Bitcoin slips to $78,800 as BNB and DeFi tokens buck the selloff
Bitcoin fell 0.42% since midnight UTC to $78,874, but the CoinDesk 20 rose 0.2% and the memecoin index gained 0.41% as BNB Chain tokens rallied.
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Bitcoin is showing up inside the DeFi theme, so this story is worth tracking for follow-through rather than treating it as a one-off headline.
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