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ETH leads majors, DeFi coins soar, HYPE hits ATH

Crypto

• BTC: 109.7k (+2%), ETH: 2750 (+9%), SOL: 160 (+4%)

• Top Gainers: AAVE, FARTCOIN, WIF, UNI, HYPE

• BTC ETFs: +$386mn, ETH ETFs: +$53mn

• ETH leads majors as BTC briefly hits $110k

• Staking not a securities transaction: Atkins

• Atkins set to remove regulatory barriers for DeFi

• AAVE & UNI lead DeFi coins higher

• HYPE hits ATH, assistance fund now owns $1bn

• Staked Ethereum hits ATH

• Circle hits 4x IPO price

• South Korea unveils plan to allow stablecoins

• BTC Coinbase premium at 4-month high

• Crypto fund assets hit record high in May

• BlackRock BTC ETF fastest ever to hit $70bn AUM 

• Siebert to raise $100m to buy crypto

• Japan’s ANAP adopts BTC reserve

• Societe Generale launches USD stablecoin

• ADA founder launches BTC DeFi protocol

• Tether’s MOS to be open sourced in Q4 2025

• Uphold explores IPO, or sale to payments firm

• DoJ indicts Gugnin for laundering $530m crypto

Macro & General

• NASDAQ: 19.6k (0%), Gold: 3351 (0%)

• US stock futures fall after stable day

• Tesla rallies, Trump says he won’t get rid of car

• US-China resume trade talks

• VIX down 63% over last 9 weeks

• Warren Buffett overpriced indicator close to ATH

• Silver hits 13-year high, Platinum hits 4-year high

• Top 1% in US now richer than all of middle class

• Inflation still below target: BoJ’s Ueda

• Re-shoring to US comments hit record in May

• US debt ceiling may hit limit mid-Aug: CBO

• RFK Jr removes CDC vaccine experts

• Trump deploys national guard, marines in LA

• Amazon set to invest $20bn in AI

Left Curve Corner

• Hot coins: MOG, REKT, FARTCOIN, VERSE, USELESS

• Hot NFTs: Milady, Good Vibes Club, Zeeverse

• $500m bridged to Plasma ready for ICO in 5 mins

• USELESS $40m, Bonk guy supports coin

• VERSE $1bn FDV, latest PumpFun launch

• REKT, MOG & PEPE lead ETH meme

• FARTCOIN $1.3bn, Coinbase to launch perps

• OCapGames launches $3.5m seed round

• Project AEON up 70% in a week to 1.5ETH

• Virtuals to release next AI agents on ETH L1

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