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Bitcoin and Ether, the world's top two digital assets by market cap, led liquidations that passed $260 million in the past 24 hours – prices are sliding, spot BTC ETFs saw negative flows, and the full approval of spot ETH ETFs has apparently been pushed back.

Rep. Lloyd Doggett of Texas became the first House Democrat to publicly call on U.S. President Joe Biden to withdraw from the presidential race, triggering a spike from two memecoins based on Democratic politicians.

The memecoin sector has skyrocketed to the moon in recent months, and while there are tokens that have shown significant growth, others have only resulted in losses – for an industry expert, the proliferation of scam tokens only calls for improved security measures for a promising yet "chaotic" market.

Bitcoin has bounced back above $63,000, but there are still concerns about the MtGox dump starting this week that could push prices down again.

Political finance (PolitiFi), an emerging trend in the broader crypto sector, is taking the memecoin realm by storm, and just a few months before the November elections, PolitiFi memecoins can play a role in the campaigns of the three presidential frontrunners.

Bitcoin has fallen from its glorious days in March when it hit an all-time high above $73,000, and the negative sentiment continues to grow by the day as some crypto users are now picking on the digital asset's weak points.

The digital wallet linked to Donald Trump has lost more of its crypto holdings' value in recent days following controversy over a supposed "official" token that the ex-president's son was rumored to have worked on.

Bitcoin hasn't had a good weekend and it's starting the week on a decline as the digital asset's volatility has been making it struggle to keep the price above $66,000.

Another Bitcoin whale has reawakened from a deep sleep of five years, seeing gains of over 17x from the coins' initial value back in December 2018.

Newly convicted felon Donald Trump has been ramping up a pro-crypto stance in recent weeks.

Several Trump-themed memecoins plummeted after news of the ex-president's conviction in the hush money case, but some Trump tokens did survive the beating and skyrocketed instead.