{"id":99876,"date":"2026-06-09T17:03:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=99876"},"modified":"2026-06-09T17:03:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:03:14","slug":"tom-lee-bitcoin-ethereum-xrp-bull-market-is-intact-bears-spin-a-false-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=99876","title":{"rendered":"Tom Lee: Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP Bull Market Is &#8216;Intact,&#8217; Bears Spin A &#8216;False Narrative&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Fundstrat co-founder <strong>Tom Lee<\/strong> on Monday pushed back against growing concerns over market weakness, arguing that cryptocurrencies remain in healthy long-term uptrends despite recent volatility.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Why Crypto Is Underperforming<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Speaking on CNBC&#8217;s Power Lunch, Lee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MJ56NoxTaYI\">acknowledged<\/a> that cryptocurrency investors have been disappointed this year as digital assets largely failed to participate in the enthusiasm surrounding AI-related stocks.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past year, <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BTC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BTC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>), <strong>Ethereum<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/ETH-USD\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"ETH\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/eth\/usd\">ETH<\/a>), <strong>XRP<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/XRP-USD\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"XRP\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/xrp\/usd\">XRP<\/a>) slumped more than 40%.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the underperformance, Lee said &#8220;Crypto is a downstream story of AI.&#8221; \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He explained that increasingly powerful AI systems will require blockchain-based verification and &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/06\/53082016\/tom-lee-bitcoin-ethereum-xrp-bull-market-is-intact-bears-spin-a-false-narrative?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Tom\" lee: bitcoin ethereum xrp bull market is bears spin a narrative>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fundstrat co-founder Tom Lee on Monday pushed back against growing concerns over market weakness, arguing that cryptocurrencies remain in healthy long-term uptrends despite recent volatility. Why Crypto Is Underperforming Speaking on CNBC&#8217;s Power Lunch, Lee acknowledged that cryptocurrency investors have been disappointed this year as digital assets largely failed to participate in the enthusiasm surrounding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-99876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}