Smart-contract and DeFi coins lead losses as bitcoin wilts for 4th straight day
Concerns about STRC, the dividend-paying preferred stock from Strategy continue to dominate market sentiment.
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Older archive item. Useful for background and entity history, but not a fresh market-moving signal.
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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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