The European Central Bank says stablecoin risks in the euro area are limited, 
with crypto trading dominating use and retail adoption under 1%, while 
monitoring continues.

Stablecoin risks seen as minimal in Europe amid low adoption and MiCA: ECB

Former Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi will join the company’s board to 
support its policy efforts in establishing the first corporate treasury around 
a prediction market token.

Nasdaq penny stock plans $212M RAIN token play with ex-Italian PM onboard

BlackRock&#8217;s significant crypto deposits to Coinbase Prime highlight growing 
institutional adoption and integration of digital assets in traditional 
finance.
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Russian police detained a man who tried to rob a crypto exchange with fake 
grenades, as Russia faces rising crypto-related crimes and asset thefts. 
Russian authorities have detained a man who attempted to rob a cryptocurrency 
exchange using smoke and…

Man arrested after failed crypto exchange robbery with grenades in Russia

What to Know: Saylor’s ‘I Won’t Back Down’ message comes as Bitcoin slides 
toward $80K–$85K, pressuring leveraged players and reigniting crash warnings. 
Strategy’s 649K+ BTC stack remains profitable on paper, but the stock premium 
has nearly vanished, testing investor patience with the treasury bet. 
U.Today+1 Bitcoin Hyper aims to solve Bitcoin’s throughput, fees, and 
programmability issues with an SVM-based Layer-2 that keeps Bitcoin as the 
settlement layer. The $HYPER presale has raised over $28M, offers around 41% 
staking rewards, and targets multi-X upside if its Layer-2 roadmap and 
ecosystem delivery succeed. Bitcoin just pulled off one of the nastiest rug- 
pull-looking dips of the entire cycle. In a matter of hours, the price fell 
from above $120K to sub-$90K and even wicked into the $80,600 zone, wiping out 
billions in longs and reigniting the classic “it’s over, lads” chorus across 
Crypto X. And right in the middle of the chaos, Michael Saylor dropped four 
words that could basically be printed on his business card: “I won’t back 
down.” This time, the line carried extra weight. His company, Strategy, is now 
sitting on roughly 649,870 BTC at an average price near $74,430, still in 
profit despite the crash, even as the stock gets punished and critics wonder 
how long a leveraged Bitcoin maxi can stare down this kind of volatility. 
Strategy even ran a poll that showed nearly 78% of respondents were simply 
HODLing through the sell-off. Hardcore Bitcoiners still see turbulence, not 
terminal failure, but not everyone’s built for that degree of mark-to-market 
pain. Retail, smaller funds, and DeFi traders are increasingly searching for 
ways to keep Bitcoin exposure without just holding spot and praying. That’s 
where the new rotation narrative comes in. If Bitcoin stays the monetary 
backbone of crypto, the best altcoins this cycle may be the ones solving what 
Bitcoin can’t: throughput, fees, and programmability. Bitcoin Hyper ($HYPER) 
fits that thesis almost too well, positioning itself as a Bitcoin Layer-2 
designed to make BTC behave like a fast, flexible, programmable asset, all 
without compromising the base layer. Bitcoin Hyper Turns Bitcoin Volatility 
Into Layer-2 Utility Behind the branding, Bitcoin Hyper is targeting a very 
real structural gap in the Bitcoin ecosystem. BTC still handles only a handful 
of transactions per second, and fees spike whenever activity increases, which 
is why most of today’s DeFi, NFTs, and on-chain experimentation have migrated 
to faster environments, such as Solana. Bitcoin Hyper’s solution is a rollup- 
style Layer-2 anchored to Bitcoin but powered by an SVM (Solana Virtual 
Machine) execution layer. Users send BTC to a monitored main-chain address, a 
canonical bridge verifies the deposit, and the network mints an equivalent 
amount of wrapped BTC on Hyper. From there, transactions run on a high- 
throughput chain with near-instant finality and low fees, while zero-knowledge 
proofs periodically settle back to Bitcoin L1. The architecture aims to 
preserve Bitcoin’s security while moving actual activity, payments, DEX 
trades, lending, NFT markets, even meme-coin chaos, onto a chain that feels 
Solana-fast. Because it uses SVM, existing Rust developers can port their apps 
with minimal friction, giving Hyper a realistic shot at building an ecosystem 
instead of becoming another pretty but empty L2. Of course, there are risks. 
$HYPER is still in presale, and the roadmap is ambitious: audits and presale 
throughout 2025, mainnet and SVM+dApp integration between late 2025 and early 
2026, then token listings, SDKs, and a DAO rollout in 2026. Execution needs to 
hit those milestones for the L2 thesis to play out. Security is at least 
trending positively. The contracts have already cleared audits from Coinsult 
and SpyWolf, with no hidden mint functions or obvious backdoors flagged, a 
good start, even if it doesn’t eliminate the typical smart-contract and market 
risks associated with new chains. For anyone who wants to stay structurally 
long Bitcoin while also capturing upside from where the next wave of 
blockspace demand might land, $HYPER offers a clean play. If Bitcoin activity 
increases and DeFi migrates toward BTC-secured infrastructure, a functioning 
Bitcoin-anchored Layer-2 could absorb a disproportionate share of that value. 
Inside the Bitcoin Hyper Presale and $HYPER Token Economics While Bitcoin has 
been violently whipsawing, the Bitcoin Hyper presale has been doing the 
opposite, grinding steadily upward. It has now crossed $28.3M raised, with the 
current stage pricing $HYPER around $0.013325. That still puts it in micro-cap 
range, but the raise is now large enough that this is no longer a small degen 
side-quest. Real capital is flowing in. Presale buyers can also stake $HYPER 
at 41% rewards, with more than a billion tokens already locked. Those yields 
will naturally taper off as more wallets join in, but the intent is clear: 
early participants are encouraged to behave like long-term network partners, 
not short-term flippers. It aligns neatly with the idea of $HYPER acting as a 
“beta on Bitcoin’s evolution” rather than just another momentum meme. On the 
valuation side, upside scenarios being circulated are bold but at least 
mathematically grounded. One widely shared fundamental review puts a potential 
2025 high near $0.02595 once mainnet is live and liquidity deepens, roughly a 
2x from the current presale range if the thesis holds. More aggressive models 
project further out, mapping a possible 2026 high around $0.08625 and a 2030 
target near $0.253, assuming the roadmap lands, the ecosystem fills in, and 
major exchanges eventually list the token. Relative to today’s pricing, that 
implies roughly 6–7x to the 2026 level and close to 19x by 2030. Nothing is 
guaranteed, but it explains why $HYPER keeps showing up in alt-rotation 
threads whenever traders discuss asymmetric setups tied to Bitcoin 
infrastructure instead of random meme noise. Crucially, $HYPER isn’t pitched 
as a hedge against Bitcoin; it’s pitched as a way to amplify it. If Saylor’s 
“I Won’t Back Down” stance represents the diamond-hands end of the spectrum, 
Bitcoin Hyper is where the more risk-tolerant crowd is rotating: still 
ideologically long BTC, but looking to high-beta Layer-2 infrastructure for 
bigger potential multiples as the cycle churns through volatility. This 
article is informational only; crypto, especially presales, is highly 
volatile. Always do your own research and never risk rent money. Authored by 
Aaron Walker, NewsBTC – https://www.newsbtc.com/news/best-altcoins-saylor- 
wont-back-down-bitcoin-hyper-presale

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