BTC Falls Even Further, USD1 Briefly Depegs to $0.98, & ZachXBT Exposé Theories Heat Up

Crypto majors are red again down anoter 4%; BTC -4% at $63.3K; ETH -4% at $1,820; SOL -4% at $77. DCR (+8%), JST (+2%) and XMR (+2%) led top movers. ZachXBT teased a major investigation dropping on Thursday which will expose a top crypto protocol for inside trading. Terraform Labs' bankruptcy administrator sued Jane Street, alleging the firm used a secret insider chat with a former Terraform intern to front-run the UST collapse, withdrawing 85M UST from Curve just minutes after Terraform pulled 150M. World Liberty Financial claimed a “coordinated attack” after USD1 briefly depegged to $0.98 on Binance citing hacked X accounts, disinformation, and short-selling (WLFI dropped 7%). Crypto.com received conditional OCC approval for a national trust bank charter, joining Circle, Ripple, Paxos, and Bridge; Coinbase and WLF still pending. Vitalik Buterin sold 3,100+ ETH via CoW Swap to fund Ethereum Foundation initiatives. Missouri lawmakers revived a Bitcoin strategic reserve bill with updated language addressing concerns that killed the prior version. Austria ordered KuCoin EU to freeze operations over compliance staffing shortfalls. Mexican billionaire Ricardo Salinas encouraged buying Bitcoin on dips as BTC trades well off its highs.