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Bitcoin Treads Water as Traders Eye $140K: Crypto Daybook Americas
Your day-ahead look for July 18, 2025

Bitcoin Traders Are Discussing BTC’s Record High, but Quantum Computing Is Threatening the Math Behind It
Bitcoin relies on elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) to secure wallet addresses and validate ownership. But ECC, like RSA, is vulnerable to Shor’s algorithm — a quantum computing method capable of cracking the discrete logarithm problem, the core math behind Bitcoin's private keys.

Satoshi-Era Bitcoin Whale Moves Final $4.8B to Galaxy Digital, Likely Prepping Sale
The latest tranche brings Galaxy’s wallet balance to 40,288 BTC, with no outbound activity recorded since the final whale transfer.

DOGE Surges 14% as Open Interest, Treasury Bets Power Breakout Above 22 Cents
Volumes spiked 7.8% above the session average as price surged from $0.22 to $0.24. That breakout created new high-volume support at $0.22–$0.225.

Cardano, Dogecoin, XRP Lead Market Rebound as Crypto Bets Surge Post-GENIUS Act Clearing
These assets tend to rally in tandem with ETH during periods of rising market confidence, especially when capital flows into Ethereum Layer 1s and older majors in search of beta.

Ethereum's Biggest Wall Street Bull Ups Stock Sale to $6B to Power ETH Treasury
The firm says it may sell an additional $279 million from the previous authorization, alongside the new $5 billion issuance.

Bitcoin DeFi Has Ballooned 20x Since Start of 2024 as Builders Bet on Yield
A new wave of developers is building yield-generating apps on Bitcoin, pushing the network beyond store-of-value status and into a key DeFi ecosystem asset.

XRP Rockets 20% to Set Record Highs, With $10 Price Target in Play
“Long-term forecasts suggest $4.20–$10+ by 2030 if Ripple capitalizes on payment adoption,” one analyst said.

XRP Nears Record High of $3.40 as Futures Open Interest Hits $10B
The token has climbed more than 10% over the past 24 hours and 34% over the past seven days.

Ripple Developers Propose Metadata Standard for XRPL Tokens to Boost Discoverability, Interoperability
XLS-0089d is backward-compatible and opt-in. That means tokens that don’t follow this new metadata standard will still function normally on the XRP Ledger.

