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🇺🇸 Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan says crypto will be fine even if the CLARITY Act fails this week, arguing the industry has reached a point where “the genie won’t go back in the bottle.”

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⚠️ Bitcoin’s low volatility does not necessarily mean low risk.

Leverage, thin liquidity or a major headline can quickly break the market’s calm. Periods of price compression often leave traders waiting for a much larger move.

Quiet market. Active risk.

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🐋 Bitcoin whales are accumulating!

Four newly created wallets received 1,540 $BTC—worth about $99.4M—from Galaxy Digital and BitGo in just 3 hours. Accumulation, strategic positioning, or something bigger?

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🛢️ President Trump says oil prices are going down but added that “we may have to send it up again.”

He offered no details on what could trigger the move, putting fresh attention on upcoming US energy and geopolitical decisions.

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🚀 CASHCAT surged 120% this week to an $86M market cap, while Robinhood Chain’s TVL climbed 20% to $774M.

The chain is growing, but much of the attention is currently being driven by retail memecoin speculation rather than tokenized assets.

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🇷🇺 BREAKING: Putin signs a landmark crypto trading law.

Regulated retail crypto trading is now legal in Russia, while domestic crypto payments remain banned. Cross-border crypto settlements are officially authorized.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump says US-Iran talks are “moving along very nicely” and the Strait of Hormuz could reopen soon.

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📊 Are Stablecoins Becoming More Reliable?

S&P Global Ratings says 6 of the 11 stablecoins it tracks now score “adequate” or better for peg stability.

USDC, EURC, USDG and USDP lead the assessment, each receiving a “strong” rating.

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🏦 Wells Fargo will launch tokenized deposits this fall, starting with 24/7 dollar-to-pound transfers for select corporate clients on its own blockchain.

Corporate banking is moving toward always-on settlement.

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🚨 The $TRUMP memecoin controversy is stalling the CLARITY Act. Senators Warren and Blumenthal want the SEC to investigate, citing an alleged $3.8B in investor losses. The ethics fight over officials’ crypto holdings now threatens a major US crypto bill.

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📊 Bitcoin held near $64K while MSCI’s world index hit a fresh record and Brent crude fell as a Hormuz deal moved closer. Stocks are rallying and oil stress is easing, but BTC remains stuck in neutral.

What catalyst will finally move Bitcoin?

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📉 BlackRock’s IBIT recorded $122M in net outflows as nearly 2,000 BTC moved to Coinbase Prime. Fidelity and Ark 21Shares also saw withdrawals, highlighting how quickly ETF demand can reverse when Bitcoin falls below $63.7K.

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XRP holders can now borrow RLUSD against their coins through a $280 million Ethereum vault, without selling the underlying asset. #ChainReporter #XRP #RLUSD #Ethereum #DeFi

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Former FBI supervisory agent Patrick Steven Yaroch has been charged after allegedly using internal bureau systems to obtain access credentials for cryptocurrency wallets linked to an adversarial country and transferring funds to wallets he controlled.

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BlackRock expanded its blockchain-based money market lineup with BSTBL on Ethereum and BRSRV for multi-chain access. Both are designed to qualify as eligible reserve assets for U.S. stablecoin issuers under the GENIUS Act
BUIDL is already at $2.5B. TradFi is not watching anymore.

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🚨 Mastercard has completed its BVNK acquisition, strengthening the infrastructure behind enterprise stablecoin payments and bringing tokenized assets closer to global payment rails.

Stablecoins are no longer an experiment—they’re becoming strategy.

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🤖 Meta, Anthropic, Google and OpenAI will meet White House officials Tuesday to discuss voluntary AI safety testing.

The key word is “voluntary”: Who sets the standards, and what happens if companies fail to meet them?

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📊 Are investors rotating into altcoins?

Spot Bitcoin ETFs lost $326.7M last week, led by BlackRock’s IBIT. Meanwhile, ETH products attracted $27.4M, while Solana and XRP ETFs also posted positive flows.

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🤖 BitGo CEO Mike Belshe challenged Anthropic’s Claude with 100 BTC held at a public address, inviting the AI model to move the funds. As of Aug. 2, on-chain data showed no outflows.

Can AI crack the challenge?

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🏛 The SEC set Aug. 24 as the deadline for written statements on Nasdaq’s proposed cash-settled Bitcoin index options. CME argues the contracts are commodity swaps under CFTC jurisdiction—a dispute that could shape US institutional Bitcoin derivatives.
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