This Week in Coins: Bitcoin Dips, Ethereum Sits Still as Trump Family Settles In

By Mat Di Salvo

Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt.

It was a quiet week in the crypto sphere. Even so, "quiet" in crypto is still not for the faint of heart.

Bitcoin was at one point trading for above $60,000 again on Monday, but things took a turn for the worse and by Thursday it had—seemingly unexplainedly—crashed to as low as $57,787. It rolled into the weekend at $59,131 per coin, a seven-day dip of 2% and more than 8% below this time last month.

It still has a long way to go before it gets as high as its March all-time high of $73,747. In other Bitcoin news, miners continued to struggle as mining difficulty on the main blockchain increased, and the U.S. government continued to move Silk Road seized coins.

In the world of Ethereum, the price of ETH barely moved over the past week and is now priced at $2,595. The flat line is probably good news for holders, as it's down 23% over the past 30 days.

Donald Trump's crypto holdings appeared to swell after a financial disclosure obtained by watchdog Citizens for Ethics showed that the U.S. presidential hopeful holds more than a million dollars in the second-biggest coin. Meanwhile, crypto arcade BSMNT (aka "Basement") debuted on Thursday on Coinbase's layer-2 network Base.

Trump’s family teased more crypto projects when Eric and Donald Trump Jr. told the New York Post in an exclusive interview that they were getting ready to drop "digital real estate." It wasn't clear exactly what that meant, though.

Solana ended the week priced at $139, a seven-day drop of 9%. Most other coins and tokens were also down over the span, with meme coins—the most volatile of all assets—taking the biggest hit.

But the crypto world, on the whole, continued to push full steam ahead: Wall Street titan Franklin Templeton filed for another exchange-traded fund (ETF), this one embracing both Bitcoin and Ethereum. And as a harbinger of days gone by, Crypto.com announced it was now sponsoring the UEFA Champions League, boosting its brand in the European sports scene.

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