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▶ Institutional Inflows: Over the previous four weeks, institutional inflows into digital asset investment products have increased by more than US$742 million, marking the longest streak of inflows since the fourth quarter of 2021. Last week, Bitcoin witnessed inflows of US$140 million, or 99% of all inflows.

🚀 XRP Takes Center Stage: XRP HODLERS have finally been rewarded, with the crypto closing almost 70% higher than it opened yesterday. XRP touched highs of USD 0.945 before marginally retreating to USD 0.7735. The case between the SEC and Ripple has finally concluded.

Digital Asset Institutional Inflows Following 8 weeks of institutional withdrawals from digital asset-related investment products, the market experienced its greatest institutional weekly inflows in over a year, totalling U$199 million. Because of the several Bitcoin spot ETF applications in the US, institutional inflows have recovered to the tune of $334 million in the last two weeks (data courtesy of Coinshares).

The cryptocurrency market in the first half of 2023 has been a whirlwind of volatility and regulatory scrutiny. Despite the challenges, digital currencies have managed to hold their value and deliver positive price movements. One of the significant events shaping the crypto market was the increased regulatory oversight by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

After strong gains across the cryptocurrency market the week previous, Bitcoin is currently consolidating around the 31,000 level of resistance. However, over the past week, roughly US$200 million of institutional liquidity flowed into digital asset investment products, the largest weekly inflow since July 2022. The inflows offset more than half of the institutional outflows over the past 9 weeks.

📈 Institutions are BULLISH on BTC: This week, Bitcoin exploded to the 31K USD resistance level due to news of institutions piling into the cryptocurrency market, despite the ongoing legal battles between the SEC, Binance and CoinSpot. The largest fund on the planet (BlackRock) applied for Bitcoin Spot ETF, highlighted last week.

🏢 Is the FED pivot here? This week, the Federal Reserve decided to keep interest rates on hold for the first time in 15 months. There have been 10 consecutive interest rate hikes in the US. Jerome Powell stated that there would be another 2 possible rate hikes later this year, with analysts calling it a "Hawkish Pivot".

Here are some of this week's crypto headlines! XRP Gaining Momentum: XRP is on the cusp of another bullish breakout from a bull flag formation. The CEO of Ripple believes that the payment industry giant will win the SEC lawsuit in a landmark manner. In an interview, Brad Garlinghouse expressed his confidence that the SEC vs.

📉 Technical Analysis BTC At $30,000, Bitcoin has attained its first significant milestone. As we can identify an important resistance level, a bearish divergence on the 2-day chart, and a negative trend line resistance, this level may come under renewed selling pressure. Although BTC's 100% YTD gain is encouraging, a stop or correction is likely in the next few days or weeks due to the technical structures.