradFi doesn’t understand on-chain building, and regulators understand nothing. This is where seasoned DeFi builders will help usher in the next wave of global finance—but they have to play nice. We are at the precipice of making all tokenized markets 24/7, offering users the best choices among highly competitive products and services. In 2025, the place to be is building infrastructure to connect products and DeFi power users to real economic value (fun new rides).

The Bottom Line

Stagnation in real yield in DeFi exposes a need for new assets, new managers, and new gateways to tokenized products and hybrid experiences. Users don’t want to stay stuck in old systems that don’t serve them. Institutional actors are getting the message, building trust in new collateral types. New regulations should usher in waves of innovative competitors looking for an edge, benefiting users like us.

DeFi is reaching an inflection point—its long-term viability depends on its ability to evolve beyond basic caveman reward structures and isolated PvP yield battles. We can only recycle capital for so long before the ride isn’t fun anymore for anyone. Yield generation must become an active, adaptive process—one that integrates automation (even AI) and diversified income streams from asset classes that move at the speed of on-chain finance.

Without unlocking new asset exposure and utility on-chain, DeFi risks becoming a zero-sum game where capital comes in, but real returns stagnate, and the snake eats its own tail again and again. TradFi is already tokenizing yield products with institutional backing, and DeFi will rise to provide the new rides and rails in 2025.

So it’s up to DeFi builders to realize that we aren’t going to win PvP against one another. Eating our own tails is exhausting. It’s time to build new rides and new rails for trillions of financial assets to deliver on the promise of a more meritocratic system.

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