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[lainie @2nmobile]

Netflix Among Parties in Early Talks to Buy Letterboxd: Report

Sony Pictures Entertainment, Paramount and Alexis Ohanian also said to be eyeing movie social platform

Via @Variety

[lainie @2nmobile]

pass the clarity act

Scott Bessent speech :
digital assets, stablecoins, tokenization, and new payment systems will

help to shape the future of money. The United States should not consign itself to the sidelines while that future is built elsewhere

[Mark Gurman @markgurman]

BREAKING: Apple is suing OpenAI, accusing it and its hardware chief of a coordinating trade secret theft campaign to help build its upcoming suite of AI devices.

[lainie @2nmobile]

MARA noted that the site has already received interest from potential HPC tenants and will be developed through its previously announced partnership with Starwood Digital Ventures.

[lainie @2nmobile]

$mara this single acquisition more than doubles MARA's total potential power pipeline to 4.8 GW (when combined with their Ohio Long Ridge Energy gas-plant acquisition). They are accumulating gigawatts solving the power bottleneck

[lainie @2nmobile]

June wasn't just a good month for Circle—it was the highest-volume, most dominant month in the company's history.

[lainie @2nmobile]

The Total Record: Total adjusted stablecoin volume hit an all-time record of $1.79 trillion in June, a massive 63% jump from May ($1.1 trillion) and up 125% year-over-year

$crcl accounted 67-70% of the volume. massive win for USDC ($crcl)

circle thriving

[lainie @2nmobile]

The holy grail for Ethereum's public network isn't retail trading; it’s hosting institutional real-world assets (like tokenized bonds, real estate, and funds). BlackRock’s BUIDL fund is already native to Ethereum

[lainie @2nmobile]

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[Hayden Adams 🦄 @haydenzadams]

Robinhood chain is going absolutely crazy

$500m in 24hr volume on Uniswap - that’s 10x what it did yesterday

And more than any chain other than Ethereum mainnet!

[lainie @2nmobile]

The labor force is a lot weaker than headlines suggest

A 50-Year Low Point: Outside of the absolute chaos of the 2020 pandemic lockdowns, we haven't seen a labor participation rate this low since June 1976

[lainie @2nmobile]

Meta is basically front-running the market to build the lowest-cost, most highly-verticalized AI utility on the planet.

[lainie @2nmobile]

$meta is building an entire commerce engine won’t just monetize images with ads.

[lainie @2nmobile]

pass the clarity act.

onchain finance is cheaper faster and more efficient.

unlock liquidity.

[Meghan Montemurro @MegMontemurro]

Pete Crow-Armstrong becomes first 20 HR-20 SB hitter in MLB this season as he goes deep to put the Cubs up 1-0 on Orioles.

PCA is first Cub with back-to-back 20-20 seasons since Sammy Sosa did it in three straight (1993-95) and 3rd w/multiple such seasons (Sosa & Ryne Sandberg).

[lainie @2nmobile]

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[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Trump reveals Iran called & wants to make a deal “very badly.”

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[Bloomberg @business]

Apple says its expanded agreement with Broadcom is expected to top $30 billion https://t.co/Za9k3saacc

[lainie @2nmobile]

@TedPillows RWA growth on Ethereum taking its place

[Wall St Engine @wallstengine]

$META plans to release its first AI model for image creation, called Muse, and replace third-party image models with its own proprietary image technology.

[lainie @2nmobile]

1 in 7 homes for sale in Florida.

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[CoinDesk @CoinDesk]

DATA: @Circle’s $USDC accounted for roughly 70% of adjusted stablecoin transaction volume in the first half of 2026, compared with about 25% for @Tether’s $USDT, according to Visa data.

Read the full story by Olivier Acuna on CoinDesk