DeFi TVL and DEX volumes are rising on Solana, Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, 
and BNB as NFT gaming races toward a $60.82B market and builders keep shipping 
through hacks. Capital is quietly rotating back into DeFi even as the industry 
digests…

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Uzbekistan&#8217;s tax-free crypto mining hub could boost foreign investment, 
renewable energy use, and employment, reshaping its economic landscape.
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Uzbekistan launches tax-free crypto mining hub to attract foreign investment

MiCA’s July 2026 deadline, the US CLARITY Act plus SEC–CFTC MoU, and the 
UK/Japan FSMA-style regimes are squeezing out thin‑margin crypto venues in a 
global licensing reset. Europe’s MiCA regime is entering its endgame, with the 
transitional period for existing…

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The attacker behind KelpDAO’s nearly $300 million rsETH exploit is now 
laundering funds from Ethereum to Arbitrum and into Tron-based USDT. The 
attacker behind the nearly $300 million KelpDAO exploit has begun laundering 
the haul, routing funds through Arbitrum and…

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Bitcoin’s Bull Score Index has climbed back to 50, moving out of outright 
bearish territory and into what CryptoQuant’s Julio Moreno described as a 
neutral zone. In a post on X, the CryptoQuant head of research wrote: “First 
time in this bear market that the Bull Score Index enters neutral zone (50). 
In March 2022, the Bull Score entered neutral territory for about a week, and 
then the price resumed its decline.” What This Means For Bitcoin Price That 
comparison is doing most of the work here. Moreno is not presenting the move 
to 50 as confirmation of a durable trend reversal. He is pointing instead to a 
prior episode in which conditions improved just enough to leave bearish 
territory, only for the market to roll over again soon after. The implication 
is straightforward: neutral is better than bearish, but it is not the same 
thing as bullish. The CryptoQuant chart helps frame that shift. The index 
spent much of mid-2025 in stronger territory, with readings frequently above 
60 while bitcoin traded broadly in a higher range and pushed above $120,000. 
Related Reading: Bitcoin Rally May Be A Trap As Whales Sell Into Strength That 
backdrop changed sharply later in the year. As price weakened into late 2025 
and early 2026, the Bull Score Index deteriorated as well, at times dropping 
toward the bottom of the scale as bitcoin sank into the low-$60,000s. What 
stands out now is the recovery in the indicator from those depressed readings. 
By April, the Bull Score had risen back to roughly 50 as bitcoin recovered 
toward the mid-$70,000 range. In other words, market conditions as measured by 
CryptoQuant are no longer flashing the same degree of weakness they were 
earlier in the downturn. But they have not yet crossed into the zone the chart 
labels as bullish, which begins at 60. Related Reading: Anthony Scaramucci 
Puts Bitcoin Market Cap At $21 Trillion, So How Much Will 1 BTC Be? That 
leaves the signal in an awkward but important middle ground. A move from 
bearish to neutral can indicate that selling pressure is easing and that some 
underlying conditions are improving. It can also mark nothing more than a 
pause inside a broader downtrend. Moreno’s 2022 analogy suggests he sees that 
ambiguity as the key point, rather than the headline value of 50 on its own. 
The Bull Score Index is one of CryptoQuant’s composite Bitcoin market gauges. 
Rather than tracking a single datapoint, it measures the share of bullish 
readings across 10 key indicators tied to network activity, investor 
profitability, liquidity, and other fundamental and technical conditions. That 
is why the move to 50 matters: on CryptoQuant’s framework, it suggests that 
roughly half of the indicators that define a bullish regime have turned 
constructive again, even if the market is still short of the 60-plus zone the 
firm treats as outright bullish. At press time, BTC traded at $78,057. 
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