“If you don’t believe me or don’t get it, I don’t have time to try to convince you, sorry.”
-Satoshi Nakamoto

BITCOIN

• Gigantic Bitcoin (BTC) Resistance Born at $120K (UToday)
• Bitcoin’s ‘Boring’ Phase Might End With a Big Bang (CryptoPotato)
• Bitcoin Price Calms at $118K Ahead of FOMC Meeting, BONK Dumps Hard (CryptoPotato)
• Bitcoin in limbo: Watch price level between $112K-$120K ahead of FOMC (Cointelegraph)
• 7% dip or $141K breakout? Bitcoin speculators dictate BTC price targets (Cointelegraph)
• Nearly 33% of Bitcoin Supply is Vulnerable to Quantum Attacks Due to Reusing Addresses (BeInCrypto)
• BlackRock Analysts Predict Major Bitcoin Surge As US Legislation Strengthens Stablecoins (NewsBTC)
• Bitcoin Price Awaits Fed Clarity Following Constructive US-China Trade Talks (Decrypt)
• Anchorage-linked address receives 10,141 BTC amid wave of corporate Bitcoin activity (The Block)
• White House group lays out roadmap for 'golden age' of digital assets in fact sheet, with no mention of Bitcoin reserve (The Block)
• Bitcoin Heat Macro Phase Signals Market Sits Between Accumulation And Distribution (NewsBTC)

TREASURY RESERVE

• The Smarter Web Company surpasses 2,000 BTC treasury milestone after another $27 million bitcoin buy (The Block)
• NYSE-listed Turkish mobility company Marti will put 20% of its cash into Bitcoin (The Block)

ETHEREUM

• Ethereum Defies Bitcoin Slump as Analysts See Path to $5,000 (Decrypt)
• 220,000 ETH in 48 Hours: Ethereum Price Rally on the Way? (CryptoPotato)
• BlackRock bought 4x more of Ethereum than Bitcoin last week (Finbold)
• Ethereum May Be Headed for a Price Correction in August (BeInCrypto)
• ARK Invest Buys Another $15.3M Worth of Ether Strategy Firm BitMine Immersion (Coindesk)
• Ethereum Could Be Setting a Bull Trap as US Demand Fades (BeInCrypto)
• Ethereum at 10: The top corporate ETH holders as Wall Street eyes crypto (Cointelegraph)

ALTCOINS

• Altseason on horizon amid liquidity surge, regulatory clarity: Sygnum (Cointelegraph)
• XRP Creates Suspicious Market Pattern (UToday)
• XRP Traders Pull Back $2.4B—Brace For Impact Or Buy The Dip? (NewsBTC)
• XRP Futures Volume on Kraken Eclipses Sol for 1st Time as Price Soars to Record (Coindesk)
• BNB Price Corrects Gains After Strong Rally – Is It Just a Healthy Pullback? (NewsBTC)

ETFs

• XRP ETF? Not So Fast — SEC Might Greenlight iShares Ethereum ETF First (UToday)

EXCHANGES

• Crypto exchange Kraken targets $500 million raise at $15 billion valuation (The Block, BeInCrypto, Cointelegraph)
• Coinbase to Introduce New XRP and SOL Products (UToday)
• JUST IN: Coinbase has partnered with JP Morgan to enable credit card purchases on its platform and let Chase customers redeem points for $USDC (@BTC_Archive, UToday)

TAXES

• Indonesia raises taxes on crypto exchange sales and miners (Cointelegraph, The Block)

REGULATION

• Brian Quintenz’s CFTC Nomination in Limbo Over Kalshi Board Ties (BeInCrypto)

LEGAL

• DOJ is not probing Dragonfly over Tornado Cash ties, exec says (Cointelegraph)
• Is Ripple v. SEC Lawsuit Finally Ending? (UToday)
• Florida Sheriff's Office Forced to Return Seized Crypto After Legal Challenge (Decrypt)

VOICES

• Michael Saylor: Bitcoin is Digital Energy (UToday)
• Tom Lee: Ethereum Most Important Macro Trade for Next Decade (UToday)
• Ray Dalio: Billionaire Says 15% of Portfolio in Gold or Bitcoin (BTC) Necessary for Upcoming Money Devaluation Phase (The Daily Hodl)
• Mark Greenberg (Kraken Exec): ‘Wall Street on a blockchain’ isn’t tokenization endgame (Cointelegraph)
• Matt Hougan: Bitwise CIO says TradFi apologists miss the point on crypto — ‘there’s a better way’ (The Block)

THE BAD

• AML Bitcoin founder gets 7 years in prison for crypto fraud (Cointelegraph)
• Samourai Wallet co-founders to now plead guilty to US charges (Cointelegraph)
• Vincent Anthony Mazzotta Jr, Key player in $13M crypto Ponzi scheme, pleads guilty (Cointelegraph)
• Crypto Scandals: Pastor Promises Wealth From God While Widow Loses $17 Million to Romance (BeInCrypto)

VIDEO OF THE DAY

PODCAST OF THE DAY

Metaplanet, Strategy, and the Corporate Bitcoin Race | Dylan LeClair (What Bitcoin Did)
BTC245: The Next Metaplanet? (Smarter Web Company) w/ Jesse Myers and Andrew Webley (We Study Billionaires)