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🚨 LATEST: The OCC pushes to revive new bank chartering, backing entities in digital assets and other new tech as it commends the FDIC's own reform efforts.
🚨 TODAY: Alameda Research unstaked 201,740 $SOL worth $15.27M after 5 years.
The position was originally worth around $352K
🔥 HISTORY: 6 years ago today, Strategy adopted Bitcoin as its primary treasury reserve asset.
It started with 21,454 $BTC for $250M at ~$11,653 per Bitcoin. Today, Strategy holds 840,447 BTC, nearly 39x its initial stack.
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🔥 SAYLOR: “We intend to make $STRC the iPhone of Digital Assets.”
🔥 TODAY: Tether mints $1,000,000,000 $USDT on the Tron network.
⚡️ Key Economic Events This Week:
Tuesday - July Existing Home Sales data
Wednesday - OPEC Monthly Report, July CPI Inflation data
Thursday - July PPI Inflation data
Friday - July Retail Sales data, August Michigan Consumer Sentiment data
Huge week for inflation data.
What's your CPI call?
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🚨 INSIGHT: Santiment says Bitcoin just saw 2.27M new wallets and 751K active wallets, as the Coldcard chaos drives users to move funds and rethink custody.
What happens when AI takes humans out of the loop?
@0G_labs founder @michaelh_0g explains why safety precautions must be built into AI systems on #CHAINREACTION# with @itsciaranlyons.
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AI’s biggest threat may be weaponized deception at scale.
@0G_labs founder @michaelh_0g reveals to Cointelegraph on Chain Reaction his biggest fear about AI.
“If AI is misused, it can lead to very dire consequences... You could basically get flooded on social media with fake images, fake messages.” #CHAINREACTION#
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🚨 JUST IN: Grayscale rebalanced its crypto funds for Q2 2026, adding BNB to its Smart Contract Fund while trimming UNI and NEAR across its DeFi and AI portfolios.
🔥 UPDATE: RWA deposits more than tripled year over year to $7.4 billion in Q2, while spot trading volumes jumped 220%.
🐋 INSIGHT: Whales added 38,000 BTC, but $70,000 may become a key distribution zone, per CryptoQuant.
Will crypto finally reward fundamentals over sentiment?
@itsciaranlyons explains why the market may be overlooking crypto's biggest breakthroughs.
🇬🇧 NEW: Coinbase launches 24/5 trading for nearly 4,000 US stocks in the UK.
🇯🇵 LATEST: Japanese yen stablecoin issuer JPYC has raised $38M in its extended Series B round.
Will we have the CLARITY Act before the summer recess?
🇺🇸 ETF FLOWS: BTC and ETH spot ETFs saw net inflows on Aug. 5, while XRP spot ETFs saw net outflows.
BTC: $244.42M
ETH: $60.86M
XRP: -$3.58M
🔥 UPDATE: Solana's first slot time reduction feature went live on testnet, cutting slot time from 400ms to 350ms as the first of four planned steps toward a 200ms target.
🔥 LATEST: Uniswap launches Pools, a new token launchpad on Robinhood Chain.
🚨 NEW: The Ethereum Foundation's Trillion Dollar Security initiative granted funding to support continued development of WEBCAT.
It aims to close a front-end security gap that puts Ethereum wallets and apps at risk.
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🚨 LATEST: OpenAI says its AI agents breached its own internal testing infrastructure weeks before compromising Hugging Face, per Axios.
